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It's not easy to get this working properly, but I got there in the end. First you've got to relax, so being worried about it is counterproductive. Which is a pain! Relaxing my legs helped - resting my left leg up on the rest 'pedal' on the floor helped. Shuffling around a bit helped, to get the weight off my undercarriage. And gradually it became easier. But it was over months, not days or weeks. Good luck!

Nuffin, cos I'm having a shower

I'd love to get to where I can manage without laces, or rely on Mummy to tie them for me. It's not really practical just now though - I'm in walking boots or shoes a lot of the time, & I need to remain capable of tying laces. I've tried teaching Mummy how to tie laces so they don't come undone again, but she's not got there yet! My summer sandals are velcro though.

Been there, done that. I was expecting the search, and it happened, and as I expected not a hair was turned. And yes, it was an AB disposable (probably an Astronaut). To boldly go... But you're right about avoiding the water rides! I didn't risk it as I was wet enough already.

This all makes sense too me. In general I've found that adding a soaker spreads the load over the nappy outside it more evenly. And the soaker itself can get completely sodden without causing leaks. It doesn't need to be a particularly thick soaker, as far as I can see - in fact I suspect a very thick soaker would allow leaks by distorting the outside nappy too much. I also suspect that a soaker helps by cradling my leaky bits better than just a disposable, so reducing channels for leaks to the outside world. I've never tried mixing washables and disposables, as it seems to me I'd be getting the worst of both worlds. Just now I'm in my overnight terry nappy, with a cloth soaker. We're going on holiday in the morning for a week, so when I change in half an hour or so it will be into a disposable (probably an Astronaut) with a disposable soaker.

It's active ingredient is 1% Clotrimazole, and it's a standard and effective off-prescription treatment for thrush over here. That means it's a fungicide that's safe on your nether regions & you can get it at any chemist/pharmacy.

To be fair, we're pretty nice to people who've been here a while too! Welcome aboard Greeny!

Hi oznl. Keep on trying! I always wipe myself down between changes though - just a wet flannel. If I'm at home the flannel lives over the side of the bath. Elsewhere I carry a damp flannel in a waterproof bag. I assume it helps, but I've no proof. I don't get nappy rash often - maybe 2 or 3 time a year, and then nothing serious. I use Sudocrem if it's very mild, and Canesten cream as well if I think it may get serious. It's always cleared up quickly. I'm extra careful if there's athlete's foot around, in case we're talking about the same fungal infection - left hand for my toes, right hand for my crotch. Again I've no proof it is the same thing, but the conditions athlete's foot likes are remarkably similar to a damp scrotum imho.

Most days I take Binky out for a 4-mile walk along the river. He likes to go in the river for a splash, and he's off the lead for most of the time. We just wander along, and usually it's pretty quiet. It's a good time to become more of a little, and I've been doing that more and more. It's like I'm channelling William Brown out with Jumble, or Christopher Robin exploring the Hundred Acre Wood with Pooh Bear. Although I don't suppose they were wearing nappies. It's summer, so I'm usually just in a onesie and cargo shorts, with walking shoes and my socks with teddies on them. And my dummy's in my pocket, except for when it's really quiet and a have it in my mouth instead for a while when nobody's around. I always come home with a nappy wetter than when I set off - I just start wetting as we're walking along, usually with a few seconds' warning it's going to happen, but it happens anyway without me doing anything, and I just carry on as normal - because it is normal now. I don't even worry about whether I need a nappy change before I set off these days - we just go out, usually when Binky tells me he thinks it's time to go. I get a kiss from Mummy when we get home again. It's easy enough these days for me to snap into something a bit closer to being a grown-up if I meet other people along the way. I'm dressed conventionally enough on the outside, and my slight waddle due to my thick cloth nappy isn't really noticeable. Of course I'm never really a grown-up. Just pretending!

I'm having my breakfast standing up today. As usual I'm still in my overnight terry nappy with extra soaker, but last night I wet a lot more than usual, and my nappy is so full and heavy I daren't sit down, as it would start leaking. No idea why I wet so much last night!

12 - I don't eat fish or meat. In the olden days before I went veggie I'd have said 0. I didn't stop eating fish and meat because I didn't like them though - I just thought they didn't deserve to be eaten.

Hey, I'm getting left behind here, by the looks of things. Still no evidence of wetting in my sleep here, and no obvious reason why I don't, given my automatic wetting whenever I'm awake. Maybe I'll catch you all up soon...

They're clearly linked to some extent, unless my body is different from everybody else's. Trying to hold back wetting and trying to hold back an urgent poo, you're using much the same muscles. They appear to be exactly the ones I've stopped using so I can wet on automatic instead. So I have to move quickly when I feel any urgency back there, as I know my ability to stop things has drastically reduced. I can still cross my legs of course, but that isn't always going to be enough to stop the action.

I only wear a pull-up when I'm on a long hike. They don't chafe, and they don't disintegrate (that's Tena Maxi pull-ups). I manage my hydration, and one pull-up usually lasts for hours, although I carry a second one just in case. I rehydrate after I've finished the hike. Anything up to 25 miles or so. Walks of just a few miles I can do in any old nappy - usually cloth.

Sometimes I take for granted the progress I've made back into being a toddler at heart. Other times I just marvel at where we are now. Last night I was sitting with Mummy on the sofa watching the television. I was in a wet nappy, with my dummy in my mouth and cuddling my big stuffed rabbit. Mummy said it was my bedtime so I got up to give her a bedtime kiss. She took my dummy out of my mouth, kissed me, then put my dummy back in. And so i headed up the wooden steps to Bedfordshire. Shower, nappy change and sleep. When Mummy came up to bed she brought my bottle of milk, and I was half asleep. She took my dummy out of my mouth, fed me my bottle, then put my dummy back in. I went straight back to sleep. This morning when I woke I suckled on Mummy's boobies for ages. And then I asked her whether it was waking time yet and she told me it was, and that I could get up if I wanted. I made Mummy a cup of tea and took it up to her, still in my overnight nappy and jamas, with my dummy in place. And now I'm sitting here typing this. Soon I'll head upstairs again, get a clean nappy out from under our bed, and go for a wash and nappy change. In so many ways this is just how I want to be at home. It seems to be working fine for both of us. I just love it. During the day I have to do lots of grown-up things as well of course, but not all the time. And at night I'm a full-time toddler.

Still in my overnight terry nappy plus soaker and my jamas. Off upstairs for a change soon. Mummy's still in bed.

I used to use one of those to provide technical support from home in emergencies. Happy days...

Yep, me too. And occasionally there was something in Forum magazine.

Well that rings a bell! ...and that ...but definitely not that. Mine's in my mouth quite often during the day, particularly when I get a bit tired or stressed. My wife's fine with it and doesn't turn a hair these days It does depend on the nappy. When I'm wearing shorts at home, I'm generally in pocket nappies with side poppers, and they're just as easy to put on standing up. So it's generally in the bathroom. Last winter I was in dungarees all the time, with velcro fastening nappies. Again, just as easy to put on standing up, so that's what I generally did. Overnight it's a terry square with an added soaker, and there's no way that's going on standing up. I used to lie on the bathroom floor, which wasn't comfortable at all. Now I use our bed, which I can do as I go to bed first - my bedtime's 10. I suppose I'd prefer to change on the bed all the time, but it's no big deal changing standing up with my daytime nappies. Disposables I really don't like changing on the floor or standing up. Of course what I'd really like is always being changed on the bed by Mummy, but being realistic that's not likely to happen!

We normally stay in self-catering cottages when we go away. We've just got back from a week in Scotland. I switch out of cloth nappies a couple of days before we go, so I can get all the washing and drying done. I pack enough disposables, spare plastic pants, Teddy, jamas (it was my jamas with a teddy on this time). Then for the journey I wear a high-capacity nappy with an extra soaker, and I can manage all day in that without needing a change, although I've always got one handy just in case. When we arrive where we're staying we put a mattress cover on the bed in case of leaks, although I hardly ever leak at night. And then it's business as normal, apart from having to dispose of the used nappies every day or two.

I'm a good way north of London here, but we're up near 40 degrees today, and air-conditioning is not standard in most houses, including ours. Having said that, ours is an old brick-built house with no south-facing windows, so it's relatively cool inside (28 deg just now, at lunchtime). I took Binky out for a walk early, & he was in and out of the river. I was in onesie and cargo shorts. Once we got home, the shorts and onesie came off, and I'm spending the day in nothing but a cloth nappy, plastic pants and a dummy. Mummy says I've not to forget and go to answer the door if the bell rings.

I'd make sure I was eating as well as drinking - to slow things up. But really, I think you're going to be flooding the field... ...How about wellington boots to hold the overflow?

I really couldn't say where I'd be if I hadn't hooked up with the ABDL community. It all started so long ago, in the 80s I think. I was already wearing nappies intermittently, full of guilt and binge/purge cycles, and I'd found some DL girlie magazines such as Rubber Life. Then I stumbled across the DPF, and Mummy Hazel here in England, and found my second home. If I hadn't made that connection and gone to Hazel's parties I'd probably have been a lot more confused for a lot longer. More recently, after 20 years in the closet raising kids I wanted to reconnect so badly, and found this place. I've now been full-time in nappies for over two years, nearly four years including the 18 months in nappies during the day only. Yesterday evening Mummy fed me a bowl of brownie and ice cream. Would I have been in the same place without this forum? I think not. I think the destination would have been the same, but I'd have been on a much slower train, and probably not a full-time wearer yet. It was the people like me on this forum that taught me I could do it, and it could work. There was a contributor on here, no longer around, who showed me the way. His name escapes me now, as many do. Then it was made a lot easier by oznl and Little Sherri riding much the same train as me, and all three of us seemingly getting to where we always needed to be, and thriving on it. Many thanks to both of you! And everyone else too of course.

Yup, me too, every time. I give them another 20 minutes in the dryer, as I'm right out of pickups.

I agree that it's all manageable, as long as you adapt. Don't drink for a couple of hours before you go out to the pub. Don't expect to get away with extended beer drinking. I manage fine when I go to the pub for 2 or even 3 pints, but there's only a couple of hours between starting to drink and getting home again. Eat something when you're drinking - that delays liquids getting through your system. I drink wine if I think I'm going to be drinking away from home for a longer period. Boosters of course. And consider giving up coffee altogether. I've not drunk coffee for decades. It messes up your system in many ways, and makes your wee smelly too.