My son is 10 months old and wears a 5 diaper Huggies during the day. At night, he wears a 6 Huggies. He is wetting through his diapers and it seems like the next size up is a toddler diaper! (Right? They don’t make 7′s?) He is allergic to the dyes and perfumes in Pampers, so that brand won’t work. What should I do?
Have you thought about trying cloth diapers?
From my experience – cloth holds more liquid than disposable.
Have you tried overnight diapers? They absorb a lot more than the regular diapers. Huggies makes some.
When my son was a baby I had this same problem! Now, don’t laugh but I would buy the Huggies Night time diapers and some extra long maxi pads and line the inside of the back and front of the diaper with the maxi pads and then put the diaper on him (like a belt). Worked great!
Unless your son is HUGE for his age, those diapers are way too big, and that could be part of the cause for the leakage. Too big does NOT mean better protection. Also, the make Huggies Goodnites for night time. My daughter still usually leaks at night because she drinks so much, but its normal. He shouldn’t be overwetting them during the day if you change him properly.
From what I understand, the 5, 6, and 7 sizes in huggies are made for toddlers. Or at least a baby who’s over a year old.
My baby is a BIG baby. Born eight pounds and now 18 pounds at 7 months, and she’s still only in the size three’s. Just because he wets through a diaper doesn’t mean he needs a bigger size.
Pay attention to the weight requirements on the diaper bags; 12-28 pounds, ect. This means how much your baby should weight to wear them comfortably.
But I like the idea one mom had of putting a maxi pad in the diaper to help up the absorbency. ^_^
Well change him before bed time and your never supposed to give a baby a bottle or cup at night….. so maybe if your doing this you need to stop…… they might cry but its not going to last forever.
But that has to be the problem why would he pee all night long without anything to drink.
Toddler diapers are less resistant because they are supposed to be training by then so those work work at all. Id keep his size and stop giving the drinks at night….. Id rather him wake me uo for a drink then choke….
Good luck!!
If he’s wetting through his diaper every time (or multiple times a day) I would suggest making a doctor’s appointment to see if his kidneys are functioning properly.
Don’t reduce his fluids but just keep track of how much his drinking as a reference point for the doctor.
I would go down a size, actually, to see if the problem isn’t that the diaper isn’t absorbent enough, but that it is too lose and is leaking.
Another option could be to change his diaper before you go to bed, so that he isn’t in one diaper for 12 hours.
You could also try Huggies Overnights, which are supposed to be designed to with stand that better.
Or, you could try going with a different brand that might fit a little better.
I’m going to have to agree with most of the advice you’ve already gotten. bigger doesn’t mean it will absorb more. Night time diapers are the best. Someone makes a 7, but I don’t know which brand it is. I know that alot of people i’ve talked to either put a cloth diaper inside the disposable or something like the maxi pad or a poise pad..made specifically for urine…
I might also decrease evening drinking. Not deprive, but decrease. I knew someone who just accepted that a wet bed every morning was a fact of life..and she got up and stripped the baby and the bed each morning. If it’s not waking the baby up, it’s not too huge of an issue. IF it is, try something suggested here. Even rubber pants OVER the disposable could help.