question for sposie users

[LiLStar]

We normally use cloth but use sposies at night. Store brand, typically, and they do a pretty miserable job of holding in poop. He poops every morning before we even have a chance to get out of bed. Its 50/50 or worse whether it stays in or oozes out the legs/back. Anyway. We're on our last one tonight, and incidentally, he just full on projectile vomited, stomach heaving, definitely not spit up. He's also been feverish. When dd got a tummy bug as an infant, it was followed by the foulest diarreah I've ever seen and it took weeks to get the stench out of my cloth and out of the dryer! So I'd rather not repeat that First sign of diarreah and he's in sposies full time till it ends! Soo.. which "make and model" of dipes are best suited to prevent diarreah leaks? Don't just say "huggies" or "pampers" I've been down that aisle, there's like 100 kinds of each brand! He wears size 4 if it matters.. I know there's some types that are only in certain sizes, to make things even more confusing

[noobmom]

Does he really wear a size 4? I don't think my son wore a size 4 until he was 2 yo, although I admit he's on the small side.

We liked Pampers Swaddlers (smaller sizes)/Cruisers (bigger sizes). They stink with perfumes, but did the job and didn't aggravate DS's eczema. But like I said, DS was a skinny baby--and I've heard Pampers are good for that. If your DS is a chubby baby, you might want to try the Huggies instead.

[texaspeach]

pamper cruisers. they stink but they keep everything in.

we didn't think huggies fit as well, ds is chubby (and is moving into ize 3 at 4 months

[ScootchsMom]

I've had the best luck with Huggies Cruisers and Fisher Price (sold at BRU). I hated Pampers with DD, so haven't even tried them with DS. Luvs supposedly don't leak, but the last three packages of Luvs that I bought had at least one leak each.

You can also try going up a size. Whenever I find that we're getting a lot of leaks, its time for the next size up. They also have overnight diapers now that work great. Huggies and Fisher Price both make them and they are designed to hold much more. Stay away from store brands, they are terrible and most of them get a nasty odor when the kid pees in it. I just bought a bunch of Earth's Best Chlorine free on sale and am trying those, so I can't help there yet.

ITs really trial and error. Each kid is shaped so differently. DS is in size 5's already and he's only 7.5 months old. But he's also wearing 18 month clothing and is just a BIG kid overall.

[larzanna]

A size 4 really would surprise me, those are big diapers!
I use huggies, the regular red and white pack (not the supremes), during the day. They hold poo very well. Make sure you pull out the leg gussets all the way around.
Something else that might help, if you know that your LO is going to poo in the AM pretty quick, try to "stand him up" My DS you can kinda tell when he is going to, always have been able to, so we hold him standing...ha ha almost in a squat, i think this has also led to only one tiny poo leak.

Now, huggies stopped working for nighttime pee leaks awhile back, so we use papers cruisers for night, no pee leaks.

It really is trial and error with your own baby, i would go buy small packs of a few of them and just try them all out....

-L

[boobs4milk]

wow! millie is still in size 1's but she's getting close. she's about 14 lbs and 24" we like the walmart brand but when they start to leak we know it's time for a bigger size. we got a coupon for luvs and tried those and the fit a bit better. i could smell more plasticy/perfumy smells on the luvs though.

[Polliwog]

I like Target's brand a lot.

[LROM]

If you usually cloth diaper, have you checked out the Whole Foods 365 brand of diapers? No chlorine bleach, and they hold liquid poop ok (not amazingly well though).

[Mom2M]

Pampers cruisers for us were the best!

[Punchy Kaby]

I used sposies on DS, who was a big baby. We mostly used Huggies Supremes, if they have night time diapers (Huggies) in size 4 I would try that for over night, they hold a lot more.

[sunshynbaby]

We use sposies outside the house. Changing to the next size up always helps contain poo-splosions. I also put a Thirsties cover over the sposie if I know poop is imminent, lol.

[pastrygirl]

I've had to move up to size 4 diapers when both my sons turns 4 months old.

I'm really impressed with Walgreen's this time around; last time I liked Pampers Cruisers.

[azmomtoone]

I do wonder if some of your leaks aren't caused by a too-big diaper?
My 36 lb 3 yr old wears a size 4..... He was always in the 95% as an infant and even so only wore a size 3 at a year...

That said, I know we did have more blowouts in sposies than cloth when DS was an infant too (only 1 ever in cloth...and nothing would have held that, he was laying flat on his back, and pooped so hard it came out the front of the waist!) ... but when he was tiny seemed like in sposies, it always leaked...made me quickly want to never ever use them!!
Maybe you could do a sposie with a cloth cover over? So the sposie will catch most but the cover will hopefully protect his clothes?

[elmh23]

It's really going to depend on your babies shape. My dd was a chunky monkey and Huggies Premium (I think, the ones with Winnie the Pooh on them) worked best. Ds is a skinny little boy (only in size 4 at age 2 because of his rise!) and the Kirkland (Costco brand) diapers work very well on him.

[tabrizia]

DS was in size 4 diapers when we used them at that age too. That being said I've found Pampers Cruisers work best for both my children so far when we use disposable diapers. They aren't as good as cloth, but they are better then the Huggies and 7th generation diapers I've tried as well as the Target house brand.

[Italiamom]

The normal red and white huggies seem to work better as far as poop is concerned for our DS. They have elastic along the top of the back, which acts a bit more like the elastic across the top back of a normal cloth diaper cover.

Avoid the pampers "baby dry" (they come in the blue green box/plasitc). I've never bought the pampers cruisers because they're more expensive than the "baby dry" kind. But the baby dry ones have no elastic across the back...

I like the idea of a cover over the sposie though. It might be your best bet for keeping poop off of clothes. And then you'd just be getting poop off the PUL, instead of absorbent (odor holding) prefolds, etc. The huggies (the red and white box/bag) have seemed to have the fewest blowouts in our house, but they still happen more frequently than with cloth.

[Drummer's Wife]

What helps is to add a diaper cover, or pocket diaper over the sposie, IME. I don't know, but my kids have always leaked pee and poo much more often with disposables. (says the mama who is currently using sposies )

[blumooned]

I have tried several brands and settled on Huggies Little Movers (aka Supreme) with Winnie the Pooh. DS wears size 3 during the day & 4 overnight. I couldn't stand the smell of any Pampers. Regular Huggies leaked pee. Luvs & Target brand were too flimsy/papery/scratchy for me. I also like 7th Gen & Huggies Naturals (just like Supremes but organic) but don't see the need for the extra expense.
DS is average size (50% both height & weight). He hasn't leaked poop since he was a newborn (wore Pampers Swaddlers then) but has never had diarrhea. We do the larger size at night to hold all the pee.

[UptownZoo]

Originally Posted by Drummer's Wife

What helps is to add a diaper cover, or pocket diaper over the sposie, IME. I don't know, but my kids have always leaked pee and poo much more often with disposables. (says the mama who is currently using sposies )

Yup. I usually used cloth at night, but when one of my kids had diarrhea, I put on a Target sposie (less perfume-y than the name brand dipes, and very absorbent IME), then a prefold, then a cover over everything. Worked almost all the time.

[curious&eager]

What cover would you suggest? I'm so frustrated with diapers right now. Some leak pee some leak poo. The problem is that it's daily. Here's my list.

Walgreens (regular)- leaked pee 3 times the first day
Pampers (swaddlers, baby dry)- tons of poo up back
Huggies (regular)- leaks pee every night, but mostly great on poo
Target- poo up back
Walmart (parents choice)- pretty good on poo, leaks pee overnight and sometimes in day
Luv's- only had one diaper so can't tell. Seems like pampers

I'm so frustrated because this is a daily issue, poo or pee leaks. I'm not up for the work of cloth although sometimes it sounds tempting.

I am curious tough about putting a cover over the diaper. What cover would you use. Where would you get it? I'm tired of waking up baby for a middle of the night change.