I have a 7 weeks old boy, my first boy and we have been having problems with him wetting his clothes every time he goes pee. I don't understand. He is just over 8lbs so we still have him in newborn diapers. I would say almost every time that we change him we have to change his clothes also cuz they are wet from him peeing. Or we go to pick him up from his nap and his clothes are wet. What are we not getting here...? The diapers are snug, I can't go any smaller.
I have two little guys and I'm guessing that you might need to go up a size. Anytime my babies started to 'leak' consistently, I would go up a size and everything would be fine.
~ Ann
Have you tried a different brand? I know that for me, pampers used to leak a lot, so I switched to huggies and that solved it for me. And you might want to try going up to size 1, because it will absorb more, just make sure you put it on snug.
When they start wetting their clothes you don't want to go smaller in diapers, you wanna go bigger. The bigger they are the more they can hold. Also, try pointing his wee-wee down before securing the diaper. If its pointed up, he may pee straight up through the gap in his diaper around his stomach. Best wishes!
My son would actually leak when the diapers were too small.
You have to try different brands of diapers,even some generic. Also sometimes i had to go up to the next size diaper cause they could soak up more, just make sure to fasten nice and snug and check how loose or snug the elastic around legs are. I also used to put a few layers of those soft square blankies everyone gave me under my babies so that if they wet or threw up I would just change those and the sheets would usually stay dry. In the middle of the night the last thing i wanted to do was change sheets. Another, albeit weirder, idea i had was to supplement, usually at night, their diaper with an adults depends pad in the front top area of their diaper. I kind of experimented and moved it to different areas to see if it would get the excess wetness. Whatever works, right?!!! Goodluck, and the best advice, with my 4 kids who are no longer babies, is realize now how unbelievably fast it will pass, eventhough in the middle of the night you think it won't, you'll turn around and that baby will be looking you straight in the eye, and you cant believe where the time went. I cry anytime I look at their baby pictures. I would go back in a heartbeat to do time over with them. So enjoy every wet diaper moment and all challenges babies bring, but remember to inhale the bittersweetness of these fleeting days!!!!!!! The best of luck to you.
Haha, that pointing down thing is a fun learning curve isn't it! :)
Make sure his pee-pee is pointing down....this was a mistake I learned with my first boy....now I am onto #3 and it's just a habit to point it down! Hope this is the answer!
I had trouble finding diapers for my son too. We tried several different kinds, til we landed on Huggies Premium or Supreme, or something like that. With our 2nd son, we've been using the Target Up brand, and LOVE them...
point the pistol down.....this happened with my son all the time. We settled on Luvs diapers (they do make a new born size but it is hard to find). Those didn't leak and we had no more leakage. Good Luck!
I had the same thing with my son, and my babysitter finally told me hewas sweating while he slept not peeing- I couldnt' figure out how everything was so wet- but not necessarily his diaper. If in fact he is wetting this much, maybe try plastic pants over the diaper- like the old days of cloth diapers
Having both a son and a daughter, my first instinct is that the volume of the urine he's passing is just too much for that diaper to handle at this time.
Have you considered trying a different brand to see if it works any better?
We loved Pampers Swaddlers with both kids as infants, but we moved to other brands once they were a few weeks older.
Otherwise, I'm out of ideas to help you since he sounds like he's in an appropriately sized diaper. However, if I remember correctly (it's been a few years), my kids only lasted 2-3 weeks in Newborn sizes before we chose to move to size 1 diapers.
Good luck.
All the other people gave great advice. Point it down, try different brands and move up a size. For us, huggies leaks every time. The only brands that absolutely always work for us are the target store brand diapers and the babies r us store brand ones.
Just try a different brand of diaper until you get one that works. My cousin had great luck with Pampers Swaddlers, so that's what we started out with. Both my boy and girl leaked when using them. We switched to Huggies and have had no troubles. Different diapers work for different babies.
