How to Quickly Change Bed Sheets When a Night Diaper Leaks
If your baby’s diaper leaks in the middle of the night, the traditional options were 1) replace the sheet with a clean one on the rare occasion that your sleep deprived brain remembers to keep a spare, or 2) do the laundry and sobbing. (You can’t just throw any old blanket over a bare mattress and say, “See you in the morning” – that can lead to suffocation.)
However, you can save yourself from any of these situations by making a lasagne from your bed sheets. No, I don’t mean that you should drown out your urine-stained sorrows by stuffing your face with lasagna. Here’s how crib bed sheet climbing works (thanks to Asha Dornfest’s Parent Hacks for the catchy name): before bed, you put a waterproof mattress cover on the mattress, then a regular baby bed sheet on top of it, and then another waterproof mattress cover. it is followed by another regular crib sheet. (You can continue if you like until it gets too cumbersome.) Got it? Layered like lasagna. Then at night, when your baby’s diaper leaks (or gets sick and vomits), you simply remove the top sheet and mattress cover, toss them in the basket and go back to sleep.
Alternatively, you can use puppy training pads instead of waterproof crib sheets. After a leak, simply remove the top sheet and discard the puppy pad and you’re done.
However, if you are faced with a string of leaks, you need to fix the problem at the diaper level. Try a double diaper , adding an extra diaper pad, or changing to the next diaper size. Parents will have many reasons why you won’t fall asleep in the middle of the night. Maybe the leak isn’t one of them.