Please or to access all these features

Add post

Watch this thread

Save thread

Start a new thread

Flip thread

Hide thread

My feed

Active Unanswered threads

Getting started FAQ's

Unanswered threads Acronyms Talk guidelines

Hide shortcut buttons

Talk

Shopping

From everyday essentials to big purchases, swap tips and recommendations. For the best deals without the hassle, sign up for Mumsnet Moneysaver emails.

Flip

Original poster

Leaking nappies

16 replies

Nutcracker · 06/04/2004 14:31

Recently it doesn't seem to matter which brand i am using but ds's nappies keep leaking at night. He wakes up with a wet belly and legs. He has it on for about 12 hours, which is a long time i know, but i've never had to change my dd's in the night before, not at this age anyway (16mths).
Have tried Pampers, Huggies, Boots and Asda, but nothing is working.
He is currently drinking lots of juice/water during the day but i like to him to drink as much as he likes so, what can i do ??

OP posts:

bundle · 06/04/2004 14:48

nutty, have you tried a different size? my dds both have long bodies and the fit just didn't work on some of the huggies when we moved up a size. finding pampers active fit v good with dd2, who's nearly 1.

Original poster

Nutcracker · 06/04/2004 14:52

Erm didn't think of that. Am using Pampers (normal i think) maxi plus at the mo. My friend said that her 18mth old is still in Maxi so maybe they were too big, but ds has got a big bellie and i can't do maxi ones up.
I'll try to active fit ones and see if that works, Thanks Bundle.

OP posts:

prettycandles · 06/04/2004 15:01

Do you make sure his penis is pointing downwards inside the nappy?

Someone recently told me that they put a larger size pull-up nappy over their ds's ordinary night-time nappy and that solved the problem, but worked out fairly expensive.

Our ds was a mega-wetter at night, and one of things we discovered (apart from the ultimate nappy, no luck there) was that it was generally the final wee of the night that overwhelmed the nappy and made it leak. He would wee, we think, as soon as he woke, so if he then went back to sleep the nappy would leak. Solution: change his nappy asap in the morning, and say goodbye to any hope of a lie-in! It improved once he was toilet-trained, but I guess that's quite a way away for you yet.

bundle · 06/04/2004 15:02

prettycandles, thank god I haven't had to worry about which way things pointing, having 2 girls - much more complicated with boys..

GeorginaA · 06/04/2004 15:02

Next size up helped us. Soaking through is usually an indicator of either bad fit or absorbancy not high enough.

Also, this is probably obvious, but have you checked that his willy is pointing down rather than up? DS was waking up soaking every night recently, then we realised that when we were getting him up for potty at 11pm (he wears pull-ups at night although he's day trained) we weren't checking that his bits were pointing down properly as we would do when we're properly awake

Original poster

Nutcracker · 06/04/2004 15:05

I do normally check that his willy is pointing down, but not sure if dp does. Will have to ask him later.

OP posts:

prettycandles · 06/04/2004 15:06

bundle, it's amazing what you can get used to - the first time dh and I changed a pooey nappy on dd (after 2+y of changing a boy's nappy) we both stood there and asked each other 'What on earth do we do about this?'!

bundle · 06/04/2004 15:19

kiwisbird · 06/04/2004 15:23

Whenever this happens I go back to a cloth nappy and booster for a while til she cnages shape again, I must say boys are far worse than girls for leaking IMHO (one of each)

Original poster

Nutcracker · 06/04/2004 15:27

Yeah i have two dd's too and don't remember it happening this often with them,if at all.

OP posts:

bloss · 07/04/2004 11:17

Message withdrawn

popsycal · 07/04/2004 13:40

oh nutcracker - we had this!
the only solution for us is......
huggies adventurers
but change the nappy before I go to bed....no nappy will withstand 6:45pm til 6:45am - he wees way too much

bobsmum · 07/04/2004 13:46

Switch to cloth - seriously! Wouldn't recommend it if there was even the slightest possibility of it going wrong and leaking. Totsbots with a Motherease wrap . Like Bloss said - even if it's just for night time.

Ds sleeps for 13 plus hours at night. In the morning I could wring out his nappy and fill a small bucket (not that I would ) and he's never had a leak of any kind.

Otherwise you'll have to wake your ds and change him

popsycal · 07/04/2004 13:54

my ds sleeps right through changing nappies

It was also recommnended that I try cloth with my ds - and I gave it some serious thought but weighing up everything, I decided that the only realistic option for us, because of a variety of factors at the moment, was disposables

Original poster

Nutcracker · 07/04/2004 14:12

Oh god i can't risk waking him, he's in our room and has just realised when he does occasionally wake that we are there. He stands and shouts and waves at us for an hour after, whilst we both lie like statues.
This morning he was fine, so i'll see what happens next.

OP posts:

gingernut · 07/04/2004 14:23

Yes, we had this too. These things have helped:

Changing to the next size up for night time (we use Pampers Active Fit)
Reducing the amount of milk we give him at night (by about a quarter, so not much) (he drinks lots of milk at breakfast and is generally a good eater so I wasn't concerned about his milk intake)
Putting him on his potty after his bath. He often does quite a big wee in it and I suppose it would otherwise have gone in the nappy. Your ds is a bit young I suppose, but worth a try?

We still get an occasional leak but hardly ever. I agree with whoever said to change him as soon as he wakes - I think my ds does a massive wee soon after waking which overwhelms the nappy.

Oh, I did try stuffing his nappies with cloth boosters and muslins which worked OK but my ds always gets eczema when I use cloth so I gave up on that.

Flip