Cloth Nappies #160

Had a friend with her DH today to look into MCNs. She has a son the same age as Ty and is also 6wks off being due again and when i was at her place on Thursday she fell in love with Ty's nappies. OK, so he was in a Blueberry but you know, they are pretty cute regardless. I'd sent her emails with info on types and different sites, and she also contacted Janie at theweewuns and I think she's pretty keen. She'll have to convince DH but I'm sure the $$ savings will convince him to go cloth. I also suggested to her that she should theme her baby shower in a couple of weeks to be a MCN themed party and if people ask what she wants she should say MCNs or a donation for MCNs or a gift voucher from somewehre like theweewuns cause they're close to where we live.

Ty's been sick all day today. He's got a fever and is pooing constantly. I've had to put in back in sposies cause for the pootainment factor. Hopefully he'll have a good night's sleep and wake up feeling better tomorrow.

After missing out on the flag nappy on GD the other day I decided to attempt to make a cover. I had a look at the range of covers I've got here and designed a somewhat combination of the 4 different styles. I've made it out of fleece and I've put the Southern Cross on the bum. I was going to do a flag but decided that it was too complicated for a first attempt.

I might go finish it now rather than surf... oh and I better get the nappies out of the machine.

WOHM: sposie :(

Anna - a Kombi mcn - that sounds so cute!
i wish i had had cloth mama pads for post partnum bleeding. The sposie maternity pads really irritated my skin. Now i'm using mama pads, i actually don't mind having AF, it feels much nicer to the skin, to have lovely soft fabric against you, not plastic/paper stuff that has been bleached. Makes me feel a bit pampered actually.

Kitt3n - my hands have been red raw sometimes (since i had bilby) i put it down to so much handwashing. I've been using the moo goo double cream to help it - but i don't have excma as such. I have been avoiding microfibre for last year and my hands actually are better now, i had not really put that together, until you mentioned it.

another organic nappy i like, is the snap in Loveybums sherpa nappy. You snap it into a Loveybums cover if you want an ai2 effect. i don't have a Loveybums cover (cos they don't do sidesnap) but i do have a sugarpeas cover, so i snap it into that one. Again, like the sugarpeas snap in glorified prefold, it also dries really fast.

i would try to snap in the Sugarpeas snap ins you have just bought, into your Loveybums covers. For my two year old, i add a bamboo booster, but at your bub's age, i doubt you'd need that yet.

boosting is like layering our clothes, it's handy to be able to add a bit, to get more use out of an item.

Did you realise you typed LOVEYBUMS for the first time, not LOVELYBUMS? LOL, i was just getting used to your extra letter too!

TERU - Happy Chinese New Year! do you know what year this is? as in, 2009, the year of the (insert the name of an animal).

what is a WB?

HEIDI - pro-raps are good.
i would only get them in each size, if you are planning to use PREFOLDS all the way thru.
Cos covers with leg gussets are designed to be used with PREFOLDS.

good discussion about nb tar poo and if it's a problem or not, just a few posts above your post.

What do use as a night nappy under the tots bots fleece cover?
No cover will work forever, if you don't have sufficient layers of absorbency in the ngiht nappy, for your child's output, length of sleep adn age. So how many layers is your child wetting thru?

what are the pj bottoms made from? are they loose or tight around the crotch (possible causing a compression leak, esp at the crotch).

does the cover cover 100% of the nappy.

so many things it COULD be.

fleece breathes better than PUL
wool breathes better than fleece. plus it soaks up liquid.

great Night Nappy threads on Nappycino to read too.

WARDYgIRL - sorry to hear Ty is unwell.\

Cheryle - welcome!
swim nappies?
imse vimse at nurturenappies
monkey doodles, not sure who is selling them now
diaperaps at darlingsdownunder
splashabouts at darlingsdownunder
iPlay at calumloves
bubblebubs at bubblebubs
motherease at nurturenappies
bummi swimmers at theweewuns

my child has just grown out of her imse vimse ones (sidesnap on one hip) and they were excellent. now she's using a motherease pair (sidesnaps on both hips), also good, but i liked the inner of the imse vimse one better. and i always put them on bilbs with one side already snapped up. so i guess i like the IV ones the best (from what i've tried). i didn't like the eenees or the bummi ones either. (aplix snagged on MY bathers - argh!!!).

the idea of swim nappies is - wee goes thru, poo gets contained. yank your kid out the water the second they poo, change them into another pair of swim nappy before you put them back in the pool. so the swim nappies are much trimmer and lighter than pullups, cos there isn't the pretence of the absorbency bit. the whole gist of it is the leg fit.

wotbb: kester kovers aio - putting on a nappy is such a fight these days, easiest to just have one thing to put on my squirmy little monkey.

Maz - thanks for sharing about Mat in the other thread.

hi all,
jst a quick one today. off to go shopping at ddu then got a few houses to visit before dinner with my parents.
i love my osfm but its a pity that they r mainly solid colours. would love to get a few sized but not sure how to measure bub so i get a good fit. how should it b done?

gigi- 2009 is yr of the ox. WB=wetbags. some1 else replied me with that abbreviation so i jst used it agen hehe.

Gigi:
Thanks for the help with the proraps! The ones I'm looking at (and have bid on) are size small! I'm basically looking at using covers with leg gussets up to six months of age when the baby will start solids and hopefully not have such explosive poo. So I'm thinking the largest size I would both getting with leg gussets would be medium.

Sorry to have asked about the tar poo again when it was already discussed earlier in the thread. I realized after I posted my comments! I'm only 14 weeks pregnant and the pregnancy brain issues are driving me NUTS!

As for the fleece cover - I think I mentioned it is a Tots Bots one! He always wears a BBH bamboo nappy at night (except the one night he wears the unique nappy fleece pocket that I bought) and he very rarely wets through the BBH bamboo - especially right now when it has been hot as I have to really push him to drink enough fluids.

I don't think I'm getting compression leaks because it isn't really wet in any one place - just feels damp and yuck all over his bottom. He generally has been wearing loose cotton pj's at night (shorts and t-shirts or singlets) and they don't seem to be horribly tight even though his bum is bigger in the night nappies.

So I stumped. Because when he wears a PUL cover to bed (with the same nappy) his shorts are dry and the smell is MUCH more contained - at least until we open the cover to change the nappy!

I hope everyone has nice plans for Australia Day! We are getting together with a friend of mine and her four children for a BBQ and then fireworks at a park near her house. It should be fun. DH has just left for work and so DS and I will bus and train to my friend's (DS is thrilled about this) and DH will hopefully get finished with work in time to get there for dinner.

Also my friend is giving me a STACK more nappies as her youngest has fully potty trained now so I'm so excited to see what new nappies I am about to acquire! In these difficult financial times I am really blessed to have friends and acquaintences who bless me with wonderful nappies for my son!!

WOHB: FJ MM pocket nappy stuffed with hemp - though about to change and dress him

weewuns have the MD swim nappies

Yep Heidi, it was me with the drawing, the link to the homepage that that drawing is in can be found in the drop down menu you get when you click on my name.
And yes, I do realise that was a very long sentence. :p

Weeeeeeeeeeeeee Im now the proud owner of a much famed Sandman bamboo night nappy, although preloved :dance:

Ha Dh must be impressed with MCNs because when I mentioned my sister saying I should be buying her some for her new baby as a present he said "Uh if your gonna spend that kind of moolah, you spend it on our boys" :lol:

I think thats a go-ahead to shop shop shop dont ya think ;)

nice work Anna!

i just had to pop in - i went to look at Iishfly again to see if it's back up - and the cow nappy was there - so i has ordered it! woot!

i think i have a problem though - Gremlin now has cow nappies, cow baby legs, cow blanket... and i'm looking at cow clothes... hmmmmm - am i setting myself up for a cow of a child?

moooo BG! It's the year of the ox! What better way to celebrate?

umm.. nappy related, well... I wish DP wouldn't keep harping on about MCN being hard just because I made him change a big stinker first thing this morning. We've had this discussion (translate: I've lectured him :redface:) so many times before... I think it's suddenly hit him that I'm right (duh! ;) ) just this afternoon tho, because he has really troublesome skin and has just developed an allergic reaction to the dishwashing gloves AND the cleaning stuff he was using! I figured right from the start that DS is more than likely to have sensitive skin too, therefore avoiding sposies was the easy option.
Anyways...
WOHB: Wild Child - red, of course, and a red Tots Bots fleece cover. DS chose them both! Clever boy!

Yay BG!! Like NaNa said, how appropriate - cow outfits for an ox baby (who are fabbo btw, I should know ;) )

Hi All!
I'm exhausted from our afternoon out and I'm about to go to bed but just wanted to pop in here with a question...
DS has blisters on his bum in a sort of half circle just under his scrotum. He has had them for awhile and I've been alternating between daktozin and curash and they were clearing but then when I changed his nappy for bedtime tonight the area was blistered again.
I can't think of what has changed to cause this... he is done teething, he hasn't been sick, I am using the same nappies and liners I've always used for months.
I have noticed that his wee stinks strongly of ammonia - could it just be that his urine is too concentrated because it has been hot and I'm struggling to get him to drink enough?
GRRRR...

Okay - off to comfort DH and then go to bed - one of his employees just stuffed him totally and put him in a really tough position and I don't know what he is going to do but he has been under a LOT of stress lately and I'm just not sure how much more he can take!

Have my dating ultrasound tomorrow for baby #2 - hope it goes well!

WOHB: LOTS of Daktozin, a BBH bamboo and a Bummis Super Whisper frog cover

Good luck tomorrow Heidi

hi ya chickies....busy busy here

chat soon

xx

Heidi - you've thought of most things already, but what about
- length of time btwn changes?
- washing powder used to wash the nappies?

Have fun finding out the XX or XY tomorrow!

anyone after bambino mio covers for their nb, i saw them on a website called babyzonedirect for $20, that's the lowest i've seen them online.

wotbb: KK AIO

has anyone got a Cushie Traveller toilet training seat? if you do, where did you buy it from? ta.

typing with 9 fingers still, gee i'm an impatient sod!

Happy Year of the Ox everyone!

Gigi i have a foliding cushie travller thing , i got it at a TT stall at a baby market , i never use it as its too small for our toilet and just moves around alot so im not sure what its like on other loos as i cant find it atm , i will have to soon were off to syd next week ..
i got it as ds was scared of the toilet ... but one day i found him sitting on it with the seat up and thats how he wees now !!

I have seen them in Target and Big w

heidi , dont know whats causing his blisters ..poor man ... i thought the washing powder too , maybe you could add canesten to the wash and do a couple of hot washes .. if you havent already done that ... have you taken him to the doctor for a swab to find out what sort of rash it it , daktozion may be the wrong cream ... JMO .

good luck on your scan , hope all is well !!

me , well its been raining and my dryer is full of water , so i cant wash or dry ... anything as my line under the house is already full with nappies .. so its gotta be a sposie i only have about 6 left for DD and she just monster pooed the 2nd one this mornig ..
i dont think its a sign of a good nappy either .... its a case of "gimme my cloth back " :lol: maybe when mums comes over we'll go to the laundro mat ... i am not going alone with 2 kiddes

ok DH chucked a wobbly at me yesterday as i was talking about nappies and what we were taking to sydney ... he thinks i have too many , in all honesty i dont have that much , i do have alot im about to sell ( so they dont count as im not usuing them :lol: ) i have about 28 BBB and 6 AIO's that are in use ...

whos got the most ? (dh wants to know , he thinks i have too many but i think others have more .. DH wants me to start a thread ...:rolleyes: )

WOGB - poop and a sposie

Lea - I know I have more than 34 so you can tell him that to ease his mind. I don't know exactly how many I have - but I have over 20 ittis just to start with.. LOL

I don't want to start counting.. cos then my mind will do some maths on how much I've spent... and I sooooo don't wanna go there!!!!! :p

Gigi:
Thanks - I suspect it has something to do with length of time between changes! I've been a tad on the slack side with that and he is a tad on the stubborn side with that as well. He doesn't like to be changed if he is busy doing something (like right now) so he is refusing. As soon as I finish typing I will take him kicking and screaming if I have to.
I have changed washing liquid from Earth Choice to another natural one - found one that didn't have optical brightners. So perhaps the combination of the two is doing it? I don't know...

Lea: Thanks for the suggestion to take him to the doctor for a swab - I will definitely consider that if it doesn't clean in the next few days. I have considered Canestan for the wash for other reasons (tinea in the toes) so perhaps I should just buy some and use it on the clothes and the nappies!

Oh, and I'm not finding out the gender of this baby - the ultrasound is purely for dating purposes. My midwife was discouraged when she discovered that my cycle CAN range from 27-40 days even though I told her that my average is about 33 days. She was adament that we do a dating scan - scolded my GP for not ordering it sooner, but then in the same breath said that unless it changes my due date by a full week she won't be paying it any mind. Oh well, I just want to make sure there is only one baby in there!

DS was totally cute yesterday though and told me he hoped there were two babies in my tummy so that one could be mine and one could be his!!

WOHB: a stinky fleece pocket nappy - about to become a BBH hemp with a PUL cover

Last night was a first...........................

we delved into the world of MCN-ing overnight.

And it went splendidly for Jett! His nappy was chocka's but not a leak to be seen, and believe me the boy can wee :lol: So yay for HH pockets! I didnt even boost it anymore than usual (I found the peapods boosters are the right fit lengthwise for a HH pocket woot!)

I put Rip in the HB sherpa fitted with an extra booster and a med Maz cover that I borrowed from Rivers stash, it juuuuuuuuuust fit around his fat botty haha Still dont know if he made it through without a leak as he is still zzzzzzzzing............

morning ladies....
well Jack went to sleep last night in an IB :) and surprise surprise...not a leak!!!
he is also cutting 2 bottom teeth!!!!!! any wonder he has drool like a st.bernard!!! and a little red butt hole :)

WOJB ~ IB of some colour...

Lea - Ive got over 50....will do a head count and get back to you

we have :-
12 itti bittis
4 bbh magicalls
11 BBH bamboo/hemp fitteds
4 cloth'd up fitteds
1 peapod
2 FJ fitteds
1 sandman
1 maz sweet dreams NN
1 GD OOAK
1 spunky butts terry fitted
14 maz minky covers

I won't post again cause I posted the other day, but I have about 30 in total, including 6 IB d'lish, 5 BBB and 5 iish fly.

Qn re Moo Goo... is it the MSM soothing creme that I should get? Our local health food shop sells it so I want to make sure I get the right stuff when I'm out today.

WOHB: sposies still for the gastro butt :(

yes is believe it is the MSM soothing cream for bubs butt

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yes is believe it is the MSM soothing cream for bubs butt

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i double that ;)

just did a quick count - 62 nappies of all sorts and...15 covers :rolleyes: anyoen would think im a junky! :ROFL:

Thanks for that. My local store has it. If anyone needs some, I can get it and mail it on. :)

Maz i had to read your post twice then...i thought you wrote "i doubt that" in reply to what i said about the MSM cream....hmmmmm me too tired to read properly....
need to do washing of nappies BUT it is raining :(

Hello... just after some advice - I am very newly pg and have made a decision to use cloth rather than sposies... but am wondering how early it is to start my 'collection' - I know the outlay will be more expensive so am wondering if I should start buying one or two of cloth nappies now and then see what works and then get more of those...

I know you probably get asked these sorts of questions all the time but with 160 threads re cloth it is a tad bit like a mountain I would never get to the end of... I saw the other threads about the types of nappies but it kind of feels like a foreign language

Any interpreter assistance would be greatly appreciated

do u think moogoo is safe to put in baby's mouth? he has a tendency to chomp on anything so would it be ok if i put it on his arms?!

could some1 suggest what washing powder/detergent i should bring to HK? i use soapnuts for his nappies atm but dont want to bring them cos of customs. also im in need of something to substitute as our bucket whilst o/s, any1 used the bummis tote?

tk- welcome :D i cant really offer much help, but just want to let u know during GDUNH which is march/sept each yr alot of the sponsors offer discounts

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Hello... just after some advice - I am very newly pg and have made a decision to use cloth rather than sposies... but am wondering how early it is to start my 'collection' - I know the outlay will be more expensive so am wondering if I should start buying one or two of cloth nappies now and then see what works and then get more of those...

I know you probably get asked these sorts of questions all the time but with 160 threads re cloth it is a tad bit like a mountain I would never get to the end of... I saw the other threads about the types of nappies but it kind of feels like a foreign language

Any interpreter assistance would be greatly appreciated

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ah chicki..good to see you in here hon ;)

id start putting a little bit away each week...say $20 and keeping an ear to the ground for when the sales start. Keep stalking us....and jot down heaps of notes an you'll soon see what you want nappy wise before you actually buy.
Buy for baby is an excellent second hand nappy site that allows you to buy MCN's for a cheaper price and have a looksie before spending the big bucks on new stuff.

I would suggest prefolds for the first few months, even terry flats babe until you find your feet and know what kind of nappies you want. Get a decent cover....some of the girls swear buy rikki covers cause of their pooh containment and the gusset legs....I dont need to tell you what i used ;)

There are also some wonderful organic materials out now for skin sensitve kids...organice velour that is so soft and ahhhhh.

Do your research babe...ask as many questions as you can think of before diving in...it will blow your mind if you go in to quickly.

Rhoda - You can buy eucowash in satchels for around the $1 babe.....Id probably use them...how do you find the soap nuts?

76 nappies from newborn prefold-large.
16 covers from newborn-medium.

Do I win :lol: Not bad for a newbie huh.

And we successfully had no leaks for Ripley overnight either.........Maz covers rock the casbah! OMG could this be the end of sposies in our house.......................:o

OMG Anna!!!!!

Hmm... maybe I should count mine.. maybe I won't look tooooo obsessive.. lol...

maz- where would i get the ecowash powder? soapnuts washes out pretty good, my mum uses them too. jst have to remembr to change them after a few washes. i got a sample bag to try out at first (it lasted ard 20 washes or so). do u know there's soapnut powder now as well?

I have about 40 bbb, 30 magicalls, 12 itti bittis & about 12 covers for Emily. Yes, I love my baby beehinds :lol:
For Nina, I have 6 bbb & 4 covers.
For newborn stage (yes I'm keeping them just in case ;)) I have 7 covers & 5 various newborn nappies.

anna - I only use Maz's covers over bbb at night for both girls. Love them. I've tried wool covers, but it didn't work for us. Great that you had no leaks. Goodbye to sposies, hello mcn full time!

there's a sandman on Buy for baby atm...its not in the usual section...its in the cloth mama's section

you win Jodi :ROFL:

Rhoda - my hardware has them babe

:leap: Do I win something??? :p Maybe cause I won soooo many baby beehinds they should give me free stuff, what do you reckon?!?! Me think it sounds like a good plan.

Oh Maz your naughty! I'll leave that sandman for someone else though since I already have one coming.

Mel, shame on you - you've made me feel like I should be going to a support group or something ;)

I do/will have 3 in nappies though so I feel my large # is justified hahahahaha Can I say I would be mightily po'ed if Jett suddenly TT's now...........

There is only ONE nappy on my hit list that I have yet to add in my stash...........the ever elusive WC bling. Hopefully I'll get a chance to snap one up before all 3 boys are TT'ed.

ETA - :hide: ok so that # should read 78 now, 2 Swaddlebee's side snappers have been added to the stash........

When I have just done a load and finished stalking the postie I will do a count. Considering I have done a LOT of nappy buying this week that could be a fair few :redface:

TK - WooHoo Hun!!!! SO good to see you here!!! I started off by buying 1 or 2 of lots of brands until I found out the style that suits my girls the best. Then I figured out a way to get them cheaper ;) And I just keep buying!!! My suggestion is to get a few of the brands you see regularly popping up in our posts, and then when bubs is born get more of what they suit. So few while you are pg and a heap later. And learn how to fold a terry flat so that you can have a bit of breathing space washing wise when you dont have a full stash!!

Well the postie has just been, so I better check the letterbox (Finally Dry) before it starts raining again!!

WOEB: Pink Ribbon HH

Sorry Anna.. I'll rephrase it -

OMG Jodi!!!!!

LOL

Well heck - now I don't feel bad at all!!!

woot AnnaT on the night nappy success.

i used night nappies the very first day that bilby was in cloth, but i was so sleep deprived, and doing everything like a robot, i prolly didn't even register "night" as distinct from "day" - just keep changing nappies!

welcome tk! maz and everyone else has given you great advice. i started researching modern cloth nappies (MCN's) from when i was three months preg. TRIED not to buy anythign much, until baby arrived (as i was advised to do) but the nesting instinct got the better of me!

and after getting some pretties, after one week of nappying a nb, i ended up going full circle, back to what i had been advised to do, but thought i would never do - the prefolds and the leg gusset covers. WHy did i change my mind? i had a full range of nappy styles to try out on bubs, but EVERYTHING leaked poo and wee allover me and the furniture EXCEPT the prefolds and nb covers with leg gussets. they look the most boring, they are the most simple, but for PooTainment - brilliant!

and of course, Miss tiny chicken legs did grow up, and yes, i did get to be able to put the pretty nappies on her, later on, like 6kg and over. And she has plateaued in the middle weight range for well over a year, so we're enjoying those same nappies now. i was just so impatient at the start! LOL.

now i want it all to slow down, cos we've started TT-ing and i'm already thinking how much i will miss her cute little mcn'd butt! well BIG butt, but you know wot i mean.

nappying a newborn is quite different to the rest of the stages.

plenty of newbie info to read at ozclothnappies esp click on the FAQ link (freq asked questions)

getting to decipher the jargon of mcn is your first step
like any area, there are abbreviations and shortcuts to talking about mcn, you'll get the hang of it soon enough
it helps you make buying decisions if you know the lingo first, to know WHAT you're buying

also nappycino is a very helpful MCN advocacy adn info site
read their Ages N Stages section "nappying the newborn" for example.

you won't learn it all overnight, it does take time, but don't worry, we'll all help you
there IS alot to it, but it's manageable, cos there are so many of us online to help out newbies, like we were helped out ourselves, when we began. it's just a big circle.

wotbb: swaddlebees PUL pocket with organic velour inner

PUL is a waterproof fabric, used as the outer for pocket and aio nappies.

aio is ALL IN ONE
a pocket nappy, you stuff with an absorbent insert
both of them - just one thing to put on baby

fluffy mail!

2hemp jamotots
a twinklelilly (gosh i LOVE these desinaps, great fit great absorbency)
a "pop in" nappy... looks much better IRL than in the pics, cant wait to see how it wash and wears

i wont do a nappy count......... a bit like mel i'll freak at how much i have spent LOL

gigi - the lovelybums - couldnt find any instocks of the type you mentioned, only saw them at nurture nappies and they only had nb/small, but have put soem of their sherpa ones on layby at darlingsdownunder

yesterday we went to the colo river and my mcns made quite an impression (especially the bling! makes me want more bling... but i think i wil wait... i thinkkkkkk)

tk - go for prefolds and fitteds for the early days, best things as i trialled pretty much everything on Matisse

WOHB - swaddlebees onesize OV fitted/bb wool cover

speaking of working out how much one has spent on their stash...
hubby saw all of Jacks minky covers..and asked how much roughly they are each...he started guessing and i'm saying 'higher...' he got to the said amount and then afew seconds later...says.."f%^& you've spent that much??" and just laughed it off...
I have sent the nappy sprayer back today...so am awaiting on my refund...and i have found a LS for a great price :D

WOJB ~ RED IB