A.D. asks from Washington, DC on June 07, 2010
Overnight Diapers - Newport News,VA
for the past week my son has been waking up at the crack of dawn, soaked up to his nipples with pee and not able to go back to sleep. He's been such a grump and I know he's waking this early because of his soggy situation. We've been using Fisher-Price Happy Nights diapers, and they just don't seem to be cutting it. He's 18 months old and 30 pounds, we use size 5's for him. I've even started cutting his liquid intake an hour before bedtime but it doesn't seem to make a difference. Anyone have any luck with other brands of overnight diapers?
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I went out and bought a size 6 pack of Huggies Overnights, and had two coupons that applied so I got the 23 pack for $6! (originally 11.99). We tried them out at naptime and they worked well, and tonight will be night 1. I appreciate everyone's imput :) Waking him up at night to change him is not an option though, if he gets woken up at all he will think its playtime and will not go back to sleep, then scream for hours on end and be completely miserable for days (he's very sleep-sensitive haha) and i'm 7 months pregnant and can't let him get in the habit of waking up for playtime in the middle of the night. I also think I'm going try out the diaper doublers too, they're pretty cheap and sound like such a great idea! Thanks everybody for the wonderful advice
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D.W. answers from Gainesville on June 07, 2010
Try sizing up to 6. When I used disposables (before my switch to cloth) usually sizing up will solve the problem. And he's 18 months old, absolutely no reason to cut down on his liquids. He will not be night trained for a long time!
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J.K. answers from Washington DC on June 11, 2010
Just tried the poise pad across his belly and had dry PJ's for the first time in weeks! (2.25 yrs, 40 lb boy). Thank you moms!
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D.W. answers from Gainesville on June 07, 2010
Try sizing up to 6. When I used disposables (before my switch to cloth) usually sizing up will solve the problem. And he's 18 months old, absolutely no reason to cut down on his liquids. He will not be night trained for a long time!
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M.T. answers from New York on June 07, 2010
When my son was a toddler and he'd wake up wet through, what I started doing was checking his diaper before I went to bed - usually about 3 hours after he went to bed. He was already wet then! Once I started with a quickie diaper change in the crib, the peeing through stopped. Disposables aren't meant to hold multiple wettings. I'd check your son before you go to bed and see if you need to diaper him.
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ETA: I didn't wake my son up to change him. He'd sleep in a diaper and onsie, I'd unsnap the onsie and change the diaper, no wiping or anything, and he would stay pretty much or totally asleep.
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J.K. answers from Washington DC on June 11, 2010
Just tried the poise pad across his belly and had dry PJ's for the first time in weeks! (2.25 yrs, 40 lb boy). Thank you moms!
K.L. answers from Washington DC on June 08, 2010
I have always used Pampers with my kids and never had any problem. They can hold a LOT of liquid.
S.H. answers from Richmond on June 09, 2010
I know you already have a lot of responses but I did want to add to keep an eye on Amazon.com for deals on Huggies Overnites. They are the only thing that keeps my son dry but they can be expensive (I too use coupons and get diapers at a fraction of the cost but HO can be tough to get on the cheap). Amazon just had a deal where you "subscribe and save" and get an extra 15% off and they put the HO on sale! I subscribed, waited for the item to ship, then cancelled my subscription. I got a HUGE box of HO for $15 shipped to my door. Just something to look for if you are going to stick with the HO.
J.K. answers from Chicago on June 07, 2010
We have had good luck with the Pampers Extra Protection diapers. GOod luck! :-)
K.C. answers from Barnstable on June 07, 2010
My son is 22 months and 30 lbs. I have him in Air Biscuits Cloth Diapers - he can go from 8pm to 8am without a single leak. Not all cloth diapers can pull off that feat, but they do! They weight about 4 lbs when I finally take them off!!! hee hee!
:) Good luck!
M.I. answers from Washington DC on June 08, 2010
hi,
for some reason this has happened to us before for like a week or 2 and then, the issue goes away. weird! we use huggies night diapers, and they work very well for us. for those times when he has been soaking through them, i bought a set of g-diapers and i put those over his huggies. this way his pj's don't get wet. hopefully this will go away for you as it does for us...by magic! good luck!
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