night time question..

ajtjirsnow

I was blessed with a heavy wetter with my second lady.. and even when we double at night she still pees through. I have tried bamboo liners, cloth liners, bamboo and cloth together. We are currently stashed with mostly minky kawaii diapers.. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

ajtjirsnow

correction.. as a moron I wrote cloth liners instead of cotton liners.. excuse my mistake.. and another site was more helpful anyway..

 

bethandjoe09

Have you tried hemp?  It's supposed to be able to absorb more while being trim, so you'd be able to fit more absorbency into the pocket.  People often pair it with microfiber or cotton because those absorb more quickly than hemp does, even if they don't absorb as much (you'd put the microfiber or cotton closer to the skin).

If she's soaking through to her clothes, you could also try getting her a pair of wool shorties or longies.  Lanolized wool makes a very good nighttime cover because it can absorb a fair amount of liquid.  It seems like it wouldn't work, but I pulled a wool cover off of DS this morning.  The hemp-stuffed prefold underneath was absolutely soaked, the wool was wet, and I had to feel the onsie on top carefully to decide that it was just barely damp.

I will note that wool covers come with the dual drawbacks of generally needing to be handwashed (you let them dry in between uses until they start smelling or get poop on them, and then handwash, relanolize and lay flat to dry - there are instructions in the FAQs regarding this) and often starting people on a slippery path to needing *lots* of wool covers.