Need new nighttime diaper strategy

So far, the thing that has worked great for my eldest son's tendency to pee a lot at night had been just to size up in his regular diapers (Costco's Kirkland Signature diapers, which are pretty much the same as Huggies). That's worked great... until a little while ago, when he started exceeding the capacity of the size 5 diapers at night. We tried moving up to size 6 diapers, and that worked better for a while, but now he's outpeeing those as well... and there is no size 7 to move up to.

He's a long skinny 2.75 year old guy at 27 lbs, so he "should" be in the size 4-5 category. The size 4s seem to fit well and we really never have any troubles whatsoever during the day.

SInce the crazy pee-leaking has started, both overnights in his regular size (Fisher Price Happy Days/Nights - the days part of the box worked great, but the nights were VERY not happy for us!) and also size 5 overnights (Pampers Extra Protection, which seem to be marginally better).

We've tried pushing liquids more during the day and discouraging them at night - mostly via having fun straws during the day and asking him if he'd like to drink regularly during the day, and then ceasing both in the evening... but he frequently requests water at night, and then we give it to him. The trying to encourage more drinking earlier helped but only to the point that we have SOME nights where I don't have to change bedding in the a.m. - still more leaking than I'd like.

I'm going to try the Huggies Overnights next, maybe in a size 6... but wonder whether there are any other pieces of advice to try?

What about a cloth diaper "doubler"?

Does he pee in the potty at all? When DDs were first potty training, we'd wake them up right before we went to bed for a potty break. Any chance that would work with him? They went right back to sleep, even our restless sleeper.

Absolutely try Huggies overnights, they're great.
You can also buy disposable diaper doublers at BRU/TRU that go in a diaper to add absorbency.




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Originally Posted by TwinFoxes

Does he pee in the potty at all? When DDs were first potty training, we'd wake them up right before we went to bed for a potty break. Any chance that would work with him? They went right back to sleep, even our restless sleeper.

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Nope, potty is being actively boycotted. We're offering regularly, but met with firm refusals! Sounds like a good idea, though!

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Originally Posted by daisymommy

Absolutely try Huggies overnights, they're great.
You can also buy disposable diaper doublers at BRU/TRU that go in a diaper to add absorbency.
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I'll give the Huggies Overnights the next try - do you think a size 5 should do it, or should we go up to a 6?

I will definitely look into the disposable diaper doublers, too... that sounds like a good idea!

The disposable diaper doubler worked great for my DS. They are hard to find. My local BRU couldn't keep them on the shelves because they were so popular.

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Originally Posted by daisymommy

Absolutely try Huggies overnights, they're great.
You can also buy disposable diaper doublers at BRU/TRU that go in a diaper to add absorbency.




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This is what I finally started using after months of wet sheets. I have a night nurser who was soaking through her diaper every night. The extra padding of the diaper doubler (ours isn't actually called that but it's a plastic package at BRU over with the dipes) was the key! Just a Huggies overnight didn't do the trick. We haven't had a wet bed in months!!!

Diaper doublers (disposable or cloth) and if necessary a cloth diaper cover over the diaper to keep all the moisture contained. That's what worked for us. And limiting fluids an hour or two before bedtime.

I third (or fourth?) the rec for Huggies Overnights. We usually use cloth but I finally switched to the Overnights after a few weeks of consistent wet jammies and sheets that defied lots of doubler combinations and 7th gen disposables.

Sounds like we're in a similar situation. DS1 is in Size 5 daytime dipes. We size up for night time Huggies overnites and have generally had luck. So right now he's in Huggies Sz 6 overnights. We still occassionally have accidents but generally infrequently.

We also do the following: Insist on him trying to go potty on the potty before bed every night and first thing in the AM. This helps alot. Reducing liquids in the evenings probably would help, too...but since we don't get home until 6:15 and bedtime is 8 pm with dinner in between...well, he gets liquids.

GL!

ETA: Just saw that the potty is being boycotted. DS1 boycotts during the day with us, but generally is good about AM/PM for us. We offered money (he gets to choose a penny, nickle or dime for pee pee and a quarter for poop) and that was a big deal. At daycare they do skittles...so that has worked also.

Our daughter uses the potty full-time during the day since she was 1.5 years old.

For awhile she was dry all night.
Nowadays it fluctuates. Two weeks, dry as the desert. Two weeks later, the floodgates open. I'm fairly certain she pees her weight overnight.

We tried up-ing the diaper a size like you did and she's filling that up too!
We tried diaper doublers which just became a pain for me to clean.

I asked her if she remembers feeling as if she needs to pee pee and she said no. I think this is true because she really is a sound sleeper.

We have a two fold tactic now.

When we wake up in the middle of the night for whatever reason, we go in and change her diaper. If it's during the weeks where she is pee-ing alot most of the times it's full. On some nights, we've changed her diaper at most 3 times!

Sometimes, depending on how we are and how she is, we carry her to the bathroom and tell her to go pee pee. She's half asleep and goes!

I don't know what the answer is but I know this is not permanent.
All I can do is offer hugs and let you know you are not alone in this nighttime adventure.
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Thanks for the encouragement. Pottying is a total no-go at this time, as we have tried all the positive incentives but are unwilling to force him against his will. DS has pretty much hated being naked from birth, and while he will undress for bathtime, he's really really unwilling to be diaper-off for any length of time right now. I figure he'll sort it out in his own time... but in the meantime, we just need to find a way to stop the floodgates at night.

Going in and changing his diaper is definitely an idea - I have a four-month-old who is still waking in the night so I'm up already. I will give that a try.

So, all the diaper doublers I've seen listed online basically look like... sanitary napkins. The Diaper Doublers will be hard to find locally, so I will have to order them online... or is there any reason I shouldn't just stick a sanitary napkin across the top of his diaper in the front? (He's a stomach sleeper and the pee is always at the front of the wasteband, as the absorbent padding there has just been asked to do too much.)