Baby is soaked through almost every night

Any advice desperately needed!! My LO is almost 7 months. I am ending up soaking & washing at least one entire sleep outfit every day including sleeping bag & often sheet too due to heavy nighttime wetting. He isn’t a great sleeper, he wakes up & is fed back to sleep usually 4-5 times a night so there is a lot of wee…! He is put down on his back but rolls & sleeps on his front, which is where the wee all seems to be settling in the nappies. This wetting through has only been an issue maybe for the last month. It’s so exhausting and I feel so awful every time he is in a wet outfit yet again. We use a mix of disposable & reusable nappies, he is in a size 4 disposable. Currently we have ended up using an all in one bambino mio nappy with 2 boosters (one bamboo, one cotton) for night times. This will mean he stays dry til morning maybe 25% of the time. Usually if he stays dry til morning even by morning it will have started to leak too. Various disposables all leak. Last night after some advice from another mum, I tried a 2 part nappy with a liner, then the fluffy inside bit, then a big booster, then a waterproof cover & he went to bed at 8pm. By 4am he was SOAKED and so was the sleeping bag & cot sheets. I changed him which meant he was then awake for 1.5 hours after, I put him in a disposable & by 730am he had soaked the whole bed again. Please give me some advice I feel so useless!

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We are using tots bots bamboozles with a booster in (bamboo) and a booster outside the nappy (hemp) and a motherease airflow wrap on top. My 8 month old is not an extremely heavy wetter but he does feed through the night and this doesn't leak for us. I've heard some people don't find the bamboozles absorbent enough for a heavy wetter - you can get hemp fitted nappies for night time which should be more absorbent. They will only be able to recommend products that they sell but it might be worth completing the questionnaire on the nappy lady website and see what they suggest. There is also a Facebook group for advice and if you have a local nappy library they may be able to advise too

We had this issue with our son - in the end we found Sainsbury's nappy pants were the best way to keep him dry all night 🌝 Unfortunately they are disposable but I guess you could weigh that up against the environmental impact of having to do so much laundry x

We are building our own nappy each night with a hemp prefold (from BabyKicks in the US but bought on Vinted) and then layers of hemp boosters (from Green Mountain Diapers in the US but bought on Vinted) and Responsible Mother merino wool boosters. Topping on the inside with a Bambino Mio fleece liner next to his skin to keep him feeling dry and sleeping well, and on the outside we use wool soakers (like Disana). The soakers are usually good for a week before having to be washed (either machine wool cycle or hand washed with Eucalan detergent), and each day I rinse the wool boosters under the tap and lay them flat in a bowl until wool wash day.

We used little lambs for night time. Couple of things to consider - can you size up vest or sleep suit so it isn't tight over the nappy. Try putting the boost between the nappy and the cover?

We use Bambino Mio nappies, we used to use the supreme ones for nighttime which was like a double bamboo insert. Then for nighttime we swapped to a 2 part system as we were getting leaks and that's what's recommended for nighttime, we use the little lambs bamboo nappy with an extra bamboo booster between the nappy and the wrap

Also how are you boosting the nappy as you want to fold it in half and put it at the front for a boy. Also recommend vest extenders if you're not already using them x

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