OT - moms of baby boys

[pigget74]

My little man did this and we tried everything. Ended up onlu huggies supreme would contain him at night. So owe used pampers during the day and supreme at night. Then when he was doing better we switched to pampers again. Lasted well for a while then right before we needed to move to the next size he started leaking again. Now we use Pampers cruisers. He started leaking out the sides during the day, until we made this last switch. Good luck. My son also would only sleep on his tummy and with major reflux I was sooo nervous that when he began sleeping through the night I would check on him all the time.

 

[Steve's Girl]

Sleeping 8 - 10 hours per night! I'm jealous! My DS never did that until he was 2 yrs. old and now I still have to get up with him during the night because we have a little issue with bedwetting. What a gift your son has already given you - SLEEP!

 

[gris gris]

Sleeping 8 - 10 hours per night! I'm jealous! My DS never did that until he was 2 yrs. old and now I still have to get up with him during the night because we have a little issue with bedwetting. What a gift your son has already given you - SLEEP!

Well you know that saying that your kids are opposite? We got the "bad" one out of the way first. She didn't sleep all night until almost 1 year old, and she also wouldn't fall asleep on her own. This little guy I can put him in his crib while he's awake and he's asleep in 5 minutes!! Dream baby!

 

[bama-mom]

Same here gris gris. Dd (3) never got any consistent sleep until she was over 2 years old. For the first 9 months, she was up every 2-3 hours and sometimes more often than that. I was completely exhausted for the first year! Now, ds is completely the opposite. Like your baby, we can lay him down and he can put himself to sleep the majority of the time, something dd never learned until much, much later. At about 5 weeks, ds started waking up only one time at night and for the last 3 weeks or so, has slept all night more often that waking up. Dh and I are loving getting some sleep this time around Out of the past 5 or 6 nights, he has slept through all but one!!

 

[pweyl36]

I know I'm lucky with the sleeping - I still wake up 2-3 times a night to make sure he's breathing. It's been about 10 days now that he's slept this well.[/QUOTE]

about stomach sleeping,that was the only way my 3 children would sleep.and they all slept through the night a 3mos. old. also I found that huggies did work better with the boys.

 

[juligrl]

Well you know that saying that your kids are opposite? We got the "bad" one out of the way first. She didn't sleep all night until almost 1 year old, and she also wouldn't fall asleep on her own. This little guy I can put him in his crib while he's awake and he's asleep in 5 minutes!! Dream baby!

That's exactly how my 5 month old DD is! I'll put her in her crib still awake enough to smile at me, she rolls over onto her left side, grabs her baby blanket and is asleep within 5 minutes. The great thing is, she's been sleeping through the night 8-10 hours since before she was 2 months (closer to 5 weeks). And I thought we were doing well when my oldest DD, now 3, would sleep in 6 hour stretches at 2 months.

 

[puffkin]

My son is a good night sleeper too, makes it so much easier for a FT working mom. He has been sleeping 9-6 or 7 am since about 10 weeks

We have good luck with the Pamepers Swaddlers/Cruisers. We didn't like the Baby Dry. And also pointing down helps. His diaper is SOAKED though in the morning, but no leaks yet. He is close to needing the next size though, so I have a feeling we will be fighting some leaks soon until we use up the rest of the Size 3's. Brady seems to need the bigger size well before the upper weight limit listed for the diaper.

I agree with other posters, point down, fold the diaper in at the front and maybe dry a different brand.

 

[KristinU]

My DS has always been a "well hydrated" kid - the overnight Huggies did the trick for us...I think they're called Huggies Overnights. I've also heard that diaper doublers are a good solution (tough to find - I never found them locally and found the Overnights before ordering the doublers on line), I also have heard of people double-diapering and poking a hole in the first diaper, never tried that either.

Good Luck!

 

[virginiamama]

Huggies Supreme is the only kind that didn't leak for my DSs. Fit is important though, and for night time I try to put them on a little more snugly (if that's a word).

 

[Gillian]

Congratulations on your little boy! My second one was a good sleeper as well (10 hours by 2 weeks, had to check with dr that it was ok!), and it was blissful.

We often used a bigger size overnight for our kids, especially when going up to the next size. We'd use the smaller sized ones during the day when we knew they'd be changed frequently.

I found that my DD needed totally different diapers than DS, because she had a different shape. It took a while to figure out what worked for her, whereas he could wear almost any with no issues.

 

[sphmaz]

Overnights worked BEST for us. My son was the same way (he's now almost 7!!) and they had JUST come out with overnight diapers when he was about 5m old. Before that, we bought a size bigger for night time and that seemed to work MOST times. We also used Pampers Baby Dry but I know the same brand doesn't work for all because DD pee'd through every diaper out there with the exception of Luvs.

Good luck!

 

[rt2dz]

My son who is 13 weeks old and sleeps on his stomach (no flames please, this is doctor approved) and sometimes wakes up with a soaked diaper and is soaked through to his jammies all the way up his stomach & chest. He sleeps 8-10 hours per night and I do not wake him to change his diaper.

We use Pampers Baby Dry.

Is there some sort of trick to putting a diaper on a boy??

Can you tell I've never had a baby boy before?

You may have already gotten this advice, I haven't read the replies yet.
1) Make sure his ***** is pointing down.
2) Try the swaddlers, they fit way better at that age. You might try other brands to. Huggies never worked for any of my 3 boys, but sister's girls couldn't use anything put.
3) Make sure the diapers aren't either too big (might still need a newborn v. size 1) or too small (might need a size 1 and not a newborn).
4) My 2nd pees more at night than he does during the rest of the day combined. Something about sleeping makes him leak. We simply had to change him in the middle of the night. I was scared about waking him at first, but it barely disturbed him. Luckily, when he was ready to start potty training, he outgrew this.

 

[sbpuckett]

2 boys here and I'm with everyone else...

1. Point it down while putting the diaper on
2. Switch brands...

My DS6 could use anything but Luvs... I loved White cloud b/c they were so similar to Huggies but much less expensive.

Then came DS4 and he could only use Huggies for that very reason. He didn't need to be changed as frequently, but when he finally went, he filled a diaper full

BTW - I read every baby book out there while pregnant with DS6 and bought one of those sleep positioners to keep them from rolling onto their tummies. With my older son I ended up having to let him sleep on his side and even at 6, that's still his favorite sleep position. Second son had colic for 4 months and would only sleep on his tummy on my chest or in the swing. By the time that wore off he would only sleep on his tummy and would wake up the second his back hit the mattress... Go figure

I was one of the mommies who woke up several times a night to make sure they were still breathing, I finally retired the baby monitor when my oldest was 4 b/c he started talking in his sleep and I wasn't getting any.