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This past week or so, I've noticed that when DS bends over, he looks like an electrician (or plumber, or...). This seems to be happening with ALL of his diapers - Fuzzi Bunz (which have a plenty high rise), VB fitted, my own pattern... And I'm not sure that it's entirely a rise issue... Maybe it's his pants pulling the diapers down? Although the VB fitted seems to do it pantsless... I think that's just the fact that some of the rise is in the tabs being so tall and folding over, so that essentially makes the useable rise less on that diaper. Just a theory.

Anyway, I'm trying to figure out how to fix the problem. It's possible his rise has grown, but they seem to fit when I first put them on, and then they sag down as time goes on. That's probably why it's worse when he's wearing pants. It happens with front and side-snapping diapers. And while he may be slimming down a tad, I really haven't been able to snap it much tighter yet. He's still got that huge milk belly which gets in the way of things.

So ideas on what type of change might help in this case?
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Hmmmm well it happens with my DD if I dont get the diaper on tight enough or if the diaper is just plain too small. maybe add a gusset to the back and that may help with his "crack" problem. I know there are instructions somewhere on the internet (free at that) for leg and back gussets, sounds weird but I' bet itll help. HTH
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we have the same problem. some of the diapers are a bit short on the rise but others aren't and we have the same problem. I'm thinking I need to tighten the elastic in the back to help keep them up. I can't tighten the legs at all because they fit well in the legs but the back just doesn't seem tight enough for my fairly skinny daughter.

I'll let you know if that works for us!
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After thinking some more, I wonder if it's a combination of his pants not having a high enough rise and the fact that he has NO butt. Huge milk belly, but no butt. There's nothing there to hold the thing up!
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Originally Posted by boscopup
After thinking some more, I wonder if it's a combination of his pants not having a high enough rise and the fact that he has NO butt. Huge milk belly, but no butt. There's nothing there to hold the thing up!
LOL my daughter has no butt either, and the way they make pants now days, they are so short in the rise cuz everyone likes lowrise. I hatem. Ive started buying 24months and 2T clothes for my dd cuz she gets bare belly. Shes proud of the bare belly but its too cold for a bare belly! LOL
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LOL my daughter has no butt either, and the way they make pants now days, they are so short in the rise cuz everyone likes lowrise. I hatem.
My friend buys boy's jeans for her daughter, so they aren't low rise. The boy clothes are still ok, but DS is just a weird shape right now, I guess. Huge waist, no butt, itty bitty thighs, and really long torsoed. He wears 18 month size for leg length, but could easily do 24 month for the waist. And in tops, he's really 24 month or even whatever is after that (the T sizes confuse me). I bought him a light jacket in 18 month size and a heavy jacket in 24 month size for winter at the last big consignment sale here, and I thought the heavy jacket would for sure last us all winter... Nope! The arms are too short! : And the 18 month size is ok, but a bit short in the torso, plus when I zip it up, I really have to stretch it to get around that milk belly. He's running now, so he SHOULD be losing the milk belly, right?
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maybe add a gusset to the back and that may help with his "crack" problem.
I've never seen a back gusset... Weird. But we're not getting poo leaks or anything. The crack issue is more aesthetics than anything else. We very much have solid food poop now. In fact, today when I was changing what I thought was a poopy diaper, I opened it up and saw no poop, so I just pulled the diaper out... And out rolls some small balls of poop. Whoops! I thought it was poopy! Now I know to check farther back.
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I think our children all need diaper suspenders

Or else clothes that button together so the pants can pull down the diapers. Added benefit with that that the baby would never take their aplixing diaper off!
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