Does anyone else deal with this? A friend of mine has the following situation:
- 6 week old, long and lean girl, skinny legs. She was 6lb 13oz at birth
- She's using diaper service prefolds (newborn size but I don't think they're as small as GMD orange newborn dipes) and thirsties
- leaks pee and poo
- We don't live near each other but from what I can tell she's putting them on right
- she air dries covers
- three hours is about the max she goes between changes
- the velcro tabs overlap on the cover, XS, so she's skinny
She thought it was her lean size for a while, that she wasn't filling out the diapers enough. Have you had that happen? I thought maybe it's the absorbancy of the dipes, but since they're diaper service diapers, they're certainly prepped enough.
She's about to go up a size in prefolds since it's tight over the hips.
The suggestions I made to her were to try changing every 2 hours, and to do the jelly roll fold to create a better catch for pee and poo. Anything else?
Is there another cover to try? She just bought the next size up in covers to use later, so she doesn't particularly feel like getting new covers. However, maybe if there was one that would be good to get for going out, she could buy one of those to have for better protection. I have a mother-ease size small that I could loan her, but maybe that will be too big yet.
- 6 week old, long and lean girl, skinny legs. She was 6lb 13oz at birth
- She's using diaper service prefolds (newborn size but I don't think they're as small as GMD orange newborn dipes) and thirsties
- leaks pee and poo
- We don't live near each other but from what I can tell she's putting them on right
- she air dries covers
- three hours is about the max she goes between changes
- the velcro tabs overlap on the cover, XS, so she's skinny
She thought it was her lean size for a while, that she wasn't filling out the diapers enough. Have you had that happen? I thought maybe it's the absorbancy of the dipes, but since they're diaper service diapers, they're certainly prepped enough.
She's about to go up a size in prefolds since it's tight over the hips.
The suggestions I made to her were to try changing every 2 hours, and to do the jelly roll fold to create a better catch for pee and poo. Anything else?
Is there another cover to try? She just bought the next size up in covers to use later, so she doesn't particularly feel like getting new covers. However, maybe if there was one that would be good to get for going out, she could buy one of those to have for better protection. I have a mother-ease size small that I could loan her, but maybe that will be too big yet.
but I still like to change ASAP.
