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[WBDaddy]

Seriously - I've never been able to sleep on my back all night, and I'm really, really sick of purportedly great diapers failing on me because I sleep on my side - including Moli super...

If it helps, I'm not big, but I'm not small either, at 6'2" and 220 lbs, most of the excess weight deposited in my belly...

[Darkfinn]

Yes, there are diapers for side sleepers. They are called cloth with a good pair of plastic pants.

[Craisler]

Yes, there are diapers for side sleepers. They are called cloth with a good pair of plastic pants.

I'll second that. I'm a side sleeper, too. The only effective diaper for that is cloth with pull-on plastic pants.

[babymaggie]

I am a side sleeper as well and I wear a dry 24/7 and then I wear a cloth bloomer diaper that my daddy made me over that with vinyl bloomer baby pants on.

[drynot]

I wear either Dry 24/7 or Bambinos and I use terry lined or flannel lined plastic pants. This combo is darn near 100 percent reliable in my experience. If you wet at night and are tired of dealing with leaks then you really need to try out this combo.

[Craisler]

Yep. Disposable diapers alone are prone to leaks at night. So, you either compensate for those deficencies or wear cloth diapers.

[Zpeed]

I only wear Tena Slip maxi (euro) and have never problems wetting when laying on the side
wet one side, turn around and wet the other side

[puffybedwetter]

I use active ultra or secure x plus just get one size bigger and put thebdiaper waistlne way over your belly button.

[poopy_dipes]

I second (third? fourth? fifth?) what Dark and Crai and Maggie and the others said above. I'm a side sleeper and when I wear my cloth diapers to bed I never have problems with leaks (unless I just plainly wet them so much they won't hold anymore... LOL). I've found a way to sleep on my side with a pillow between my knees, which keeps my legs apart enough for all of the bulk of my thick cloth diapers to comfortably fit.

[Bonsai]

Yes, there are diapers for side sleepers. They are called cloth with a good pair of plastic pants.

Right. Thick cloth and a very good plastic pants are the only feasible option.

[Craisler]

I am a side sleeper as well and I wear a dry 24/7 and then I wear a cloth bloomer diaper that my daddy made me over that with vinyl bloomer baby pants on.

Not fair! You're girl. I wouldn't think girls would have the same kind of leakage problems that boys do. The plumbing is different and comes much further down that it does for boys.

[Bettypooh]

When it comes to side-sleeping, one's sex doesn't make much difference because that's not where the missing absorbency of disposables is at It's the loose liquid that leaks. Diapers with a lot of SAP have more capacity but absorb more slowly. Diapers with a lot of pulp absorb faster but hold less Plastic panties help some but they really just give the liquid a little more time to be absorbed; they will leak at the openings if asked to hold liquid long Only cloth does thirsty and fast well enough to keep leaks at bay for side-sleeping. I'd love to try a disposable with good side-padding but nobody makes one Till then I shall sleep in cloth diapers

Bettypooh

[Craisler]

When it comes to side-sleeping, one's sex doesn't make much difference because that's not where the missing absorbency of disposables is at It's the loose liquid that leaks. Diapers with a lot of SAP have more capacity but absorb more slowly. Diapers with a lot of pulp absorb faster but hold less Plastic panties help some but they really just give the liquid a little more time to be absorbed; they will leak at the openings if asked to hold liquid long Only cloth does thirsty and fast well enough to keep leaks at bay for side-sleeping. I'd love to try a disposable with good side-padding but nobody makes one Till then I shall sleep in cloth diapers

Bettypooh

I didn't know that. Of course, I don't have any experience in that department. I just figured diapers should work better for the female anatomy. Like you, I'm sticking with cloth at night. While traveling I use a disposable with a Comco training pant over it and then plastic pants. Sometimes I get lucky and the diaper doesn't leak. Most of the time that is not the case.

[Bettypooh]

Craisler, with a better disposable or maybe a doubler, your current system might work Really, what you're trying to do is deal with the liquid that ends up going to the side under you, so if you can lower that amount, the Comco pants might be absorbent enough to deal with that

Bettypooh

[Craisler]

Craisler, with a better disposable or maybe a doubler, your current system might work Really, what you're trying to do is deal with the liquid that ends up going to the side under you, so if you can lower that amount, the Comco pants might be absorbent enough to deal with that

Bettypooh

The Comco pants deal with it very well. What I meant was that sometimes the pants stay dry because I haven't leaked out the side of the diaper. I use the Abena Abri-Form X-Plus XL-4, which have plenty of absorbency.

[nappylover78]

Depends if you actually wet while asleep. If you're a "voluntary" wetter who only wets while awake, you can just roll onto your back and let go in your nappy.

[WBDaddy]

I've discovered that "priming the pump" (wetting a bit before you go to sleep) flips that switch and tells my bladder to damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead...

[adriansurley]

Bambinos have a good amount of padding in the wing area to help with side sleepers.