Reusable nappy advice - heavy night wetter

[ToddlerTornado]

I’m in need of some advice! My DS is a heavy night wetter and I’ve tried pretty much all types of disposable nappies and pull-ups , but he still wets through. It’s not leaking out as such, it’s just that the nappy has reached full capacity by morning.

I’ve never used reusable nappies before, so I’m a bit lost on where to start. I contacted The Nappy Lady and she’s recommended a couple of options:

1. Adding a hemp booster to his pull-up:

The Nappy Lady Hemp Bum Booster

2.Trying the Mother-ease Bedwetter Pants:
Mother-ease Bedwetter Pants

I’m not sure if you can add boosters into the Bedwetter Pants or if they’re meant to be used as is.

Has anyone used either of these for a heavy night wetter? Or found another reusable or combination option that works overnight?

Any reusable nappy parents here?

Why not just do a nappy change in the night? It takes about 3 minutes and DC might stay asleep if you keep light out.

@caringcarer I already do this, iv been down every route possible except the reusable route. Which I hear is good for heavy night wetters

I used to use a boosted washable nappy and then boost on the outside too. Then a motherease air wrap.

Hi, I used reusables for 3 kids and also had a child who would wee out of disposables if we ever tried to use them, leaking out the sides.

We didn’t get on that well with the bed wetter pants as my son sort of wriggled them down in the night.

But…. mothers’ ease also does a nappy wrap, called the airflow, which goes over the top of a two part reusable nappy. I would stick in a hemp booster in the pull up and then put a nappy wrap over the top to contain it all.

If it still leaks through, a combination of bamboo (on top) and hemp (underneath) with the nappy wrap. Basically bamboo absorbs quickly but doesn’t hold loads, whereas hemp absorbs slowly but holds a lot. The combination of the two soaks it up quickly but then holds a lot as well.

@strangelytired any recommendations on where best to buy the hemp boosters? I was looking at Little
Lamb and Nappy Lady

Either Little Lamb or the Nappy Lady should be fine, Little Lamb is a well established brand, and the Nappy Lady a well established site with good quality brands.

I mean, that's just the way it is...you need to change the nappy more often 🤷

And I did do reusable for about 1yr and hated every day of it. The disposable nappies are much more absorbent.

I bought cheap towelling face cloths and put one folded in half in between the re-usuable nappy and the nappy liner at night time - worked a treat

I have a friend who just puts two disposables on.

DD is peeing and insane amount at night atm and she has two bamboo terries as her night nappy, can’t think of the fold name for the one that goes around but the second is just folded into a pad. She has a bells bumz breeze cover over it, I gave up with pins or clips

I have bedwetters somewhere and I don’t think they would cope, I seem to remember one of my older ones drowning them. You can kinda get a booster in but it’s awkward.

I also have bells bumz sweet dreams nappies for nights but the tend to need extra atm (mine are also dying, should replace)

FYI the nappy ladies washing instructions suck because they toe the line of the manufactures crappy washing instructions, Clean Cloth Nappies is much better. They have a website and FB group if you decide to do cloth, night nappies can get stinky more easily because it’s a loooot of pee.

It’s been a few years but my go to was always a Motherease Sandys (or a Terry square, but this is less ‘entry level’) with a hemp booster and an Airflow cover. I had heavy wetters and this never failed me. You definitely want a two part nappy system for overnight. Motherease bedwetters are fine for older toddlers but I would say they’re better for accidents or a child who wees when the first wake, rather than a consistently heavy night wee-er.

www.thenappylady.co.uk/night-time-nappies.html

Tots bots bamboozle stretchies, boosted with a hemp booster or 3 and motherease airflow wrap over the top. With the heaviest wetting periods we swapped to a lanolised wool shorts type of cover instead of the airflow and never looked back. Disposables never worked for the heavy wetting DC. I do not miss all the washing but the big squashy bums were cute!

Yeah either of those will be fine. I have 5 different brands of hemp inserts and all seem to be about as good as each other. Some are slimer and hold a bit less and ones like tri-folds hold loads because they’re basically three.

I did a hire of reusables for my heavy wetter, and it made no difference. It didn’t offer any more capacity and he still woke up soaked. I just had more washing to do on top of the bedding!

I know a lot of people that use reusables are very very evangelical about them, but I think it's unlikely they are going to be more absorbent than disposables. The reason I say this is:

• guidance on how often to change them often specifies more frequently with reusables.
• children wearing cloth nappies often toilet train earlier as it's more obvious to then that they are wet.
• personally in order to get them even vaguely comparable the levels of padding were ridiculous when they were tiny
• I tried the pants you mention with a 2yo and they definitely did not hold a wees worth for her.

Could you double up on nappies

Motherease bed-wetters are brilliant. I used them on my (then) 7yo who was still wetting the bed. She wasn't wetting the bed so much as not fully awake and did her big morning wee before getting up. But the mothease contained it all.

Reusables for babies at nights took a while to get right for us. In the end I found a terry towel (folded like a pad rather than the origami type folds) and a really good wrap to keep it in place. But this was once older so was definitely only wee. I wouldn't have risked it if they were still young enough to poo at night.

Have you looked at wool soakers? They are amazing, lanolised overpants that allow the nappy to breathe and evaporate throughout the night.

Our night nappy set up for our heavy wetter was:

Bamboo nappy
Extra bamboo booster inside
Fleece liner for stay-dry feel
Hemp booster on outside
Motherease Airflow wrap

In the day they had an all-in one nappy.

You could use a disposable nappy and add just the bamboo booster and wrap over the top.

I use 2 tots bots bamboozles (done up loosely) and a fleece wrap, like from pumpkin and pickle or petitelulu.

https://pumpkinandpickle.co.uk/

Honestly fleece is great. Im never going back to elastic cuffs.

I used little lamb with my two. Definitely very heavy wetters and leaked out of disposables when we were on holiday.
I used the bamboo nappy with double booster plus sized up for night. The wraps are pretty much bomb proof. I always used them over disposables whenever we used them.
If you want little lambs check on their own website as they often do (or at least did do) bundles heavily reduced.
The only issue is that the bamboo does take a photo dry and you will need a nappy bucket so that you can store them until you are ready to wash them.
The fleece ones dry quickly but don't absorb so much

Latterly we used these plus Nature Babies wraps in XL or Motherease Airflow in XXL.
Absolutely the business on absorbency .