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My son recently had to go on a medication that acts as a diuretic and makes him go to the bathroom more. For the past few nights he was leaking through his PJ's in the front because his diaper couldn't hold all the liquid.

I examined my options to remedy this situation and this is what I came up with:

1. Put two diapers on him so that he could sleep through the night without a diaper change.

2. Use a diaper liner.

3. Switch to the overnight diapers and hope that they hold.

4. Put some of those plastic reusable training pants on him over his diaper.

5. Wake him up half way through the night and change his diaper to prevent leaks.

Putting two diapers on him just did not seem comfortable at all, so I nixed that option. Switching to the overnight diapers meant spending money on something that may or may not work and the plastic training pants option just sounded horribly uncomfortable, especially for sleeping, plus my son's skin is so sensitive I was worried that those would just lock the moisture in tighter and closer to his skin-yuck. Waking him half way through the night for a diaper change just didn't seem nice at all and then I worried about him falling back to sleep.

So that left me with the liner option. While it is easy enough to go to Babies "R" Us and buy these, again I didn't feel like spending money (even if it is only $10) on something that may not work, so at my sister's suggestion, I used a maxi pad as a liner. Lucky for me I had a bunch of the super absorbent ones with wings leftover from when I had my son so I thought why not give it a try?

My husband was less than thrilled that I was lining our son's diaper with a maxi pad, but it worked. The extra lining prevented leaks and kept his PJ's and bed linens dry.

If you are ever in a bind in the future and need to increase the absorbency of your child's diapers for whatever reason, consider using a maxi pad or diaper liner.