My five month DD, Zoe, is a heavy wetter and hard to settle without feeding at night. I've posted before about the struggle of finding a nappy for night that didn't leak out the sides (as she's a side sleeper). She's since been sleeping on her tummy a bit because she's learnt to roll (woo!) and I thought this might fix things. WRONG.
She wakes up whenever she is wet - and then needs changing. She really thrashes around when being changed in a half asleep way, and it's v.hard to settle her without feeding her back to sleep - which then leads to yet another wet nappy. The other night she went through three Wild Childs, a Snoozywun and a boosted BBB.
The changes are worse when I have to put a cover on her. I have to use a cover with the WC as they leak out of the legs - she's very long, but still quite tiny, so even if I've ringbarked her around the middle, the legs still leak.
DP has left our bed and now sleeps in the spare room as he can't stand the night nappy struggle. I have tried eco-sposies, and even evil-sposies - and she still wakes up when she wees. Now, I wouldn't want to sleep in my wee either, but I really don't think she NEEDS to feed as often as she does. She has dark circles under her eyes - and you can imagine what mine are like!
The only time she sleeps longer than two and a half to three hours is if she's had a total meltdown before bed due to overtiredness - which I try to avoid happening. I struggled with oversupply when she was born and still have lots of milk and so she just feeds away - I do try pulling my boob from her mouth after she's been on for a little while (when it's a getting-back-to-sleep rather than a I'm-hungry feed) but she goes at it like a three course dinner as soon as she latches on, so I'm not sure it really helps.
Anyway - any suggestion about what I might try would be lovely. Last night I just used my BumGenius nappies with extra boosting - we went through five of them and the Snoozywun but at least they are a quicker change due to no covers. However she is starting to itch around her crotch area, although there's nothing visible there that looks irritated, I would rather she was wearing something more breathable. I have ordered some longies to go over her Wild Childs to see if they help - but am scared about the nappy changes being even longer...
I'm starting to lose the plot (although obviously I realise that other people have much worse problems at night). I can walk her up and down to get her back to sleep, but five or six times a night!? AAAAAAAAAGH.
Sorry.
It has even helped me just to type it all out.
Beth