Cloth Nappies #154.

[*Efjay*]

Gigi are you factoring in rent assitance?

[teruteru]

oh yeh dont forget bein a single parent u get pension card which entitles u to discount on bills..

[Beatrix]

Gigi- hun my rent is not half of my money (prob would be but i have 3 children) One thing you are not takking into account is child support, dont forget he has to pay you.. he can not get out of it now. Centrelink has a child support estimator that you can use.
Unfort if the rent you pay is that high you will def have to cut back on luxuries, even compromise with where you live.
YOu could always visit me to have your Net fix I promise!!!

Its hard but there are services you can contact, The Smith family, the Salvation Army

and yes the pension card has its benefits, cheap prescriptions, you are entitled to a phone allowance, i get arrox $30 off my elect bill a mth, $30 of my rego renewel, then when ever concession is avaible you are entitled.

Being as you use MCN you will save a bundle as well

[teruteru]

what is the opinion on CTs? i want to buy some but not sure whether its a risky investment or not :P

[~kellie~]

thanks Gigi - I've just bought a lilac mother ease one!

[christy]

And Gigi you can come to Sydney on a bus trip holiday.... you have somewhere to stay Food to eat and beds to sleep in!!!

[maz]

Gigi - I am so sorry its getting to that point for you babe.....Nessa had given you some good leads babe...and im sure she wont care if you ring her for any advice. You have to do for you and Bilby hon...not him!

Went ot end of school mass last night...mateauz wore his zebra minkee cover and I got a lot of oh's and ah's

Missymoo - I knew they were coming out...so glad she's finally releasing them

Im in a crap state of mind so will be learking for abit

WOMB - white IB

[~Raven~]

Anna I haven't been too happy with the newborn magicalls but I find the smalls to be fine. I think it's because there isn't much of a soaker in them. Ruby is 3.6ish kilos and the small is a tad big on her but not for much longer I reccon.
I haven't got the newer haute pocket but had an older style one. It was fine on my broad little fella but he ended up being too big in the rise for it, though there was plenty of room around the middle.

Gigi from my observations there are narrow crotched nappies and there are nappies that are narrow in the crotch and the seat if that makes sense. Ittis are narrow in the crotch but have a wider seat than swaddlebees for example which is why I could use ittis but not sb's on Caleb
for you too hun!

Rhoda there are a couple of nappies that shorten down to CT so tell us in longhand

WORB: itti bitti boo and maz cover
WOCB: air!

[Gigi]

One thing you are not takking into account is child support, dont forget he has to pay you.. he can not get out of it now. Centrelink has a child support estimator that you can use.
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i looked up that estimator

it says
The Child Support Estimator will not work:
where a parent pays child support to more than one other parent

well, dp already pays child support for a child of a previous r'ship. (i think it's 35 per wk).
so that estimator cannot estimate for us.
i've already witnessed him keeping CSA waiting for years of tax returns, and them getting tough with him, so just like wife #2, i would not count on child support being regular. When i knew he was so far behind in outstanding CS for his first child, that caused me alot of anxiety back then too, i felt so upset and tried to get him to do those tax returns, so everything would be up to date. ( i didn't want to bring another child into the world, until that debt was paid ). What a fool i was, to think he wouldn't do the same to me and bilby. i made excuses for him.

bilby is officially out of her medium swaddlebees now. the larges look very bulky on her, but she does need them for the rise. i think i have to retire the cute tooshies fitteds too. Sigh, they were a good MCN. and so soft. i lurve the bamboo velour.

she's having the training pants on each night, in the time before her bath. i discovered last night, the PUL in the imse vimse ones does work (to keep outer dry) but the cotton interlock stuff around the legs, does feel a bit damp, (after she has wet). but that's ok, it was soaking, and i do want her to realise she HAS wet. (the inner is organic velour - a feel wet inner).

[~Saram~]

Gigi - I had the same issues with the Imse Vimse - Ari weed straight through them but if they are working for you would you like another pair? :hugs: to you and the situation your in with Dh at the moment. Thinking of you and bilby and hoping you find a way to a better time soon.

PP - We would chuck all our poopy nappies in a bucket of plain water and then I use tongs to fish them out at wash time, never had any staining issues until recently with panadol. With newborns they went straight in the machine, breastmilk poos disappears in the wash :-)

AnnaT - hooray for all your gorgy nappies arriving!We used prefolds a little when Ari was around the 6-9mth mark as I wanted to understand how they worked before I tried explaining them to others. We used the premium sized cotton prefolds and they held up about 1-2hrs in a 6-8mth old. We had the unbleached and coloured here and some hemp ones as well, the hemp - although more bulky were def a lot longer lasting.

Maz - yeah on finding somewhere to stay! So when are you coming????

I have absolutely no nappy news, very boring here :-( Not even a WOHB as we are still in sposies at night but.... we are cutting down the amount of liquid she has at night so maybe... in a few days we can be back in night time naps

[alioops]

Gigi - If CSA get too peeved with him they will take action on him. Have a chat to an accountant hun and find out what entitlements you can get and how much trouble he will get in if he skips his tax returns in the future. Call CSA and find out if they pay and then ask DH for the money, or if he has to pay before you get anything.

I want more nappies, but we have bills to pay first. And right now they are a want not a need so they come last on the list of priorities. Good news is that we dont have any overdue ones now!!