is staying dry asking too much?

For the past few many weeks 5 things have been monopolizing my mind:

     overnight diapers

     wet PJs 

     wet sheets

     cloth diapers

     hemp inserts

And I'm sick of it. Really, really sick of it. 

Sweet Asher has been waking up every morning to wet pajamas and, more often than not, wet sheets. Bless his little heart, but he's a heavy wetter. A very, very heavy wetter. {sigh}

Ready for a story? Come on, let's journey together.  :-)

This all started way back when he was 7 months old and started wetting through his diaper at night.  At that time I was introduced to Pampers Overnight diapers and our problem was solved for a few months. They provided the extra protection Asher needed and he stayed nice and dry. Then one morning he started waking up wet again...

Let me take a second and interject here that by 6 months old Asher no longer woke up at night to eat.  He doesn't have a cup in bed and doesn't drink anything after 6pm.  

Back to the timeline...we moved up a size in the Pampers Overnights and that worked for a little while too. When those started to leak a friend recommended Huggies Overnights so I tried those. And they worked!  For awhile...

Now he's in the biggest size Huggies makes in an Overnight and wet jammies are our new normal. 

In my search for a solution I found a diaper 'booster' at Babies 'R Us. These are basically long pads that you lay inside the disposable diaper. They absorb fluid, but also let fluid flow through into the diaper. Basically it gives extra absorbency. These work...eh, ok.  It definitely helped a bit, but Asher was still damp most mornings. 

So I moved on to cloth diapering. I talked to some friends who cloth diaper and got their opinions on what might work best. The consensus was towards a pocket diaper stuffed with hemp and microfiber inserts, so this is what I got. I spoke with a saleswoman at our local cloth diapering store and she recommended the Tiny Tush pocket diaper and JoeyBunz Premium hemp inserts. That's what we tried!

How unbelievably adorable is Asher with his red fluffy bottom. :-)

The first night was awesome. Asher woke up a little damp, but no worse than how he woke with the disposable + booster. Hemp is supposed to get more absorbent with washing and drying so I assumed things would get better with time. I also decided to add in a second hemp insert for extra protection. 

The first night with 2 inserts was a complete disaster. Best guess of mine was that the super thick stuffing was cause a gap around Asher's chicken legs. His thighs are teeny tiny and {I guess} the pee was leaking straight out of the sides. 

So...we went back to just 1 hemp + 2 microfiber liners. This was the same setup as night #1, but Asher woke up at 3:00 completely soaked. Grrr....

I don't know what to do. I'm frustrated, overwhelmed and sick of pee. 

I've tried to get A to use the potty before bed, but he just isn't ready for potty training yet. He will sit on the potty very briefly, but that's it. I don't see the point in making us both upset by forcing the issue before he's ready. 

I would love, love any ideas you all have.  Please help!