Cloth Nappies #157

[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!)

[Olive]

mel id start using 'something' to wash your nappies with, even if its bicarb, i think that would neurtralise the urine at the least

[Arimeh]

But it happened when I was using detergent... I just stopped recently - damage has already been done..... now I'm just waiting to see if any MORE want to come apart on me..

Maybe the universe is just trying to make cloth nappying hard for me - as if it wasn't already hard enough with 2 in cloth and working part time as well!!!!

[Shanti]

Thanks BG! I just looked and saw that.... I might grab it! Would that be super big for a newborn? I suppose with a BBH underneath it it would be fine huh....

[Arimeh]

Ren I would say that would be too big for a newborn honey - Miss M is only just into her mediums over the BBB's.

Unless you are planning on a 6kg bub of course

[Shanti]

Aww true.... Maz, if you had any small one's i'd buy one!!

Mel - hoping for less than 4kg actually!! thanks for your help

[christy]

I have mainly Bamboo nappies... I've had the same ones as long as I've been in cloth and... no shredding. I used to use detergent, but I've stopped in the last 2-3 months.

Rayray- soap nuts are just nuts that lather up like soap. A complete natural product. I found a huge box of them for pretty cheap at the local organic markets... but there is an ecostore online or something like that which carries them.

PP FWIW DH lovse cloth but has issues with cloth overnight, so he puts a sposie on and I put a cloth one on when I get her ready.... all for the sake of peace.

[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!

[Gigi]

FOR EUGENIA - i asked at NN what the crotch width of the Fuzzibunz pockets are, so you can work out if they are ok for your DD, and here is the reply i got:

fuzzibunz large have a crotch width of 15-16cm, I?ve never seen an XL so can?t tell you what the difference is, though I would actually expect it to be the same measurement across the crotch as the large.

[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!

[Gigi]

Happy 2nd Birthday Aricyn
Happy 2nd anniversary of your birthing day Arimeh

Tanstar - you only find out by using MCN of all type closures, which ones suit your baby the best (at this stage). Every day you are putting the mcn on your child so many times, you make observations all the time, about what works and what doesn't. Just remember what does work, to keep at the front of your mind, when you make new purchases. Why woulnd't it be ok to say one type of closure doesn't suit your child? I say, good on you, for recognising what DOES work for your child. Soooo much easier to make decisions (on what to buy) when you know what you ARE looking for.

You may discover various types of aplix too - and develop a pref amongst those.
e.g
touchtape
hi tech 2000
hook and loop
spotlight velcro

i had some snibs and they didn't suit us. You tie up the front, just you you tie up a sarong. I found i could tie them up ok on my 3.79kg birthweight bub, but as soon as she started KICKING her legs, that movement undid the knots!

in my DAZE of trying to cope w c-section complications (e.g lotsa pain for months) i might have had the wrong size snib, dunno, it's all such ablur now.

i had my new bub in a heatwave too, but couldn't have her in just a fitted nappy, the poos were so explosive and runny, i would have had to change my own clothes a dozen or more, times per day, if i had not had her in a waterproof cover. Not to mention scrubbing the lounge, the carseat, my bed, etc etc. I only bought one nb cover during preg. cos i thought nb sized covers were an unnecessary extravagance. One week of beeing poo-ed on (cos i had bought SMALL covers) was enough to convince me to buy nb covers. Once i had the right size, no more leaks. bliss. less washing. bliss.

so i ended up doing the oppposite of what i THOUGHT i had figured out in preg, with my six months of non-stop MCN research! LOL it was SOOOOO different once i had a baby to try it out on!

suddenly i realised how crucial the covers were (leg gusset covers)
and how useful the non-glam but very useful bamboo prefolds were.

this was not how i wanted to be spending, when i was madly nesting and getting excited as a heavily preg mum to be!

Suse - i'm making a spesh request to see an action shot of Mister Spunky in his pirate Auriel - no pressure - LOL

RAY RAY - swaddlebees SIZED nappies, and Very Baby, are both what i would call NARROW crotched nappies.

there is a new Swaddlebee range in OSFA, which is much wider crotch, but that is the exception.

have you looked at the itti bitti boos in small?
size 1 bits for bots?

i liked the tots bots size 1 for the early daze too, i took off the aplix and used the snappi to do it up instead. i loved the way the snappi allowed me to get a good fit around madam's tiny chicken legs.

(i used an extra bamboo booster with the tots bots, to make them more absorbent).

like the tots bots, there are other brands that also do the basic "birth to 7kg" size
- i think they are really good value. dragonflymagik, bits for bots etc.

I once emailed to ask about the crotch width of the ecobubs wool pockets, adn decided they would be too wide for my bub. otherwise i would have got them.

SHELL - most items say "wash separately first time", or "wash with similar colours", so i follow the instructions.

dark coloured fleece items, i put in a zippered laundry bag, i am too lazy to remove lint AFTER, so i prevent it happening (good tip told to me by a well known WAHM).

white loopy fabrics seem to loose fluff heaps, so i'd do all the pre-washes separately. all the white loopy fabric mcn together. or in a wash with other white nappies from the drypail.

dark colours, esp red seem to attract the most threads entitled HELP!!!!!!! all my washing turned pink!

LimeSlice
if you are after narrow crotch nappies - i can help you there, that's all we use

• dragonflymagik - bit harder to get
• beetlebums - hyena
• swaddlebees (sized NOT osfa) nappies (pockets on sale at weewuns right now)
• swaddlebees fitteds
• very baby (see theweewuns sale)
• nicnaps
• lotus nappies (she's closed right now, but baby beehinds will be selling Lotus night nappies in near future so the grapevine says)
• itti bitti

boo's are the fitted type
d;lish are the aio type

• babyeco nb size (birth to 9kg) it's a sherpa fitted nappy, that was good too

what size (kilos) bub do you need them for?

MAZ - great to hear that AVACADO cream worked on Mat, great bargain too, gotta be in the eritgh place at the right time, SOMETIME!!!

RHYB - i hope your mum gets better soon, that dengue fever sounds pretty rough to go thru.

COWPRINT MCN? - cushie tushie aio, blueberry pockets and covers, swaddlebees aio,

heaps others if you do the rounds - nurturenappies, theweewuns, darlingsdownunder, ozbabytrends, babyblossom, the usual suspects. then there's the wahm shopping malls e.g wahmnaps, wahmania, minicuteture. look up the sites. type in COW in the search box and see wot pops up.

wotbb; kesters kovers aio (made by possum pouches)

i've just run out of panadeine rapid, gotta get thru the night without pain relief - grrr, my fingertip feels like it's on fire - get the stitches out tomorrow morning - dreading that. why won't it heal already? i am so impatient for it to be back to normal. got stuff to do.

[Gigi]

Aww true.... Maz, if you had any small one's i'd buy one!!

Mel - hoping for less than 4kg actually!! thanks for your help

baby blossom site
blueberry
COW PRINT WRAP
SIZE SMALL
3 - 8kg

hth