I grew up with a sister. I don't know a thing about boys. And here I find myself the mom of a little boy.
About a month ago, Riggs was so proud of himself for figuring out how to turn over onto his stomach. Once he figured this feat of ingenuity out he immediately took to sleeping on his belly. My apologies to all the "back to sleep" campaigners, but what's a mom to do? He's insistent on tummy sleeping.
I soon found out what tummy sleeping for boys leads to.....wet beds. Apparently diapers are made for babies to sleep on their bums not their bellies. I took this new challenge in stride. I changed the bed daily and sometimes more due to nap time tummy sleeping. I washed clothes more than I've ever washed. I know, I know, this is just the beginning.
I started to get creative about how to solve my new floating baby problem. (by the way, in true little boy form, none of this bothered him in the slightest)
- I first added a large lap pad (so that's what they're for) to the crib and inevitably Riggs managed to get the 3 inches that the pad didn't cover wet. This did help eliminate a couple of changes
- I put a second diaper on the baby backwards due to my theory that diapers are made for babies to lay on their backs. I don't recommend this one - it didn't work and Riggs didn't really look that comfortable.
- I changed our last bottle to a bit earlier and try to keep him up for an extra 1/2 hour to hour. Maybe this helped?
- And the winning change - A bigger diaper for night! I use Target brand diapers during the day. They work great, they contain dirty diapers better than huggies and are half the price but were just overflowing by morning. At night we switch to the next size up diaper and we use Pampers. This has been our new routine and seems to be helping reduce our need for daily laundering.
I hope I've saved at least a few of you a couple of loads of laundry and the struggle of crib bed changing.
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