Starting cloth overnight

We’ve been doing daytime cloth diapers with my 9 month old, but I’d like to start cloth overnight, as my son isn’t really a heavy wetter. We don’t usually change him overnight unless he poops or fully wakes up and seems uncomfortable. He’s never had a diaper rash. All our diapers are hand me downs, and we have a variety of liners/inners and solely use Esembly outers.

We plan to use the esembly system for overnight, but we also have various brands of liners to double up if needed. Do cloth diapers require overnight changes to reduce rash/infection risks, or if we change right before bedtime and upon wake up should he be alright? We use powder every night before bed anyway.

Does anyone have tips for overnight in general? We started last night and everything seemed totally normal, my son wasn’t uncomfortable and had no leaks.

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I don't have a perfect answer for you but I've tried a lot of different things. One of my 18 m/o twins is a heavy-wetter and we've really struggled with keeping him dry in any diaper including disposables. The other isn't a heavy wetter. Diapers need to be changed overnight only if they pooped to reduce rash/infection risk. Yes if you change before bed and when he wakes up, he should be fine.

For the heavy wetter:
We've tried OsoCozy prefold inserts doubled with Alvababy Hemp/cotton inserts in Alvababy diaper covers.
We tried winged preflats (that we got from an Etsy store) secured with a snappy and covered with the Alvababy cover.
We're doing okay with Honest Hybrid Cloth Diapers with the Honest Super Boosters Premium protection Disposable Inserts. But if he isn't properly put in the diaper, he leaks, so if anyone other than me changes him before bed we just have them use a full disposable diaper and even then it's not a guarantee.

The normal one was okay with the winged preflats.

This also changed as they got bigger and outgrew some of the diapers. The preflats/pre-folds and Honest diaper covers had different sizes that I had to keep in mind. Every few months we had to reevaluate the night time diaper routine. Trying my best with our heavy wetter, I feel so bad when he wakes up wet.

So it sounds like for now, you're doing great. Hopefully it stays like that.

I should clarify my earlier comment. Diapers need to change asap if they poop period no matter the time of day. As far as I understand most babies usually stop pooping in the night between 6 and 12 months. They can sit in pee diapers overnight without risk but you should change them when they wake up.

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