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1) At what age did you stop folding over the top of the OS diapers?
2) How often do you change your baby's diaper?
3) What is your diaper change routine when you are out of the house?
4) Do you ever have any leaking/wicking? Do you know why?
5) What disposable liners work best with MEOS? And, do you leave a liner in all day? |
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I never did fold the OS down. I moved from wraps to OS at 3 mos. and they fit her without folding then.
I change every 2-3 hours. More if he's wet or has a dirty diaper.
At least every 2 hours when he was less than 6 mos.
When we go out I change him before we leave if possible. I use a bummis wet bag and just put the dirty diaper in there. Now that he's close to 15 mos. sometimes it's easier to change him on the floor of a change room since he's starting to dislike change tables.
I have had leaking when the legs weren't snapped tight enough and when the cover was getting too small.
I do not use disposable liners. I used to use stay dry liners with flat folds as doublers, now I use cut up receiving blankets which I leave in all day.
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1. At 2 months of age, but my son is mutant huge!
2. Every hour to hour.5 when he was tiny, every 2 hours now.
3. I carry a patemm pad with 2 OS & an extra cover. I change him at the same intervals but usually we are home by then since I change him right before we leave. If he does need a change when we are out, I put the used dipe in a plastic bag & tie it to the handle of my patemm pad so I don't forget to put it in the diaper pail when we get home. I use posie wipes because cloth wipes won't work well in my patemm pad. But at home I use cloth wipes.
4. Never any wicking or leaking or blowouts, EVER! I love ME!
5. Never used posie liners. I have a diaper sprayer which I LOVE! I don't care if poo gets on the dipes. I prefer it actually! It's kindof fun to hose that sucker off! |
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1. Just recently. My daughter is 14 months old but she is quite petite. I can actually still fold it down if I want to but it's better all the way up now.
2. Every two hours unless she is dirty then right away.
3. I keep a ME AIO in my diaper bag all the time. I have a wetbag in there too, so I just put the wet/dirty diaper in that and bring it home to wash.
4. The only time I EVER have leaking problems is when I let her go coverless, so that's my fault.
5. The only liners I use are the fleece ones I made myself. I have never used disposable ones. |
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1.)I still fold it down at almost 9 months old and she is big at 20 lbs- but I don't really have to- she could wear it full size. She fits either way fine.
2.)I change about every 2-3 hours approx
3.)I carry a wetbag and couple of cloth dipes- change her as usual if needed and place the wet/dirty dipe in the wet bag and take home to wash as usual.
4.)Never have had wicking or leaking with ME products- Ever!
5.)I have some bummis liners that work well- but I really don't use them all that much- she is still breastfeeding exclusivly so her poo just washes right out- but eventually when she starts solids I will either use a diaper sprayer- or liners. |
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1. I can't remember exactly, but I think it was around 5-6 months. We could go both ways for a while.
2. Every poop in the beginning (which was every feed, which was about every hour for what seemed like an eternity), then about every 2-3 hours depending on the situation (more often if he had a rash starting, less often if we were out and about and it wasn't practical). Now at 17 months old, my son will often go for more than that without wetting the diaper so obviously I don't change him if he's dry!
3. I bring along my regular OS diaper. I used to wet some cloth wipes and carry them in a Ziploc bag, but we had a tendency to forget the unused ones in the diaper bag until they got smelly or we wouldn't have enough wipes left in our stash, so now we carry disposable wipes when outside the house. I bought a small wet bag in an outdoor store (made for kayaking) that folds really small, so I use it to put away the dirties.
4. We have had wicking a few times (very few and far between, something like 4 or 5 times in 17 months). Usually it is either because part of the diaper or the tag is sticking out of the cover or because the cover is getting too small. Maybe once or twice, when our son pooped while sitting up (during a meal) and we didn't notice it for a while, poop made its way onto the clothes because it was all the way up the back. I think a bigger cover would have solved that problem.
5. I tried some disposable liners but it seemed to give me more work than less so I stopped using them. I have a sprayer and I love it!
Hope that helps! |
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1) Around 20 lbs with both boys, probably a little earlier than this with #1 since he needed a booster with every diaper for a while. It's really child-specific, though, no magic weight/age.
2) When dirty or every 2-3 hours during the day. Probably more toward the side of 2, but it depends on schedule.
3) I save bread and newspaper bags and put dirty or wet diapers in there. Rolled up well, even a poopy diaper usually doesn't stink before you get home. Each diaper gets its own bag, and sometimes I'll keep each little bag inside of a larger one, like a grocery bag. I just deal with the diapers when I get home. For most of my outings, like errands, I don't usually have to change him, since he gets a fresh diaper just before we leave.
4) Not regularly. When both boys were small, I had one or two poopsplosions that got beyond the cover, but those were rare, and I know they would have been far, far, far worse with anything but ME. With DS#1 I had some wicking when he was small, and that was solved by moving him into the next larger cover size. It didn't make sense to me at the time, since I still had more snaps to go on the legs, but I think it's overall rise somehow, too. I have the occasional wick (like a few a year) but that seems to be pilot error, or something like a onesie working its way inside the diaper.
5) Haven't used them. I meant to, once we got past bf poo when I figured they wouldn't do much good, but by then I was used to rinsing poopy diapers and had started using fleece liners, which make clean up a little easier. So I never bothered. I don't think you'd find many people who would re-use liner from change to change, but some liners can be laundered if just wet and used multiple times. |
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Thanks for your input! I'm the original poster and I'll answer my own questions now.
1) Dd is 8 months and I'm still folding over the top but snapping the outermost snaps.
2) I try to change her every 2 hours. I changed immediately if I detect a dirty diaper. Forgetting to change dd before a nap will guarantee a longer than usual nap time, lol!
3) I use the vegetable bags from the supermarket to cart home wet/dirty diapers.
4) I've never had poop leak out of the cover and only once had poop leak onto the cover - go cloth diapers! I recently had a problem and dd's clothes were constantly wet. I moved her up a cover size (she is wearing M/L now) and stopped using thermal underwear that had a tight elastic around the waist. The leaking has stopped so I think that the thermals were compressing the diaper and cover and causing wicking. Any other leaking I've ever had was because I didn't fully cover the diaper with the cover.
5) I was thinking of using diaper liners but still haven't decided. I don't like the idea of dunking or spraying in the toilet. My washer seems to take off any poop that is stuck to the diaper but I don't know what will happen when dd is taking more solids. |
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| I almost started using flushable liners when DS#1 went through a really nasty poop stage. I couldn't get them locally, or I probably would've at least given them a try. By the time I'd get around to thinking of ordering some, he'd not be as bad so I'd forget about it again (repeat cycle several times). |
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