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I'm looking for some suggestions on a cloth overnight option for my 4.5yo daughter. She has been trained during the day for a couple years, but she still leaks at night about half of the time. We have been using size 6 disposables on her, but I'd like to switch to cloth to save some money. I'm not sure we need a true overnight diaper since she really doesn't leak much--the regular diaper easily handles it. But I really don't know, since I've never done cloth training pants or anything. (We've just gone straight from disposables to regular undies when we trained them for daytime.) Any suggestions on which brand to try?
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My ds had the same problem, which he outgrew shortly after he turned five.
I bought these Mother-Ease overnight diapers to try.
They were nice- soft and washed well, but they were very huge and puffy... made ds look comical in his pjs. Also, they were hot when he wore them, and he wound up with a rash from them 
I switched back to pull-ups. If they were dry in the morning, I would save them for the next night to reuse (he was putting them on clean from the bath, and I figured two nights would be Ok.) That helped keep the costs down, and it was much better than being hot and having a rash.
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We bought these Nikki Night Pants. They worked great but do NOT put them in the dryer w/ a Bounce sheet as it takes away the absorbency. I think it's preferable even to hang dry and they actually did dry pretty fast for us.
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I started having difficulty with overnight cloth because the urine started to smell like ammonia in the diapers - even after washing - and my DS started getting a bad rash.
For me it was more convenient to buy Pull-Ups. If it was dry, we used it again the next night.
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I like the imse vimse training pants. If you decided you needed more absorbency, you could always add an insert.
I find it a pain, though, when I only have cloth for overnight without a baby in cloth because, in theory, you only need 2-3 overnight dips if you are washing regularly, but its a pain to wash a single diaper. I guess you could probably get away with a wet one in with a load of towels, though, if you don't use softeners and the like.
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I had to stop using cloth at night for my two after DD potty trained during the day. DS is 7 and DD is now 4 and they are heavy wetters and I spent so much time and money on trying to find a cloth alternative that worked but with no luck. Our "nappy lady" did a lot to help us and we tried a variety but I don't know why they started getting rashes (not a true nappy rash but their skin under the nappy was always red) and leaked every night. Our nappy lady said she had never really had good success for older children who needed night nappies at age 4+, and referred us onto a specialist but it wasn't really helpful either. I hate the waste of the disposables and the cost, but for us nothing really worked. If you can find a good "nappy lady" who will let you try different options and can assess your child's body type etc you can maybe have more success. I agree about washing being less convenient when you only have a nappy a day to wash - we needed to buy at least three night nappies per child because of the thickness/slowdrying.
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Thank you for the advice! I think based on your suggestions, we'll just stick with disposables and hope she trains soon! 
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My Ana still wets at night, she will be 6 in 10 days. As long as I take her potty before I go to bed, she will be dry all night. Have you tried taking yours potty when you go to bed?
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Angi wrote:
| My Ana still wets at night, she will be 6 in 10 days. As long as I take her potty before I go to bed, she will be dry all night. Have you tried taking yours potty when you go to bed? |
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Angi, I have a feeling this would work for mine as well, but I just hate to wake her. She is a good sleeper, but it is difficult for her to fall asleep at first, and on top of that, she shares a bedroom with her 2yo sister, so I don't want to risk waking her as well. Anyone else suggest this, though? Maybe we should give it a try. We already limit drinks from dinnertime on, and we have her use the bathroom right before bed, of course, but one extra chance to go might help.
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We've never had success w/ limiting water, making sure he potties before bed and/or waking him when we go to bed around 11. However, my DS is almost 11 and STILL wets the bed. The pediatrician says it's just a brain development in some kids and I have to believe that since none of these other common sense things work. My DH says he didn't have this problem but his brother was 11 or 12 before he outgrew is.
Re the overnight cloth pants, I never soaked them in ammonia and I don't recall him ever having a rash. I always just washed them w/ a regular load if he wet them on any given night. We always had something I could wash them with. We used regular detergent (no fabric softener) and either put in dryer (no Bounce sheet) or hung dry. They may not have lasted as long as they were supposed to but even lasting 6-9 months, I still felt like I saved the planet a few disposables.
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We use regular cloth diapers for olders for overnight. My favorite are "Happy Heiny" velcro stuffed with 2 small prefolds. No leaks ever, and my 5 year old (who recently stopped needing them) was still fitting in the size medium (my point is that 1 size covers a large range of sizes).
As for the smell issue, it sounds like you need to "strip" your diapers. Detergent buildup is usually the cause of this. Run them through the wash in hot water (NO detergent) with 3-4 tsp of regular dish soap. Then do a just water rinse to get all the detergent out. I always use vinegar as my softener - it neutralizes the urine.
When we were diapering twins, we also had 2 additional occasional nightwetters, so we needed to figure out how to make it work.  HTH! 
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Celeste,
I take my 5 year old to the bathroom when I go to bed too and its the only way he stays dry all night. We tried to limit intake but did not seem to help.
Now we started taking my 3 1/2 year since he refuses to wear the pull ups anymore. It works about 90% of the time.
good luck!!
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I used to put my son on the potty a couple of hours after he'd fallen asleep also, and often he wouldn't even wake up! But, the position was familiar enough that he would unconsciously recognize that it was time to go. Sometimes I'd have to rouse him a bit, but he would almost always only be half-awake (which was enough to realize that it was time to go!) and fall right back asleep afterward.
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My kids have all been long-term bedwetters and Happy Heinys trainers (w/o snaps), stuffed with a toddler prefold or a big piece of bamboo fleece, have worked well for us up until about age 7. We have tried the Motherease bedwetter pants also, but the seams at the sides caused rashes and I had trouble with getting then clean enough because they are so thick. After age 7 nothing, including disposable overnight undies, seems to work, but by then they are also old enough to start changing their own sheets each morning so it works out.
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