NIght Time Peeing / Leaking

Something like this can make a wool cover go a little longer...we use it with our DD.  Maybe stack up two or three of these with your little super soaker.

You might just need more absorbancy... are the diapers completely soaked by morning?  We have similar issues with my little one.  Right now we either use a Sandy with 3 hemp doublers (2 joeybunz and 1 GMD stay dry) or a bububebe fitted diaper with 1 hemp doubler.  We use blueberry coveralls over them.  They are pretty well soaked by the morning but she usually doesn't leak.  She wears wool shorties over the PUL cover to contain leaks as well. 

Our problem stems from the fact that she drinks a lot right before bed and wakes up hungry for more in the middle of the night.  We are trying to reduce how much she drinks at night and hope that will reduce the amount of night time pee! 

How are you folding your flats? I found that a pad folded flat inside an oragami folded flat put the layers of absorbency where they were needed most and then we covered with a polar fleece soaker.

Hello!

We had the same issue with our little one and he is 15 months old now. He drinks 2 bottles at night and is a super soaker! :) We use Thirsties fab fitted diapers with an extra insert (SoftBums Bamboo Pod) and a cover. This has kept his clothes dry by morning. Also, you only need 2 or 3 (if you are washing your diapers every 2-3 days) which is nice! Hope this helps! :)

http://www.kushietushies.com/item_171/Thirsties-Fab-Fitted-Snaps.htm

i'm having a problem with leaking too - probably just not enough absorbency. right now i'm using AMP two-layer hemp inserts, two of them set in a BSWW. i did the same thing in a thirsties duo wrap and didn't leak so i don't know if that was a lucky night or if the wrap style made a big difference.

i confess i've been using disposables more often than not because of the night leak factor, but i really don't like doing that if i can help it.

i have flannel flats, flannel fitteds (which aren't very absorbant), bummis prefolds, other prefolds, and 2-layer AMP hemp inserts to choose from. i really can't afford to buy new fluff though i do have some new wraps coming in soon (blueberry, thirsties duo, sweet peas). any suggestions?

rustygriffen wrote: A good rule of thumb is if the diaper is soaking wet in the AM it isn't absorbent enough.  Wool is excellent, but it's only as good as the diaper under it, because it isn't waterproof, but water resistant. Wool will absorb 30% of it's weight in water before it begins to wick to the outside, if you exceed that you'lll find it damp on the outside in the morning.  I don't know what kind of covers your using at night, but that might also be part of your problem if they have FOE around the binding.  I had really great luck with Sandy's at night, and also with Mandi's Menagerie First and Last diapers (I like the MM best..no kid can pee through those). I paired them both with a loveybums interlock wrap, or SBish soaker and after that I never had a leak.  The other person who mentioned adding a pad folded flat to the origami or kite folded flat is also right, it adds quite a bit of absorbency where you need it most.

My DS is a super soaker. Always has been. I've never been able to make cotton by itself work for overnights. Bamboo has always been my go to fabric for night time. Our bamboo fitteds are being repaired so I've been experimenting for the last month or so. What seems to work best is a large bamboo flat padfolded inside a cotton prefold. Very bulky but works. Bamboo just seems to hold the pee inside of it. I prefer it to hemp myself. Another combo that works okay but not as well is a padfolded prefold inside another prefold with a hemp babies insert and a bamboo doubler. Bamboo fleece (the kind that Sustainable Babyish uses seems to be more absorbant than some of the other thinner bamboo fleece or bamboo velour). They are my favourite doublers by a long shot.