Cloth Nappies #174.

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maz's-got-a-saurus -hope you're feeling better soon luv! owies... get some minky on your toosh

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i know it is very painful and uncomfy but sorry this made me P MSL. With the pounding headache i have it was nice to have a giggle...

I havent had any smell issues yet... although i did start doing a warm wash every now and then. been adding some bi carb also... ;)



Ok so i am now using my GK under clothes... :( i had a minky times on her today under a dress and she couldnt get to it so i may get away with putting a skirt/dress over them... LOL... She hasnt yet undone any snaps so might have to look at more of those types... although the WW and the lou lou are velcro and she never takes them off...

Mel - the water is had because of the additives, the fluorine added for teeth etc.

Well DH came home and put him straight in a sposie :( *sighs*

Kaz - but we've only just started to put in the fluoride? And if that was the case - how come its not happening in other states that have fluoridated water?

Its a mystery to me I tells ya!

Kaz - for quite some time we used Bore water and have not had any nappy problems, so it may be something completely different to the water causing Mel's issues.

What detergent do you use Mel? Do you use air fresheners near where you dry the nappies? How often do you strip wash? Maybe if you figure out what causes the bamboo to eat away you could market it to people who have it as a weed ;). Oh another thought, do you use different detergent for the nappies to the clothes? Some detergents leave a residue in the machine. DH's work clothes wouldnd have anything nasty on them being in an office would they? Hmm maybe google for things that kill bamboo. Now you really have me started on this riddle I think I am going to keep trying to figure it out, I cant resist a riddle ;)

mel - are you sending your nappies to a dhobi-wallah (Indian "laundry" person) to beat the crap out of them on a rock in Petrie Creek? Coz that will kill the bamboo for sure! ;)

kaz - :( that sucks. Have you shown DH the youtube vid of a cloth diaper-using mom's fantasy?? There's a link to it somewhere around here...

WOAB: GF super night nappy

could one of you lovely ladies reccomend a swim nappy? I dont even know where to startlooking....:doh:

Mel sells some swim nappies on her site - from what i've read, they're pretty good ones...

PMSL @ NaNa - not unless its something DH is doing behind my back !!! lol

Ali - we use Amolin here. No air fresheners near the nappies, they go on the line at night and stay behind the couch, then get put outside of a morning and brought inside when the sun goes down. I strip wash hardly ever but my nappies don't stink and they don't have absorbency problems, so I haven't had the need to. DH work clothes? In an office? umm... air conditioning? ROFL

Starrysky - we use monkey doodlez swim nappies here

Mel I know you wouldnt use fabric softener on nappies, but do you use it on anything? like clothes and towels? If you do it could be leaving a residue in the machine, or the cycle on your machine is too rough. I have just googled damage bamboo fabric and those are the only things I can think of unless you expose your nappies to pesticides (doubtful :lol:)

Nope haven't used fabric softener for years.

Dunno about my cycle being too rough though - never sat in there whilst its been washing to see if it beats the crap outta me or not.

maybe your kids just have toxic pee mel... they ARE your kids so they have to be a LITTLE bit different...

I fooled my WM into thinking the lid was down and watched an entire cycle (Mesmerising!!) to see how rough it was, even on the spin, and it wasn't too bad. If you can figure out how too fool it then watch it one evening.

:p

Well Miss M is dancing along to Shannon Noll tonight - so thats reason enough to worry right there!!!!

Have to snap that right outta her :rolleyes:

waah i posted but it expiered or something ..

Gigi i have an 8kg pot bellied chubby thighed in Magic alls . and i love them . i have them and SI ittis, and thats my stash atm , along with bbh fitteds ... i put all the other brands i put away till shes a bit taller . Oh and id love to hear about the Ebook your friend read , if you know the name of it or you frined can tell you could you PM me the name ? id love to learn more about TT .. !!

Mel - (Donning my scientist glasses) I reckon your kids just have real strong pee. Rinsing with water can't counteract alkali or acid, just dilute it, so I'd guess from a chemistry type point of view - if alkali/acid (can't remember which pee is) breaks down other matter (ie-why we use it in cleaning stuff) surely it can gradually break down the fibres in material ? ? The washing detergent would counteract but maybe you right about the 2 day thing. BTW - Do you use a little bit of detergent, as I know some only use plain water majority of time?
Has got me thinkin cause Ellyse has killer pee (I think the smell of a bucket of wee nappies festering in the bucket knocks me over more than #2's) I might just do a wash every day, as want these to at least last through 2 kids! Am a bit alarmed at your deteriorating problem.

Did anyone know about the baby powder? Whether I can use it without a liner?

Am a little concerned about the Iisfly ladybug nappy I ordered on Friday - it's not here yet, and the order confirmation said ETA 1 day. Reeealllly hope it comes tomorrow and hasn't gone astray.

Ali :rofl: Mustn't have been anything good on TV ay? How long did it take you to figure out how to trick the machine?

doesn't take much - just find the little button and put some pressure on it...

isn't so easy to fool the newer ones - the aquasmart has a locking mechanism on it!

ive done it , and how dirty does the water get !!? ewwwwwww.
wich reminds me im not looking forward to cleaning a FL filter ..

oh how do you strip wash in a FL .. i googled but i coudnt find anything !

what's a strip wash btw?

Sas - you could be onto something ;)

I'll just wash every night - DH told me tonight he would prefer we did that anyway - he tells me NOW!!!

FRIGGIN MEN

strip-wash - de-stinkifies nappies after toxic teething wees leave them stanking to high heaven even after regular washing and sunning. Use a tiny bit of dishwashing detergent and rinse, rinse, rinse, or the vinegar and bi-carb, depending on the fabrics.

mel - you know there's probably decades worth of cane-farming pesticides leaching into your water supply. There's a reason all those cane farmers are a bit nutty and there's no fish in the river. I should know, I grew up right in the middle of the cane field to the left of that motorway between Paciffo and Coolum! I always said there was something in the water there that made people ... um... y'know... special! Sorry, just throwing another whacko theory out there! LOL! I got no idea really why your kids nappies are disintegrating, but it's sad.

AHHH I HATE AP!!!!!!!

My longies from the endless yarn were returned to her today!!!! They didnt even come to my door! :angry: not happy at all!!!!!

I think im up for a strip wash here when my butt is better. Sas I bearly use liners hon...only in my auriels (im lazy)

oh and just a little enabling if you will

https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...ml#post1798589

I have jsut realised I havent eaten in 2 days :o and im not even hungry. must be all the drugs im on atm :( I havent poohed in 3 days either so now I know what a BF bubba feels like :rofl: I could so get use to this not pooing thing.....god help the loo when this butt does go off

I just got a Mini lala of NappyChic! I'm so pleased, I forgot to enter the lottery this month so now I get one without even having to think! Yay!!!!!

EEJ - great score for the mini la la off nappy chic!

CHARMLEA and anyone else who commented on their chubby thighed bubba fitting fine into a bbh minky magicall - thanks - will pass that info onto my friend and her bub.

ALIOOPS - i will put the cushie tushie on the bub again tomorrow, and take photos. i don't understand what you mean about the snaps, there is only ONE row of snaps. maybe i'm just tired! but i coudln't work it out.

STARSKY AND HUTCH - swimnappies?

• darlingsdownunder have the splashabouts
• clothiebumz have the monkey doodles
• nurturenappies have the imse vimse (my personal fave, cos snaps on one hip, in case of "poo action" poolside, for easy access)
• there are aplix ones (that close with velcro) like Motherease and bummi swimmers, i am not a fan of these, cos the aplix caught on MY bathers, when i was holding my bub and that SNAGGING of MY bathers, did not make me a happy camper!
• nurturenappies and calunaloves also have iPlay, speedo type and boardshort ones (have inbuilt swim nappy)
• also swim nappies on nappy chic right now (2nd hand)

whoever said about ecobubs on spec at ozbabytrends - thanks -

CHEEKY MONKEY
we are all on here, to learn and to share. you have just as much to learn and share as any of us. we all learn something new every day. your comments and questions are just as valid and welcomed as everyone elses.
awwww
everyone now
:group hug:
peach love and mango dacquiris all round (non alcoholic ones for the preg. amongst us!)

KAZBAH - yeh! for Pip being back in cloth

HEY GOOD LOOKING - did you say tots bots and narrow crotched nappies in the same para? hmm, i'd class them as "medium crotch". bilby could "manage" them, but she had many other brands that were NARROWER in the crotch.

if you want "narrow" crotch brands, e.g fitteds?
lemme think
- very baby (might still be some on spesh at weewuns)
- daisy doodles (US)
- swaddlebees
- crafty caterpillar
- whizz kidz OSFA sidesnappers
- cute tooshies OSFA fitteds e.g bamboo delights, soy delights
i'm having a mental blank, will come back to this another day, but i won't forget - will probably remember when in the shower or something!

i am getting to vicariously buy nappies atm, for my friend's bub, so i'm researching, ordering, they should start arriving soon, wow,
.............will i be able to "hand them over" to my friend?????
..........................will bilby magically regress her tt-ing and we REALLY be able to use them?
......................will i keep them, say they got lost in the post, and pat the minky behind closed doors??? (laughs wicked laugh)

stay tuned, for more "rivetting" adventures of "gigi the enabler!!!"
same nappy thread
same nappy time







tomorrow night:dance:

i'm so scared they will arrive, not fit/suit the bub and my friend will think badly of me! silly i know, but it's a long time since i nappied a bub that age, and bilby had THREE big rolls of fat on her thighs at that age, not ONE, so it's all different!!

my friend is putting all this faith in me! what do i do if we can't get legseal? if they leak everywhere? argh! i felt so confident mcn-ing bilby, now i've lost it!

i will feel better once the mcn arrives and i can try it on the bub, and she poops/wees in them so we can test out Pootainment Incorporated!

wotbb: blueberry trainer, god she looks so cute in them! (totally biased mummy here).

Nothing but

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: @ Gigi

I ditto it being their pee Mel. Our IBs are looking a bit worse for wear because my boys have the most toxic poo ever, it could burn through steel I swear :lol:

:clap::clap: Wow gigi, you go girl!! whatever it is youre on, can I have some?? please??:lol:

thankyou so much for your info, all who replied, now to get dp to give me the green light on ordering more.....:lol:

Starrsky
i'm on the adrenalin of "getting to buy nappies, but omg what if i buy the wrong ones? and it's with someone else's money, so i feel SO responsible for it all going right" etc - coudln't sleep last night - that's what i'm on.

(from the crashing low of "i'm not having another baby, bilby is toilet trained, i am so sad not to be using our mcn anymore, let alone, not being able to buy any more ever again").

ITTI BITTI GALS
for those of you with SNAP in d'lish and SEWN in d'lish.

i thought a SEWN IN AIO meant the boosting was sewn INSIDE the shell.
now i see a pic of an inner of one (on a trading room post) and it looks like an EXTERNAL booster is just SEWN DOWN at one end, inside the shell of the itti inner.

so instead of booster being SNAPPED in, it's SEWN in, but only at one end.

so it's like a "flap"?
under that flap, is there a trifold, ALSO sewn down at one end?

so boosting is not UNDER the shell lining, but ON TOP, sewn down at one end?

have i guessed right?

hope you understand my un-technical terms!!!

i have had a snap in one before, so got that, just not familiar with what the sewn in look like IRL.

tia

YIPPEEEEEEEEEEE I can answer this one!

Gigi - Sewn in Itti's have the booster sewn in at one end instead of snapped in. BUT then there is also more boosting hidden inside the mcn itself. :)

Hi ladies first can i say WOW i have come to the right place

and secondly

Hi my name is SImone and i recently became an MCN addict!!!

sooo first question of many to come im sure is......

who has skinny legged babies and what brands have they found worked well with leg seal?

atm EricaNappies with side snaps is giving me the best seal all round but they just aren't very absorbant. i've tried itti and bbh and wild child and a few more my baby brain wont let me think of

i love the BumGenius ones but i think they are very wide in the crotch and well when he gets more mobile i can see that being a problem as he can't really crawl well in them atm, though they fit my 3yo quite well for the night (he is TT just still does one wee a night)

So yer i want to know the impossilbe....what is a narrow legged absorbant narrow crotched MCN?

Hi all just popping in to ask which stores allow layby?

WOHB: Orange blueberry

Gigi - Yep they are 1 row of snaps, but the wings have 2 snaps each. The snaps on the ends of the wings are for the waist measuement and the snaps closer to the middle of the wings are the thigh measurement. So putting it on you have the thigh ones looser than the waist ones by skipping a snap on the front and doing up the next one. I can take a pic if it helps. It just puts a little fold in the waist bit for chunky thighs and skinny waists, and stops wing droop.

Smoz - Welcome!! The brand that sounds like what you are looking for is Swaddlebees. They dont work in our house because my kids suit the wide crotch (Like BumG) but are perfect for Gigi's Bilby. Gigi is the master of narrow crotch side snappers!!

Rhy - Lots do, Just do direct deposit and in the comments section ask if you can layby, with a payment plan already written up for them.

Hey Smoz, cannae help ye with your Q, but Gigi usually drops in around midnight :o and if anyone can answer, she's prolly your gal.

Nice to read you, you live not far from me (canungra)

Another narrow crotch that I dont hear mentioned around here is Bumwares. They are a complete AIO, all sewn into the lining. they are super trim, prob a little too trim, (dont know how they would go on a big wetter) but to go the extra mile, I have been chucking in the small bbb booster and I gotta say, I love em, even trimmer than ittis and with the extra booster, I get 2-3 hrs no worries. Aplix too.
MMMMMMM...... I love aplix

Got fluff from the ever lovely Arimeh today. A camo monkey doodlez, spotty dog cushie tushies and a cheetah hh.
MMMMMMM........I love fluff

WOLB Bum G

thanks girls.....yer i got a swaddlebees but they are bigger so DS2 doesn't fit them yet

umm stupid Q but anyway

whats all the WOLB and WOHB things mean? is there another thread that tells me how to talk the talk heehee

Smoz - WOPB = What's on Phoenix's Bum
Replace the P with the first letter of your child's name.
Otherwise there is WOHB = What's on his/her bum.
There's more, brain is fried.

I can't wait to try my new CT on DS, they don't look too wide in the crotch but I guess I'll find out when I put it on him. Waiting for it to dry - dry damnit dry!

Had a bit of a depressing day yesterday. Shouldn't have been, I should have been happy. My friend had her baby but I couldn't be happy about it, instead I was depressed it wasn't me. What a bad friend I am.

WOPB: Lime IB

oh hugs cheeky that is more than understandable...i have a very close friend ttc since 07 and understood when she didn't want to talk to me or about my preg and i still dont bring up T unless she does first. sorry dont mean to thred hijack but jsut want to send hugs and say its ok to feel trhat way xoxo

and thanks for the translation :D

FLUFFY MAIL WOOT WOOT!

My Weewuns order - 2 lurvly organic Swaddlebees and my 3 pairs of Toodlebugz leg warmers for the toddies.

That is all. Life is as it should be (quiet kids + fluff + pizza for lunch).

*warning* tantrum ahead...
OK, I've had it with BumGs. For DS, they officially suck. The elastic in them is so shoddy and they're not holding up well at all, and they're only maybe 8 months old. I'm tired of having a wet patch on my clothes from carrying DS, he's always pulling them off the moment I put them on him, they gape around the legs because the elastic is almost shot, and I'm just not feeling the love anymore. So I just went and ordered three more swaddlebees... My holiday spending money is dwindling fast!
I don't want to put anyone off trying or buying BumGs - they have their positives. I just WISH I hadn't got so many of them all at once. I needed them at the time, and they were cheaper to buy in bulk, but now they're costing more because I'm having to replace them already.
Second tantrum - "Express Post - Guaranteed next day delivery" means nothing. I had a parcel sent to me by express post on Monday. It arrived yesterday. AP suck!! >>Australia Post<<

Also, I've learned another lesson today... the GF >>Genesa Forge<< night nappy I got has lots of embroidery on the back. All of which was saturated this morning, and left a nice teddy-bear-shaped wet patch on DS's pjs... Cute, yes. Waterproof, no. I should have known better.

I've posted a few abbreviation/acronym translations way back somewhere, but who could find them? Maybe it's time to have a separate sticky for them? I'd do it but I'm officially mush-brained...

What'sOnAadi'sBum: BP >>Berry Plush<<

NaNa I made that mistake too with the BumG's, if you want tpo replace with something similar, pop-in all the way, same style, but all natural inner and they just work better.

I got 2 sandmans in the mail todasy and they are just gorgeous, one has a minky inner, so lovely and soft. I also got a Possum Pouches KK and it's also looking fantastic. I must say the customer service from Robyn at Possum Pouches is fantastic, she is wonderful and will help you how ever you need to get the right nappy for your bub.

NaNa - Im not a bumG fan either but the ones I bought 3yrs ago are still going strong elastic wise. We've relegated them to the only-for-kindy pile so if they loose them I wont go banana's.