Cloth Trainers #2

This is part 2 in my quest to make a cloth trainer for Tate to wear at naps and overnight. (part 1) I am trying to use as many materials as we already have on hand. I did purchase some whitey tightys as my base for this project. I wanted a thicker pre-made trainer for added absorbency, but I couldn't find any in size 4T. Since it is thinner material, this is probably going to be just a nap time trainer for us. This could work at night if your child isn't a heavy wetter or just has random accidents.
Since I bought a six pack of undies, it gave me a lot of room to experiment with different absorbent materials under the PUL. After using one of the trainers, I realized I had made a horrible oversight... the elastic band is cotton and it absorbs liquid! I left it exposed in my first two experiments and of course, I figured it out the hard way. (It's easy to cover the blond, but not always easy to coverup/ deny blond moments!)

Tate spilled water in his car seat and the only "underwear" we had in the truck was a modified pair. He fell asleep before we made it home, so I left it on as a nighttime diaper. I added a premium Joey Bunz hemp insert to a Blueberry Coverall and hoped it would hold until morning. It would have been fine, if the elastic hadn't been sticking out the top of the cover. The trainer was soaked on the inside, dry on the outside and the hemp was barely damp (there was a little leakage around the legs too). I was pretty surprised that the exposed elastic was the only issue using something this thin at bedtime, especially since the inside was drenched!
Materials used in modified trainer #1:
* 1 pair cotton underwear size 4T
* Babyville Boutique Playful Friends Monkeys PUL
* Wet Zone: 4 layers flannel under PUL and 2 layers inside the undies

Inside Trainer #2

Materials used in modified trainer #2:
* 1 pair cotton underwear size 4T 
* Babyville Boutique Dinos PUL
* Wet Zone: 4 layers of flannel under PUL
* 2 layers of flannel covering the back under PUL

Reviewing my work and quite possibly discovered the reason Trainer #2 caused some damp spots near the legs

I could do an entire photo filled post of all my sewing blunders, but PUL has been particularly tricky. Spray adhesive is my good friend when working with PUL and my sewing machine has become my enemy! I have read the more seams you have, the greater the chance of leaks. So I skipped sewing all the way around the PUL in some spots. That may or may not have created some other leaks.

 Tate modeling a modified trainer.

 Here was my solution to the leaky waistband... wrapping it in PUL.
As you can see my sewing machine hates sewing PUL. It will skip entire sections and the only way I have found to get it to stitch again is to backstitch until it catches. It puts so many unnecessary holes, but I don't really know of another solution.