Anyone else use wool soakers overnight for your baby/toddler?

Question

I have three kids, all three were/are cloth diapered, but I could never get any type of cloth system to work overnight with my oldest (who's now potty trained), and my middle kid and youngest are still in diapers and I'm sick of using disposables (for so many reasons) overnight and weighing out the options I hadn't considered already. One of which being wool covers made from an old sweater that you can make yourself. If you have used this method, even for day-time use, please give me your experiences with wool covers and opinions. Good or bad opinions welcome! Any tips are welcome, too.

Answer 1

After I bought one wool cover I was hooked and sold all my PUL and fleece covers. Wool works so much better. We use Sugar Peas and Sckoon wool covers. They never leak, they breathe really well and they help the baby stay cool. We dyed our Sckoon cover orange with Koolaid too!

http://www.jamtots.com/Sugar-Peas-Wool-F...

http://www.sckoon.com/er-n69a000.html

For nights I would recommend using a highly absorbent diaper made of bamboo or hemp inside the wool cover. Our favourites are Bamboozles and Goodmamas.

http://www.bummis.com/en/Products/covers...

http://www.thegoodmama.com/index.php?mai...

Answer 2

I made my own nappies in the same shape as disposables with towelling on the inner layer, then a rectangle with a polarfleece 1st layer and 3 layers of towelling sewn in between the inner and outer layer.  For the outer layer I used whatever I had lying around and could cut up (old boardshorts, paisley tablecloths, printed flannel, etc - something reasonably heavy duty).  The flannel was probably the best for an outer covering.  I then put adjustable elastic in the back of them and they lasted right through from 4 months to 2 years!! Sounds cumbersome but they were really weren't and they looked super cool!  

At night I'd put in an extra lining of folded up towelling with polar fleece on top.  The polar fleece draws the moisture away to the towelling pretty efficiently.  I bought one oversized fleece jumper at an op shop for $3 and it was enough for all the nappies and extra linings.  I did it for years - much easier than people think it is.  I never tried woollen coverings.  I've seen on ebay people making nappy covers out of waterproof material that would probably keep the moisture in - not sure how comfortable they'd be though.  It might give you some ideas though to have a look at what's around.

Anyway, I did try a few different things - it was very hit and miss, but the system I settled on worked for me.  Good luck!  Good to see there's other people not using those stupid disposables!!