Heavy wetter - need advice on night nappies

[TruthSweet]

DD3 - 9weeks -is a very heavy wetter (in 2 days she did 18 soaked through cloth and 8 disposables nappies ).

I really want to use cloth over night but I can't get a nappy to last over 4 hours and if I'm lucky she will sleep 9 hours overnight so a bit of incompatability.

I use cotton Little Lambs with 2 boosters and fleece liner, Mothersease poppered with home made booster/liner (3-4 layers of terry towelling with fleece layer sewn on top), Sandy's with 2 boosters and fleece liner and tots bots cotton nappy with built in booster/liner. I use Mothersease (cream poppered & frog velcro), Tots Bots and Little Lamb wraps all of which are polyester/polyurethane mix.

A friend had the idea of using a 'tena lady' style pad under the boosters to mop up the excess wee. Has anyone tried that or is there a better option? Don't want to spend the earth but on the other hand would like to do my bit to save it .

Boots used to sell nappy booster pads. I used them for ds1 who was a mega wetter. I can't see them on their website, but I used to be able to get them from large branches of Boots. You would be able to cut them in half for a small baby.

They looked like a large sanitary towel. Can't remeber how much they cost but I think it was a couple of quid for 20. You can use them in disposibles and reusables.

You want one of these and a bamboo or hemp nappy with lots of boosters. Baby Beehinds hold a ton of pee and fit small babies well, then the wool cover somehow keeps it all dry on the outside. Not hard to lanolize, only need to do it once every 2 weeks or so (when the cover starts smelling of wee.)

My 17mo once exploded a disposable with her super night time wee so I know where you're coming from!

You can slimline bamboo boosters which are good. I would suggest a fleece cover over the top like Pumpkin Pants ones - I used PUL at night for 8 years and had problems then used fleece and it was a revolution!

revelation lol

Thank you all for the replies.

How do fleece wraps stop wee getting out? After a while the fleece liners get wet so wouldn't the wee leach through the wraps and on to DD's sleepsuit?

Unfortunately even the thought of touching wet wool makes me want to vomit so I won't be getting those but thanks for the suggestion.

The fleece of a fleece wrap is thicker that the fleece of a liner, they work brilliantly. And lanolised wool doesn't get wet but it does allow some of the moisture to evaporate. To be honest, after using fleece and wool it is the steaming pile of piss you get in a PUL wrap that is truly gross. I wouldn't dream of using PUL at night any more, it is just too horrid by morning.

It magically repels the wee - great for babies over 6 months I think as if they are really small and lie very still on their back the pressure can make them wick through sometimes but apart from that they are brilliant.

I agree with all of the above, I use microfleece nappy, with lanolised wool or fleece. 10 hours later the nappy is touch dry as the wee has evaporated overnight. DD sleeps with us, so I am totaly sure this works Ours never wicked even before she was mobile, and she still rarely rolls in the night [why would she, cuddled in the crook of my arm ], but never wicks.

The wool never feels wet, the lanolin keeps it dry. Hence sheep look at hill walkers like they are bonkers for wearing all that plastic, and hence fishermen wore big wooly jumpers to sea. Good eh?

As to fleece, you know how fleece comes out of the washer nearly dry, thats how it works. The fleece doesn't absorb water, the wee stays between the fibres, and the body heat from the baby caused it to simply evaporate off.

There is no going back to soggy nappies. Fleece wraps can be as cheap as £5 so well worth a try.

Come onto the nappy thread if you want lots of tips as you try new ideas