Cloth Nappies #133

Got fluffy mail last night - Thanks Trish!!!

Have also enlisted SIL & the use of her embroidery machine when I make some fleece covers :dance: Even better since they are in the process of moving into a rental 4 doors down from us while they build

Congrats on 6 months Maz!!!

I got fluffy mail today, but now I have to send it on to my friend. oh well, i cant keep it all.

WOEB: sposie @ cc
WOSB: knickers @ cc, unless she is asleep, then it would be sposie.

soon I am going to have to stop posting WOSB! unless it is night time or in the car she will be in knickers!

ali - that's great progress Sarah is having with TT.

suse - the poos get even better when they're eating all the foods that we eat! You should see some of Nina's! I feel for Heath this afternoon, cause he's going to have to change her :lol:

I'm waiting on heaps of fluffy mail this week. I think our postie must be on strike, I haven't seen him since Thursday :rolleyes: Typical north queenslander, we're very laid back here.

Suse- My WC took a while, 2 weeks i think. I am pretty sure the lovely w/c lady is having a rough time with either preg or new bub, so be patient. ;)


Dear Disco's Boobs....................GREAT JOB! ;) Well done on producing the gold stuff so well for the last 6 months! xxxx Happy 6 months Mat. xxx

I just went and brought some wool wash - woohoo, I'm making progress.. hehe...

Just wondering, can you put any type of nappy in the dryer? Is it only the ones with PUL on the outside that you shouldn't ? Like if its material, ie, like what is on the outside of a Sandman, then can they go in the dryer? I'm so sick of waiting for my nappies to dry - I'm nearly out!!!!!! And sick of using sposies of a night time.

And would you believe what my DH did.. he got fluffy mail for me at his work today (cos I get everything sent to his office PO box..) and he LEFT IT THERE.... He didn't think it was important to me... I told him (very seriously) in the car, that they are the only joy in my life and its not nice to leave them at work.. :cryinglaugh:

GUDSIM - the Sandmans i have seen, have quilter's cotton on the outer, and that is fine in the drier.

from what i read, the things that degrade in the drier, over time, if you use the drier HEAPS, is things like the ELASTIC.

i put in the drier - without any worries, all the inserts, the trifolds, the fitted nappies.

i put in the drier - SPARINGLY - everything else - e.g the PUL pockets with cotton velour inners, just a few minutes fluffs up the inner.

I don't feel any need to put the fleece or PUL covers in the drier at all, they dry so fast all on their lonesome as it is.

PINK PALACE - i've got a baby beehinds wetbag, they're a really good size, i reckon they would be fine for two in cloth. Even with one bub, i find having two wetbags very useful.

NELLE - the new bumgenius have a 12 month warranty.

and absolutely, any product (kozy designs or whatever) will work differently on different bubs, absolutely. If they work well for a bub at night, all power to that. i reckon, do whatever works for you - as a motto for life. (i got that from a permaculture newletter). I only have experience of one bub, and i'm sure plenty of things that DON"T work on her, will work on other bubbas/

MAZ - congrats on six months with your Mateauz!
Now, do you have disco balls swinging from teh rear vision mirror?????

ALIOOPS - wow. Sara nearly TT-d! that's great!

SUSE - had a bit of a splurge lately heh? LOL (but don't it make ya feeeel good - doo up, don't it make you feeeeel good? - channelling Bananarama there folks).

FALGUNI - was it you dreaming about longies hon? been there, done that! i dreamt of my dream custom longies MANY times LOL.

Bilby did a very many floaty things in teh bath tonight - DH (who was bathing her at the time) screamed out to me "I NEED YOU" - and handed a very wet bilby to me. First time this has happened to us. Poor dh. True love is . . . . . . catching many ycuky floaty things in teh bath water!!

We interviewed at a COMMUNITY child care centre today, they were SO positive when i mentioned we used cloth nappies, and even MORE positive when i showed them our PUL pockets. Such a nice reaction to get (from the Director). She even knew what a LIttle Squirt is!!!

WOTBB: dragonfly night nappy AI2
bilby asleep by 7.45pm tonight - first night she hasn't screamed for an hour before going to sleep for last two weeks - my ears are still ringing!

As a result of the traumatic time we had in the PND clinic (what a waste of time that was), bilby is very clingy ATM. and as a result, i cannot leave her sight without screaming and crying happening. the room the computer is in is very cold PLUS it is not bilby safe, so i can't have her in there with me, so as a result - my computer time is down to "not much" - so i havne't been online much as a result - i miss you lot!!!!

i feel a bit chained to bilby - i understand WHY she is so clingy right now, but it is SO wearing (and really limits what i can do).

ROFL Mel!!! I can just see you say it too.... My only joy in life.... oh dear, and you don't have an addiction?

Gigi :D I just love seeing you here *mwa*

WOHB: BumG.. she hasn't gone to care this week so I have a massive amount of BumG's needing to be used before I wash.

Well omigod!!!
Last night we had to go to DH's Parents for dinner.. we was dur home at 5.50pm and at 5.45... POOOOOOOO EXPLOSION!!!!!!!!!!!! i am talking major... as in i swear DD poo'ed her own body weight! In a new cloth nappy too! (WHY!!!!!) a Mums Bum AIO

Of course taking it off and being a toddler wont stay still so rolled in it, got everywhere all over her clothes and so i put her on the floor nappyless and then she weed all over the floor!!!!!!!

DH walked in with poo from one end of the bathroom to the other and a cloth nappy on the floor covered (lol he hasnt come to terms with the poo thing in cloth yet) and almost vomitted lol!!!

But on a good note.... no leaks!!! HA! it contained the whole poo , i didnt even now she had done one until i took the nappy off (unfortunately my little squirt isnt hooked up yet so hand wash here i came! ewww).

hehehe@ your DH! I hate surprise poo's!
I gave Isla yogurt & she hasn't had it for a while & as a result her poo is yuk. So she isn't asking for the poty, just doing it in her nappy. But its not smelly poo for some weird reason. So I took it off the other day with no wipes handy as I was about to plonk her into the bath anyway & I had to do this mad dash around the house holding the nappy on her while searching for wipes!

i know! i took Ashleys nappy off in the lounge on the rug and went holy moly!!! then of course they dont let you snap it back up so i had to cup the nappy on her bum to run to the bathroom!

SOOOOO much poo! arrrrr.

Well the sun is out today so i have started my prewashes of my BBB's yippee!

WOHB - Sposie... she is still asleep
*bliss*

oh gigi - it is SO GOOD to hear from you babe!!!!

gigi- i agree great to hear from you. Sprry you hossy stay was crap. Poor little Bilby sounds traumatised. Hope things improve soon. :comfort:

definatly good to see you back miss GIGI!!

yuko poo PP!!!

Gigi- hun great to hear from you!!!!

Well Annika is back in sposies over night, nothing i have can hold this kid

Oh Maz- well done and congrats for 6 mths yest

gigi - great to hear from you. I'm sorry yours & bilby's stay wasn't helpful. I hope Bilby settles down for you soon :hug:

beaxtrix - wow, Annika must be a peeing machine! I read your post yesterday, and I thought Nina was a big wetter. Saying that though, we had her in sposies overnight as all my nappies are wet from the rain, and she leaked through her huggies sposie. First time ever. I think I need a bigger size in them though.

PP - eewwww!

Nina had an accident yesterday with her poo too. I took her nappy off to give her some nappy free time (ok, I was too lazy to change her into another one), and she was playing in the lounge room and kept calling me saying 'poo'. But I thought she was saying 'shoe' as she had some shoes in her hand a few minutes earlier. Than I smelt the poo, went in there, and she's poo on the lid off one of her toys.
At least it didn't end up on the carpets, I only had them cleaned last week.

ETA:
maz - nothing in the mail yesterday. Hopefully today. I'm waiting on 5 lots of fluffy mail which is due this week.

I went to spotlight yesterday & bought 6.5 meters of the dot minkee they had left:redface:, it was $7 a meter down from $13 so I just got what they had left. LOL

I also have a layby at another store that really need to get out, surprised they haven't sent a letter or something

Hey Gigi! I so miss you. But can understand the cold room, I'm freezing my butt of here atm! So sorry to hear that your stay didn't help & made things worse for Bilby.
So hope things fall into a nice pattern for you soon.

Welcome back Gigi - I've missed your huge informative posts!!!! I'm sorry the clinic didn't work out for you - if it makes you feel better, my DS is a little cling on too... got so bad there for a stage that I was having to go to the toilet with him on my lap because I just couldn't put him down (he was about 14 months at the time). So I just went and got a sling and carried him everywhere. He is slightly better now... if I run to the toilet, do my biz and get back quickly, he'll only scream for a little bit :rolleyes:

No fluffy mail here today - just a sick, whingy child with half a lung blocked... fun fun fun in this house...

But on the bright side - the sun is shining so my nappies should get dry... which is good, its been about 5 days and I've only got two nappies left in my stash!!!!!

WOHB: Black Monkey Doodlez - cos he is cool even when he is sick...

wb Gigi!!!! *hugs* sorry to hear the stay wasn't everything you'd hope it be. Lucky DH for getting the floaters in the tub (least I hope they were floaters :) )

OK, does anyone have any codes for darlings? I keep looking at the amber teething necklace, and they have them plus those cool longies and some organic side-snapping fitted nappies ... mmmmm. ust wondering if Pip's soundly enough asleep for me to do his measurements!

Pip's off sick again, we're both at home. Seeing the docs @ 3pm ... *sighs* poor little chap. Just can't get rid of this cough.

Sparrowgal - have you tried using moisturiser at every change? Regardless of the state of the bottom? I use moogoo (wonderful stuff!) and we have no problems at all ...

Ooooh, speaking of moogoo, anyone going to the Sunday meetup want any? I'm heading to that shop tomorrow I think? Or anyone want any in general?

woHB - no idea, the CC said he was in his home nappy, so suspect its a black BP (I'm a star!)
Bugger, that means I need to wake him to change his bum!

ooh someone has a smelly butt.. must be the antibiotics.. YUK.. suppose I should have used sposies..

Poor old motherease.. thats all I can say... I don't even want to LOOK at what mess that smell has created...

Had to share news - just got told that I've been accepted as a demonstrator for baby beehinds.. woohoo!!! There isn't any on the sunshine coast, so I think it would be cool!!! And they know I'm just about to drop a little crying bomb, so they said that I can take a couple of months to get myself organised... this is fantastic cos if there is a lot of interest for parties here on the coast, I may not have to go back to work when the bub is 12 weeks old like I was going to have to!! Woohoo!! Had to share my news - its related to nappies so couldn't think of a better place to post it... :)

Congrats Gudism!
Hope you have a great time demonstrating!! :)
I wonder if they need one down my side of town... maybe i should ask too.

Well i am sitting my cuppa and wagon wheels... yes plural lol waiting for my BBB to dry on the line (so windy atm).... contemplating using them at night but thinking i should wait until the morning to use during the day to test for the first time.

WOHB - CB Pocket with 8 layers of bamboo lol.... asleep and waiting for the weeeeeeeeeeeeeee

OMG was I ever right about the smelly butt.. I nearly vomited... GROSS.

Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to fold a flat nappy type thing for a boy? DS is out of nappies now (I know.. unbelievable right.. but hey, its been five days worth so its pretty good going I think) but I wanted to give flats a go. I have the old style ones here that I used as chuck rags when he was a baby... will they do? I have a snappie thing and covers, so I'm guessing as long as I got the folding right, they should work.
Problem is.. have NO idea how to fold.. lol

Question re: Mandy macs....
do you need to use snappis/pins? dont they have velco

Congrats Mel that's fantastic news!

PP - nope no velcro - snappi's is what Christy showed me at her house.

crap! if i knew that i wouldnt have bought them... DH wont go for it!!! poo!!!

Well does anyone want to buy 5 mandy macs brand new?

PP - he may not mind it after he tries it... Christy showed me and TBH it looks really easy!!! Even I didn't want to go there because it seemed too difficult!!! But I'm willing to give it a go...
You could always keep them as "home" ones, where its only you that change them...

oooh i dont know... its hard he thinks i have only bought 6 bbb... when he finds out i ordered even more and they are snappis'.... mmm i cant see him using them... oh well i guess i am stuck with them :(

evening girls :D

ssshhhh don't tell my hubby i just bought another GREEN BUM, this time a NB size :D can't wait for it to arrive. It's blue with animals all over it.

lol i think you will be fine katones i have to explain 5! oooopsss.

So now i have to look at the snappi world *sad*... how many do you think you need?

PP - You can always try to sell them on ebay if you want... :)

Kat - I won't tell... I'm the master of secrets here... LOL whats a green bum though? don't know bout those ones! do tell!!

PP Stash them away as your rainy day nappies. Thats what I did. I have 7 Mandy macs. Did you get lined or unlined ones?

i can't for the life of me find snappi's anywhere...
PP they are easy peasy to use!!! except when they fling off and attack your fingers...lol

Kat - I got my snappi's from Big W...

i know katones... i tried them when i originally wanted to use flats and they always came off...
they have 12 on ebay for $10 is this good?

The only thing Mel with ebay is i will probably loose 50% of what i paid! crappo!!!!!!!!

FJ... well being me and clueless i got 4 unlined and 1 lined.. not knowing what it meant...:( but yes they will be rainy day nappies i guess..

WOHB - Green CB Pocket with Bamboo bifold

ok here goes... here is a picture of the cover... it is a PUL outer and either flannelette or hemp soaker

ooh i like that blue colour!

I shall have to check Big W out for snappis, i did look today when at the chemist but they didn't have any :(

I got this one....

oooh katones that is cute.... i still cant believe we are almost in 3rd trimester!!!!

SO mel... when do you get to test our your BBH saleswoman skills on us?

PP, what did you pay for them?