And probably a lot heavier too!

Quoted diaper capacity is static testing.  They will soak a diaper slowly until it leaks.  Naturally, when wearing and wetting that diaper it will not reach even close to the stated capacity because of many factors.  It's not just laying flat and open on a table while it's slowly being filled with liquid. You are wearing it and gravity will cause the pee to fill the front and crotch first before even wicking up the back.  Constant walking will also affect the capacity as well as sitting and press outs. It is, however useful to look at the manufacturer's capacity numbers to choose a diaper that is more absorbent than another.  For example, a Betterdry rated at 5000ml may hold a practical amount of 2500 to 3000ml.  Likewise a Trest rated at 9000ml might really hold only 4500 to 5000ml when it's being worn, therefore while diapers won't reach their manufacture posted capacity, you can still tell a Trest will hold more and last you longer that a Betterdry. I also believe the situations when you are wearing help decide how much absorbency may be overkill.  For example, when sleeping a Trest will last me all might without leaks while a Betterdry will start to leak for me at around 6 hours (I am a very heavy wetter day and night).  On the other hand, when does absorbency become overkill or too much?  Diapers are really not meant to be worn 12 or more hours without changing.  Normal people probably change diapers every 6 hours, more or less so they aren't going around in a really wet saturated diaper.  Changing more often is better for your health and skin. Here is my practical story.  I took a driving trip a couple years ago and wanted to go as long as I could without having to change diapers, hoping I might even make it to my hotel that evening.  I wore a Trest diaper, plastic pants, normal plain t-shirt snap crotch onesie and shorts.  I was sitting while driving, wetting my diaper therefore gravity was letting my pee flow to the front and crotch and lower seat of the diaper.  I was also stopping to tour some museums which meant walking around for a while in my wet Trest diaper.  I had left home around 7:30am and by 3pm when I stopped at another museum, I was conscious of how wet and droopy my Trest had become, even with the plastic pants and onesie trying their best to hold it tight.  While the Trest still had plenty of capacity left and I'm sure I could have gone at least 3 or more hours, it was getting uncomfortable to walk around in a really wet diaper that was heavy and sagging that much.  I ended up changing diapers in that museums restroom before continuing my trip. My conclusions are:  1.  Practical use of a diaper (wetting while wearing) will not reach a manufacturers static capacity from their testing.  2.  High capacity diapers may be much better when non active like sleeping overnight laying down than when active and walking around doing things.  3.  Eventually there is a point where any diaper will become uncomfortable to wear weather it is really wet, heavy, drooping badly or chafing even if it still has capacity left.  Sometimes a diaper can have too much capacity to be comfortable in normal situations.  Betterdry at 5000ml manufacturer rated capacity seems about right for me, even a Mega Max at slightly higher manufacturer rated capacity.  Any more might be fine for sleeping but walking around doing things would eventually get too uncomfortable to the point I'd rather change diapers than continue with a soggy, heavy sagging diaper even though I could still keep wetting it for a few more hours. 

Never!!! As long as i live...you'll never win! 

I wake up in wet cotton diapers and plastic panties every morning. I was a bedwetter until my mid teens, dry at night thru my 20's and 30's. Started wetting the bed again rarely in my late 30's, and it slowly increased over the years, to where I now wet every night again. The big difference between wetting as a kid and wetting now, is my diaper pail is much bigger now.  😆  

I dropped it the minute I read "breathable". They are not plastic, they are textile, so I was misled. I do not touch "breathable" since they leak. Being "gas permeable" they allow gaseous and vaporous components of excreted substances to pass through to contaminate clothing. They may be fine for pampers, but for cloth: not good. I will stay with what has worked for over a century; the traditional baby panty materials