Bedtime insert advice please

We've been giving Caitlin heaps of water during the day (probably 500mls worth) due to her medication.

She's always been a heavy wetter but has been fine for 3+ hours using a large microfibre insert during then day, I've just started to add a booster with this and that is ample for day time use.

Our problem is at night time though. I've been playing around with adding inserts and boosters of varying quantities. We've never had any leaks but in the morning (after a 12 hour sleep) the nappy is sodden and the fleece feels damp, that's with 1 large inserts and a small insert (both 3 layer microfibre).
Last night I tried 1 large, 1 small and a booster. In the morning the fleece and her bum was dry but the nappy had gaped around the legs and had leaked into her bed My first ever leak with Fuzzis, I was most upset!

I've heard a lot about how good the hemp ones are (after heaps of washing) but I had also heard that they expand the wetter they get, so I don't think that will solve our problem.

Any suggestions?

go on be brave! That's the first ever leak we've had in 9 months, Caitlin has been in cloth full time since newborn

we use mummys touch pockets...and use 2 inserts (microfleece) and 1 hemp...and have no problems with it at all....no leaking or anything

Toni have you tried 2 inserts? And just make sure it's tucked properly around the thigh high up, that seems to help stop it gaping.

I can lend you a couple of Peapod hemps if you like? I use them plus a flat in the gremlins Ecobubs at night but I have plenty so won't miss a couple.

I don't think hemp expands at all... like others have mentioned, it gets heavier, but not bulkier.

And as you may well know, Hannah went through the heavy wetting phase a few months ago where she would save it all up then absolutely flood the nappy. The only thing that ended up working for me was to get a wool cover and use that over the top of her night nappy to prevent anything soaking the pjs/bed that the nappy couldn't deal with. Worked a treat - used a Designer Bums cover. Made her waddle like a maniac tho... but who cares when she is meant to be lying down!

ok so I put her to bed in the worlds BIGGEST NAPPY (one large microfibre insert, a small microfibre and a hemp PPs flat thing that was folded into 3), the nappy didn't gape so I thought GREAT

and this morning.....


wet jammies!   

Am considering putting her to bed in the bath

gandt wrote: were the inserts sopping wet? and when you had her nappy on did you push her legs up to check it didnt gape then?

yes and yes. I always do the leg test when I'm fitting nappies at demos.

I asked one of the other FB agents and apparently the petite might be sagging down (i.e. rise to long) now that she is more mobile and that I should get some mediums

My bonus just came in so they would be free but she wouldn't be in them for very long (3 months tops)
I guess I could always flick the petites onto trade me

You could always try the same inserts in the medium one I gave you and see if that makes a difference?

She must be holding it longer so it all floods at once. Maya did that as she got older. Lucky you!