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Thats it...last chanch girls to get in on the nappy swap...Im going to set everyone up this weekend!!!!!
Vy's butt is all reddy and crinkly like a 100 year old womans face atm. She's been in knickers most of the day not a nappy and it looks horrible. And on the lines of having a TT atm...ive noticed it washing wise. I can get away with leaving the nappies for 3 days now..but OMG I have so many knickers to washing stead :ROFL:
Those WC nappies are nioce....I can imagine the work thats gone into them...I use to do something along the same lines when I did my customs last year..the ones with the diamontes and oh my christmas ones. LOVEEEEEEEEEEE the spider one..its looks fantastic and I wished VY was still in nappies when I saw the elephant one...that is friggen awssome...hmm actually I know someone I could buy one of those elephant ones for
WOVB - rawhide
WOMB - BBH and zebra cover
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Maz - I'm in! Have PM-ed you. I did this first, then told DH - but he was cool with it! First thing he said was "did you say we'd have more Blueberries?". He loves those. Reckon we'll buy another 4 pack!
Oh - and I got fluffy mail today! Got my 3 itti bitti's! Love the rockmelon one! Soooo lush! :p
Right - now to figure out where we got the Blueberry 4 pack from and order another one... gonna get the sapphire one this time ;)
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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!!).
WOTBB: Kester Kovers AIO
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Gigi- its not gastro she has, she is anti biotics from having a UTI, i have a heap of fleece liners so have brought them out. by the way did you get my email? i sent it via my internode to your internode? BTW gorgeous pic...
can someone please Pm this link to the spider nappies, have tried to look, but must be in the wrong place
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GiGi, Im still using sposie wipes, but will try & get in the swing of using cloth with the baby.
I find sposies wipes so useful for a number of non nappy related things & whenI tried doing with out it drove me insane LOL.
On the FORMALDEHYDE thing, there is the possiblity that this is also used in the manufacturing of Bamboo fleece. BF is made 2 ways, the most common being chemical processing. the other mechenical. China is the only place that makes BF & with their lack of standards etc they don't have to tell anyone whats used in the making of anything including BF.
The mechincal way is mostly used for Linen's etc made from Bamboo.
So who knows whats against our babys bums, even when in cloth.
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I thought the formaldehyde washes out easily not leaving residue. One of the reasons why it's advised to wash clothes first before wearing.
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Gee thats a scary thought FJ!!!!
I think someone here is getting ready for TTing... he grabbed his bum today and said poo poo... and I checked his nappy - no poo - then 5 minutes later - was full of poo.... so I think he's "getting it" with relation to the sensation of having to poo... DAMN!!! What about all those lovely nappies... :( Miss M won't be in them for AGES - she's only 5.18kg!!!!
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Im not sure sammi, it probably does. It was asked of me what I knew about it & i looked into it & couldn't find much on it all. Just that it may be used & no one knows to what extent.
Looks like we have TT going on all round. Isla has clear signs of needing to wee, she grabs her self & walks sort of with her legs crossed LOL. She needs prompting to go sit on the potty but when I see her do that she always does a wee. Yesterday Evan called & said she wee'd in the toy room. I went to go clean it up & couldn't find anything but a few drops of wet on the train tracks LOL. So I took her to the potty & she did a big wee. She must have felt it & was trying to hold on.
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That's very clever of Isla ;)
I think most of the problems with the formaldehyde come when stuff isn't washed prior to wearing... most of the stuff I get for Pip now is organic cotton from the UK where the regulations are a lot tighter. Still scary stuff though. eeeeeee
GOD I HATE THIS HOUSE. everything is temporary - 3 years temporary. Pip was just chewing the CAT5 cable for my work puter - I have to use it on the dining table cause he has no bedroom and is sleeping in the study.
WoHB - BBH with imsevimse cover.
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Kaz that is frustrating isn't it when its not permanent so why change it now.... urgh
Jovie was showing signs of interest in TT but has totally lost it all now :lol: what changed was we bought her a potty. Now its a game & then she gets up, walks away.... and wee's :rolleyes:
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Maz.... darl you should see the Black Itti.... it is DEVINE!!!!!!
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Kat - 3 firm smacks for teasing me :ROFL: i ahve to keep telling myself 2 more weeks 2 more weeks
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.
WTG bilby honey..will have a look after maz has finished doing her admin work ;)
Vy's bum is red red. Honestly have no ide what is doing it. Thoguht that it may have been taht we used Radiant washing powder but then her hoo haa would be red too from wearing knickers..but its just her bum cheeks. She was in that much pain last night with her nappy on that we *gulp* smoothered her but with irish bitters cream and a sposie tonight.
Ok back to it...incase you need to know what im up to :) check out my sign...that should say it all ;)
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nice to see you have LOTS of stock again Maz..
i have 9 itti's now.. hubby just looks at me now and rolls his eyes.. when he sees me with my 'precious' fluffies.....
10 more days and i shall have my boy here....wish it was sooner :)
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**** only 10 days...good these babies are going to be coming out left right and centre. Makes me sad that I wont be having another :(
I just went through Vy's nappies...we've cut her stash down to...8 :( and they are mainly night nappies
The rash on her bottom is getting better. I put some swedish bitters cream on it last night and it seems to have helped heaps.
Of to cry some more over Vy TT :(
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Maz - Pip did his first pee on the potty yesterday :( BUT! his nappies are safe, cause he was standing on the potty to try to play with the water while I was getting undressed for my shower ;)
Katones - 10 days! wow.
Should go down and do a load of washing ... nice sunny day. If only I had a washing line.
WoHB - BBB with wool longies (tartan!)
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Oh wow Maz that's exciting & sad all at once! Does that mean you'll be listing some gorgeous girly naps on B4B sometime soon...?! ;) What is swedish bitters?!
Gigi, That is one cute cover bilby!
I am TOTALLY up to date with nappy washing.... oohficially... I ROCK!! (& so does this weather, I swear they said it was supposed to be p!ssing down today?!)
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QM - isn't it amazing weather? Any idea what it's "supposed" to be tomorrow? Debating putting half the nappies (the nights & hemps) outside to dry and the other half (bbb's) inside to dry.
Gigi - she's so gorgeous, I love her ringlets! Is that a shaggy minky nappy they have?
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Newborn Prefold Question....
I have prefolds for #2 ready. And occasionally (if i know it is a short time period ie 1/2 hr before a bath etc) use them as a pad fold in a BB PUL cover for DD.
My question is .. If you use BB PULs... DD fits a LARGE over her BBB but with the Padfold needs a SMALL Pul so that the prefold isnt floating around... She is 11kg...
Wont a SMALL PUL be huge over a prefold on a newborn then?
