Cloth Nappies # 169

Congrats on the arrival of Lachlan shell!!!

Fluffy mail here again...! just a bumwear pocket. Not sure how it will stand up it only came with one thin microfibre booster. It is a pretty nappy though. Has anyone used them?

My new magicalls and CTs are washed and hanging on the line. There was talk in this thread or another about washing and how much needs to be done before max absorbency...can someone please direct me? Do CT's need lots of prewashing?

Also got some happy babes liners..they are huge, I will def be able to chop them up into smaller ones.

Charmalea that is really poor of AP. Why pay for a redirection!!! Lucky you have a good neighbour.

LS-poop on a spoon is a bit funny! :-)

Congrats Shellbells on the arrival of your little man! I want one too!

you are all making me very jealous with all the talk of fluffy mail, I want some!

EEJ - its usually after around the 10 wash mark that your nappies start to get their full absorbency. After this time if you notice your nappies arent performing well give them a strip wash for a new lease on life

Why is it that you show mothers who's kid's are out of nappies your MCN stash and they droll and say they wish they had known :doh:

Baa humbug!!!!!! no fluffy mail until tuesday now :(...ah I got notification from the endless yarn that our longies are almost done...

So were can we start stalking girls.......were is a place that no one ever talks about that needs us to tart around in and check out what fluffy goodies they have. Some were that has nothing that anyone on here stocks or holds.......

Maz - bundles of buns?

Auriel lovers - there are three pre-loved dragon or panda auriels on B4B :)

cm - cm i already have bids on them!! velour lined :) two of them anyway!!!

I'll leave them for you then Kitt3n ;)
Doubt I could afford the astronomical price they will end up selling for anyway!

lol - nop i have set a limit this time and if they go for more than that then too bad, but i love that they are velour

Charmalea

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grrrrr all my FLUFF is sitting at my old house !!!!!! lucky my old neighbour rung me to tell me they were there !!! grr i paid for redirection .. why the FK is it not getting to my new house !!!!

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Apparently redirection works for mail but for some reason it does not cover parcels.... !!!!! At least that is what Australia Post told me when I had a similar issue (not with something as important as fluffy mail though)... I raged at them and they just shrugged and told me to make sure I had told everyone my new address.
Hmmmm what am I doing lurking in the cloth thread? :hide:

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Pixie chick!!! What you doin in here? Lurking much?!!? rofl

woops, busted! Since meeting kitt3n and her stash of GFs I've become a cloth voyeur :redface:

Like I said in our baby thread - its never too late :)

Yeah pixie never too late I only started a little while ago and now I am hooked!!!!

pixie!!!!!!!!! you are more than welcome to come over and check out the other stuff i have!!

i had a feeling to get up and check that butterfly cgr. but i thought naaaa... leave it.... and when i checked, SOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!

wohb - brand new custom seahorse widdlewun which she has just done erupted into... off to change it to another custom widdlewun .. but which one????!!!!! butterflies me thinks........ but which one? white, hot pink or baby pink??

hot pink :)

Both the children are sick, both the children are taking panadol so both the children are in sposies. Bah!

I just noticed Kazbah's little Pip is about to have a birthday soon.

Any more BB cloth bum bubs having birthdays anytime soon?
Maybe you can have fluff parties!

I wish CM - He's starting to show interest in TTing so no new nappies for us (although mongies don't count :) )

*sighs*

WoHB - snoozywun

Charmlea - have you checked out theclothpadshop? there is one brand there, doing "starter sets" - i think it has "Happy" in the brand name.

i could talk to you all day about mama pads! have tried quite a few types and brands, i'm very impressed with them. Just like with MCN, i think it takes a bit of time, to work out what suits you, what suits the climate you live in, which width pads suit the type of underwear you wear, etc, etc. The length is another thing you need to work out. and just like mcn, there are Night mama pad products. similar fabrics are used (to mcn), so using them gives you a new appreciation, for what you are putting on your baby's skin.

Obsidian Star has the whole "mama pads 101" info thing going on - i can't think of any aspects/questions you might have, that she doesn't cover. (separate site to her retail stuff).

Maz - isn't Mat highly susceptible to nappy rash? i couldn't use anythign but "just water" with the cloth wipes, since bilby had her Nappy Rash from Hell outbreak in Jan 08. So if he starts to rash again, i would be casting nasturiums at the foamy wipes mix. (end of cautionary tale, said to benefit M's butt comfort now and in the future).

wotbb: she fell asleep in a bluberry trainer, so this is how we start "night training" unofficially i guess! it's the Tiger Stripey one, she calls it "more rah".

If you want to put your young bub in organic baby clothes, Sahara bloom is having a good sale on tiny bub's clothes, made out of bamboo fabric. Like kimono style onesies.

i got some lovely bamboo fabric summer pj's (on sale) at minieco. it's like super soft t-shirt fabric.

Gigi - IM actually finding its working...i trie dit ages ago withthe little one Ihave in his nappy bag and thought why havent I got one inside!! :doh:

heading to Melbourne on sunday to see my BIL and his wife who are due on wednesday (c/s due to breach). Ive gotta make her some breast pads and a cover or 2 to convert them from the evils of disposal world!!! If ive got time I'll make a NB nappy and cover set....now we dont know the sex of this bub..surprise so what fabric should I use?????

OH Gigi im with you on cloth for us.....im very addicted these days

Auriels....:( kitt3n has beaten me to the punch!!!!! doesnt matter probably to small anyway and we have 6 now :dance:

Have to share....we bought Mateauz sposies so we could smear him full of NR cream and not ruin his stash...I stood in the sposie isle and coles for 1/2 hour trying to work out which ones to buy him :redface: I honestly have and had no idea

Maz - if you've still got any material, I'd say either the "green world" material (the black with the words on it!) or a bright yellow minky? Or the white material with the dragonflies & turtles on it? That's sorta newborn unisex :)

Gigi - ahhh your little girl has taste indeed!

Us - well, we're going down past Foster today to look at a property, 120 acres, see what it looks like. And taking the bikes for a ride along the great southern rail trail.

WoHB - a (i'm assuming) very sodden snoozywun ;D Soon to be BBB with PUL cover.

Maz- recently when i bought sposies . i hunted around for the "best value " i ended up seeing snugglers on spesh at the chemits wharehouse $16 for 74 , but they were sold out .... so i went to to another Discount chemist (called "low price" or something ) and they had the same pack for $29.99 ...... i asked them to price match .. so they did and took 10%off !!! so in the end it was about $15 for 74 ... it was my way to kinda justify buying some ... the pack will last aaaages ... i usually use them when its full on rain for a few days , coz my dryer cant keep up withit and i dont have a clothes horse ...


anyway .. got my some fluff yesterday ... but not my Lou lou that i think about often .. hope it comes tuesday ....

ive been looking for a place to stalk too ... but im not sure who to buy from ... im looking for clothing now ... cute hand made stuff ... but winter clothes on are hard to find no??

Kaz - hmmm going on a mission into my fabric stash....dontkn ow if i have any of that green fabric left though...hmmmmmm

Lea - ive been a bit partial to clothing now aswell seeing that cloth isnt so high on the agender. Ive bought some gorgeous pieces lately...check out my WAHM bought stuff pic's on my facebook page babe :). Ive jsut also scored a pair of twins in cloth pants that ive had customized wiht thomas the tank pockets :dance: for Vy

ok off ot shower...easter egg hunt at 11 and i have 5 kids to organise

maz does 5 kids inclue Jed ?? i always say i have "3 " kids ... (dh is the norty one in soooo manys ways LOL )

If thats the case...6 kids :ROFL: and HE's the worst one of out them all!!!!!

Nikolaus has got a mate staying over....goo dkid...wish Nikolaus wouldn't be such a turd when he had friends here though :rolleyes:

They're all turds when they have friends over Maz, I think they think you wont tell em off in front of their friends...not in this house!! HAHAHAHA.

MAZ - if Mat's skin CAN tolerate Foamy Wash stuff, that's ok, more power to him, i just wanted to mention it, JUST IN CASE.

The Easter Bilby is bringing bilbs a special bilby story book, maybe i should hide it behind a bush in a park, and let bilbs find it on her own.

the blueberry trainer held all it needed to last night, that was our "test case", so nice to know it was enough absorbency. she was in my bed, feeding, this morning, so her sheets and my sheets - all dry. that's me convinced.

i had another mum, of a child similar age to bilbs, tell me, that bilbs WASN"T day trained, cos i carry a potty in the car boot! bilbs has no sense of time, if i tell her, we're nearly at our destination, in a few mins you'll have access to a toilet - she doesn't understand how long she'll have to hold on for. I've decided to, in these situation, stop the car, put her on the potty (in the carboot) and let her do what she needs to do. It means no accidents and for me, i'm just very proud of her, for letting me know WHEN she needs to go, and she goes quite promptly, as soon as i put her on the potty (car) or loo (in houses, shopping centres, etc).

maybe there is a touch of the green-eyed monster, this other mum is changing nappies (sposies) for 3 under 3. Her kids have been more advanced than bilby, in every area so far, this (trainign) is the first time, bilby has done something first. I have not rubbed it in her face, but she hears me asking bilby "is it wee wee time?" and that's how it came out.

i carry a potty in the car too Gigi ... def a case of green eyed monster there !!

maz use the baby zebra material!!!! that is soo cute!!!

I had little Miss in her 1st Maz night nap but i think i over estimated the size of her Butt... I brought a large and i had to double the snaps... (glad Maz adds those ones.) It held up on but she leaked around the legs does this mean its too big??? It looked ok but noticed once she had soaked it it had a gap where the boosters sit round near the legs... Will try a cover tonight like u suggested Maz... Need to buy more covers... I added pics to my FB of DD in her Nappy... she loved it... Cant wait til next week to get the other 4 i ordered... DP actually likes them and now i have friends asking where they can buy some...

Gigi - isn't TT being able to recognise when she needs to go, before she needs to go, articulate it and do it in the toilet? I wasn't aware of when TTing became hanging on until your bladder explodes - in that case, Im not TT either!! lol
Go Bilby, I think she is doing a fabulous job!

Lea- TikiBoo stuff is just gorgeous their stockists are on the website, they have just shipped their winter lines out so they should be up about now.


Think I will get to show off some bling this weekend! Going to some strangers house on Sunday lol friends of our mad ex-neighbour who she has instead we come and have easter sunday with. Will get to show off some pretty nappies though :) Might take the focus of me not celebrating Easter lol


WOHB: Nothing - shower with daddy :)

6 sleeps to what LS??????? Have I missed something important?????

jess - might just need a few more washes to reach full absorbency, and i find any night nappy needs a woolen cover - anything else does leak here.

man i am thinking of those bundle of buns........ where is this damn bonus?!!

wohb - butterfly hot pink widdlewun

Jess - are you new to night nappies? or do you have others already?

in general, wiht ANY nappy, night or day, LEG SEAL is crucial.
so when you do up the nappy, check there is no gaping around the legs. if you can get two fingers inside that gape, you're gonna have leaks.
check baby when they're lying down (like on change table) and then AGAIN check them when you're holding baby up vertical, look back ANd front, check for TUMMY gape also.

tummy and leg gape are fit issues
size or style of nappy
and result in leaks thru the legs or tummy

if a nappy isn't absorbent enough for your child, you'll get the entire nappy leaking.

i'm sure Maz will help you with this particular nappy, i've just put down points, general to ANY nappy.

other point relevant to NIGHT nappies:
- don't tuck in singlet or pj top
- have any clothing very loose e.g onesie, sleeping bag
- make sure 100% of nappy is covered by the cover (if using a fitted night nappy)
- polar fleece sleeping bags can cause wicking for some bubs (did for us)

LIMEY - what happens in six days? is your idiot exFIL going to let you have access to your mcn stash finally? before poor Charlotte grows out of it!

wonders what Tikiboo is??? clothing brand for bubs?

KAZBAH - i saw the live bilby at the end of Sunrise too! very cute! I channel surf the brekkie shows, glad i cuaght that bit.

eej & gigi - Wednesday will happen ;) lol

gigi - tikiboo is kids clothes made by a mum and her mum (qld I think) just gorgeous. the women who own All You Need.

Teeheehee... I can't wait Alexis ;) ;) You rock dude

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GiGi- :redface: Yup a newbie to night naps... :hide: normally we use huggies at night... It held up well everywhere else but yeah once it started to get wet it started to hang a bit and there was a gap round the legs... (which is where it leaked through her pants and the sheets... There is PLENTY of room for her to grow i had to double the sides over so might need a medium size or use a cover... The others i brought are all large also so i might be in for a shock and need mediums... So used to my flats and i dont need to worry but round the legs... lol. Oh well its all a learning process... (at least i have an excuse to buy more now... well once i get some extra money now i dont qualify for the bonus)

ETA... Kitt3n... Thanks for the points... LOL...

oh Limey! blimey!

i googled Tikiboo, then clicked on FAIRY KISSES - and OMG - wow. they even have organic clothing too!

and i saw Panda pj's for Maz, and this funky little skirt in red under "so frenchy, so chic", lovely twirly number.

wotbb: RAH trainers. note the RAH must be said with a very loud growl, like a tiger!

Yes Limey, the fact that bilby has stayed day in the day, for ten days, tells me each time she needs to go, then promptly goes, i am so proud of her for that. the realisation, the communication, the timing. going great guns as far as i'm concerned. no years of buying pullups and extended nappy wearing for us. which is one of the reasons i chose to use MCN.

i read ages ago, the average mcn child toilet trains around 13kg.
so that made me wonder, what weight would bilby be, when her turn came.
well, if tt-ing, means "day tt-ing) in this case, she did it at 11.6kg.

considering we didn't do EC-ing (just used some of the principles to assist tt-ing), i'm pretty pleased.

Jess, are you choosing night nappies by WEIGHT or MEASUREMENTS?
sometimes, a mixture of both can help too.
i used one "too large around the legs" night nappy on bilbs ok, what i did to mitigate the too big part, was
- put a woollen soaker over the top
- add an extra booster inside the fitted night nappy, to take up some of the leg gape
we didn't use larges until over 10kg, but it seems every nappy brand has their own version of waht the weight range is, for their large size - so alwyas worth reading the sizing link, emailing the owner to check, and measuring your baby first.

measure baby's waist, around top of thighs, their rise (most important bit).

when they're naked on changetable, get a tape measure, start at baby's navel, take it down, under them and up the other side, to the small of the back (roughly level with the navel). easiest to do this when they're standing up, or another person, holding them up for you. doesn't matter if they wiggle their legs, you're just measuring their lower torso.

the rise measurement is your best piece of info, to help you choose the right size nappy, esp a night nappy. so say your bub's naked rise is 35 and the night nappy you want to buy says "rise of 40cm" - that would be fine, give you a bit of growing room too.

you can also grab a nappy that fits her well already, stretch it out (the elastic) on a flat surface (from tummy end to back end) and have someone else, measure that length for you. that's another way to measure rise - a bit trickier i think.

gigi - We have a potty in our car all the time...boys can twinkle o n the sid eof the road...whats a little girl suppose to do????? As for the wieght htin...Vy is 10.5kg and Mateauz is over 12 now....hmmmm and I dontthink he's ready to be TT yet (dame no!!!)

Jess - Id say you got one to big. I often find if Jed Doesnt tuck the cover around Mateasuz leg's that we get wet too. Make sure that you tuck the nappy and cover up around the legs correctly at night but honestly yes Id say the nappy is to big.

Have just come home from spending 2 hours at Kids town (BIG kids playground here) for an easter egg hunt!!!! kids had a ball and now im knacked.

Have decided to make a turle NB and penguin NB AIO for my SIL's baby....I can cluck over htem :(

LS going to go and check this plkace out.....panda you say Gigi

Gigi you are a wealth of information!!!! As is everyone on here!

I have put some pics up on FB of my latest fluff how do I link it to here?