Hey girls!

I am only new to MCN, and cloth nappies in general (used the terry squares as spew rags when DD was young, but that was all - bought my first MCNs and covers at the Brissie Expo, so only been using them for a couple of weeks, part-time).

I have been lurking in your thread for a while, and have found it rather informative, but now I have some questions for you, and I hope you can help me!

1) When making microfleece liners, what size do you make them? I thought I read somewhere that for a large kid (DD is about 10.5-11kg), to make them 10 x 30cm. So I made some this size, but then this afternoon, when I used one for the first time, it didn't seem very wide in her BG AIO - and it wasn't up to the job when she pooed in it later! I later lay the same size on a IB, and it was wide enough for that, but then also didn't seem like it would be wide enough for a BBB....do I need to make some of different widths, or what?

2) With the BG inserts, with the snaps in them.....do you place the snaps in a certain place? I can't find anything on the internet about it, but to me it would seem that if the insert is unsnapped, then it could be painful for her? I think I come up with different reasons for its position everytime I stuff the pocket, and then they end up in the front, the back, facing her, away from her - I usually put both the liner and the doubler in, and have the doubler closer to her...do you think it even matters? And if it does matter where they go, what do you reckon?

3) I have been sick for the last 2 weeks, and am extremely tired (but wide awake at this time of night for some reason!), and in all of my brilliance made a bunch of liners from red microfleece, and then threw them in the wash for their first wash with the nappies DD wore today, and when I pulled them out of the wash, the BG inserts were both a lovely shade of pink, and the pocket is a very pale shade of pink. Do you think that it will effect the absorbancy of the nappy at all, or not make any difference? Logic tells me that it shouldn't matter, but then I am very tired, and have had some champagne (Dh finally finished some assignment for work that took forever, and if he didn't do it can lose his job, so celebrating a bit), so thought I would seek the wisdom from you smarty pantses...do you think they will be ok? Or should i do something to them before i use them again?

Thanks!