[LCBMAX]

Day time ec with my 14 month old son is going so great right now, with words, cueing, signing, and lots of ease. I want to seize the moment and try to make the leap to night time ec too.

Night sleep is alternately crazy hard or comparably easy, with a dry diaper this morning, and only 3 nursing wake-ups last night. I just have not been well enough rested to give nighttime ec more than a passing chance til now, but I think the daytime is going so well that nighttime practice might be the key to better sleep too. We co-sleep.

I want to try it by going naked at night, because:

1) that's the way we learned best about day time cues
2) I'm still not well rested and if I have to wake up enough to check something that holds all the wet in, it is less likely to happen
3) I just received a pile of wool blankets so I really could let lots of pee happen in bed without a laundry disaster
4) son is still such an easy waker that it would be easier to peel off a layer of under-blanket than to change a diaper-like thing

SO: what do I do about the night time pees that go up????? (never mind to the side...)

It's hard to keep a blanket or other pee-catching cover on this wiggley boy, and it's too cold to go blanketless all night. Do I turn the humidifier on high and crank the heat and have us all uncovered? Do I invent some kind of belted groin flap that will stay in place and change out easily? Did you already invent this wheel?

Mothers of sons, help me out!

 

[riboflavin]

I created a belted groin flap thing, but it looks like a regular training pant. Really easy to just flip down and up over the groin at night-and day too! I have a non-waterproof version too, if you want something that will still allow you to feel if he gets wet from touching the outside of the pant. Pics here.

A cheaper version of these would be the ol' prefold belt with a prefold tucked in. You could just pull the front down and put it back in again when done. They wouldn't stay on as securely as ecaPants though. But may work for you at night depending on your babe. You can get them here or here.

Good luck!

 

[LCBMAX]

I do love those drop-fronts, and I think they'd be great for our days. For nights I really need something that doesn't require moving his bottom around much for changes. Like the drop-fronts, but with just a changeable front panel and no back at all so it's like-naked? Is someone out there skilled enough to make this? I'm thinking of just cutting the butt out of something, but I can't figure out how to make the front panel an easy-change thing... Sometimes I think of a wild almost s&m looking thing with a waist band, leg bands, and a rectangle in front that just velcroes to the bands at the corners....
Anyone?