Cloth Nappies #151.

[Nelle]

Mwah Maz. xo Oh no at them giving Mat blisters! He's got a sensitive little bot hey. at you wanting to turn your kids into AIO's! They'd be definite hyena items.
Rans is out at the moment too, but mine have been alright today actually. Riv just kept wanting to read books with me. They're both napping now though.

Thanks Sasa, I guess I'll just have to try it and see for size, Riv's a strange combination of chunky and slim.

[*Efjay*]

hmmm Simon was working today too. My boys have been ok. god I just have to say the word boy, which could mean iain = baby & bam a let down LOL. I haven't resorted to sposie breastpads but I am outsoaking my maz pads LOL. I have resorted to finger pressure during a let down.

My house is a pig sty. Just no motivation to clean it though. Its all bloody toys. From one end to the other. The other week DH opened the cupboard inthe toy room that has more toys in it put away & of course the kids thought it was chirstmas & pulled it all out even after I said to DH not to let them as they wont put it away. So week or so later what do you think is all over the toy room floor? Hmmmm at least its something different to train tracks & mega blocks for a change. Still not impressed. I think I need to stop hording so much & have a garage sale.

Any suggestions on a good NB size night nappy LOL this kid can PEE! Would prefer not to need to change him every 2 hours at night but if I don't he is soaked. THATS with boosting. I let him go last night from about 1.30 till 7 & of course he needed a full clothing change & wrap wash etc.
I have some BBB's (only 2) but he isn't big enough yet. Might try again when he is awake though.
I really want to get some mandy mac bamboo nappys.
I have 7 hemp ones here but again they seemed too big bulky at the front once they are folded down for him. But he needs the 2 boosters I think if I was to use them over night.

ew Isla just smeared zinc nappy cream on her cheeks & not of the bum verity LOL
I don't know how she keeps finding these things!

Oh Maz, I found Ernie at the shops yesterday so had to get him for Isla. Now Ernie & Elmo play together LOL

I can't wait for Gigi to come online LOL, might send her a sms to get on LOL.

ok ok I should go clean...

[Olive]

fiona she's posted in platnium

[*Efjay*]

oh, I didn't get a notification of a reply.

[Nelle]

Fiona, maybe try some Tots Bots Bamboozles in size one? Because they're bamboo terry, they're a bit more flexible than bamboo fleece, and you can fold the front down to snappi it if bub is small.

[*Efjay*]

I h ave some of those. But also didn't think they would stand up to the amount he is peeing. He out wet a WC fitted & thats a lot of boosting in one of those!

eta - ok feeling a bit like a **** LOL I think I just figured out how to make the Mandy macs work. Am I the only one who didn't realise that folding the mandy mac down into itself rather then just folding it over makes for a much trimmer fold?
I want to wake him up now to see if it s a better fit. No way there would be enough in the bamboozals I think.

[NaNa]

Gigi - Woohoo! Boo hoo... What can I say? My austudy debt doesn't seem so awful now. May the MCN goddesses smile kindly on you and yours, and turn everything peachy for you real soon.

Maz - brilliant idea, turning ya kidlets into AIOs. Oh, and the snozies... I'm going over to wahmnaps now to get me some of your BPs coz the avent ones are trash (or they will be soon when I use em for deodorizing the nappy bucket!)

Suse - I hang all my rainbow flats in correct colour sequence. I've tried to do it another, more random way but I just can't bring myself to do it!! I did it once when my mum was here (just to get a response) and she yelled at me for putting them in the wrong order! "ROYGBIV" she screamed... and she wonders where I get it from... Everything else just goes on the line as is, but all the inserts, wipes and liners go on a coupla those thingy-me-wotsits PP was telling about.

FJ - your talk of waking up a newborn just makes me crazy! I swear I got a broken one... it's taken me 6 months to get him to sleep more than 20 minutes during the day!
ahh, bless you. It must be a challenge to get a nappy that's absorbent enough without being ginormous! And you'd have to put a wedge under his back so he could sleep flat, and not with his butt way up in the air!

Sasa - mummy sez I'm speshal... no, seriously, I have porridge-brains too.
I wish I could fit a nappy bucket in our loo, but I can barely fit myself in there. People in the 50s (when they built this place) must have been teeny-tiny!

Went to a paediatrician at the Childrens Hospital yesterday, and he'd never seen an MCN before, especially not a black Berry Plush. He was very impressed, but does anyone else find that sad? Of all the kids he's seen in his career, he's never encountered something like that... something other than sposies? bah.

WOHB: Red HH and black & white striped baby legs.

[Nelle]

FJ, the only other trim thing I can think of then is our night Honeyboy. Are there night Lotus's around anymore? That was trimmer than my Sandmans and Wildchilds too...

[*Efjay*]

The mandy mac isn't too bad now I figured a better way of folding it too fit. he has one on now & has been in it for about an hour going on 2. So we'll see how it holds up once he wakes. But I will try them tonight. I sleep him on his side so even though the bulk is at the front it shouldn't worry him too much. I hope...

[~Raven~]

Sasa do you think DD is teething? I found the smell quite toxic when I was PG and Caleb was teething
Do you do a prerinse in the washing machine first? I notice mine get a bit wiffy if I don't do that.

[sunshine_sieben]

Raven, not sure if DD is teething, tbh. I only ever know that in hindsight ;-) She has all her teeth apart from the eye teeth (which could be the culprits as they have been lurking under the surface for a while now) and the 2 year molars. Yes, I do definitely do a prewash, then long (cotton) cycle at 60 degrees, then "intensive rinse". As I said, they don't smell when they've been washed. Well, the hemp inserts do, but that's just the hemp smell. The bamboo has a slightly "earthy" smell to it. Hard to describe, but nothing that smells like wee or poo. The pockets don't smell at all.

Nana, I think the people who built your house also built this one. Our toilet is no bigger than a cubicle in a public toilet. Actually, I have seen cubicles bigger than my toilet.
By the way, I had to laugh at some of you guys being OCD when it comes to colour matching your MCNs. I am guilty of that, too. Mainly, I have to have 2 pegs of a matching colour holding them up. I can't have a red nappy hanging by a pink and a yellow peg. DH always laughs at that cause I'm not exactly a domestic goddess,.... but these details seem to be important to me. Don't get me started on other weird things I do...

Saša

[suse]

NaNa - Happy 1/2 a Birthday to Aadi! (PMSL at the correct rainbow line sequencing too, now that's waaay more anal than I)

FJ - I'd agree that size one Bamboozles make a good newborn night nappy. I used them from day 1, and Euan was a little smaller than Iain. I boosted with a two layer bamboo booster once he started weeing more. They fit up to about 8 or 9 kg I think.

WOHB: Cute Tooshies and woolie soaker

[*Efjay*]

erll after say 2 hours the mandy mac was pretty darn wet. I think im just gona have to change him at each feed at night. I put one of the bbb on him again & it fits ok so i might put that on for his longer stretch of the night. See he goes down about 9.30, then wakes 11.30, then close to 2 then he makes it till about 5. Now that i said that tonight will be different you watch lol. Last night he was up every 2 hours but the poor kid had been in & out of the car 3 days straight so im not surprised he was a little unsettled.

he just filled his prefold. He sure can pee & poo!

[Bathsheba]

Suse - I hang all my rainbow flats in correct colour sequence. I've tried to do it another, more random way but I just can't bring myself to do it!! I did it once when my mum was here (just to get a response) and she yelled at me for putting them in the wrong order! "ROYGBIV" she screamed... and she wonders where I get it from... Everything else just goes on the line as is, but all the inserts, wipes and liners go on a coupla those thingy-me-wotsits PP was telling about.

Sounds perfectly sane to me LOL!!! I bet you can't bring yourself to use different coloured pegs per nappy either? We need to start another thread entitled clothes line neurosis's! ETA: oh and yep, that's the correct spectrum order... my Fine Art degree serves me well when it comes to matters such as this.

[~Raven~]

I don't peg out by colours but I peg by brand and the boosters all have to be in a line Eg I'll peg out the BBB outers first, then the long boosters and the short boosters rofl.

[maz]

I put all my IB's on the top row of the clothes horse, I have to put our night nappies in the middle and wipes get hung on one of those 20peg holder things. trifolds and booster go on the bottom row.

nana - we had the same experience with Nuro surgeon at the Royal childrens in Melbourne. He was so ingrossed in them it wasnt funny...even my pead here in shepp loves them...he said its probably helped Mateauz in his muscle control with his legs and hips (his left hip was quiet bad due to his cerabal palsey - not that you can tell now)

**** - soaking the BP's Fiona...GO BOOBIES!!!!!! try putting 2 together so yourve got 4 layers babe.

Off t oclean the kitchen table so I can get my arse into gear

WOMB - WC and chocolate eclair cover
WOVB - Sammi special - strawberry shortcake all nighter

[*Efjay*]

**** - soaking the BP's Fiona...GO BOOBIES!!!!!! try putting 2 together so yourve got 4 layers babe.

now why didn't i think of that !

[maz]

cause your brain is leaking through your bb' s

hey sammi....

HAVE YA HAD IT YET!!!!