Newborn BOY Leaking Out of His Diaper and Sick of Changing His Clothes

Updated on April 02, 2008
L.G. asks from Fallbrook, CA
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Okay, so I know when they are real little, it is normal to do a couple of oufit changes a day but.... I have a 11 day old baby boy who somehow is leaking (Shooting?) out the side of his diaper at least once sometimes 3 times a day. His diapers are NOT full to where they are saturated and thus would be leaking, I just don't get it. I have tried putting him in bigger diapers but it doesn't seem to help. I don't recall my daughter doing this so not sure if it is because he is a boy? Any suggestions? And by the way, he is only leaking, oh how shall I put it, #1, which I guess I should be grateful for that.

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So What Happened?

Thanks everyone for all of your suggestions. I have been trying to make sure "everything" was pointed in the right direction but he was circumcised last week and so it has been a little sensitive still but will keep doing that. I have been folding over the front of his diaper since this morning and so far I haven't had any leakage yet, so hopefully that will be the fix. And if needed I will try switching diapers as well. Thanks again, I was getting a little irritated with all the changing of the clothes. I guess boys will be boys!

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K.O.

answers from Los Angeles on

My son is now 5 years old but when he was a baby I had the same problem. I also have an 8 year old daughter and with her we used huggies supreme but for my son they did not work so believe it or not I tried luvs and they worked great and they are cheap. Hope this helps.

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J.A.

answers from Los Angeles on

Jacy said part of what I was going to say. I had the WORST problem when my DS was a newborn. He was peeing his clothes, but his diaper would stay dry. Then someone told me to make sure IT was pointed down before fliping the diaper up. WOW! What a differnce! I also had the problem when he would out-grow his previous diaper size. DS was 9lbs at birth, so by 2 weeks, he NEEDED size 1 diapers.

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J.S.

answers from San Diego on

I used Pampers newborn for my son. He weighed 8lbs 3 oz and lost a pound the first week. Even with his weight loss we didn't experience any leaks with Pampers. Later on is when I started having leakage issues, but someone recommended that I probably needed to go up in size. Sure enough she was right. My son is 4 months old now and I just switched him to size 3 diapers.

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L.W.

answers from San Diego on

Hi L.,
My son will be 1 month tomorrow & I also had the same exact problem when we first brought him home. I thought he was sweating excessively at first & then I realized it was his diaper leaking. We changed brands of diapers twice along with the size until we found a brand & size that would not leak. In our case it was Huggies stage 1. He was born 9 lbs and has been gaining since so I'm sure we'll be going up a size soon enough.
Congrats on your new baby boy!

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W.A.

answers from Honolulu on

Hi Lindseay..I too have a 2 1/2 year old girl and I also have a 8 week old newborn. We had the exact same problem with our little boy when we first came home. With my daughter we used swaddlers because they were the only ones that didnt leak..well, I went out and bought a few packages of swaddlers for my ltitle boy. Well, learned very quickly that swaddlers dont seem to work so well for little boys. Sad thing is my neighbor who's son was born a month before me had actually warned me about the swadlers but I didnt listen. Oh well. I paid by changing clothes constantly. We found so far that the only one that seems to work for our son is the huggies newborn gentle care. not the regulars but hte grntle care . It's a burgandy colored bag. Depending on the weight of your baby as long as he fits in it well it should work. My boy was 7lb 10oz and he has a prety long wee wee so it always seemed to be right up at the top right under the umbilical cut out. So the nurse showed me a trick of rolling the diaper under which made like a pocket for the tip of his wee wee to go in and it helped the pee roll back down into the diaper. Also, I noticed when I put the tabs on they had to touch each other in front of his bely to insure a good fit. Too funny that this seems to be a very common problem. Well, good luck!

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M.N.

answers from Los Angeles on

Hi L.,

My son had the exact same problem when he was little! We were trying to use Huggies because they're cheaper at Costco, but he has a shorter body so switching to Pampers was the trick we needed! I think you should just try switching from whatever you're using to a different brand that fits a bit differently. I hope this helps.
-M.

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K.F.

answers from San Diego on

I have a son and daughter and the same thing happened with my son, but not my daughter. I finally figured out with my son that he always leaked through Pampers, but not huggies. When he was a newborn he would pee out the sides of the diaper. When I switched to Huggies it never happened again. Make sure you are getting the diaper on tight enough too. When my sold was older I could use Pampers or Huggies and it didn't matter. It just seems like newborn little boys pee differently than girls... hope this helps. :-)

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R.S.

answers from Los Angeles on

I am not sure if this is the problem, but I have heard from a ton of people not to use Huggies because they leak. Did you try other brands? I found that Pampers and Luvs work best for my kids.

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