Wearing Multiple Diapers

I was looking at various websites and I recently came across an interesting article or subject on another website called adisc.org regarding people wearing multiple baby/adult size diapers for extra thickness and protection in the form of absorption and this got me thinking how many of us do the same thing I know I am one of them.

The problem is today's advanced diapers be them disposable or other wise have one major drawback when compared to the earlier ones from the 1970's through the 1990's and that's they are far too thin prone to ripping plus add to that the padding is not as absorbent as it used to be also there much smaller and this means they don't fit as well as they did when I was a child growing up and the other great disadvantage is the high costs.

I wear diapers because of bed wetting and day time accidents which are highly embarrassing and I often wear up to five of them justly to get the thickness and protection I remember from being a child and this is crazy because it wastes half a pack and givin I am already some what guilty about the environmental impact of this and that's nuts, there has got to be a better way.

In my opinion there was nothing wrong with the traditionally thick diaper yes they took longer to degrade in fact shamefully up to 1,000 years but wasn't that solved with new technology and research I mean couldn't they have come up with a better way rather than making them so rubbish in terms of quality?.

I know I have a lot of gripes with this issue and maybe it's because I come from a older generation but could somebody tell me am I alone in voicing these concerns.

Yours sincerely

Chinababy888.

I use Babykins cloth diapers almost exclusively. They are thick and absorbent and two contour diapers held with their "dpf" diaper is more than enough to prevent leaks. No need for pins. http://www.babykins.com

At night my cloth night diapers consist of 4 adult diapers.i use 2 purity flats with 2 changing times prefolds folded into the middle.this gives me about 28 layers of material total.i can go about 12 hours without a change,so every morning I can sit and drink my coffee before changing diapers.with no leaks.

I usually do not double diaper my disposables. I will usually wear a disposable with 2 booster pads which seems to help prevent leaks during daytime. At night I usually 1 super thick cloth diaper with 2 cloth baby diapers the like 14x20 ones as soaker pads.i also wear my plastic pants over the top.

As I'm incontinent wearing disposable diapers 24/7 I haven't used more than one diaper. I pay for all my diapers and a that would be wasting them. I'm currently using attends diapers with booster pads for daytime and abena with booster pads for nighttime. There's no need for more than one diaper.

I am IC my insurance pays for all my supplies, rather than double diaper I will add a booster or if I know that's not sufficient I will wear a better quality diaper ,at home I tend to wear cloth but for out and about I wear disposables , it's easier than carrying around dirty diapers needing to be washed , I can carry more disposables than I could cloth easily.

Nightime is a nightmare for me as bladder just continues on 24/7 regardless and i have to put on loads of protection to keep the bed dry.

Booster pad inside Terry nappy held in place with cotton briefs and a maxi absorbant all in one disposable nappy with another booster pad folded over and into the front of the disposable as that prevents leakage when laying on your front, all of this is then covered with a nice large plastic pant and a cover also plastic pants for reasons of modesty.

@squirmy If you put a booster side ways just above were the leak guards end in the front it blocks and absorbs on your belly leakage .

I sleep in a cloth super heavy weight night diaper with three boosters because sometimes I don't sleep for days and then I'll sleep 14+ hours straight thru , so I have to have the capacity plus i goto sleep on my side and flop around at night when the pain gets to me before landing on my back when i wake up.

Over the years of always wearing cloth, I've found using baby diapers as boosters make for a perfect fit. I found that using super thick diapers just doesn't work at laundry time. They dry way too slow and always seem to have a funky odor once they get wet in use.

I've settled on using either the Purity 4 layer from Adult Cloth Diaper or the flannel flat from Babykins. During the day I use a single diaper with a prefold infant diaper for a booster and during the night I use double diapers with an infant booster. I no longer get leaks either day or night. The diapers wash and dry easily and there's no funky odor.

Hi SAP and thanks for that advice, i cannot think why i hadn't thought of that, will try that tonight !

SAP have had a fair bit of success with adding extra padding around the front and have only had one major leak in the last two weeks.

Am now adding extra padding in my evening nappy as I usually fill it to over capacity before bed.

When I am going on a long flight I double diaper to prevent leaks. So far so good.

I wear cloth diapers and plastic pants at night and around the house. During the day, I will wear double diapers. At night, I will wear 3 cloth diapers along with 1 or 2 cloth diapers folded into thirds as doublers. I have to do this as I am such a heavy wetter throughout the night. In the morning, My diapers are pretty well soaked, but not wet enough to leak. I can still have enough absorbancy left to eat my breakfast and have a cup of coffee before I have to change.

A long time ago, before I could easily find cloth prefolds, I doubled, tripled or quadrupled my cloth diapers. But for the past 20 or more years, I've able to buy prefolds with at least 10 layers in the center and with that I add one or two cloth inserts for added bulk and absorbancy and that does the trick. Even three inserts on occasion.

If I am going to be away from a place where I can change my diaper, I will triple diapers. When I go to bed, I sleep on an underpad, use at least two with booster pads.

At night I use a disposable with my pull-on overnight cloth diaper. Works most of the time except when I pee laying on my side, then the rubber sheet protects the mattress.