Need help with leaking!

[Kutie.Pie]

For starters, I've been CDing for 3 months and my DS is now 6 mo. This last week I hardly get through a nap without him soaking everything. I use Flip diapers with the stay dry inserts and I have a couple GroBaby diapers with inserts and doublers. I've tried just about every combination: 2 flip inserts, the gro baby insert with doubler, a flip insert with doubler, a gro baby with a flip disposable underneath, etc. He's a side sleeper and, of coarse, he pees more on whichever side he sleeps on. I've also made sure to be careful with his little penis so that it's not aiming up to see if that'd help, but that's not really the problem. I've checked the sides of his diapers to make sure that they cover around his little leggies and checked the tops so that nothing is coming out. He still manages to pee everywhere. I used to have a pocket diaper that I had on trial and he leaked through that as well, and DH and I don't really prefer pocket diapers.

I've also only used diaper laundry soap on my dipes. I've used clorox on them once, but I rinsed them a couple times afterwards. I don't think there's anything wrong as far as soaking up the pee goes.

Is there anything I can do? Any other diapers I can look at? I know there's a new hybrid type diaper that Nicki's Diaper's is selling, and I've heard it's pretty good, but I really don't have the money to go and buy any new dipes right now. Maybe in a couple weeks, but I need to through those weeks. Please give me any advise. Any suggestions for some nap/sleep time dipes that I can look into for the future? Also, are there any really good doublers that would work well? Thank you so much!

[CookAMH]

I know others will have more input in the morning, but have you tested the absorbancy of the inserts by pouring a cup of water? If it immediately and completely absorbs, then that's not your issue and you can move on.

I don't have a side sleeper but wonder if prefolds would cover his hips more while he's on his side. And there is a certain fold you can do for a side sleeper (http://thediaperhyena.com/thigh_fold.htm). Also, is there actually an absorbant layer on his hips?

This thread may help: http://www.mothering.com/discussions...leeper+leaking and http://www.mothering.com/discussions...leeper+leaking

Until you resolve this, you could layer up the waterproof pads or lay some inserts under him so you're not changing sheets so much.

[DevaMajka]

I have a side sleeper too. It's tricky diapering a side sleeper! Even sposies leak for my ds, even though he's not a heavy wetter.

I have found that pockets don't work for him. The inserts you're using, are they staydry on top? Could it be that the material just isn't absorbing fast enough to pull in the pee before it heads down out the leg? I think that's what happens with pockets for me- they don't repel and are fine during the day, they just don't cut it at night.

The only combo that works for me is a "trifolded" (and widened a bit in the front) LL flat in a staydry pouch (procool or suedecloth- fleece doesn't work very well for me) under a Blueberry minky wrap. I tried a Booroi cover yesterday, and it worked but wicked out the FOE. It was under fleece jammies, so the wicking didn't really matter. It didn't full out leak like some other combos have.

You could try using an absorbant layer all through the front of the cover. Even something like a folded washcloth laid across the front. The tricky part there is making it staydry. If that works, you might want to consider a prefold or LL flat diaper that you can make wider in the front, so you have the biggest area possible to absorb pee that's trying to get out the side.

Another thing- if it's leaking only a little bit, you could try putting him in fleece jammies or pants at night. At least that would keep it from soaking everything.

[moxygirl]

I second LL flats! NEVER have a problem with them and my DS is a VERY heavy wetter. (I use the origami fold.)

[prothyraia]

For awhile with my oldest, at night we would use:

A pocket diaper stuffed with two prefolds, underneath-
A prefold fasted with snappi, underneath-
A cover of some kind, ideally wool.

The pocket absorbed the bulk of the pee, the prefold tight around the legs caught the overflow, and the cover managed to contain anything else.