My daughter is a little over six months old and is wetting through her diaper, clothes and sheets every night. We have tried larger diapers, even 2 diapers and she still is soaked through by morning. Has anyone experinced this before? If so, have there been any solutions? She sleeps usually from 8 to 8 so i am not really complaining, but i would love it if I didn't have to wash/change the sheets every morning. She was just put on formula 2 weeks ago and is starting on solids. It was soon after that that she started soaking through, so I am guessing they must be connected. any advice would be great! thanks!
We use a combination of Huggies Overnights (I've found them at Target, Meijer, Babies R Us and Walgreens to name a few!) and Diaper Doublers. The only place I have found them is at Babies R Us, but they are basically like a sanitary pad that you put inside the diaper to make it extra absorbent. They cost just $2.99 for a package of 30 ... and are the best thing I've found!
Hope that helps!
what worked for me with all my kids especially my twins and seems, to me at least, to be the most logical, in leu of spending more money, doubling up diapers and doing a lot of extra laundry is getting up in the middle of the night to change them. the bigger issue for me was them laying in wet for hours upon hours at a time, not my interrupted sleep, and 1 diaper change in the middle of the night is a lot better than stripping a bed, washing linens, and remaking a bed every...single...day.
It must be a stage they go through! My son did the same thing too. I used to put burp clothes or a towel under him to help absorb the mess. It seems easier then changing sheets. I guess I'd rather clean up the sheets though if it means having her sleep through the night!!
My son had the same problem. We would change his diaper while he was sleeping before we went to bed and get up 1 time at night to do the same. He was a little older when we had this issue, but you may want to look into nighttime diapers or change your brand. Also, when you used two diapers did you cut a slit in the plastic of the inside diaper so the wetness can leak to the outside diaper when it was full? We did this and it worked. Hope this helps!
My son went through the same stage at that age. I used Huggies Overnight (ordered them through Amazon.com) and loved them! I don't remember them ever leaking.
Sorry if this is a repeat- I don't have time right now to read your other responses to see.
For middle of the night soak throughs, to speed up the sheet changing process, double sheet the crib. So it's mattress, waterproof pad, sheet, waterproof pad, sheet. that way all you have to do is peel off the top wet layer and get your babe back to bed. This saved us lots of frustration in the middle of the night.
When my son was soaking through at night we tried bigger diapers, two diapers and then found some success with a size bigger overnight diaper (Huggies is the only brand of those I think). We also found that it wasn't always a leak through but a leak out so keeping the diaper snug against him helped. Using a onesie to do this, a snug onesie, eliminated some of the problems I think.
Another suggestion someone had that I never tried was putting a cloth diaper insert into the diaper. I've never seen these but I'm assuming they're really absorbant pieces of cotton that just lie in a diaper.
I hope you get some restful nights soon!
J.
I too used Huggies Overnights and they also worked. However, they are sometimes hard to find.
