We always use the Bum Genius brand diaper (see blog) and it began with one large and one small (or newborn sized) insert. After a very short time, it became two large inserts, both of which are folded over at the end: they come with snaps to adjust to the size of the diaper, and since our baby is wearing the diapers on the middle-sized adjustment, the inserts are set to the first snap, which makes them the proper length. If you use Bum Genius diapers, you totally know what I'm talking about. If you don't use them, you are probably completely lost right now. 
So I'll include photos to help.
You have to offset the two large inserts so that the fold-over is on opposite ends, otherwise it would be way too bulky in one spot. Even on opposite ends, the bulk at the top end creates an awkward lump for the baby to sleep on. 
Still, in the morning, both inserts are soaked through and they work pretty well. For a short while. Then you'll get the occasional leak, which requires a change of clothes, a change of blanket, a change of sheets. This means more laundry to do, more time wasted. I thought, my baby is only seven months old and I have friends with two year olds wearing cloth diapers overnight, so I asked one of them. (If you don't already have friends with two-year-olds in cloth diapers, go out and find some NOW! Or talk to me in a year and a half.) My friend suggested Hemp Babies Doublers. I was not familiar with the term "doublers" but as far as I can tell, it means "inserts". Maybe it refers to "extra inserts" as in, double up the inserts. You seriously have to learn a whole new vocabulary when you have an infant!
I searched Amazon.com, which is such an amazing website. Remember when they first invented Amazon.com? It was all about buying books, and I wasn't a fan because I liked to shop at the local bookstore. I still do, and I highly recommend Prairie Lights for new books and The Haunted Bookshop for used books. Anyway, I'm a fan of Amazon.com because it seems like whenever I can't find something at a local store, or even online, Amazon has it. For example, I set my co-workers to the task of looking at the grocery stores and convenience stores for grape bubble gum. I used to always chew grape gum but I hadn't seen it in years. Where did it go? No one could find any. Then, one day my co-worker surprised me, she had searched it on Amazon and sure enough, you can buy grape gum on the website! The downside is that you have to buy a LOT of it. Another example, when my favorite food coop had every brand of Tom's of Maine toothpaste on sale except the kind I get ($8 per tube), I searched Amazon and found it for $5 per tube. Side note- I complained and since then, the coop has included it in their sales and I have not had to buy it online. But I know it's there for the future. Another tip- flea medications which tend to be overpriced at the vet are available on Amazon. To summarize this extremely long-winded review of one of the world's most popular websites, Amazon did NOT have any Hemp Babies Doublers! I know! I was stunned. Then I remembered the website Nell's Natural Babies.
Nell's website is similar to Cottonbabies.com, but I like it better. We actually registered at Cottonbabies but we didn't have much luck with the registration. I mean, the people trying to buy us things on that site didn't have much luck with the registration, which is why we hardly got anything from there, even though we really wanted some of that stuff. We did get our diaper pail from Cottonbabies, which I highly recommend if you are using cloth diapers. The diaper liner, however is not entirely leak proof.
Nell's is the website that we rented newborn diapers from, and they have a great selection of cloth diaper-related items, including Hemp Babies doublers! Take that, Amazon! Apparently, if you wash the hemp doublers several times they become even more absorbent, but we only washed them once, and to sum up a short story that has become quite long, one Bum Genius large insert + one Hemp Babies doubler worked AWESOME after my baby slept for about 10 hours. Both were very soaked but no leaks! And look at me, with time to write this super long story instead of doing another load of piss-soaked baby laundry!
Update: I bought 4 hemp doublers from Nell's ($3 each) and I plan on buying 4 more in the near future. I can tell that soon we will be using 2 hemp doublers with one microfiber insert. And sometimes little boy likes to poop in his fresh new clean overnighter before bed, which means we go through those inserts rather quickly!
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