BellyBelly Life Member - Love all your MCN friends
Jun 2004
The Festival State
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Queen - i get asked if bilbs is alot younger than she is, purely cos she's so darn short! I've stopped looking at those childyouthhealth charts to check her weight and height, i suspect it's all based on FF bubs anyhoo, and i was sick of feeling like a failure about her size. I reckon, as long as your bub is healthy and has good skin tone, who cares about the kilos bit? i only refer to the scales so i know what size MCN to put her in LOL. She looks healthy to me, has chubby cheeks and a roll on her thighs, so she's sure not fading away to a shadow! but mainly, whatever size she is, and she has been
- miz chicken legs
- miz michelin tyre lady with THREE pudgy rolls on each thigh
- slimmed down after crawling started, so two rolls "fell" off, but chubby cheeks stayed
no matter how she has been, i always think she is lovely (Why? cos i'm incredibly biased!!!), and that's all that matters.
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Michelle: WHERE exactly are your Magicalls and BumGenius leaking?
- If it's from the legs, it could be a "fit" issue".
- If it's from the entire nappy outer, it could be that the nappies need a "strip" wash, to remove buildup of detergent. Have you read about how to wash the nappies in gentle detergent, and only use HALF of what you would use for clothes washes? Cos sometimes people wash MCN as they would clothes, and then the MCN gets this buildup of detergent, which stops it being as absorbent as it should be.
(for a strip wash? use a tiny amount of mild dishwashing liquid and hand wash your nappies in a basin. Keep rinsing until NO MORE BUBBLES.
or
put the nappies and a small amount of dishwashing liquid THROUGH THE DISHWASHER!!! Yes, it's true. i read this on a US site. I ahve no dishwasher, otherwise i would try it myself LOL.
- we have a front loader and i'm told not to do the dishwashing liquid trick in a front loader
- i have heard of people trying this in top loaders and it worked ok.)
re the inserts
the bumgenius OSFA pockets come with a microfibre insert - i doubt that would be sufficient absorbency for a 15 month old.
AJP's suggestion to use that microfibre insert in conjunction with your bamboo insert, is excellent, i would do that too.
What kind of a bamboo insert do you have? is it a shaped pad like thing? or a trifold? (like a rectangle several layers thick that you fold in three to use).
how do you stuff the bumgenius?
every pocket nappy has the pocket CAVITY, where you put the insert
your insert needs to be AS WIDE as the NARROWEST part of the pocket nappy (the crotch). If your insert is too narrow, PUL will be exposed and will wick (leak).
The Magicall - i know there is an old and a new style of these, i don't have any, so i'll let the people who do, fill you in on how to make these more absorbent.
For the future:
when you buy nappies, take the time to find out the FABRIC COMPOSITION of the nappies. Work out which fabrics work best for your child and stick to those.
Don't underestimate the value of a good number of trifolds/foldups in your stash. Not glam, but they sure do the job well. Having boosters (look like a pad) is good too, for the times when a trifold is not enough, but two trifolds is overkill.
And a word about your Baby Beehinds Bamboo. When Mr 15 month old starts wetting thru that, have you heard of OUTER booting? If you add absorbent material to teh INSIDE of the BBB, you will prolly get LEG GAPE, and that ain't good. However, if you put on the BBB as normal, but before you do up teh cover, slip in a trifold on the tummy side (and going under him), so you still with me, the EXTRA trifold is being put OUTSIDE the nappy, but INSIDE the cover. That's called OUTER BOOSTING. Nappy and cover only works if cover 100% covers ALL of the nappy, so if you outer boost, you may need to use the next size up in covers, for this to work. But i'm just mentioning this, to help you maximise your use of the BBB.
the baby beehinds website is very helpful too.
NETTIE: i missed you!
Gudi - what stores are you already got stuff from and are bored of, so i know which ones not to repeat to you!
Pink Palace and Jodi - i agree, you've worked out what suits your bubs, and you got heaps of them - if it ain't broke . . . . . . .
Hmmm, methinks Maz and Kazbah are dragging the chain re photos of their bubs in all this much mentioned BUT NEVER SEEN _ AHA cowprint MCN. how bout it gals???? i need some awwwwwww factor in my day ha ha.
Beautrix - you ahve LOVELY bubs!! Many of our MCN that go from 8 - 16kgs, well i can't see me needing to buy 17 kg nappies, so i reckon they are excellent value. OSFA in the main, did not suit bilbs, so we went to those "sized" types pretty quickly. When i was pregnant, i HATED the idea of sized nappies, had visions of having to buy dozens of them in NB, S, M, L and XL.
the reality was
- prefolds and covers mainly for nb and small phase up to 8kg ,
- from 8 kg on, sized pockets and Ai2's next - and she's still in most of those still (at 22 months).
so, it's all worked out very differently to how i imagined, when pregnant.
Hi Nettie!!! I'm a rare poster as well, but don't worry we do get missed in time
Michelle... other than what Gigi said, sometimes I pop mine in the dryer (Magic alls, BumG, PUl stuff basically) on medium heat for 15 minutes to seal the PUL. My BB consultant told me to do that, so if I ever get a leak, I do a strip wash & then pop in the dryer to make triple sure. HTH!
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