A while back, I blogged about how stopping the use of  pull-ups seemed to “cure” my daughter’s bed-wetting.  She was, indeed, dry at night for the rest of the summer. Then, at some point, I started to notice that her bedclothes were stinky: the wetting had started again, though she sure did not want to point it out.

I don’t know if it was the return to school, with second grade’s higher demands on her, or the cooler weather, or what, but through the fall and winter, we saw a return to wet pajamas and sheets.  She doesn’t even really wake up, but instead removes her wet pajamas and throws them down from her loft bed onto the floor, and just moves to a dry place on the bed.

I do not want to put her back in disposable pull ups (like I did when we visited my dad in January) because not only are they expensive and wasteful, but also, they are quite pricey and rather a big waste. Um. Right.

So, what I’ve been doing these past six months is trying to get her out of bed and to the toilet once during the night (when I am not sleeping myself) and otherwise just dealing with changing her sheets frequently.  Baking soda, applied to her vinyl protective sheet, seems to help with the odor as well.

Now that I’m past the denial that this is only going to be for a “few more weeks” until she’s dry again, I am starting to think  that it might be less of a laundry burden if I had some cloth pull-ups to dress her in at night.  She is wetting just about every night, though she didn’t at my mom’s (thank goodness!).

I’ve done some searching and have not found anything offered for large kids like mine.  I guess most people just use disposable pull-ups for big kids who wet the bed.  But if there’s anyone out there, who is really into cloth diapers, maybe you know something I don’t? Can you help me find cloth diapers absorbent underpants that would fit a kid who’s a size 7/8, weighing oh, about 50 pounds?

Much obliged!