Cloth Nappies #144

[~Raven~]

I go through quiet spells too Nelle. Sometimes I don't have much to say and other times I feel like the conversation is passing me by.

It's not just about buying nappies here though is it? I didn't buy anything for almost 6 months and only broke the drought when I got that CK Aurial.

Actually I'm going to mention buying nappies now I picked up my order from theweewuns just before.
I got a fuscia berry plush plus an extra inner,
2 blue berries one pink camo and the other huckleberry,
2 VB fitted, (Janie gave me one as a gift! How sweet is that!)
1 swaddlebees pocket,
1 packet of flushable liners and a bottle of gaia bath and body wash.

Thankyou all so much

I really don't need to be buying anything else as I also have some bamboo single sided toweling and some itti bitti boos on the way from bamboofabricstore so I think we're set. I'll be making anything else I might need now I think. (She did have a few more of the boos left in small and large if anyone is after one. IB won't be getting any in stock till late Oct so they told me)

[suse]

I'm slack... Sorry.

Although if I were to post now, it would be complaints, complaints, complaints - we've been having leaky city ATM. BumGs leak, Berry Plushes leak, my night nappy leaked last night (luckily while I was feeding him so I didn't have to change sheets - whew)... Grrr. I've strip washed, so hopefully that will see an improvement. Otherwise, dunno what it could be.

And now, at 3:30 he is finally asleep (yes, this is his MORNING nap), so I'd better go hang the nappies on the line otherwise we'll have none for tomorrow.

WOH(sleeping)B: wildchild daydreamer in purple minky. Mmmm, minky. If it leaks I'll scream.

ETA: Yay Sam!!!

[Gigi]

Katones, don't worry, nothing is obvious, we are not born knowing stuff, we learn it.

i googled "how to fold a prefold" when i was new and that showed me - via a diagram.

Imagine you have an A4 piece of paper, sideways (landscape)
you fold it in three
it now looks like a pad
well, that's what you do with a prefold.

fold it the WIDE way if you want prefold to be shorter
fold it the LONG way if you want prefold to be longer

there are videos on youtube about prefolds
there are all sorts of refs on google about it

the US ones pop up if you type in "prefold diapers"

there are also line drawings on what to do, at the listing for Prefolds, sold on the booroi website - nice and clear.

i think the first year i did the nappy hunt, i found a nz MCN site where they show you, pic by pic, a prefold being put on a teddybear.

once you see it, you think IT"S SO EASY, but like anything, if you know nothing about it, well,it's a bit daunting.

so dont' worry, no DUMB questions here, just stuff you dont know yet.

From reading this thread, i learn something new everyday, i like that. We're learning EMPIRICAL knowledge - knowledge gained by observation and doing.

ozclothnappies and nappycino also have great educational threads - another way to learn about MCN.

Maz - do i not count as an oldie??? how many years does it take to count hon???? (goes away to eat worms).

WOTBB: sugarshot pocket we just swapped for, very noice.

SUSE - could it be that at nine months, Euan just needs MORE layers of absorbency now? How much absorbency do these nappies have? (layers, fabrics etc).
e.g what do stuff the bumgenius with?

do you have boosters? these can be useful when putting another trifold is overkill, but you need SOMTHING extra. I often stick a nb sized hemp booster in at the tummy side, or inside a trifold, for a bit of extra absorbency. So not big enough to cause a leg seal "issue", but enough to add extra absorbency.

well, that's my idea for you IF the strip washing doens't do the trick.
oh yeh, WHERE are the leaks coming from?
legs - fit issue? are you getting leg seal?
whole thing - absorbency issue? (strip wash, dryer to seal, increase absorbency layers)
waist - rise issue? (get higher rise nappies)

keep posting, we can't help you with the hiccups if you don't post sweetpea!

[1MOREPLZ]

Thanks GiGi...

i think i have it figured now
Just got to get my preggy brain working properly :P

[Daydream Believer]

Maz - PM me your postal addy & Ill send you a pack of disposable liners, I have heaps

[suse]

Ah Gigi honey - you are a GODDESS!! You are right though - gotta post more - apart from anything I miss you guys. I do lurk, but it's not the same.

Mostly it seems that now that Euan is so active, it's inserts shifting inside the pocket. Either because he moves around so much, or because he is thrashing around on the table and it shifts while I'm putting it on. Short of staplegunning him to the table (and the nappy), I'm not quite sure how to solve this problem. The majority of leaks are in the wings or out the back and sides of a nappy. In a lot of cases the insert is barely damp. It usually happens when I put him down to sleep in a BumG or BP (am trying to only put him down in fitteds now), and when he wakes up he has a huge wee that just runs out the back or soaks the wings. I'm trying to identify if any in particular of my BumGs leak, if it's the dreaded leg elastic going. One seems a little less springy, but I don't know that it's that one that's leaked.

He is weeing more, but I don't think that it's an absorbency issue. I don't have fitteds leak on me (although he absolutely soaked the sugarpeas insert + a bamboo booster the other day and the outside of the cover was actually damp in a spot at the front). At night, he doesn't even dampen the shell of a night nappy (Lotus), but a Whizz Kidz is pretty damp come morning. They go on at about 10:30-11:00pm, and are off by about 8:30-9:00.

So far I haven't had a leak since the strip wash, but I've also been fairly vigilant about changing him before putting him down. I think I will start extra-boosting my BumGs though, if only to provide a bit more rigidity and stopping the inserts from bunching up when he wriggles around.

Thanks ma lovely - you're ace!