so there i was laying in bed, ridiculously early on a friday night, unable to fall asleep... when i got a text from my college roommate sawah. she asked me a bunch of questions about baby girl, one of them about soaking through diapers at night. so even though i should have rolled over and continued my attempts at falling asleep, i didn't. i texted her back and then got online. and then getting bored again, decided to write this post. about diapers.
i am sure that in addition to her fast metabolism, the reason baby girl is so skinny is because of the insanely large volume of liquids and solids ending up in her diaper. seriously. if it wasn't gross (and if i owned a scale) i would weigh her diaper pail bag after a week's time because i am sure it would weigh well more than my baby. anyways, all of that is gross, hopefully no one is reading this.
two months ago i was at my friend kirstyn's and she had huggies overnight diapers in her kids room. i thought "great. now diaper manufacturers have figured out a way to market diapers so we can pay twice as much per diaper just to feel like better parents." but then i asked her about them. she said michaela used to soak through every night and with these diapers it's only once every other week maybe. i wasn't sold.
but then when i was preparing to go to atlanta, i told my mom to buy some to try, because i didn't want to be doing laundry every day while we were in atlanta. it's already enough of a pain to do laundry when you're traveling and staying in someone else's house... i didn't want to be washing sheets and sleepers every day and giving my kid a bath first thing upon waking.
well... they worked. night after night after night. i was shocked and loving it. then i started rationalizing... well, baby girl hasn't been drinking that much since we got here so maybe it's just because of that. then we came back to colorado and used up the two nighttime diapers we brought with us. now we were back to a regular luvs size 4. and night after night baby girl would soak through and wake up completely drenched up to her neck. it was disgusting and it was causing me to do laundry more than once a week... which is a big huge no no for me.
until a week ago, i couldn't get baby girl to drink more than one sippy cup of fluid during the day. i would fill a sippy with milk every morning and she would take sips every once in a while and then towards night time she would drink quite a bit more and then by the time i put her to bed there was normally only about a fifth of it left. then i discovered that if the milk (or water) is room temperature or warmer, she'll gulp it right up. multiple sippy cups a day! this is fabulous but it also meant that while she soaked through her diapers at night before, now it was monumental... even using a size bigger than her regular daytime diaper.
well, i priced it. i pay 13 cents per diaper for baby girl's size 3's. size 4 huggies overnights (what she was using in atlanta... i thought 4's would be way too huge since it's for 22-37 lbs but she needs it because it is 100% full in the morning) were 33 cents per diaper. i have never paid that much for a diaper... ever. but i did the math... i only need one a day so for 20 cents a day, i can avoid tons of extra laundry, giving my terrified-of-baths-baby a bath at 8am every morning when our house is still 60 degrees, and being a terrible mom for letting my baby marinate all night in urine? well, i'm sold. if i can buy the badge of "good mom" for 20 cents a day, i'm totally on board.
am i even making sense anymore? i feel slightly delusional at the moment, like someone who has been in solitary confinement to long... which for me is apparently 1.5 hours.
anyways, the take away message from this is: if your kid is soaking through diapers at night, spend $20 (target, walmart, and amazon mom all have them for that price) and try out those special night time diapers in the blue box with stars and moons on them. you will love me for it.
ps- it's really too bad i'm not a popular blogger... they actually get paid for reviews like this.
1 comment:
Have you tried just a regular size 4 diaper for nighttime. That's what we've done, just upped the size by one for the nighttime if we had leaks during the night. We had to do that with Skye. I haven't read your marathon post yet. It might take me a while.
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