ok, what the hell am I doing wrong? This happens at least every other day. What am I doing wrong with LO peen? The diaper is not soaked through. It's wet in the center and all of his clothing and my bed. What am I doing wrong with his penis to stop these shenanigans!
Are you pointing his penis down when you put on a new diaper? That usually works for us. I've noticed that we have the same problem whenever I forget to point it down.
Yup. Same thing happens to us if I forget to point it down. Though I will say, with his cloth diapers it doesn't do that. Only when we forget in disposables.
I have this problem too. Penis is pointed down but he still manages to pee out the leg. But he can also poo out the leg avoiding the nappy entirely. Just clever I guess
Do you have the leg gussets out too? Sometimes when you pull the diaper up they fold in so after I have it on I slide a finger in each gusset and pull it out and flat.
I have a girl and this happened to me once. Then I watched her do it. It could be different. But I had the diaper fastened snug. You know if you suck your stomach in and it gives you a gap in the front? Well she was on her back and flexed her muscles just right when she lifted her legs up that it created a gap and she peed with her legs up, which made the pee run up her stomach and down her side, pooling at her back. I don't know it it's the same with your boys but it's a theory. If I hadn't seen her do it, I would have never figured out how she did it because it left the diaper totally dry and when her legs were back down, everything looked perfectly tight and in place.
We used to get that a lot with DS1. My mom showed me to make sure the elastic around the legs were snug into creases of where legs meet bottom and crotch area. That and to make sure he's pointed down. Only had leaks if someone other than DH and I changed him after that.
We had this problem early on and it went away once we started fanning the ruffles out, tightening everything, etc. But we are starting to have the problem again. I'm thinking maybe it's time to go up a diaper size. DS is still in newborns at 4 weeks but I've noticed that things are getting a little tight.
I have a boy and I had this happen with a couple different brands a few weeks ago. For my LO it meant he was ready for the next size up in diapers. Since I bumped him up to size 1 no more accidents.
After you secure the first tab make sure his penis is still down. I would point him down and then sometimes it would pop back up when I was fastening the diaper. Haven't had a leak since I figured that out.
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