Please help! VERY heavy sleepwetting - older child

[ChristineG]

:/ Does anyone, anyone, anyone have a good, cheap, cloth solution to their older child's heavy sleepwetting? My almost 7yods wet very heavily every night. We are diehard cloth diaper users, but I have not found a good cloth solution to this problem. When we were camping last summer, we bought a bag of Goodnights :cry because we would not be able to deal with a peed-in sleeping bad and they are the only thing we have found so far that truly works. (Although we haven't used them again since that time)

Please help! We don't want to buy $30 per pair bedwetting pants. We actually owned two pairs of some Nikki bedwetting pants (at $35 Canadian) and they failed miserably. I was thinking, maybe of prefolds? Does anyone use them successfully? What about covers?

I have tried sewing a few things myself and maybe should retry. So far, I haven't been very successful, which is extra frustrating to me since my business is making cloth diapers...and they work great for babies...just can't get anything to work so far for a 7yo who I think saves up all his pee for the day to let loose at night!! :eek

[MarynMunchkins]

I ues prefolds and wool soaker at night. :) I don't know how it would work for an older kid, but I've never had a leak with them.

[wuzzie]

I think I'd work on peeing more during the day to avoid the problem. But, I think you should invest in the betwetter pants. 2 pairs, rotate them. We use Large Sandies with a wool cover for dd who will be 5 next month, but I don't know if they would fit a 7 year old. They are strechy, but not THAT strechy.

EAT: I just found Toddleease on their site. Says they go from 35-45 pounds. This might work. Here's a link.
http://motherease.com/database/scripts/store_products.pl?SID=119b886dbe19aeaa8bdb6f0bd7a9 c856&Loc=US&TopCat=3&SecCat=2

ETA again..they also have AIO's in that size too. You would probably need some doublers with either, but it might be worth a try.

[LauraK]

Since you sew, could you make a FB like pocket dipe and stuff it with microfiber towels wrapped around hemp inserts? Perhaps you could design stuffable bed wetting pants? I'd buy some for my 2.5 year old :-) Here are some sewing directions for Fbs as a starting place.

http://www.geocities.com/gabrielbaby1/fuzzibunz.html

[LauraK]

I just saw that Happy Heinys makes a pocket trainer. They sell for about $15 each.
http://www.happyheinys.com/web/product/pockettrainers.php

I think I might try these! I hate buying pull-ups for my two year old, even for just at night when I am already washing cloth dipes for my 7 month old.

[GodisGood]

We use Happy Heiny's trainers...with a hemp "stuffin". My ds#1 will pee like a racehorse at night when he's had an allergen. These have worked wonders for us. Stuffing them with prefolds works great too.

[Lady TS]

I just saw that Happy Heinys makes a pocket trainer. They sell for about $15 each.
http://www.happyheinys.com/web/product/pockettrainers.php

I think I might try these! I hate buying pull-ups for my two year old, even for just at night when I am already washing cloth dipes for my 7 month old.


I have one of these and also have a Snap-EZ Naptime stuffable trainer I just recently got. I think I am going to like the Snap-EZ a lot better than the Happy Heinys ones I have because they have snaps on the sides so cleanup is easier if ds poops, and you can open them up like a Fuzzibunz to stuff them. I find the Happy Heiny's difficult to stuff.

The only thing with the Snap-EZ is that there is a waiting list unless you order from her in-stock store.

BUT they do go up to a size 6/8 I think. She has measurements on her site to ensure the right fit and can do custom orders. They run around $15.
http://www.snap-ez.com/PocketTrainers.html

JMO

*edited to add link