Night-time recommendations

At night I am currently use a fuzzi + two inserts + hemp insert, and it does the trick - however I only have 1 hemp insert, so it's kind of every third night in cloth (the other in 'sposies'). And then it seems every time I do that Laura decides to dirty her nappy at the dream feed so ends up in sposies then!!!

So apart from getting some more inserts, including hemp I need to buy some more nappies - as can't quite get to full-time cloth yet, and wondered what everyone else recommends for night-time MCNs, so I can add these to the pile

my big boy wears fuzzis overnight with a microfibre insert and a flat nappy pad folded.
my younger boy tho wears fitteds and wool covers. great overngiht fitteds are designer bums or joel eze and i have a wigglebum which is excellent too.

We use a large Baby Harmony nappy with a microfibre insert, folded cloth flat and a tri-folded hemp flat. She fits the medium fuzzis and baby harmony nappies during the day, but I found for the amount of stuffing she needs at night the large are better.

Sshh Stacey! He is one heavy wetter!!!!

Thanks for all the tips ... I am wondering whether I could get away with just two microfibre inserts - she only has a dream feed during the night until 7am. Mmm... do I risk it?

Maya - my understanding is that ecobubs are wool - are they ok for the summer months? ie not too hot?

I find it's better to stuff a nappy with more than what you think you may need and then see in the morning how wet the inserts are. It's better than not stuffing it with enough and then having to change clothes in the middle of the night which wakes them right up!

I use a variety but like the Ecobubs inserts - they are hemp and microfibre flats so fold to make 3 of each fabric. I use 2 of these so 6 hemp and 6 m/fibre and this is for about 10 hours with 1 or 2 feeds.
For the same length of time I have also used whichever pocket will fit all the stuffing in and have 6 layers of hemp and 3 or more of m/fibre.
Not sure what would last my boy 12 hours yet maybe same combo but without feeds?

I use a FB on Andy at night with 3 cotoured inserts in it (the four layered ones) or 3 std inserts, or 1 hemp/terri trifold and 2 inserts. All three combos last about 14+ hours. Thats with atleast 3 night feeds sometimes 4 or 5 . Oh but no combo works when DH puts the nappy on wrong .

nzpiper wrote: I have tried using extra inserts in our naps and find that they tend to gape around his skinny thighs. Is this just becasue he is still little?

this happens with most naps... generally if you want to stuff more you may have to go up a size.

I fixed that problem with Han (who required a whoooole lot of stuffing at night) by adding a cover overtop of the whole thing. Worked beautifully.

Otherwise, a nappy with firmer leg elastic might be the way to go.

So sorry to thread jack, but if I wanted to put Josh into cloth over night I could put him into a petite overnight?

mummy_becks wrote: So sorry to thread jack, but if I wanted to put Josh into cloth over night I could put him into a petite overnight?

With night time nappies being so bulky it would probably be best to upsize width ways, rather than height. Petites (if we're talking about Fuzzis?) are the same width as a medium and the height of a large so I don't think you will get the desired outcome.
Perhaps try a large?

Back to night time stuffing - After giving them a REALLY good trial last night I can highly recommend the new Honey Child inserts, they hold 400mls of liquid. I put 2 large inserts in Caitlin's nappy last night and that worked a treat. So, less bulk = less chance of gaping and no need to buy hundreds of inserts!