Cloth Nappies #157

[Olive]

ive been reading up about urine (exciting i know) and found this

Urine contains large amounts of urea, an excellent source of nitrogen for plants. As such it is a useful accelerator for compost. Urea is 10,000 times less toxic than ammonia and is a byproduct of deamination (2 NH3 molecules) and cellular respiration's (1 CO2 molecule) products combining together. Other components include various inorganic salts such as sodium chloride

so if the nitrogen in urine is used as an accelerator for compost, whats it doing to bamboo/cotton etc.... perhaps it isnt been washed out properly and combined with heat (washing/dryer/sun) its speeding up the 'decomposition' of your nappies just a thought!!

[Arimeh]

Interesting...

But why is it really only happening to my ittis and the rest of my nappies are fine, yet treated the same way? Maybe they have less layers of bamboo??
And mine DON'T go out into the sun that often - but I do rinse mine every night in the shower so hopefully will fix the shredding problem.

[briggsy's girl]

i'm wondering whether the batch you're talking about was a slightly inferior bamboo batch, so the breaking down is happening earlier and more rapidly in those particular ones

it wouldn't take much for it to change the composition of the product and for it to start breaking down in a natural manner...

[Olive]

its the suedecloth liner that has shredded right? maybe its just not as resiliant as other fibres

[Arimeh]

But isn't the underneath part of the suede part bamboo? and its not just on that bit on the sewn in - about 4 of my boosters (trifold snap ins) have done it too....

The mystery continues..

although between both you and BG - you've probably got it figured out

[Shanti]

Hiya girls!

Our cheeky monkey is due any day now and I really wanna find (and buy!) a really funky cow hide nappy or cover..... can anyone recommend one and where i can buy one? I've got all plain coloured MCNs and I want a few patterned MCNs now I've decided

Cheers!

[briggsy's girl]

have you looked to see if Maz has any of her cow print ones left from last weeks stocking?

i have a swaddlebees one that i got from nurture nappies i think...

[briggsy's girl]

hiya ren - maz has a medium left in her stock (just looked!)

[Beach Mama]

I have a Happy Heiny one Ren that I got on on darlingsdownunder - it's a one size and I like it lots!

Going away to my IL's for a few days tomorrow so I won't be online for a few days probably a good thing considering I've been a bit down lately. Was contemplating taking my stash but decided it was going to be too hard at this early stage so going the sposies - will come home to huge amounts of fluffy mail on Wednesday or Thursday though! Have a great week all!

[MummyTummy]

:yeahthat: that's what I meant about the wee not cleansing properly during the wash. It may have been that the damage was already done and so it has just eventually let go and shredded without an apparent cause. And it could have been from a particularly toxic wee, or not washed quick enough, and that batch of bamboo may have been inferior, or as you say the booster is thinner so may have not been able to withstand it. Hopefully the showering with your nappies will prevent your other nappies suffering the same fate Mel!