Huggies leaking! Help!

Hi

I have an 8 month old boy and we have pretty much just used huggies since he was born. I had heard other people rave about them. But in the last 2-3 weeks they have been leaking at night and occasionally through the day. In the last 2 weeks we have cut out the 10.30pm feed and he goes from 7.15pm until 7am without a feed (so we have actually cut out one feed). He is always wet on one side and it goes up his back on that side. We have only had a few dry nights over the last few weeks. We have tried the next size nappy up with no joy. Is anyone else having this problem? Do you use another brand of nappies that don't leak?

Thanks!
Lee-Anne

For me going up a size works - but as thats not working for you, maybe try a different brand (ring round and try and get some free samples before buying a whole packet)
Also the obvious bit about making sure his penis is pointing straight down as otherwise my boy shots pee out one side of his nappy.
I'm afraid I have no suggestions for other brands as the ones I tried leaked even worse.

yea sometimes when their body shape starts changing the nappy they are in needs to change too. huggies have always worked really well for us but my friends children leaked through them and found the pams ones better just because he was a different shape from my son. maybe see if another brand would work and its probably the fit and not the absorbancy

I have the same issue with huggies but find other brands even worse so I've taken to putting a cloth nappy cover over his sposies at night and hey presto! No leaks.

Home Brand is great!! I had similar problems ntill i went to home brand. We had a few leakages last week... had to go up a size now were fine again!

Thanks for all your replies! The nappies are nowhere as heavy in the morning as they used to be - it seems to be escaping instead! He is definitely pointing down. I learnt about that the hard way when he was a newborn and couldn't understand why he was always wet! The things you learn!!!!

We will definitely try a couple of different brands. Have just heard from 2 other people today that their boys are in Homebrand nappies and they really like them.

Also will give the insert a go too and see if that makes a difference.

Thanks for your suggestions!

For me they leak cause they're so full. I got a super piddler here.

Are you making sure you pull the elastics out on the legs?
Just tuck a finge in and pull them so they point outwards rather than inwards.

Yep, makes sense. Thanks!

I call that the boy houdhini wee!! I think the bunnie cover is gonna be your best bet and totally wish i hadve thought of that sooner, wouldve saved so many bed changes with my first two boys. No leakage so far with this boy