Leaking nappy in the night

[mummaHE03]

My son just turned 4 months and has recently started sleeping though the night (sleep regressions not hit yet) i change his nappy and out his pjs on and he’ll have a bottle (8oz) at 8pm lights out at 8:30and sleep until 7:00am ish. He is in size 3 nappies but he’s woken up in the morning with soaked bottoms his nappy won’t hold it all. I’ve tried the 12 hour dry night nappies too but he’s still leaking they fit great the only issue is the absorption limit. I know I could change him in the night but he wakes up and I can’t get him back to sleep after for a couple of hours. Does anyone have any suggestions please?

Change nappy after giving the bottle, try different make nappies so u get a better fit. Normally if the leak, u haven’t put them on properly or they r the wrong shape.

@Skybluepinky thank you I’ve checked with my HV that they’ve been put on properly when he was first born as I’m a ftm, have you got any recommendations for nappies? Thank you for your advice

Try Huggies

Pampers baby dry work for us for 12 hr overnight and I don’t bother changing after the night time bottle.

I would size up in the nappies for nighttime.

Options: size up, get more absorbent nappies (consider brand and range), consider reusables with lots of boosters.

My 18m is in size 4 nappies in the day and at night I use a size 6. After his bottle we do teeth etc. And then change his nappy as the last thing we do before stories/sleep :)

Oh and I use the morrisons own brand x

Size up the nappies - once you get to size 4, some brands do a 4+ which is increased absorbency, so we use those at night. Also size up your vests if baby sleeps in one at night. We couldn’t work out why DD’s nappies were drier at the back but leaking at the front and it’s because the vests were a bit small - as the nappy expanded, the poppers prevented further expansion. Now she wears a size bigger vests/grows at night than she does in the day and she doesn’t leak any more.

Agree, size up and then size up again! With my first I doubled nappied at night and changed it every single time he woke up because it kept leaking. With my second I put him in vastly bigger nappies and we got significantly fewer leaks. Just do them up tight around the middle.

I’d size up for night as well and use the “plus” ones which are extra absorbent. So 4 and 4+ are the same size, but 4+ holds more liquid.
Even if the nappy seems massive on him, just fasten it so it fits, even if the tabs meet in the middle or cross over.

Also, if he wears a vest, don’t fasten the crotch poppers. If the vest is even the tiniest bit tight against the nappy it seems to make it leak more.

It is difficult though, my DS soaks through sometimes too, I think it’s when he sleeps in one position, all the wee goes to one bit of the nappy and oversaturates it and leaks out.