bumgenius leaked up/out the back
I'm trying to get my act together with these MCNs... DD is 16 days old today, so I don't have much experience, and since I'm recovering from a c/s and DH is in hospital I'm working up my washing load slowly - a couple of cloth nappies a day, at first.
Anyway, today I used a bumgenius 3.0 for the second time, and I was totally dismayed to find it leaked out the back to the point where DD's clothing and bedding were rather wet underneath her.
I have had no such problem (yet) with the Huggies Newborn disposables.
The back of the nappy itself, the outer lining part, didn't seem wet. I'm not sure where the wet came from, but my best guess is that it wicked or leaked up the top of the back.
DD is large for a newborn - I'm guessing she's around 4.5kg by now, and she was 51cm long at birth. So maybe I'm wrong to have snapped the nappies down to the lowest rise. How do I tell if I have the rise correct and when DD has outgrown the smallest setting? Could that be the problem? The Bumgenius nappies are so much larger than the disposables it doesn't seem likely to me.
Could the problem be that she just did a huge wee and it was too much for the newborn insert? Maybe I need to use the larger inserts already (that would dismay me, because she has a lot of growing to do yet...)?
Maybe I just didn't have the nappy on right, or not tight enough? I've been trying to put them on so they are firm but not pressing too much around her legs.
Any advice would be welcome. I'll keep trying these nappies, of course (they are so cute that even DH likes them!), but hoping to avoid too many repeats of today's leaking.