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    Do Your Diapers Last All Night?

    in Our Lifestyle Discussion

    Posted

    • For those who wear diapers to bed all the time, do they make it all the way through the night without leaking or do you sometimes wake up and have to change in the middle of the night? 

    I go for long periods of time wearing diapers to bed. Usually I make it all the way through the night without leaking. Every once in a while I leak a little, once in the last year, I leaked a lot and once in the last year I changed in the middle of the night.

    • Which brand of diapers do you wear to bed that do last all night, and are there any brands that you have used that seem to leak before morning more than others? 

    I use double Babykins cloth diapers.

    • Do you put a fresh diaper on just before going to bed, or do you sometimes go to bed already a little wet? 

    I always put my night diaper on right before bed.

    • On average, how many hours do you sleep a night?  6, 7, 8 or more? 

    Usually around 6 hours, 7 or 8 if I can manage it.

    • Do you use any boosters in your diapers to help make it though the night without leaks? 

    Yes, I add enough boosters to cover those nights when I'm a bit over hydrated. When I had a major leak recently, I started adding an extra booster to the mix.

    • Are you a heavy night wetter or average? 

    Depends on my hydration level, but usually there's extra capacity when I wake up.

    • If you do make it all night without leaks, how much longer will your diaper last before having to change it? 

    Through the first cup or two of morning coffee, so a couple of hours.

    • Do you ever wear plastic pants over your night diaper to help prevent the bed from getting wet if your diaper does leak some? 

    Since I'm wearing cloth, YES!

    • Do they help? 

    As I'm using cloth diapers, I'll assume that question is rhetorical.

    Pocket Nappy Newbie- need help

    in Cloth Diapers & Panties

    Posted

    I think the pocket design has some good features going for it. Some of them include double elastic with standing leak guards and a stay-dry barrier over the padding. The kind of features that are standard in high quality disposable designs today.

    I'm on the other side of the pond from you, so my options are different. Since Threaded Armor had all those design features, I tried them a while back to see if they were a viable alternative to the hour glass & velcro hook and lop design I've been using from Babykins.  The first problem I had was I couldn't quite get the capacity I wanted without making the padding a bit too noticeable. The second issue was their design (with pocket covers and inserts) works as a single unit, you need a fresh cover for each change during the day instead of just swapping out the insert. The last issue (for me at least) was while they say you can tumble dry the covers, I know that's hard on the PUL covers and shortens their life, so I hang mine up to "drip dry" in the bathroom.

    I then added up the numbers to estimate how many I'd need and how much it would cost for the initial buy-in.  I'd prefer to do laundry every other day and less capacity means I'd need more changes during the day. I estimated I'd need 6 or 7 per day and a stock of 3 days worth. I finally concluded that having a dozen or more covers drying in the bathroom that I share with my wife might be a bridge too far for her.

    Having said all that, the only way to know if those will work for you, is to buy a pair and try them out. Get a couple of different inserts and mix and match. See if you can get a combination that will work will with whatever amount of wetting you need. I was looking for around 30oz (~900ml), but found they maxed out at about 18oz (530ml), but your mileage will be different.

    For those who have always been bedwetters or those who trained, question around frequency

    in Bedwetters

    Posted

    I'm not 24x7, but I usually go for weeks (or months) at a time when I am diapered. After a few days of wearing, I begin to wet in my sleep. Depending on how much liquid (and salt) I had the night before, I'll have an urge to go right away in the morning and sometimes not.

    I almost always start with a dry diaper when I go to bed and I make sure my bladder is completely empty about 3 hours before bedtime. About an hour and a half before bed, I'll drink about 16oz of water when I take my bedtime drugs (antihistamine and acid reducer). For the first few days after returning to diapers, I'll wake up around 3am, pee and go back to sleep. After about the first week, I don't remember waking up.

    I developed this process about 15 years ago by trial and error and it took a couple of years to work it out. Sometimes it takes longer than a week for me start sleeping through wetting my diaper, but not more than 2. For me, there were 2 key things that had to happen. First was drinking just enough water to make sure I would need to go during the night. Second was having enough protection to be confident I wouldn't harm the mattress.

    One other thing. I'll be the first to admit this isn't really "true bedwetting" (whatever that is), but it's good enough for me. Unlike @oznl, I haven't tried this same formula without a diaper, but I suspect I'd come fully awake when I need to go.

     

    Tanking

    in Scoop The Poop

    Posted

    Having to say goodbye is the worst part of inviting them into your life and caring for them. With 2 of ours that had kidney disease, we were able to use subcutaneous fluids to ease their symptoms for a while, but that only lasted a couple of months. 

    I'm sorry for your loss. 

    White soles in footie pajamas.

    in Adult Kids

    Posted

    14 hours ago, Little BabyDoll Christine said:

    You will have to explain it.

    So, click on the X in the upper right hand corner of the Google login box. Then do the same for the medium.com sign up box and you're free to read the page. At least until you purge your cookies (which I do every time I close my browser).

    Then you will learn that the Dr. Dentons were first made in the late 1800s out of merino wool in sizes from infants to adults. Based on the advertisement scan from that page, they started making a 2 piece version in the 1930s.

    White soles in footie pajamas.

    in Adult Kids

    Posted

    3 hours ago, Little BabyDoll Christine said:

    Tuffy is 65, which means he was born in '59. in '71, he would have been 11-12. In the story he tells, he would have been at the most 6 and maybe got the set when he was 4, which would have been '63 or 4

    Based on my memory, I was 4 at the time and it would have been fall when my mother got out the previous year's warm clothes. That means they would have originally been purchased in the fall of '61 and my memory is from the fall of '62. They were also one piece with white soles. Too bad we don't have any pictures from that time period, but I was the youngest.

    White soles in footie pajamas.

    in Adult Kids

    Posted

    21 minutes ago, Little BabyDoll Christine said:

    I wonder how many of us actually remember wearing these and what they were called back then.

    I remember watching forlornly while my mother cut the feet off of mine because I had grown too tall for them. Even though I asked for new ones that would fit me (with feet), I never got them. Most likely because they weren't available in a larger size.

    Weekend plans?

    in Scoop The Poop

    Posted

    More garden work... Finish mulching the veg beds, dig out what will be the asparagus bed and plant (late, I know). Check the squash leaves for squash bug eggs and treat them for squash vine borers. Also, check the ph of the blue berries and adjust as necessary. Tonight will be burgers and hot links (also hot dogs for the kiddies) on the grill followed by a movie. Tomorrow is what ever I don't get done today and leftover burgers, links and dogs.

    Threaded Armor (Adult Superundies)

    in Washables

    Posted

    23 hours ago, Three Rivers said:

    Does anyone have any updates on these, I am considering the protective briefs and one of the Lounge briefs with the soaker bombs. I have not had a lot of success with cloth diapers so far, It seems I get leaks just after a few wettings. 

    I have one of each. The protective briefs and the snap on are about the same and I've found they hold about 15oz before they start to leak when using the pads that they come with. When I'm wearing diapers my typical release is 10 to 12 oz, so I need to change right away. Adding another soaker pad would help. The lounge briefs hold more like 12 oz but could benefit from added soakers.

    Overall, I found the design with the leak guards and stay dry lining worked well and it was very much like using a good disposable. One problem I had was the water proof part has fabric on the inside that also gets wet which means you can't hang it up to dry and use it again later in the day.

     

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    in Links and Announcements

    Posted

    4 hours ago, ~Brian~ said:

    and then lucky for me, I saved a Dell monitor, I just undid the screw connectors on the back of the Monitor, pulled the power cable from the back of the old monitor, and replaced it, then reconnected the power cord, and hit the power button - all set

    My wife always asks "do we have to keep all this old equipment?" and I usually respond with "that's the solution to countless problems I haven't encountered yet".

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    Will putting my wet IC bed pads on a 30 minute quick cycle be enough?

    in Our Lifestyle Discussion

    Posted

    When I switched to cloth, I started out using a regular wash cycle. Over time, I noticed I would get an ammonia smell within an hour or two of wearing them along with diaper rash. Fortunately, @oznl and @Little Sherri were discussing that very issue at the time. I wasn't able to get my wash temp up to 60C, unfortunately. There's about 30 feet of PEX from the hot water heater to the washer, plus the washer is a huge heat sink. The solution was to crank our dryer temp up to 60C (measured at the exhaust vent) instead.

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