Really need help with leaking nappies on 2 year old please.

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Hello, my son is nearly two and I have him in terries.

Current regime is a kite-folded terry, with half a bamboo terry pad-folded at the front and a fleece liner towards the back. Over this is a Motherease Airflow (Lge).
At night it's a Bumble with added booster, and I have a wool wrap, but even in Airflow no leaks at night.

I've always struggled with poo getting on wrap, but never had wee leaks til the autumn. After a washing machine breakdown and moving house in Oct, I've gotten in the habit of using disps and really don't want to, but when the terry leaks after an 1 1/2 hours , I'm getting a bit worn down.

Also, his trousers seem very tight over the cloth nappy, but the next size up would be 3-4.
I wasn't sure if the tightness was helping the wee wick out into his trousers.

The wrap doesn't seem too small, but it's a while since he went into the Large, are they supposed to be quite loose?

Thanks for any help.

The tight trousers will tend to help the wrap leaking. You could always roll up the legs on the next size up.

The wrap quite possibly is too small, Airflows are on the loose side - how much does he weigh? If he's in 2-3 yr trousers that would suggest to me he's above average weight or build for his age, which would put him in XL usually (over 35lb/16kg. The wrong size wrap is the most common reason for leaks (and usually people never believe how quickly their baby has grown and say that as they've only been in that wrap for a few months it MUST be the wrap leaking!)

I'd also suggest trying a different fold, this one is good at padding between the legs, and is quite flat at the back so looks a lot trimmer, might help with the tight trousers: fold all the corners to the middle to make a smaller square, adjust the overlap of the points so the nappy is the same length as the wrap when opened out, fold this into 3, so it's a strip, then fan the back out, and wrap the points of the back round the middle and secure with Nappi Nippa or pins. To stop the poo leaks, roll up the leg at the waist, and tuck the top inch inwards at the back at the waist after you've done it up. I'd add the boosters and the liners as you're doing now, but also consider popping another whole booster between the nappy and the wrap - this does 2 things, firstly adds absorbency and secondly pushes the nappy closer to your son, so when he wees the nappy is being pushed closer to him = less likely to run down the leg and out if he has big flooding wees, this will allow time for it to percolate through the nappy.

Finally, if he's doing a big wee in one go, I'd try introducing the potty if you've not done so already, and see if you can get him to use it - copying you or Daddy when you go to the loo is often a good way at this age.

I would recommend a fleece soaker overnight like Pumpkin Pants - amazing - work brilliantly. You can get soakers or longies - so could have fleece trousers which would fit over his nappy and be a nappy cover. THere are a few stockists - worth googling them and checking out the different sites to find the pattern you want.

I have always used tracksuit bottoms on my 3 boys as they are comfy and stretchy.

My ds3 is now 3 and dry and he now fits back into his age 2-3 bottoms without his nappies on!

Thank you both.

I'm going to buy the XL airflows, try that fold and look up fleece soakers.

He knows when he's weeing, so it's getting time to potty-train I guess.