Reusing Pull-ups?

SugarSnap83

Mobile title: Reusing Pull-ups?

(I already tried to post this, but it didn't seem to work, so sorry if this is a double post). Do any of you reuse clean nighttime pull-ups? While Noah hasn't had an overnight accident in weeks and weeks, I'm still too nervous to do underwear at night, so I just started using overnight pull-ups. While using regular pull-ups during the day I would treat them like underwear and reuse them (I'd throw them away at the end of the day even if they were still clean), but would you reuse clean nighttime ones multiple nights or is that gross and I'm just being cheap?

EVM1216

I'll admit to being cheap.  If they are clean I will reuse them.  That being said DD has had 2 dry nights, so no diaper has made it to the triple duty phase.

missmuffin87

We don't have dry nights yet, but sometimes the occasional dry nap. I reuse them. No point in wasting a perfectly good pull-up.

lrn327

Hmm, I had that thought too.  I used the same daytime pull up all day (toss at night).  C still wears nighttime pull ups, and while they are usually dry, I toss each morning.  In my mind, he's somehow creating stinky butt overnight, haha!  Actually, we have to coat him in aquaphor each night and that actually causes the stretchy sides to lose their elasticity.  So, they really don't last us more than one night anyway.

enjoylife

We reuse out overnight diapers. He is frequently dry overnight since he doesn't pee til First thing in the morning. He hasn't figured out how to come out of his room to go potty he waits for us to come and get him. Anyways so if he's dry and the diaper doesn't smell like butt sweat then we keep reusing it. He hasn't used diaper cream in several months so I can't attest to that part. I'd probably toss then though.
@letranger we had to do the same. Ds1 is 33ish pounds and when he did the morning "flood" he would leak out the diapers since they weren't fitting as well. He's grown out of his fitteds and pockets. I tried a prefold and wool and it couldn't contain first morning pee either so we moved into disposables but still those leak too when we don't use overnights. They do make overnight pull-ups we used them on vacation a couple months ago

erind0213

I still do regular diapers on DD at night, but if the pull-up before bed is try we reuse in the morning.

Pull-ups are expensive! Get as much use out of 1 as possible.

SugarSnap83

letranger said:

Do they make pull-ups specially for over nights? We cloth diaper but my son is peeing or of cloth so we bought overnight diapers but he is at the max weight on them.

They do. I got some sample ones in the last box of pull-ups that I'm trying to make last as long as I can

lrn327

Oh I guess I should clarify we coat his arms/legs/back in aquaphor for eczema, not using it as diaper cream.  I forget that it is sometimes!