[miaow]

Thanks bilbylove!

I'll try to be a bit clearer, but first of all - my liners are big enough to go to the edges of the BBB and high at the front and back. She seems to sometimes wet more at the front and sometimes at the back - I just got about a metre of bamboo fleece, so I'm going to use some to boost both areas - so that will be instead of the prefolds, which are unbleached Indian cotton.

so if the BB wool cover never leaks, what is the problem then - i'm a bit lost now! Is it that you don't have ENOUGH of the bb wool covers? Is that the bit of info i'm missing (that would make me understand).

OK - the problem is that although it doesn't leak, her nappy is so soaking that the liners are not working and she feels wet (I mean she gets grumpy because she feels the wetness on her skin - as well as feeling wet to my touch). I need to stop the wetness from getting to her.

you've lost me again. If the BBB with the BB wool cover ARE working for you, how are the BBB NOT working for you as a night nappy?

So the BBB with the BB wool cover work, but just don't last as long as I would hope. But the thing that DP pointed out yesterday is that I am a somewhat vicious cycle, because I am changing her so often, I feed her to calm her when she's frantic and sort of half awake, and then this leads to more wee, which leads to more changes, which leads to more feeding...

Night nappies are more expensive due to the extra costs of sewing more layers into the nappy and the boosters - when you see how much bamboo and hemp costs, i think it's very justified.

Well, I used the Wild Child last night - and she did not need changing for five hours!! In my stupor I emailed my friend at 2.30am shrieking with joy - but DP reminded me this morning that I had actually fed her halfway through that time. But no matter - it's the changing I'm concerned about, not the feeding.

When she finally decided she was too wet and I took the Wild Child off her, it was wet to the point of being slightly damp on the outside, but I could actually have got away without a cover (even though I'd used a PUL one). My friend lent me some shorties, which I'm going to experiment with later today - but atm I am frantically trying to get the Wild Child dry to use again tonight I did manage to change her and settle her without feeding once during the night, which was a win!

She isn't irritated by the BB wool covers, but then again there is no wool directly on her skin. I'll see how she goes.

my immediate thought is - she needs a night nappy.

You are SO RIGHT. Especially after last nights experiment. I don't need 'a night nappy'. I need about SIX! But anyway, I bought a Whizz Kidz Nightz from B4B yesterday, which is a good start - and thanks for the heads up about the fastenings. The BB front ones do suit her, so I'll stick with them.

i am guessing that maybe if their is not enough absorbency layers, maybe even the liner gets soaked too.

This is exactly what has been happening.

my bub was fine for dream changes, but woke up if she heard velcro opening.

THis is my problem as well! We need someone to invent silent velcro! But this is the reason that I'll be trying to investigate the shorties!

Thank you so much for your response - I feel like I'm getting somewhere now!