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A suggestion: Try the superabsorbent towels (from REI or other outdoor outfitter) for the diaper. Absorbs -- and holds and wicks -- an insane amount of pee. Put it in a pocket diaper cover. Stretch pants over the cover. The highest capacity Abena and Molicare disposables were flooding out for...

1. Is your incontinence urinary, bowel, both, or neither? Bedwetting only 2. Are your diapers disposables (tab) , cloth, pull-ups, pads, combination (with percentage), or none? 85% Abri-san 11 pads in a plastic pant with a cotton-spandex pull up brief to hold leaks. 15% cloth diaper in a...

All my siblings (except one sister) wet regularly (at least once/week) until age 10. Most of them were dry most nights (and out of diapers) by the time they were teens, but had "accidents" a few times a year until at least age 16. I recently found out that two of my uncles were not drafted...

I wore cloth diapers until I was in my mid-20s. Diapering wasn't just pulling on a pullup or taping on a disposable. I have vague memories of being diapered by my mother, my grandmother and a babysitter, but I don't know how old I was. I distinctly remember taking off a wet diaper in the...

I'm a few years older than Ellyn, and, like her, I've been a bedwetter all my life. Unlike her, my parents were understanding. Other than a few years when I was only wetting a few times a month, I wore a diaper every night. Also like her, I grew up in a rural area (on a farm, actually). The...

Their diaper covers are excellent. Comfortable and durable. They will, of course, leak if flooded, but they hold better than others I've used.

By the medical definition of primary enuresis, I have always been a bedwetter. I wet every night until I was in school. I gradually wet less, but I still wet about once a month. By the tiime I was 10, I only wore a diaper when was away from home. I started again wetting more often when I was a...

I wore a diaper to bed every night in high school and college. I wore cloth diapers until midway through college. I only wet at night, so I didn't wear or need help during the day. A couple of my serious girlfriends and a couple of close friends knew and helped cover for me on trips and at camps.

It's not a big deal. Really. Just be discreet. Check in with the student health service as soon as you can, preferably even before you arrive. You won't be alone. The nurse at student health service at my college told me that between 50 and a hundred students (of a population of 10,000) wet...

Flannel absorbs slowly, but holds a lot. Birdseye absorbs more quickly, and holds quite a bit. Gauze absorbs very quickly. I use two or three gauze or birdseye baby diapers as soakers. I fold the two sides to just meet in the middle. I put them in the middle of a four-layer flannel diaper adn...

That's exactly what it is. It's a lined plastic pant that I wore over cloth diapers as a child and as a teenager.

My sister (a year older) wasn't a bedwetter. She was out of diapers by the time she started school. She teased me incessanttly about wetting the bed and wearing a diaper. All my other siblings wet the bed until at least 10 years old and most of them until they were teenagers. My mother wet the...

I was potty trained very young and never wet while awake since. I have never been completely dry at night. I wet most nights.

All but one of us wet the bed and diapered until at least 10 years old. Some of us were still wetting regularly as teenagers. So we all understood and supported each other. One of my sisters was dry by age 5 or 6. She would make a point of being able to go to bed without a diaper. My mom...

I wet every night until I was 7 or 8. I wet less and less over time but never was completely dry. I wore a diaper every night until I was only wetting a few times a year, and even then I diapered when I was away from home. I started again wetting nightly when I was a teenager. My mother...