Huggies Overnights Diapers – A Bed and Sleep Saver

05. Jan, 2010 0 Comments

As the mother of two little boys, it became quickly evident that having the right fit and absorbency in diapers could make a huge difference in how well we all slept at night. My oldest slept on his back, and still does, leaving diapers prone to leaking out down the back and down the legs. He’s woken up in a puddle with the back of his shirt soaked countless times. The youngest is the opposite – sleeping on his front and leaking up the front of the diaper and often winding up soaked from his neck down.

With heavy wetters and heavy sleepers, I needed a powerful diaper for nights. My first step was to simply change diapers in the middle of the night to try and keep them dry while they slept. A dream change rather than a dream feed – although they usually woke up and then wanted to drink more milk or water anyhow. But eventually I stumbled upon an online recommendation for Huggies Overnights and I was hooked.

Huggies Overnights
The purple pack of diapers looks like a pack of regular diapers, but picking up the actual diaper inside the pack lets you feel a bit of the difference. The overnight diaper is thicker and feels a bit heavier. That’s because it has more absorbency in it than traditional diapers. By my completely unofficial and unscientific approximation, the overnight diaper can hold almost twice as much urine during the night as the traditional diaper – and it kept my boys dry all night long.

The bulky overnight diaper isn’t ideal for crawling or racing through the house, although it’s not that much bigger than a traditional diaper, but it is noticeably bulkier. But once little ones go to bed, both the front and back of the diapers are heavily lined with moisture absorbing inner gel. The diapers are not gender specific, so they can catch urine from any direction, it seems. And best of all, they worked. The boys didn’t feel wet and we all got more sleep.

On the rare nights that I’d run out of Huggies Overnights, I’d dig out a regular diaper for bedtime and not surprisingly, I’d get a 2am call to change sheets and pajamas. I learned quickly to avoid running out of the diapers although we don’t need as much protection now as we seemed to back then – less to drink during the night is part of the solution, I’m sure.

But for roughly the same price as regular diapers with twice the absorbency for nights, I’d recommend every parent keep a pack on hand next to the pajamas. It’s amazing the difference a diaper can make in a good night’s sleep. Huggies Overnights start around $20 in certain grocery and baby stores.

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