Leaking through at nap!

[avismama24]

Hi all,

I just switched over to prefolds and thirsty covers this week for my son, and so far SO good. I do Find i have to change him a bit more but they are doing a great job. Problem is he consistently leaks through them at nap. He eats right before nap and his tummy is full so that it part of the problem. Any suggestions? Does putting an extra folded prefold in help?

[skycheattraffic]

It sounds like he just needs more absorbency and the extra prefold will definitely help. My DD pees through even my rumparooz pockets (and they hold a ton) at nap and overnight. Mind you she drinks a ton of water and nurses a lot and she's almost 19 months. To save myself some grief, I did crack open a box of sposies (I'm not proud of that but stripping the bed twice most days was getting unmanageable) and that helped a bit though we still have leaks a couple of times a week at least. I don't know how old your LO is but the extra prefold should definitely help. If you use a different diaper at night, you could try that at naptime too. Hth

[avismama24]

Thanks....and glad to hear I'm not the only one this happens to, I was like what am I doing wrong here. We are still using a disposable 7th gen diaper at night bc he is a sound sleeper and I don't want to have to wake up the whole house bc he is covered in pee, poor little guy! I an going to try to extra pre-fold for naps and see how that works! Do other people have sucess with cloth over night...like for 11 whole hours, bc that is how long my amazing son sleeps at night! Crazy I know. He loves his sleep ;)
 

[avismama24]

also.....how long do you keep on the same cover. since ds doesn't really have blowouts i reuse the same cover for the better part of the day. anyone else?

[skycheattraffic]

Oh yes, I reuse the same cover all day when I use fitteds/prefolds/flats. Other than no poop of course if the cover is dry (leg gussets are usually the first to get damp in a huge pee) I just reuse. Basically if the cover is clean and dry, it's ready for action.

[avismama24]

Ok....this is what I hve been doing too. I am getting SO frustrated by all the leaking though....I don't know if it is that I used disposables prior to this so I have unrealistic expectations about absorbancy...he can easily go 3 hours in a disposable and I feel like I have to change him ever 1.5, 2 at the most in cloth. Does that seem normal for cloth? Or maybe my son pees a lot......not sure? Any suggesstions?

THANKS for all the knowledge.

[skycheattraffic]

Oh I definitely have to change DD more often in cloth. 2 hours is the most she can go while awake. I just built more changes into our routine and take more diaps when we go somewhere. I switched her to cloth at 12 months and started part time EC at 11 months. Now at 19 months she has started telling me when her diaper is wet and once or twice we even made it to the potty with a dry diaper. There are disadvantages to cloth in terms of convenience and absorbency but usually it's easy enough to address with a little change in diapering. If I change DD quickly and often then we are virtually leak free during the day. If I don't then leaks are common. She's a heavy wetter and I just take lots of extra pants and diaps wherever we go.

[avismama24]

Originally Posted by skycheattraffic 

Oh I definitely have to change DD more often in cloth. 2 hours is the most she can go while awake. I just built more changes into our routine and take more diaps when we go somewhere. I switched her to cloth at 12 months and started part time EC at 11 months. Now at 19 months she has started telling me when her diaper is wet and once or twice we even made it to the potty with a dry diaper. There are disadvantages to cloth in terms of convenience and absorbency but usually it's easy enough to address with a little change in diapering. If I change DD quickly and often then we are virtually leak free during the day. If I don't then leaks are common. She's a heavy wetter and I just take lots of extra pants and diaps wherever we go.

Wow...that is funny skycheattraffic.....We just started EC with my son who is 11 months old as well and also just switched over to cloth after a long stretch of disposables.....just seemed like the "right" step for our family. The begenning of my son's life was SO compicated, he was 3 months premature, that cloth diapering kind of went out the window, but a few weeks ago, I was like "Hey why am I not doing this now?....I have all the supplies, and thus we have began our cloth diapering adventure or lots of leaks!

[MySweetPickles]

I would add a Hemp Babies Doubler or some kind of hemp at naptime. That should do the trick.  What are you using at night?

[avismama24]

So my new system has been a prefold, with a cheepie Gerber plastic covering, with a thirsties cover on top of that...that has been doing the trick and keeping the LO mostly dry all day! yea
 

[RiverMomma]

We use an ImseVimse all-in-one at night.  11 hours, no leaks!  During the day we EC part of the time, and otherwise just change him whenever we notice that he peed.  One thing we've done that has helped alot, is whenever we change a wet diaper we hold him over the sink and ask if he has to pee more.  He usually does!  It saves changing 3 or 4 wet diapers right in a row.

[RiverMomma]

Oh, and we always take DS's diaper off, and give him a chance to pee right before naps and bedtime.

[Choose2Reuse]

Hi, we use prefolds + thirsties covers and love them. (DD is 14 months old & we've used them from birth.)  She doesn't nap long (sigh) but at night we fold an extra prefold (a smaller size) and put it inside the bigger one--that does a great job of increasing absorbency and she doesn't ever leak at night.  And, I would like to add, she consistency pees through sposie dipes on airplane trips--at least the cheap generic ones--so the cloth dipes do a great job in comparison.