Double diapers at night?

ilanat · December 2012

My LO pees a lot at night. My sister in law said you can take two overnight diapers, make a slit in one and then put that one on the LO and then another overnight diaper over THAT one and it works great. Has anyone tried this?

oliversmommy32912 · December 2012

I would be afraid the gel stuff and chemicals from the inside of the cut diaper would get on the baby.

GlinkaGirl · December 2012

Have you tried a larger sized diaper and one made especially for night (thicker?)

boilerup227 · December 2012

We do double diapers because nothing else worked. We tried everything. We don't cut them or my thing though. We just use a huggies overnight in a size 5 and a pampers cruiser size 6 over that!

amandadot · December 2012

have you thought about doing a cloth diaper at night?

tjkdlhb · December 2012

PLEASE don't do this!!!!!

There are so many nasty chemicals in disposable diapers! They have the same chemical in them that causes Toxic Shock Syndrome and chemicals that cause cancer.

Seriously. Get a fitted cloth diaper and use a PUL cover. DD is in it for 12 hours every night and has not leaked once in the 4 months I've been using that.

Edit: This is what I use

https://www.caterpillarbaby.com/sloomb-snapless-multi-contrasts.html

https://www.caterpillarbaby.com/thirsties-duo-wrap-with-snaps.html

tjkdlhb · December 2012

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2010/05/28/f-disposable-diapers.html

This talks about some of the chemicals

JuliaJAG · December 2012

Try a larger-sized overnight diaper, with a wool cover over it.

tjkdlhb:
loth diaper and use a PUL cover. DD is in it for 12 hours every night and has not leaked once in the 4 months I've been using that.

Oh how I wish it were that simple for my super-pee-er. I had to stop CDing at night because NO combination held all his pee, and I would have to wake him to change him at least every three hours or he would leak.

I tried fitteds with all kinds of doublers (bamboo, hemp, MF, etc.), then would put either a Duo Wrap or a thick wool cover over everything. He ALWAYS leaked no matter what, and the liners/doublers would all be sopping wet.

I hate chemicals too, but ultimately we had to go with disposable overnight diapers. He still sometimes leaks (and the diaper feels like it weighs 10 pounds when I take it off... I don't know how a baby can produce so much pee), so I usually change him while he's sleeping at midnight then again at 6 or 7.

tjkdlhb · December 2012

JuliaJAG:

Try a larger-sized overnight diaper, with a wool cover over it.

tjkdlhb:
loth diaper and use a PUL cover. DD is in it for 12 hours every night and has not leaked once in the 4 months I've been using that.

Oh how I wish it were that simple for my super-pee-er. I had to stop CDing at night because NO combination held all his pee, and I would have to wake him to change him at least every three hours or he would leak.

I tried fitteds with all kinds of doublers (bamboo, hemp, MF, etc.), then would put either a Duo Wrap or a thick wool cover over everything. He ALWAYS leaked no matter what, and the liners/doublers would all be sopping wet.

I hate chemicals too, but ultimately we had to go with disposable overnight diapers. He still sometimes leaks (and the diaper feels like it weighs 10 pounds when I take it off... I don't know how a baby can produce so much pee), so I usually change him while he's sleeping at midnight then again at 6 or 7.

I should clarify that the idea of cutting the diaper is what scared me the most with this discussion... because the chemicals would be directly on LOs bum.

ETA: I've suggested to people a bunch of times about getting a PUL cover (or wool would work too) and putting that over the disposable. That would really help to keep it all contained.

jeffsjayme · December 2012

We just use the one size up bigger diaper. It's been working for us. Now he's big enough for an overnight diaper, so we'll try that when this doesn't last all night.

Danaz1 · December 2012

For both my kids I us this booster pads in their diapers at night no leaks you can get them on amazon

oliversmommy32912 · December 2012

We had a super-duper pee-er on our hands for a few months. Thankfully it has lightened up a bit. It's so frustrating! We bought tons of different (and expensive!) brands of fitteds to try and all sorts of different hemp and bamboo etc to try in his pockets...we STILL had leaks every morning. Disposable night time dipes didn't work either. We sized up and went to overnights and he would still be soaked by morning. I ended up using two Imagine Bamboo prefolds in a cover with a stay dry liner on top and it worked WONDERFULLY. His butt was so big he could hardly roll over but it didn't seem to bother him too much and he always woke up dry...even some parts of one of the prefolds was still dry! It was the only thing that worked for us. Now he doesn't wet so heavily at night so we are able to get away with two hemp inserts and a microfiber insert in a pocket.

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