Nighttime Cloth Pull Up

Do you mean training pants? My kids are all grown but I used the training pants with the triple center and crotch with plastic pants over the top.

They were all too bulky for my five year old girl. The amount of cloth needed to soak up all the pee is pretty hefty and she said it felt funny while lying in bed. We tried a few different brands and they were all too wide between the legs, or too thick around the middle and she couldn't sleep. Hope you have better luck!

We just used the regular Gerber training pants doubled with plastic covers over them. It wasn't too bulky with 2 pair on for any of them.

I can't afford the extra laundry costs so we use disposable pull ups. I can't afford the higher water bill, gas, electric, detergent, fabric softener, and dryer sheets. Plus when pee pee stuff is washed with other stuff it does still tend to smell. So even if you do use them you'll have to save them up until you have a full load of them or you'll even be wasting more money. Then after washing that full load you'll have to sanitize the washer with a load of hot water and bleach.

It's just too expensive, it adds up a lot over a month. A box of pull ups costs about $20 per month. It costs a lot more than that when you start getting the higher utilities. Even if it's spread across each one and they only go up a couple of dollars each, it ends up being more than pull ups.

My time is worth something too. I have enough laundry to do already and don't want to add more.

I gave up! I went to the disposable underwear type ones that are NOT pull ups, they are much better and much more absorbent. The pampers ones didn't work well, but the Huggies ones are good. Anyway, I weighed the cost of laundry to the cost of 50 cents a night, and well, the disposables won out!

I can't recommend any of those specific brands, but I completely get where you are coming from. My 5 year old outgrew all the nighttime pull-ups that are available where we live. (We live in Japan.) I asked a question about nighttime cloth pull-ups and other ideas to control the amount of cleanup per night back in November last year.

In November last year we found a couple of different nighttime cloth pull-up brands here in Japan. We bought one of both the types that looked like possibilities. Then we tried them for a week, before buying two more pairs in the one that worked the best. I recommend getting at least three pairs of whichever brand works the best for your kids.

That being said, our son had another growth spurt. We tried to use the same brand one size up, and it doesn't fit him properly. We went back to the other brand that we tried, again with the same problem that it didn't fit properly. This is according to specific measurements: waist, around the leg, length from waist to knee, and total height.

We are currently between the two sizes, and I am back to washing three complete pjs and four matress pads a day. We decided to get the soft matress pads for under him. I am using some unquilted matress pads that I had used for his crib when he was younger on top of him. At least I don't have to wash blankets and sheets every day. (Unfortunately, the dog toilet disposable sheets that some mamas suggested using are available here, but so small and expensive. That may be an option you can try though to minimize the cleanup.)

So my suggestion would be to try each brand of cloth pull-ups out and then decide which works the best. The brand that might work for your son, may not work as well for your daughter and vice versa. Both brands we tried required to be washed in a laundry net and hung to dry: the reason for buying three pairs. I am constantly washing two pairs from the morning. They are hung in the sunshine, and then where the air circulation is good. The third pair is put on before bed, then one pair somehow miraculously is dry in time before he has an accident in the middle of the night. (Big sigh!)

Good luck. Eventually we will be able to laugh this one out, too.