insert combos to stop leaks

Ok, I am getting into the swing of cloth. tom has not had a sposie on his bot since we got home from hospital. But I tend to always use the inserts that came with the nappy and have never mixed and matched. I have some nappies that tend to leak....well they seem to wick the moisture away and out to his clothes . At first I just thought "useless nappy" but maybe I can make it better by using different inserts.

Here is what I have.

Swaddlebees with micorfibe inserts....one swaddlebee,2 natural instinct
Joeleze with the hemp/cotton burley inserts
Mummy's touch with a mummys touch microfibre
numerous prefolds


Any suggestions as to how to mix it up a little?

Thanks

Oops, I did see this the other day and meant to comment but forgot cause Daniel woke up

We always use 2 microfibre inserts during the day and this lasts us 4 hrs usually (Daniel is a mega wetter). At night we use either: a) 2 microfibre and 2 hemp inserts or b) 1 microfibre insert, 1 peapod insert and 2 hemp inserts.

One insert for us leaks within an hour and I mix and match them. Like I'll use a tweedle insert & a baby harmony one etc.

I have jsut been reading the snazzipants website and wow...what a lot of info. I havenever used the prefolds as inserts but think I might try this. I also think I might get some of their stay dry fleece liners to use with my prefolds as I am impressed by howmuch prefolds holdbut dont like the fact that he is sitting in wet naps!.

My joeleze seem to work well with the hemp/burly insert but my swaddlebees are disastrous with micorfibe inserts. maybe I should try prefolds in these.

Hi, I had swaddlebees and tried using 2x microfibre inserts and hemp night insert. best i got out of them was 90mins. We got a store credit as they were just useless. Bub will not tolerate any wetness so has been in disposables. We are gonna try a fuzzy bum when the store gets them in.

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How do you manage to stuff so many inserts in? When I put 2 in the swaddlebees I could hardly do them up on him and he was only 4kg, plus his clothes were then stretched over the nappy and he looked totally ridiculous.

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cuppatea wrote: How do you manage to stuff so many inserts in? When I put 2 in the swaddlebees I could hardly do them up on him and he was only 4kg, plus his clothes were then stretched over the nappy and he looked totally ridiculous.

Swaddlebees are made to be trim fitting so they probably don't have the room in them for the kind of stuffing my nappies have. If you want to stuff your nappies with more you may need to try some other brands

Yeah unfortunately we spent all our nappy money on swaddlebees and were then only able to get a store credit, so didn't have any money to try any different ones. Am waiting for the store to get in bum genius so we can try one of those. (said fuzzy earlier but meant bum, gets confusing there are so many).
We went through the whole changing all his clothes 20x a day, and his bedding a lot of times. Not good.

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mums and bubs in chch. The women sold me them as she said they were really good, she uses swaddlebees on her own son. She tried to sell me a birth to potty pack, but it was too expensive so we only got 12 of the small ones.
I went through 2 months of trying to get them to work, I was told he was too small and thats why they were leaking, then I was told that I shouldn't have washed them in persil so we bought ecostore and washed them in that, I took inserts back and had them contoured as they were nurture family not swaddlebee ones. I put two of these in the nappy (with great difficulty) and he peed through in a hour. I then put a hemp insert in which I was sold as would go all night, he peed through in 90mins. At this point I asked for my money back as I think I had been more than reasonable and attempted everything I could to make them work. We have used some of the credit to buy him toys instead, and a different women was there when we took them back and she has suggested trying a bum genius as she has a heavy wetter and uses them, they don't have them in at the moment but we are going to try one of those when they do.

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THat is where I got my swaddlebees from and I am pleased I didnt do the birth to potty pack (I was seriously tempted as they are so cute). I think I might sell mine on trade me and then get some other.

I am thinking of happy heiny but not sure whether to so the one size or the sized ones given that he is a wee thing right now.

How do you know ifyou have a heavy wetter....maybe this is normal and it could be worse

Right now he seems to be leaking through everything so we are frantically trying combos and washing lots ofclothes! It is hard as he doesnt have many clothes he fits yet as most of our clothes are one size up from NB.