[bilbylove]

so, the baby beehinds bamboo fitted WITH bb wool cover - great day option

night nappies take longer to dry, so you do need a number of them to rotate. Dunno how long your bub sleeps - how many feeds does she wake for during the night? Is five hours equivalent to two feeds for her? or one? THis might help you work out how many night nappies you need for one night, then i would multiply that by at least two.

my bub has some whizz kidz nightz too, excellent nappy - no stay dry inner in that one, so i put an microfleece liner inside to keep bubs dry. with a wool soaker over the top. so only SNAPS to undo, no aplix (for any dream changes you might try to do).

other no noise options are pull up fleece and wool covers, e.g bear bottoms at nurture nappies (windpro malden mills fleece) or disana wool soakers (the weewuns have those). (As well as the hand knit shorties, longies etc which are great too).

with your bamboo fleece, before you sew with it, it needs two hot washes and hot dries to make sure all shrinkage has occurred BEFORE you sew with it.

bamboo is expensive fabric, so i would suggest making templates out of paper or cardboard of the size trifolds you THINK you'll need. Experiment with those paper trifolds, folding them up and putting them in your DD's nappies. If the size is indeed suitable, THEN start cutting out.

i've been doing TWO layer trifolds and long skinny boosters that you can fold up - two layers is good for drying purposes. By the time you fold the trifold in three (or four), the booster in how ever many folds is useful for DD, you have quite a few layers with that.

Can i ask what your wash routine is?
the reason i ask, is that with drypailing, the idea is to use VERY LITTLE washing powder, and to use a non-perfumed, sensitive wash powder.
sometimes, people who are using the normal amount of wash powder, adn maybe using the smae wash powder they wash their clothes with, get a build up of wash detergent on the MCN, which can stop some fabrics working like they're meant to.

i'm just wondering if this might have happened to your microfleece.
when you said the microfleece was becoming drenched in the BBB - a day nappy - i thought - fair call - i understand how that could happen overnight with a heavy wetter.
but when you said the liner also became drenched with the wild child - which is a night nappy - that made me think - i wonder about the washing aspect?

with the woollies - if you're unsure about the lanolising - just ask, it's not hard to do.

i'm glad you got five hours out of the wild child, i don't know how long you got previously, but from your reaction, it's obviously an improvement. Do you know if that wild child is brand new? had all it's pre-washes? or has already been well used?

Have you seen the Night Time Liners on babysoftlandings? they are a different shape and larger than the ones you are using - just something else to consider. If you have heaps of microfleece, can't hurt to try another shape heh?

Another thought - you need to beef up your night nappy quotient and you need some quick drying options too - i reckon a number of home made bamboo trifolds, some long skinny boosters (like 10cm wide) some bigger liners and a few malden mills covers (which dry in no time) would help you out - while you save up, do whatever, to get more dedicated night nappies.

hth