I think after the day I had the magnum was well deserved......shame it didnt come with a marguerita though!
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I think after the day I had the magnum was well deserved......shame it didnt come with a marguerita though!
NaNa and Suse - some mama pads are wider than others. Some come with a choice of two snaps, so you can alter the width of the mama pad. I'll check which ones of mine do that.
brands like NooneeWilga (on theclothpadshop site) do customs, so you can specify stuff like width and length to suit you.
Kitt3n - when bilby was as young as your bub, the only nappies that gave us Absolute Pootainment, were
- fitteds and covers
- prefolds and leg gusset covers
Our few exceptions were a few Malden Mills pockets with the rolled out fleece legs and once she got to 5kg, a Honeyboy AIO (also made of malden mills fleece with rolled out legs).
but all the PUL aio and pockets, i had to wait until she was about six months old, before we got Absolute Pootainment with those. i was not best pleased, but at the time, wotevah gave the Pootainment, got my vote! e.g got used.
Charmlea - bad luck about the avacado seed "chop" - i commiserate.
whoever mentioned the rose hip oil idea - i WILL try that thank you! the skin on that finger is all dry and stretched, the finger sort of curls up, doens't lie flat like all my other fingers, so every day, i've been wondering, "what should i put on it", haven't been sure, so up to now - nothing. Thank you so much for the rosehipoil idea!
For those of you considering different pocket brands e.g the Kanga - babysoftlandings has a pocket package, to enable you to try out differnent OSFA pocket brands, you get to pick which ones you want to try.
Nana, i've read, to clean out the aplix if it's gone all fluffy, another way to do this, is to use a SNAPPI.
MELBEL - i'm so relieved your house didn't get burned down, off to see your photos.
SUSE - mother's group in the lagoon? oh take me to your paradise!!!
TERU - thanks for the Tiger Airway idea, unfortunately the spesh price is for flights booked NOW but taken in APRIL. but i appreciate the thought.
MISSY - congrats on the sitting up! woot!
about babies just in nappies - i have noticed pale PUL outers get grubby and pill a bit, but the strong coloured minky outers seem to be very hardy to me, i've noticed they do well in the sandpit. bilby is not outdoors alot so i can't say how well they do on concrete paths.
re: the pooing in the night nappy early in the night
my take on this is to lay in a separate microfleece liner (even if night nappy is already lined in staydry fabric).
then if bilby poops early on (e.g teething), then i have a certain chance (not guarantee, but a good chance) that i can LIFT OUT the liner and the poop, and the nappy underneath is still dry and clean.
Or i can take out the trifold (if it's wet) and put in another trifold. So i "rescue" the night nappy and we still get to continue to use it over that night (in most cases). this will obv not work with a child who still has the watery poops.
i've put this down, JIC it helps one of you, esp when you're starting out and have a small Night nappy stash.
mel i was thinking of you and those fires!! glad all is ok :hug:
you ladies talk to much
wow on the fires .. I used to live out bush and we had some like that . it was so scary and the smoke hung around for days .. everythime i smell smoke it reminds me of summer when i was little !!
Got my WC yesterday and i am soo delighted .. but most of the new nappies i have gotted eg: WC and LouLou have been lined with polar fleece ... do they still work as well ??
yesterday i had Gabbi in a man made nappy and it gave her thebiggest burn type rash ..
I cant remember the nappy i have on her , mostly fitteds but i think an AIO was on her at one time ..
How do you know if bubs is allergic to a nappy ? - not saying she is but id like to know ...
BG - did you get your fluff ??
Has the classified section gone now ??
last night was Gabbis 2nd nite in cloth , she wore KKs oh i do love them .. but they are too big on her they are sz M/L ( they dont come in sml ) and they gape a bit at the legs , i fold the booster right up to under her bum and pull the nappy up as high as it can go .. she looks like roly toy , the ones that have round bums and dont knock over when you hit them ...lol kwim ...
I've never had a problem with fleece lined nappies. Most of my stash is WC nappies LOL
Classifieds are still there but the link to that, and gallery and a few things is missing. I think there are still afew things being fixed after the upgrade.
thanks RayRay ... :)
ooh you reminded me .. of to email you now !!
Kat I hear you about the poo lol I put Ashton on his mat for tummy time, without a nappy, and his latest thing is pushing himself backwards everywhere... use your imagination... YUCK!
Whats your page?:
Lea yes they are allowed to sell covers, just not nappies.
Fleece is for staydry. I am actually getting 2 wc bling made with bamboo velour inners. Ashton is allergic to synthetic inners so I have to line almost all of our stash with boosters from either BBH or Bizy Bee (these are better because they are the right size but I only have 4 :( ) You will know because they come out in a horrible rash which clears as soon as you put something else on. Ashton can wear 1 nappy unlined and gets what looks like lots of red dots, if I leave more on him he even bleeds. But when I put on a natural nappy like his BBB/BBH it clears up straight away.
With the nappies that are too big, try taking the boosters out and putting other ones in. When the sandman was too big for Ashton I took the boosters out and put in some bamboo ones from BBH and it stopped the leg gape, otherwise a good cover will help :)
Well I think that's all.. oh baby kangas, who was asking? I have one... it is so good that I have the cover... somewhere, and use the booster for all my other nappies :lol: just didn't like the fit, the velcro... anything but the booster haha but I got it given to me 2nd hand so wasn't out of pocket with it :)
Gigi it's a great theory with the liner, but I can't have stay dry on Ashton, and his poo goes EVERYWHERE lol I have just taken to changing him at about 10pm not earlier, and just dealing with it if I run out of NN :)
WOHB - Bizy Bee shimmer
speaking of liners.......... anyone use raw silk? I know they are exxy, but if they are well worth the money, i was thinking of asking my mum to go to spotlight to grab a metre to cut up......... would they have to be hemmed?
anyone tried sugar peas hemp fitteds? i like the idea of hemp for its antibacterial properties, i gater they require strip washes more often though from what i have read?
ha ha lol - no plastic for my baby, organic fibres and raw silk on her butt thankyou very muchly! LOL
wohb - swaddlebees OSFM OV fitted/loveybums pull up wool cover
Melbel WOW :o I recognised the bottom of the street on the news! Those photos are scary indeed!
Has anyone washed liners in a wash bag and do they come clean alright? They end up stuck between the glass and the door rubber of my washing machine loose so I'm thinking a washbag would stop this.
Kitt3n no I haven't used them but I assume they would need to be hemmed.
morning ladies :)
kitt3n..did snakes arrive yet hun???
still NO reply from my email sent yesturday about the nappy sprayer :(
got a heap of washing to do AGAIN!!!!
WOJB ~ red IB
I think that the raw silk used in liners is different to the raw silk generally found in spotters - which is partly processed and dyed (which renders it ineffective for NR). The raw silk used for liners is unprocessed and has a much different appearance and texture. It would need to be hemmed, yes.:
I've used the sugarpeas wool in ones (not the fitteds), they are a good nappy but I don't find any hemp nappy absorbent enough now for E. He quickly wets through both the Sugarpeas and the Lotus now. But boosted, the Sugarpeas is great. I've not had to strip wash my hemp yet. Bamboo also has microbial properties.
WOHB: Blueberry
Kitt3n - i have a sugarpeas Ai2 - which means a sugarpeas cover with a snap in sugarpeas hemp insert. The insert is like a super duper prefold, it's elasticated (hidden) and very clever design, dries fast. At your bub's age, i think it would be fine. As suse says, as baby grows (and therefore wees more), boosting the snap in insert, by lying a bamboo booster INSIDE it, is what we do now.
i have not had to strip wash the sugarpeas snap in insert and we've been using it for 18 months. i esp love it in winter cos it dries so fast.
i noticed them on sale at nurturenappies, dono't know which sizes that applies to though.
UPDATE: there are smalls available Kit.
MM - some people change baby every time they wake/feed during the night (for a nb). all depends how long your bub sleeps for i guess, but there are also "dream changes" - again depending on whether your bub copes with those or not.
my advice about the NN was generalised, cos quite a few people mentioned they had the same problem as you - so i kept it general.
Charmlea - if the KK AIO is too big at this stage, you can either, take up some slack by putting more boosting in, or buy a medium sized one.
Like Suse said, i went to buy raw silk at spotlight - and the raw silk they sell, is for fancy dresses! it looks nothing like the raw silk nappy liners i bought online. Much more processed. i think i saw the nappy raw silk available for sale at nappiescovered. not many stock it, and it goes fast. i would definately hem/overlock it, make it doublelayered, looks like the kind of fabric that would fray heaps if you didn't.
charmlea, many nappies are lined with micropolarfleece, as a stay dry layer.
it's mainly pockets, aio's that have this as their inner (if not suedecloth) but a few fitteds brands use it too.
as others have said, if in doubt about whether synthetic inners irritate your bubba's skin,
- trial one day in nothing BUT natural inners - observe state of cute little bot.
- trial one day in nothing BUT synthetic inners - observe state of cute little bot.
- compare
that will tell you if bub is reacting to synthetic
but there are a host of other things that also make bubs skin irritate, like
- washing powder - is it a full strength one, or a gentle one
- how much washing powder is used to wash the nappies
- what you clean their bottom with, cloth wipes with just water is safest
- alot of supermarket baby products contain parabens, which cause skin irritations in some people.
- medical things like fungal infections
wotbb: swaddlebees PUL pocket with organic velour inner
wotmb: dora knickers that go up to his armpit
(wot's on the monkey's butt)
Lea - haven't been to PO yet today (big Mack in the way of me getting out of driveway) - will check soon though hun - just got to motivate the man to move the truck
Maz - you need to make girlified nappy cover with a Mack on the back! daddy would love it!
Well Maz - Your baby on the way intuition is right but your sex of the baby intuition is unfortunately wrong. I am going to have to buy some tiny pink things.
Moo Goo should be here today.
Oh Maz - Postie told u not to use RP label on XP envelope ;) Gives too many tracking numbers!!
WOEB: Bee CT
another pink one is so sweet Ali!
Lea - i got fluffy mail today - threw the LS box at DH - he looked, looked again, said "maybe we'll ask your brother!!" hmmmm.
about LS - we have two toilets - one is in the main hallway (far away from nursery but right beside laundry) - other in our ensuite (next to nursery, but fair way from laundry) - which would be better? i'm thinking the one near the laundry, but not sure cos of distance and stuff from the rooms baby will sleep in..
BG...me personally i would have it in the toilet near the laundry..then you can squirt and dump it in a bucket in the laundry ready to be washed....
I am getting more cranky by the minute..i have emailed them 3 times now and NO reply...if i don't get a reply by this afternoon i am going to go to CA.
hmmm maybe i should buy some more nappies now i am cranky?? and hubby has gone out for the afternoon/night to the cricket....members tickets with work....
WOJB ~ nothing he is nekid....