Coterie Diapers Size 5

I was having this problem with my son as well until I sized up in either coterie or kudos diapers. He’s wearing size 5 and I have only had one leak through since putting him in size 5. Might try size up one or two sizes, or buy the inserts. I did that as well while we finished the other sizes and that worked. I used the sposie brand.

My 9 week old (2/4/2026) has been on a 1 poop in 48 hours schedule. This has been actually better for her tummy than her previous multiple poops a day. The thing is that her poops are now so large in volume and liquid in texture that they always cause a massive blowout. Poop everywhere from shoulder to toe! She was earlier wearing Huggies skin essentials newborn and they were great for her. However, they have been leaving marks and become tight on the belly. We switched to size 1 but they are not snug on the thighs and cause poop to leak out the side. Tried coterie 1 and same issue, same with parasol 1. Millie moon Newborn was too tight on the waste but we haven't tried 1. I am confused about what to do. She's probably a little over 11 pounds and 22inch long now. She was 10lbs 7oz at her 8.5 week checkup. Any suggestions from others? What diapers should we try? I remember a size 1 Up n Up sample fit her well at the 8.5 week mark but she pooped like 2 minutes after we put her in it and then we changed. It did not leak. The only quantity available is a pack of 168 count. I want to be sure before I buy that they are actually good for skinny legs with a belly baby before I buy a whole pack. Let me know if anyone has tried them. submitted by /u/Complaint-Lower to r/beyondthebump [link] [comments]

I have an 8 month old who has never been a good sleeper from day 1. But I am a SAHM and was willing to put up with it and wake up with the baby through the night as I didn’t have anywhere to be in the morning. For a while, cosleeping helped tremendously. He was waking up less and he settled back down quickly. But sometime in the last few weeks, that’s stopped working and we’re back to waking every 30-60min. I really, really do not want to sleep train. I don’t want to let my baby cry and suffer. But I am at the very end of my rope. It’s affecting my marriage, my mental health and my physical ability to parent during the day. I don’t know what else to do. This is my first baby and I’ve tried not to be a super “by the book” parent; I’ve tried to be more intuitive and go with baby’s natural rhythms. For instance, I don’t force a nap schedule or a set a strict bedtime but instead I let baby fall into his own patterns, and he naturally fell into a developmentally appropriate nap/bedtime schedule on his own without any forcing from me. He wakes between 6:30-7:30am, usually goes down for his morning nap around 10am, his second nap around 1-2pm and occasionally a third nap in the late afternoon though that’s been slowly phasing out. Bedtime is 8pm. So his schedule is roughly 3/3/4, though it’s not down to a perfect science. He is eating three meals of solids per day (he decided at 7mo that he hates purées and wants nothing to do with them anymore, so we’re onto baby led weaning) with bottles throughout the day approximately every 3 hours, usually anywhere from 5-7oz per bottle depending on how hungry he is. He has his biggest bottle before bed which is usually 7 or 8oz. I’ve tried the rice cereal in the formula trick and it doesn’t make a difference in his sleep. He is a good eater but he still has 2-3 bottles throughout the night. If he doesn’t get a bottle when he wakes up at night he SCREAMS and becomes completely inconsolable and hysterical—arching his back, contorting his body, smacking me, completely red in the face. Sometimes a pacifier will placate him for a few minutes but if he wants that bottle, absolutely nothing else will stop his crying. He also routinely has diaper leaks throughout the night, sometimes wetting through his pajamas up to three times in a single night—so that’s been extremely disruptive to his sleep. We have had this problem on and off since he was a newborn. I change him halfway through the night to make sure his diaper isn’t too full, and he still experiences leaks. I’ve tried six different brands of diapers, including the expensive Coterie ones, I’ve tried Sposie booster pads, I’ve tried layering two diapers on him before bed, I’ve tried sizing up and sizing down. Ive tried adjusting the temperature of the room. I’ve tried looser fitting PJs. Nothing works and I literally can’t figure this out. My husband thinks it’s bc he tosses and turns so much in his sleep but he has had this problem even as a newborn baby who couldn’t move. I always point his penis down into the diaper and keep the ruffles out, diaper snug around the waist and legs. He never has leaks during the day, it only ever happens at night. It makes me nervous to attempt sleep training because I don’t want him laying soaked in his own pee all night. It’s driving us literally insane and I’m desperate for some advice or guidance from anyone who has been in a similar spot. I don’t want to just close the door on him and let him scream himself to sleep at night, but I feel we need to do something because this situation is completely unsustainable. I have tried comforting him with just my hand, offering the pacifier, white noise machines, adjusting room temperature, trying sleep sacks, doing pick up/put down but as I mentioned he will scream hysterically and thrash until he is fed. What do I do?! His pediatrician didn’t even seem concerned about this at his 6month well baby visit and was basically like “yea it’s hard” but didn’t give us any specific guidance on what to do. She didn’t mention anything to us about his nap/feeding schedule during our visit or suggest that we were doing anything wrong in that regard. So I just don’t know what is causing this. I guess I have to assume it’s just me and I’ve done something wrong somewhere along the way. submitted by /u/CommunistCetacean to r/sleeptrain [link] [comments]

anyone having issues with coterie diapers? it works well with my first, but with my second who is ~14 lbs, based on coterie's measurements, we would need a size 2 or maybe a size 3 diaper. no matter which size or what we do (fold the top, make sure the bottom flaps are out, tape it diagonal and not straight across, etc.), the diapers leak up back or by the thigh! coterie sent us size 3 PANTS to try which didnt consistently work either. then they even suggested trying SIZE 4 or SIZE 5 diaper?! my oldest is a size 5 diaper. no WAY the baby is a size 4 or 5. that's insane and i can't believe they would suggest that. what other alternatives have worked for you? really looking for a clean good quality night time diaper! submitted by /u/HeavyChocolate0 to r/moderatelygranolamoms [link] [comments]

so many late nights at 3am, 5am, spent pumping or feeding or burping - I would anxiously be on this and r/newparents trying to figure out anything and everything (even with support from my wonderful partner and family!) truly postpartum anxiety combined with sleep deprivation is a doozy (actually, just pure torture). what everyone said was true, and now that lil bun is 3 months old, there are no regrets and i can barely remember the feeling of the first terrible two months (many times I was like... am I one and done? why did I do this? how did the human species acutally continue?) it's hard, but it is so worth it (ugh all the cliches are true!!!! why!!!!). i wanted to return the favor and list all the things that I found helpful and to be true during the first 3 months (the first 2 were painful) for those who are in the trenches at 4am like i was. every baby and family is different, so take what you'd like and leave the rest! getting an IBCLC was the best thing we did postpartum (shout out ora feeding!! they have a great ig too). my baby latched right away and i had 0 pain breastfeeding - however i was so confused about how much she should be taking, how long, etc. a reputable and well reviewed IBCLC is worth it and our insurance covered it. my regret is i did not breastfeed longer, and i wish i did not rush to the pump so fast out of desperation for efficiency. i would say to anyone who is having a good experience (no pain, good latch, strong bonding), it may just take time to get into the groove (understanding you will have asymmetrical boobies, trusting your gut when baby is done eating/full, etc). i did not realize there were so many benefits to breastfeeding for the mother and child (reduction of cancer risk, baby saliva giving feedback for updated antibodies, etc). i was too type A about all of it (pumping at the exact time, stressing if a feed was missed, etc), but still with an IBCLC i was able to give my baby breastmilk for 1.5 months, and i'm proud of that :) i would change so much if i could go back, but i know i shouldn't be too hard on myself. also, thank all the gods of every religion for formula. diaper rash - for us, ours had diaper rash just from how often she pooped. we changed her poop diapers asap. as soon as her poops reduced to 1-2x a day (i think around 1.5-2 months), it went away completely and now we have a big jar of buttpaste that i think will never be fully used lol. when she had her diaper rash, the skin was ulcerating (many little red ulcers that looked painful) just like many posts here mention. buttpaste helped greatly, but again, once the frequency of poops reduced it helped so much. spit up/gas - this got so much better as her digestive system matured. hang in there!!! for us, we had to burp (saw so many youtube videos saying you don't have to burp a baby which totally misled us...) ours also would scream cry from gas pains/etc in her first 1 month or so. it was sooooo painful to see and kept us up around the clock, but this all went away as soon as her digestive system improved. bobbie probiotics also was helpful the first month. sleep - torture the first 2 months. i wanted to die (hello PPD). going from someone who slept 11 hours a day to living on 2 hours of sleep a day was life altering for me. i truly think the majority of my PPA/PPD came from the shock of sleep deprivation. i knew it would happen, but i was in total denial while pregnant. the sleep deprivation truly was the hardest part for me (so much love to all the other families, moms, and babies who have to deal with so much more). i saw so many posts saying it gets better (i know its not the case for everyone! and i know it changes!) we went from feeding almost every 1-2 hours for two months to right now, lil bean only has about 1-2 wake ups per night and i almost feel sane. the change is whiplash for me. hang in there parents!!!! there are so many particularities to how we have to put our baby to sleep... ninni pacifier (bc we had breastfed), swaddle (tried all kinds omg, love to dream, ergopouch, blanket swaddles... you name it)... and sometimes its still just a 1 min nap in the day lol. parents, just do what you feel is right for you and your kid - idk about all these sleep specialist people and social media sleep advice things. some worked and some didn't, to each their own! visitors - our pediatrician allowed us to get her first round of shots at 1.5 month so we allowed visitors after that. this was something my husband and i disagreed on (he wanted visitors much earlier) and a point of contention/resentment. i'll say i'm glad i got my way, esp since right now we both have covid lol. cradle cap - we put coconut oil on when the bath starts, let it sit, then use dr bronner's baby soap on the head only with a kyte baby sea sponge to exfoliate/soap up. the dandruff comes back every few days which is perfect timing for the next sponge bath baby eczema - vanicream cream moisturizer as frequently as possible! has helped wonders for us. blow out diapers - nonstop really until her pooping force chilled out. our baby has a long torso and the poop would shoot out with such force/momentum it inevitably would go up her back. the blow outs went away as soon as her poop stopped shooting out with such force/my hand wasn't on her booty blocking where the poop needed to land. changing brands/sizes only helped a bit. we were in parasol diapers for a long time and have switched to coterie because they fit her long torso much better/catches poop better. poop stains - soak/rinse in cold water with detergent. our cord fell of wayyy later than normal and everything was ok (around 6 weeks lol) - just check in pediatrician to be sure/no signs of infection etc baby acne - started week 2, did nothing, came and went on its own (around 1 month all gone). we are diligent about daily wet towel wiping and drying esp around folds. we put on earth mama baby cheeks/nose balm after. vitamin D - no one brought up that we needed to supplement this (pediatrician, IBCLC, L&D nurses, etc lol). thank goodness for bobbie formula and reddit for bringing up vitamin D for me. went back to our doctor who said yes, we did need to supplement, oops on their end lol. red rashes on skin - our little one has angel kisses & a stork bite. the angel kiss around her eye & between her eyes is nearly gone now (still faint) and the stork bite is still very present and obvious. pediatrician said the nevus simplex on her face will go away with time but the neck one may not and that it is normal head shape - have been so diligent with tummy time (started as soon as possible belly to belly since it took so long for her cord to fall off), turning her head left since she preferred right. her right flat spot is slowly going away but she does have one on the back of her head that fingers crossed should go away when she isn't on her back as much (pediatrician also said heads should round out on their own with time, mine doesn't believe in helmets except in unique cases such as a patient of theirs had fused skull bones and needed surgery) feeding on an incline (i use just a regular queen sized soft pillow and lay her in the middle comfortably, before i would hold her in the crook of my arm at an incline with support at the important areas) has helped my baby poop easier. gravity is our friend. before her poop was regular, it would always happen when i was trying to burp her (this is the pose we did taught to us by our IBCLC https://www.instagram.com/p/CtKk7mGJdvU/) family dynamics - no matter how great my relationship was with my mom and in laws (even siblings and sibling in laws!!!), tension arose. my husband and i also had resentment during the early newborn period. its all SO hard. a new baby makes people go crazy (me included, PPA must have been a biological evolutionary response omg). if i could go back, i would have set expectations properly with my husband, set boundaries very early on with both mom and MIL, and only allow family visitors to stay over if they were willing to help alleviate stress for me and my husband. the best advice a friend gave me was that she had to have a serious convo with both sets of parents that "this is how we are raising our kid(s)" in relation to any parenting topic. grandparents have to respect and learn to respect us as parents. my therapist also said that it's important to use your voice for the small things first so that things do not build up later and relationships can be maintained. wake windows - we go with her flow. the best thing a doula told me is to offer bottle/boob as soon as a baby wakes from a nap to prevent crying at all. the best thing a montessori book taught me was that our babies will communicate their needs with us, but we just need to pay attention and catch their nuances. once i learned how my baby communicates certain needs (different sound/yelp for food and nap - screaming/hyperventilating = overtired, nee sounds = hungry, singular scream every few seconds = sleepy, ready for nap time lol), she barely cries now and feels like such an easy baby (again, every baby is different!!! some of you were gifted an expert level babe!!!) a lot of posts in the past also mention to not disturb a happy baby esp if they are just lying around chilling. in my experience, they're right - let your baby be bored, don't entertain them, let them be if they're chill and calm! everyone was right, when the bub stops being a potato and starts to smile back/respond/love you more than anyone else - your brain malfunctions and decides IT WAS ALL WORTH IT!!! goodluck in the newborn trenches everyone. i hope to god it gets better for every single one of you (although i know its not always the case!!! my baby went from medium hard to easy level!!!). passing on all the love to all you strangers as the ones before really reassured and affirmed me when i needed it most. submitted by /u/oysterbagel to r/newborns [link] [comments]

Wanted to share my positive cloth diaper experience using Esembly for those on the fence. I was uncertain about cloth diapering and assumed I’d quit, but now I love it! Current Gear Esembly cloth diaper inners & outers, fleece liners, overnighters Honest company disposable diapers Usage Cloth diapering during the days & evenings while at home, disposables for overnights & outings (although we could certainly use cloth for overnight). Baby is 3 months old and exclusively breast fed. Field Report Pros - Easy to use: Esembly diapers have no learning curve, easy to get other caregivers on board - Luxe feel: relative to most disposables (besides Coterie maybe?) the diapers just feel very premium. I feel better about putting my baby in them. Most disposables feel like gross plastic bags to me at this point - No diaper rash: Might be specific to my baby but I haven’t yet had issues with diaper rash. I’m strict about changing her every 2 hours and I’ll often do a quick check in between; if the diaper is wet or I heard a poop, she’s changed immediately - Cost effective: If you’re using very cheap disposables, you might need to use cloth diapers for a while to recoup your money. If you’re using something like Coterie you’ll recoup it much faster. I prefer to change my daughter every time I notice wetness whether cloth or disposable (anytime I saw a blue line I’d change her) so I really churn through diapers. I feel much better doing this with cloth rather than disposable! I use 6-12 cloth diapers during the day and expect I’ll recoup my money in about 5 months. - Absolutely zero blowouts: This is what got my husband on board with cloth diapering. We struggle a lot with blowouts. Baby either poops a lot very fast and it’s hard for disposable diapers to absorb it up without leaking, or her body changes fast enough that we can’t find the right size/brand fit well. Cloth diapers have never blown out for us which is INCREDIBLE. I love that Esembly (and presumably other brands) let you customize the fit well. Cons - Big upfront investment: Not much to say here other than if you use Esembly you’ll probably drop a couple hundred dollars up front 😵‍💫 - Smell from diaper pail: This hasn’t been horrible, but I do get an ammonia smell from the diaper bag near the end of 2-3 days. Working on a fix. - Washing: I personally don’t find this to be a drag but if you have limited laundry capacity, it could get annoying. submitted by /u/mosquitomange to r/clothdiaps [link] [comments]

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