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If I wear diapers at night why do I need A rubber sheet. Please Help

Hi and welcome to this forum.

You must be new to the incon world! Wearing diapers to bed certainly goes a long way toward protecting the mattress and allowing you a better nights sleep free of wet pajamas, wet sheets and the miserable middle of the night bedding changes.

But any diaper can (and will) leak at some time. Disposables are especially prone to leaking overnight and while cloth diapers provide better protection, they are not absolute protection. A cloth diaper that gets wet enough is going to leak.

It may be that you are a light wetter. You may void only small amounts of urine that are well handled by your diaper, be it disposable or cloth. But you could also be lulled into thinking your diaper is "perfect" and some night you may get an unpleasant surprise, waking up to a leak and a wet bed.

Aside from a water bed or a hospital mattress, I don't think any mattress is waterproof and once a mattress has been wet, that urine is very difficult to neutralize. IMO it is about impossible to save a mattress that has been subjected to bed wetting or a diaper leak. In my case, I am intolerant of the slightest stale urine odor. I would never consider sleeping in a bed, mine or anyone else's, without proper protection for the mattress. Check out our Primer chapter on protecting the bed and furniture and you will see that my mattress is never going to get a drop of urine and it will remain as fresh as the day it was new for many years.

If you wear nappies at night and regularly wet the bed surely it is common sense to protect your expensive matteras. Once wet it will never be the same again. Sooner or later all nappies will leak so it just makes semse to protect that expensive matteras.

I use a padded absorbent bed padunderneath me. It's suppose to hold 3 litres or something like that. Really, it is for leaks as it is quick and easy to wash and replace with a spare

Take last night - I don't know what I had been drinking but I was not only soaked in the morning but there was a large wet patch on the bed pad. No probs, no bed changing - I just swapped the pad over.

Of course, things can be different if you sleep alone but I know my wife would not be impressed with finding the bed sheet getting wet. My bed pad makes sure this doesn't happen.

That is the route I go too Wheels, they are easy to replace, the only problem I have is I flop around a fair bit at night, so I use a smaller 36" size over top of a 72" that covers the whole bed, as the mattress cover/protector I had kinda got shredded in the washer last summer, and I figured I didn't need to waste money replaceing it. I kind of prefer my bed not to have that tell tale crinkle to it too! Puffy

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Puffy
BC, Canada
Fighting the "Bladder Battle" since 1995

Our bed has a fitted waterproof cover but not diectly under the sheet as my wife doesn't like the tell tale crackle of a protective cover. We have it under a matteras topper that can eisily be washed if it gets wet. On my side of the bed I have a Kylie but I have it under the bottom sheet to keep it in place. If my pad or nappy leaks the Kylie absorbs most of the wetness and I don't feel at all uncomfortable. The sheet can eisily be washed and the bed stays protected.