I've not posted for ages but need to have a little moan where people get what I'm talking about! DS2 is 5 and a half months or something similar (I really don't know how old - I figured it out last week but can't remember now. I can't remember anything anymore!) and feeds a lot at night. About a month or so ago he was weeing through the disposable he was in (size 3 back then). We have always used daytime cloth and night time sposies as that's what worked best with ds1, even though we had a wrap over the sposie for ds1. But with ds2 that didn't work, so I sized up the nappy. Still no good. I sized up again to a 5 and no good. ...
... long boring story sorry ...
Anyway, he's been in a mix of whatever I can cobble together at night for ages now, either 2 cotton terries with a booster, 1 cotton 1 bamboo (maybe with a booster), a bamboozle and a duo hemp prefold and a booster, etc etc. All covered in a blueberry coverall - the biggest wraps we have.
Tonight I folded the nappies for bedtime (not pleased it was a 2 cotton terry night as it's obv huge) and ds2s coverall is still drying so I tried a totsbots size 2. This fitted over last nights bamboozle, hemp, and booster combo but didn't come close this evening. So I went and got another blueberry wrap and by the time I got back (ds2 was lying in the middle of our bed with bed rail up btw) he's half undone the nippa and pulled the nappies all over. So I gave up as he was grumpy and just wanted bed. I got the only size 6 disposable we had and he's in that with a wrap as I don't think it'll last till midnight
The point of all this is just that he was tired and hungry and I'm having to faff and try and sort stupid nappies out because nothing is dry. When he cries I'm stressed and get snappy and then feel guilty because he's just telling me stuff. Sigh.
Does anyone else really really struggle with this weather to get nappies dry fast enough? They are having sposie days because I can't get anything dry, sometimes there are 2 nappy washes drying now it's that slow. And it makes it such a struggle to get anything together for night time.
Other than buying anything else, (as with Christmas coming, and me trying to save for a shortie and a haircut I really don't want to buy anything else) how do you all deal with no dry nappies / not enough night time nappies?
Also, ds1 can't be that far off being out of nappies so buying anything else really seems superfluous as then there'll be enough nappies for an extra day in the rotation!
I don't know what I'm looking for here - maybe some sympathy or someone to share similar experiences so I know I'm not alone?!
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