Cloth Nappies # 140

Sarah.....whats the item number, will have a look, dont know that I'm an expert but can offer my opinion.

Heya girls...

Well, we used our IBs for the first time today...hmmmm. They are pretty narrow in the crutch huh? Not overly impressed with their absorbency but that'll improve with more washes I guess.

He 'christened' both of them the little stinker!! Can't WAIT for my LS to arrive!!!

FJ - Lurrrrve those pinnis...especially the last one....my mum makes DD stuff like that all the time.

Willow, i swapped some of my IB's early on b/c i thought they weren't very absorbent. Turned out they just needed a bit more washing. :redface: wish i never swapped! :lol:

WTG little Vy! $50 for mumma!

QM- There was no way i could use flannel flats on Lu either. She'd wee though terry flats in less than 2 hours, FF wouldn't last one wee. So we had big cloth butt at our place too! The nappy was bigger than her! :lol:

Don't have meet up in the next two weeks! i'll be in QLD, and would love to see little Maddi. Ok, so don't hold it up for me! When is the big sew up Maz? I've forgotten..... is everyone still coming? I'm all excited.

Ange - are you still wanting to meet up when you come up??

Willow - I thought the same with my IB - now I think they are great :)

QM - I did the pad fold - same one I did for DS. I think I just really suck at putting them on thats all.. not easy with skinny legs flailing around everywhere and screaming to boot!!! LOL My MIL told me to do the triangles like she used to and it should be fine..

Janie - If you think you have to repay a favour to me, sure - I hope he's pooed in that BumG - just to make it worthwhile... lol

Sarah - I'm the same as Mel, I can offer my opinion - but I'll probably be of no assistance whatsoever.. ;)

Maz - woohoo.. way to go Vy!!!!!

I had one of the BB Magicalls on DD just before - lasted pretty well, 3 hours I think? Then we changed her cos she did a big poo - think she is getting constipated.. grrr.... plus I think she is getting belly pains - she's already on Infants Friend, so I guess switching her formula is the next option.....

WOAB: Stuffed Green Kids with longies (for warmth.. not for any other reason.. its cold in this house.. )
WOMB: Sposie cos I didn't take another cloth nappy to my MIL house...

yep there the ones sam!! and yes usless for adult stuff great nappy driers!!!

sez let me know if you need anything the next couple of days!! happy to swing by! hope your feeling better soon.

ooohhh ange sunny warm QLD not snowy cold melbourne!! have fun!

willow i love the absorbancy of the itt's there the only nappies that last 3-4 hours here!!

maz oooohhh what to buy...... nappies for jols :lol: problem solved!!

wohm sposie :reface:

Love to Mel. ;) If you are feeling up to it of course!

we should organise another meet when ange is here?????????

Yipppeee.. sorry but had to share

Finish my first soaker attempt! now need to test it out... i hope that i can fit it over DD's bum... and that i didnt make the rise too narrow... (high enough though! hehe.... NO MORE LEAKS FOR ME!)

SO now all 4 parts of my creation are in my gallery!.

https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...php?photo=8614

WOHB - BBB + Trifold Bambo booster and Wool cover

PP that is excellent will definately have to come to see you for lessons.

WOHB BB AIO double boosted

PP - that looks WICKED! Well done!!!!! Give yourself some chocolate for a job well done ;)

Melham - yup I think we definitely need to all meet up again when Ange is up here.

Ange, are you going to be around Brissie at all, or up here on the Coast? Depends on where it is for me of course, I'm not supposed to drive for another 5 weeks, but I can try to wrangle a lift out of a family member if its pretty close to the coast!!! :)
(Or I bring my mum with me - yay what fun.. lol)

I am happy to drive to the Coast if Ange is up that way :D

Yep you QLDers definitely should meet Ange, she's luuurrrverly :D And her DD too, what a stunner!

Thanks Jols, I *think* we're over the worst of it now though. Still feeling pretty crap though :rolleyes:

Consider it done Mel ;)......once I can escape the house!!!!

Raven, yes yes yes, would love to have a meet up at yours so we can all meet little Maddi! Last time I saw Sal she didn't even have a bump LOL. Thanks for offering your house :)

QM, great to see you around hun, how have you been?

Gigi, good to see you online at a reasonable hour!!!!! Hope all is well in your house :)

More to say, but I'd better go to bed before I fall off the chair. Nighty night!

WOHB: boosted BBB

Hi Snowy FJ - the pinnies look great! and the photos of Evan's 6th birthday are great too. Yes, your 27 week belly is very gorgeous, growing beautifully!

Sarah - need more info to go on, an ebay item number would help.

Melham - relieved to hear your beautiful baby is not perfect, that heavy mantle has been taken off her little shoulders (all judged by pooping - it's classic!!).

Maz - congrats on winning this month's photo comp - it really is such a cool photo. I'm entrigued you want to buy a LS - i thought you were off that idea cos of Wilhelm? What has changed? (and made you come over to The Dark Side!!!! LOL).

all the discussion about flanny flats, i flopped at flats after one week of trying.

we found bamboo foldups much easier, much trimmer and more absorbent - plus i could actually get a nb sized cover over it, achieved LEG SEAL on my chicken legged bubba and therefore, we were leakproof from then on in.

Bamboo foldups are simple for a nb, just two bits of bamboo fleece or bamboo terry, 30 x 30cm, overlock the four sides - that's it. Fold the square in three, like a pad. Put that in the nb sized cover. Lay in a microfleece liner - ADD BABY ha ha.
Seriously, very easy - and trim under onesies etc.

If you are not a sewer or just too darn tired from being a new mum, you can buy them at baby beehinds, they call them bamboo foldups.
The lush prefolds at the Mazalicious store are lovely too, have a panel of minky in the middle bit.

WOTBB: bits for bots hemp pocket Sweetdreams, stuffed with bamboo trifold, bear bottoms fleece cover over it
(I got this BEFORE i found out bits for bots made the MM fleece pockets, if i had my time over again , , , , ).

That would have made sense huh?! It's item 110277984204 :)

Lol Sez, last time I saw Sal, her bump did't look that big to me, and she had Maddison the next day! :P
Glad to hear you're feeling a bit better.

Meetup at Sam's sounds fun, Tuesdays aren't great for me, and Monday 18th isn't great, but try me any other day.

I am thinking me might just be able to narrowly avoid sposies if I get my washing groove on tomorrow, and put the nappies on the bottom rung right over the ducted vents. Fingers crossed.

Sarah, it's really hard to know if they're good just from the description. Can you contact the seller somehow and ask if you can just buy one nappy to try? That way you aren't too inconvenienced if the nappy doesn't work for you.

Oooh, oooh, if we're naming days and all, well I'm out on Wednesdays and Fridays (work :(), except for the 3rd and 5th.....and Ange would be back then hey? LOL

I was thinking of doing that Nelle :)

Hi all

Well done Maz on the photo comp

Sarah - I agree contact them and see if you can buy just one! I bought a few nappies online that seemed to good to be true and they were :-(

No nappy news for me :-( Went to have a look at maz delicious allsorts and ended up buying more items from WAHNaps then I actually needed so it's sort of fluffy mail :-) I miss shopping online

Brissie girls - we are coming down from the 21st September to the 1st of oct any chance of catching up with some BB in real life???? I alwasy feel so alternative in cloth in Brissie it's quite common in Townsville but I feel like a hippy in Bris :-) Be nice to be amoung the likeminded for a little while esp as we are staying with MIL who think MCN are a wate of money

Saram - I'm not a brissie girl but would LOVE to meet up with you..... so count me in for a meet!!!!!!

Hi girls :)

Just had to post about the EBAY nappies

Sarah - I would recommend against them....I bought a dozen of her fitted nappies (they are also still listed on ebay) and they were really bad...like I dont use them bad (I even use the BigW ones I have) I havent tried her pocket nappies, but the other ones were a really bad fit, made from cheap and inappropriate material and quite frankly, overpriced. They were also not absorbant at all. So my advice would be steer slear. But like I said, I havent tried her pockets, maybe getting one like nelle said would be advisable :) HTH

Well we are just about packed for melbourne, plane leave at 6.25am tomorrow, so fingers crossed my sick little bubba will survive the plane trip alright...Have to take her to the doctors in melbourne tomorrow though, she cant see mum sick, mum might catch it too and that would be bad :(

Anyway, am taking all my IB's and AIOs see how we go....will prolly end up using sposies a lot of the time though...not sure yet.

Will try and keep up though...you girls are helping take my mind off things!! Thanks for allyour support too girl...I really appreciate it.

WOHB: BumG...trying to get her off to slee not going well! lol

Saram :spit:Excuse me but what do they think sposies are? Maybe they need to look at the cost per nappy change! That is ridiculous!!

Fluffiness should be here this week!!! Yay! Just in time for my car to break down :( More money down the drain :(

WOSB: Wriggleybumz night nappy with Nessa cover
WOEB: Nic Naps Nights with cotton prefolds instead of boosters :( I am about to buy some bamboo foldups from CT as soon as we have money again.

Alexis - I hope your trip goes as well as can be expected. :hug: (And don't feel guilty if you use lots of sposies.. we understand ;))

Sarah - yeah I looked at those nappies on ebay when I was first spending up big... but something inside warned me against them, so I never purchased any. Dunno why though really!!!! I'd try to buy one off them like the other girls suggested...

:hug: Lime, all the best as you come to Melb, heaps of us Melb girls will be around if you need us. :)

Lex honey - just a quick pop-in to send you another hug. :hug: I reckon you need as many as we can give.

Off to bed now...

WOH(red)BN: sposie and a bucket of goo. We had 5 (count them) teething poos today, the last one was lethal.

Sarah - Okay, I can't figure out how to go directly to item number, BUT if they're being sold by a marian or something and they're called ecobubs I advised highly against them. I have some fitteds called ecobubs and I could quote limey's post.

Limey - big :hug: sweetie.

I think you really need to know your fabrics well and be quite experienced, in knowing what questions to ask a seller, to have a hope of buying MCN on ebay (without it turning bad on you). It really is BUYER BEWARE.

I've seen MCN on ebay with really vague descriptions, not enough to gauge anything. I've seen other entries where if you read the fine print, the entire nappy is made of cotton, no hemp, bamboo etc. I'm sure, amongst the dodgies, there are some good ones too, but i think there is quite a bit of potential, esp for newbies, to buy a lemon. And the only thing worse than buying a lemon, is buying a dozen lemons at once.

Cookie - i thought Ecobubs were the washable wool pockets from NZ, sold at places like DarlingsDownunder and Nurture Nappies? So many nappy brand names are awfully similar, it's hard to keep them separate in your head. Like the amount of times people get Cute Tooshies - and Cushie Tushies - mixed up for example.

Safe travels Limey, thinking of you hon.

LS Good Luck on the trip, I'm sorry to hear about your mum.

Sarah... I'd have to say dodge dear.... Do you want me to send you some AIO's OSFA?

Sarah(m) - YAY!!! You will be here before I leave :P I would love to meet up, where are you going to be staying?

WOHB: BBB & PUL cover

Morning Girls... wow what a lot of posts in one evening lol

Yep i am up for a brissy meet too.... ill be the most preggy looking one now that Mehkelti is here!! lol Gudism!

Thanks for your comments on my soaker... am lanolising now.

Have to take DD to the dr this morning but hoping there will be LOTS of fluffy mail when i get back.

p.s the only nappies i have bought off ebay were Baby cheeks boutique pockets and they were fine !

OMG Itti are getting more colours!!!!

dont know what yet, but i did see mention of black and Jade possibly


stop tempting me!! i dont need more nappies

SAM would would love a meet up too!!
tues/thurs/friday are best for me!!!

DH has jsut gone away for 3 days :( but at least he wont be here when my fluffy mail arrives!!

lime another hug too hun, ring me if you need to :hug:

Ls - good luck with the trip & sorry to hear about your mum

Melb girls - Im free any day except Tuesdays

Mel- Will be in Moololaba. Is that close to you? There from the 18th-30th but busy on the 21/22/23/24th with wedding stuff. Just let me know when suits. And i think Mum's are cool, so don't worry if you need to bring yours. :D

Time for a new thread HERE