Cloth Nappies #137

[Arimeh]

QM - yup still here and accounted for...

WOHB: Currently Baby Kanga but going to be snoozywun...

[Gigi]

Pink Palace - that's so hard about your DD's rash/excma situation whatever the heck it is, big hugs to you hon, how frustrating, trying to work out what it is, and what to do about it.

What sort of baby wipes are you using. For a baby with skin irritations, truely, i would go simple as poss - e.g cloth wipes and water - so no danger of perfumes and chemical additives.

bubs can change too, mine handled synthetic material next to her skin FINE for 12 months, then all of a sudden, rashed to it. So stuff can change.

Love looking at everyone's stash photos, but like you Nettie, i can't get my head around doing my photos either, not even sure if i am able to put photos in the beely belly gallery - is that only for subscribers? ANd how would i have them all dry at the same time? I can imagine arranging them on the bed for example, and Destructo Rampaging Bilby coming in and "helping".

WOTBB: lotus nights with rainbow bumjumper under loose cotton sleeping bag

Melham - sorry to hear you missed your movie due to feeling ill.

i think all the musos on here need to serenade you with "come out baby, it's time" songs.

Queen - Punky is so wellhaved in the cafe - bilby will only sit when being fed - then we have to walk her around with her koala backpack lead thingy, so that's NOT relaxing for dh or me. ANd now bilby wants my canoli / gelati which she's not allowed, so i can see tanties coming up soon over that. Cafe visits are so rare for us, but not easy. Gee it was so much easier when she was in the stroller and just lay there, or even went to sleep!

Pink Palace - with the prefolds, i reckon 20 would be grouse. The thing with the fabrics is - do you want them JUST for newborn stage (flannelette, muslin, cotton) or do you want to be able to use them as pocket stuffers, boosters for fitteds at the later stage (bamboo, hemp).

And as Nelle says, you can take a cotton product e.g flat and boost it with a bamboo booster too.

Have you used flats before? i failed flats miserably, however i did them up, was way too bulky to work, so after a week of trying hard, i was resigned to using them only for spit rags. I found the cottton prefolds too bulky, so used them for changetable mats. The bamboo prefolds/trifolds whatever you call them, were trimmer under a cover, thirsty, took longer to dry, but we're still using them in teh nappies, so i personally found them much more useful.

we're all different, you could easily be a whizz at the things i flopped at.

THat's what it boils down to (vis a vis the prefolds). which fabric you buy them in. Spend twice the money but get twice the usage. Are you a sewer? even a basic one?

gee, i have not sewn ANYTHING for yonks, i really miss it.