FJ - we keep our cloth wipes in the bathroom, in a plastic verical skinny tub, cos when it's change time, first thing we do is go to the bathroom to wet the flannel ANYWAY, so figured, might as well keep them in that room. (then take now wet cloth wipe to nursery to change bilby on the changetable. i change her at ground level when we're out at a park, but at home, i save my back and use the c/table. bilbs is such a squirmer, i think if i changed her on the floor (thin lino with horrible concrete) she'd
1. be horribly cold and it's so hard
2. run away from me!

*cough* guess which bilby is this fortnight's cover baby for the dragonflymagik home page??? (there is no AU on the end of the url - website address). Yes, proud mamma alert here folks.

the Reusable Nappy Week site on Facebook has a really good "MCN and childcare article".

Alioops - is TT-ing Sarah proving easier in Townsville? Do you go to the beach all the time? Hope your missing stuff turns up soon.

Ness - sorry to hear of the illness in your house right now. I read the gastro bug lives in the nappies for up to a fortnight after the child is well again. Have you got much MCN that is NOT elasticated and involving PUL (e.g flats and prefolds). Cos you can wash flats and prefolds, contours, boosters etc at 90 degrees, to kill the gastro bugs, whereas you can't do 90 degree washes to most MCN, cos the 90 degrees would wreck your elastic, PUL etc.

Loopy fabrics. eg. cotton terry, bamboo terry are esp reccomended, to soak up the runny business.

MAZ - poor Vy's bottom. weird that it's still happening when she is in knickers - are her knickers cotton?

TOday Tonight had this article on tonight, about FORMALDEHYDE (sp?) in bras - which leave chemical burns on skin - (my maternity bras make me itch, so i was very interested) - and at the end, they showed a consumer watchdog type talking about a previous TT story from last year, about clothing made in China, ALSO with FORMALDEHYDE in the fabric. i suddenly thought about all the cheap clothing i have for bilbs, that is made in China (like Cotton on shirts). And clothes i have, that make me itch. Clothing and bras made in China, seem to be everywhere, not much else to choose from. What else are you meant to do? I wash EVERYTHING before we wear it.

when you buy clothing, if you're lucky it tells you on th elabel which fabric it's made out of. but you certainly dont' get told "has been treated with formaldyhyde". I thought that was what dead bodies get stored in! (forensic scientist TV shows i have to thank for that!!).

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