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PP - are you sure you want 30 prefolds ??? I only used 12...hm how much are you looking at paying for them each??? and what kind did you wnat? jsut cotton or terry with bamboo in the middle???
aahhh dame kids today..its been pi$$ing down all day and their pinging of the walls
I dont know how many i need maz lol... i was being cautious to wash every 2 days....
for my newborn... do you think 20 would be enough maybe.
I have about 10 small MCN's for #2
and 32 OSFA to share between DD and #2...
how many prefolds for the early days would you suggest.
I am assuming just flannel or cotton with the newborn thing - as i guess i will change then 2 hrsly with feeds etc. ??
Am i a bit over excited maz?
FJ - DD's eyes puffed down about 2hrs post zyrtec - the red bumpy skin on her chin stayed though ... so i am wondering if it is an environmental allergy?
Wow girls, awesome stashes all, I am like Nettie, I would never have 'em all together like that!! Perhaps I will have to specifically go to flats for a day & wash & stack everything lol. Can't see it happening but if I get bored....
So Mel, you're still here then?! :lol:
We had a lovely day, here is Punky when we went to lunch, checking out the menu... (Since I can't swap stash photos this will have to do...!)
WOPB: Terry flat & rollicking rascals ai2 used as a cover...
great minds Maz, I PM PP the same questions!:
just had a win on B4B 2 blueberry fitted's osfa for $16.....Cant wait to start looking at the newborn ones.
WHOB...bbb Wool cover
lol Mel! New borns mmmm.... When it is time for your new bub... the nappies you gave me will be able to go full circle back! :)
Now now Fj + MAz.... no fighting over my business lol
Well i am off for the evening.... early night after a LONG weekend!!!
Have cut up my microfleece and ready for MCN's in the morning for DD
WOHB - zinc and sposie
QM - yup still here and accounted for...
WOHB: Currently Baby Kanga but going to be snoozywun...
PP I've got 24 prefolds. And 24 flats (well 25 actually, Si came home in a hospy flat :redface:). And it's still hard to find one spare, if they're not being used as nappies (and really, we have more than enough fitteds..), they're used for spew, drool, and other baby related things. They're just cotton, and I boost them with bamboo or hemp if I need.
I took a photo of my stash. Not including newborn or mediums, a few of Si's nappies were missing, and I realised I can't find one of Riv's D'lish's and one of his BerryPlushes...hmm...I think I saw him running away with the BP a few days ago. Anyway. Considering there were no mediums at all in the photo, I think perhaps I have enough nappies...although I do think, that Riv could do with a few more larges...
Hey guess what!? Rans just told me he fixed my laptop!! :D Yay! Clever man.
so all of you who have actually used prefolds on a NB, whats the ideal size?
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.
I had infant size for my boys. They were a little snugger round the middle with Si, because he was a bit chubby (Riv was skinny). But they still were a good fit.
ETA: Poor you Gigi, missing your sewing - can you save up and just get a super cheapie kmart one or something next time they're on sale? They're getting cheaper all the time, and it would be better than nothing right? I can do basic sewing on mine, and really, it still might be better than the machines my grandmas had.
I am not going to post pics of my stash. I dont want you all to cry about how dismally small it is. And for the next couple of weeks it is hard enough stretching the budget for all of us to eat let alone buy nappies. No wonder I have shrunk. I dont know how people survive that rely only on Centrelink payments, i swear they havent doubled in the last 10 years yet the cost of living has. Sorry, will stop my whinge now.
Man I wish things would dry!!!! Sarah has run out of sposies and all the clothies are taking at least 3 days to dry! so the night nappies have all been used. dont know what DH put on her tonight. How do you fold flats for night use? i have tonnes of flats not many covers and no sposies she can use. Thankfully Em has enough sposies for a few more days. I hope I get enough money this week! I am so over being broke! wish the army would sort themselves out coz if they hadn't stuffed us around so much we wouldnt be in this situation!
The car we put a deposit on is an essential atm, It will halve my petrol usage, and is easy to park in the city. and the work i do needs me to use my car. I just wish the tax would come really fast. Knowing that there is money on the way doesnt help me right now when I desperately need it, and if I cancel things like the phones and internet, the cancellation fees are too high to pay too, so they are cheaper to keep on in the short term. So yeah, not buyng nappies until the tax arrives now. and what I did buy a couple of weeks ago is already on the way. I would love to look at the records of what has been the centrelink payments over the last 10 years and prove to the goverment that the increases dont match the cost of living rises. I am just so angry that everything has happened the way it has, with both of us being in and out of work and there not being enough to go around. and to top it off the place that had offered me a job couldnt gove it to me because the fees that the temp agency wanted to charge him were way too high, and not in the budget, so they did me out of a full time job! Thankfully they are doing what they can right now because they know how desperate I am, and even though there is not much work available, being tax time, they are getting me to do some mundane stuff in their office for a few hours in the morning, which I did on Thursday and Friday, and am doing tomorrow.
Now I have probably said way too much about our financial situation but I really needed to vent and it is nappy related in a way. Everything is just getting on top of me and Im not eating properly so it is getting to me more. DH just wont stop eating me out of house and home! he has eaten all the groceries I bought on Thursday out if boredom so I am creating some foods that are very light on ingredients wise and lack things like protien and iron, but they still have some good stuff. Just in case you are worried, the girls are eating fine, they get lots at CC and are eating whatever I can scrape together at home, and I am having their left overs.
Gigi
We only use water on her face to wash, and her bum we usually use j&j wipes (have since birth) but since the nappy rash came - only flannel and warm water. And guess what
TODAY WE ARE NAPPY RASH FREE! she must have know i cut up 20 liners for her mcns lol.... so that is exciting.
Will probably keep using the flannel and warm water thing - even with #2. (figure i have to wash anyhow and it is so simple and feels nicer on their bum for them!
Going to try to get her back to the dr for the face today (a different one for a 2nd opinion!) - but she woke up coughing and snotty so i am really back to my old theory that it is from her being sick.... (perhaps i am just hoping this).
Prefolds - i havent used them before as DD was 1 before i got her into MCNs. i have all osfa (BBB and AIO's pockets) and a heap of smalls so it is more those first few months when they are a little bulky. I am going to put them into a PUL cover and i have 1/2 dozen bamboo boosters to use with the prefolds.
I can sew and might go scout some op-shops for some old flannelette sheets today and try sewing some 30cm x 40cm at 2x6x2 (or maybe 2x4x2) prefolds with cotton flannel.
Will see what i find. dont want to use terry as it is very bulky like you said (have a heap of flats i bought with good intentions with DD.. lol - and yep burp and spew cloths they became.
I might aim for 2 dozen and see how i go. (if i can make them cheap enough). otherwise go for 1 dozen and then maybe more if i like them - just cant see me having much time to sew with 2 under 6 months lol!
WOHB - sposie for the morning poo... then we are back !!!
Ali :hug: it's so not fair. It sounds like you're managing really well, but please try to eat as well as you can. Your time will come, one day you'll get there.
FJ- i had the S BBH bamboo ones and i found them too long. But Lu was small.....
PP- Definately get some bamboo to boost cotton or flanel prefolds. My cotton and flanel prefolds were useless even for one wee. Bamboo was so much better.
:hug: ali!
waht are the best OSFM fitteds apart from mandy macs and BBB???? after some more but want to try others!!!
off to the Dr;s this morning sophie has an infected thumb nail...ewwwww pus.... cant be too bad as she sucks taht thumb :O
Falguni - yes i have about 6 bamboo microfibre boosters that i can use inside the prefold, during the day for home use though for the first 2- 3 months i dont mind changing frequently :)
AJP - i have heard is it happy heinys are good? Or motherease. Actually happybabes have motherease for $20... is that cheap?
HOpe your little ones thumbnail clears up. OUr dr's appointment is in 1.5 hrs... trying to keep DD awake.. lol
ALi - sorry missed you b4. I completley hear you!!. I was only saying to DH last night that everyone else seems to be able to afford new cars, tv's, holiday, house renos on one wage and with me working casual again and DH wage... i swear we only just make ends meet. We get hardly anything from centrelink ($20 a week i think) but others who earn more get a hindsight more than us... i am totally baffled at how other families do it. We never go out, dont eat out, dont buy luxuries, and just cover our mortgage, food and bills. So i have no idea!!!
WOHB - still the 1st morning poo sposie... waiting waiting
Sounds good PP, i was changing at least every 2 hours, sometimes more and her clothes were often wet and nappy soaked.
oh no Fal! - well i am hoping the PUL cover over the top will help. :) do you think that will work?
goodluck today PP hope you get some answers!!
Woohoo...got some fluffy Mail.....4xBBB 3xPUL covers Ixaio and 2x wool covers
Morning all :hello:
Yes, still here, baby still in belly.... ho hum...
PP - Motherease usually sell for not that much more than that, but there is a store on ebay that sells them for about $17 - $18?? Which is where I got mine from. Although, to be perfectly honest, I don't particularly like mine, one good wizz from DS and its soaked and I have to change it straight away. I have about four or five I think, and they are at the back of the "fitted" nappy shelf, and I just use if I absolutely have to, or for the one after his bath but before his night nappy (if that makes sense).
Although, I like them more than my Bambineo (i think thats what they are) I got the large size and it is sooooo huge on him with the big gaping leg holes - anyone else find this? waist bit fits him fine, but OMG, one good pee, and its running down his legs (yup, had it this morning).
Ali - I know what you mean mate :hug: It is really hard sometimes, and you feel that you never get anywhere!!!!!! In my first marriage (with no kids though) we lived on a wage of $27,000 - I wasn't working as I was studying full time and my then DH earned $10 a week too much for me to get austudy - that was a tough couple of years. We aren't doing too bad (and new DH earns more than ex-DH) but I still have to go back to work when bubs is 12 weeks old, just so we can keep our house - which doesn't have a HUGE mortgage on it (considering what the average house cost is now) so I defnitely know where you are coming from. Hope you get your tax soon..
Gigi - I know where you are getting confused - too many Mel's in this thread. You are confusing me with Melham - she isn't having a baby ... yet.. hehe... isn't that right Mel? I'm the one still hanging on to my placenta... lol.....
Hi to everyone else :)
Yeah PP, i think boosted with a good PUL cover will be good. ;)
No not yet Mel...but have managed to talk DH around... :redface:
ooooooooohhhhhhhhh just snuck in 2 newborn AIO's with my next BBH order. I figured if it doesnt happen I can always resell them. Hurry up and become a consultant Mel...wait till bubba arrives first though.
yay! Got my tax return this morning so paid my itti bitti layby off :D Requested it sent registered post. Given AP likes to eat my fluffy mail!
Suse you nappy is finiahed & will be in the mail today. Hope it fits well. I tried it on Isla & its a lovelly fit.
Beatrix, I may just be in the area of shops with pink/purple fleece today. HEHEHEHE I can't help myself but to have a look.
Isla is still asleep, so is Glenn! Once I am ready (dressed, load of washing on etc I will start being noisy to wake them up so I can go down the hill.
I have a confession to make.... Isla has been wearing sposies to bed. I figure I might as well use that pack I bought the other week when I forgot the nappy bag & her night nappies of late STINKS by morning. I think I need to do another strip wash, problem is I don't have hot water at my washing machine & the last time I did it by filling it bucket by bucket it didn't seem to do the trick. Hence my nappies still stink LOL. Might ask mum is she has hot water on her machine & take them to her place.
Ali & PP (probably everyone really), we also live week to week. We manage & all our bills are paid on time, but pretty much our entire tax goes to paying hte credit card off. Which slowly creeps up to its 4 k limit over the year....
Another one here who lives week by week!!
Fj- thats sounds so fantastic!!! Pink and purple are so my colours
I got fluffy mail too, some more longies!!!!! pink ones this time so so nice.
WOAB- a very stinky magic all
WOMB: magic all too (had them in matching colours and everything lol)
Hey have you heard from kell, she in labour yet?
:hug: Ali, living tight is tough sometimes hey. It's taken us a while to get the balance right. With food, can you ration food? Like, if you buy a packet of something, put some in a bag marked DH, some in a bag marked Kids, and some in a bag marked MUM'S FOOD DO NOT TOUCH ON PAIN OF DEATH IF I DIE OF MALNUTRITION WHO WILL DO YOUR WASHING THEN HMM? We ration our treats like chocolate, we get a tupperware container each. :P
Jols, I love my Tots Bots for one size fitteds. I have Cottons (cheaper and I boost them with hemp/bamboo) and Bamboozles (only boost them for Riv). Okay, so the size 2's are not strictly 'one size', but I find they're similar to BBH, they'll start to fit a newborn decently at around 1-2 months. Can't beat size 1 bamboozles for trimness though, and they still fit Si at 3.5 months. He's small though (well, according to the MCHN :rolleyes:).
Hey Gudi, with the Bambineo, if the leg gapes too much, have you folded the front down and snappi'd it for a better fit? And all the best for a wonderful, just right length, as comfortable and peaceful as can be labour, when it happens, and it will. I've never heard of anyone being pregnant forever. :)
Better go, I can hear 'We do not recognise the feature code you have dialed' coming from the home phone speakerphone (3 guesses who just handed me the home phone - apparently *#*7777778888888557777788**###33 isn't a number! Who would have thought?).
hi girls!
I am so jealous of all this fluffy mail! lol
I took DD to another GP today for a 2nd opinion. She agreed with me that she doubts it is a dairy allergy and thinks the mouth and eyes are actually 2 different causes. (as the zyrtec worked onthe eyes and not the mouth).
So Ashley is back with having dairy (keeping on formula though for a few months... till i can express with #2 then will give her EBM.. sorry if that groses anyone out lol).
I am applying parrafin barrier to chin and mouth to see if it helps clear up - ie thinking it is a moisture/drool rash and exaberated by the dummy overnight.
And have a referral to a dematologist... at the wesley... trying to see if i can find out i cann sweet talk at the mater though lol.... into bulk billing... whats my chances!! hehe
So we have a start - i know it is a complete 360 in diagnosis but i am more confortable with these theories as they reflect a little closer to how i feel in my heart.
On MCN topics..... I had a BBH on DD this morning and PUL and it soaked through to the PUL in 2 hrs! the bamboos never do... does anyone else find this..
WOHB - Sposie... lol lazy
PP - i used bamboo terry prefolds with fleecies covers...when is your bub due again????? 24 sounds good and use some AIO's at night cause it just does your head in trying to get the prefolds on, then a cover ect at like 2am.
Good I dont know what else I was going to say! Stupid mummy brain!!!!!
hi maz
due in 13 weeks! arrrrhhhhh
Yes i have about 12 AIO's for #2 in small sizes. So i will aim for 24 prefolds :)
Nope not in labour yet!!! Still haning in there.
Nelle - oooh no I didn't think of folding it down and snapping it in place.... THANKS!!!!!!
thanks nelle
who here likes Erica nappies, i know tracey loved them!!
PP glad you saw someone else!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
The Bear and I just got our first fluffy mail! We have been p*ssing ourselves laughing trying to put them together! cross between toilet humour and origami!
The Green Kids ones seem very big for a newborn but I'm sure they will be useful pretty quickly..... the itti bitti ones look like they will probably fit a little bump straight away!
Very very funny...... I think we will need some tips though!
I have just sorted through Coopers nappies and have found one I dont want has a PUL outer but isnt an AIO but not stuffable either...you have to lay a booster in it, though I dont have the Booster it is bright green with dogs and hearts on side snapping and am guessing a Medium size..........if anyone wants let me know. Just pay postage $4. would more suit a girl I think but Cooper has worn it ....many months ago.
Yay for first lot of Fluffy mail for the bear and the pixie!!!!
I still remember my first lot of fluffy mail... mine was green kids too and I had NO freakin idea how it went together.... so I looked on their website for hints.. LOL...
Janie - did you get the BumG ok?
I didn't get any fluffy mail today - but I have got my new nappy bag (new baby = new bag - just have to wait for the baby... )
WOHB: Swaddlebees stuffed really good cos he's sleeping... shhhhh....
Gudism - i never had a nappy bag with Ashley.
Do you think they are a must?? thinking about it... but just used a sachel?
My parents arrive today . They havent seen DD since she was 6 months so it is pretty excited (they are at my sis' at the moment visiting their 3 week old daughter but will be here tomorrow)
Pixie - glad the bear has a sense of humor... lol wish my DH was like that when i got mine hehe
PP - I had a nappy bag with DS but I really hated it, this new one is better set out, better pocket structure etc.
At the moment I just use a backpack, and its a pain in the ar$e to go searching through it in a hurry if you need a wipe, or he's screaming and you want the dummy, or my phone is ringing.. its so frustrating!!!!
So I didn't probably "need" a new nappy bag.. but sure as hell wanted one.. LOL
I saved $100 by buying on ebay too.. can't wait till DH gets home so I can see it!!!!