Cloth Nappies #176

No idea Lea sorry :(

When you find out though, please let me know.

I just received my first pair of soakers yesterday and I need to lanolise them. (they don't come pre-lanolised from SHP do they?) I bought the spray type, any tips on how to best do it?


Where is everyone today? Have a life I suppose!

I got fluffy mail today :dance: 12 x pre-loved itti's (mediums, in preparation for the next baby)

Also got a new phone - blackberry storm (9500) woohoo, been playing all day hehehe

WOPB: Yellow IB - sleeping STILL

No idea what FIL is going to use for night nappies. The drawers are empty and the basket has odd bits in it. Not sure if the ones that got washed the other day got hung out either.

CM - I have the same phone. I love it!! Only problem is the ringers are so long on it. Did you get the Voda deal with unlimited blackberry browsing?

Lea - I always squash them as much as possible between a couple of towels before airing them. No other suggestions unfortunately.

Teru - I send 6, and usually 2 come home clean and dry. They like to have a couple spare JIC Em needs them.

WOEB: CTBD and soaker
WOSB: snow fall CT missing the mini booster

Oh no, do your girls wet really heavily at night Ali?

I sure did get the voda deal. Now I need to find more friends with blackberries that I can use the free messenger etc with lol obsessed much? nahhhhhhhh

Hello ladies!!!!!!

Well I have to say as much as I love my pop in it has to be one of the hardest to get Em's pasty poo out of with the LS. It was a nasty poo that dh handled badly tho! he managed to get it everwhere!

And the poor little thing is in sposies cause she has a bad rash on her 'china' its red raw almost like its burnt i'm not sure how it got so bad so fast! I have had suedocream on it today but its not helping... any advice on a cream for this type of "burn" rash?

ooh eej thats not good...my boys bums will do that whilst teething, one poo and its burnt welts....we use the Sudo/Curash Zinc cream then i also put Curash powder on top and it forms a thick paste.....

Eej - I've only had blistering like that once on DS when he was teething (obviously not on his china - he don't have one hehehe) but I swear curash powder was the best. It dried it out within a few hours. I just every nap change wiped off the caked up powder and applied more fresh stuff.

Hope it clears up soon for you.

WOPB: soon to be his brand spankin new rainbow Sandman!

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One of my girlfriends gave me her trial nappies as is only having one bub and decided not to use cloth (yay for me). I got given 4!! Small -8kg Imse Vimse White Covers with couple of nappies. They are brand new with tags but don't know where she got from. Would really like to swap for different sizes as would like to keep maybe 1, but I already have 3 small covers and I use a combo of AIO's and fitteds so don't need heaps of covers. Anyone know who supplies them and if they might send me 'replacement' sizes if sent 3 back??

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i think nurture nappies stock them. i got one of them covers and still got room to grow when using with our fitteds :) email jayne and ask whether its possible to change size.
otherwise New Age Nappies also stock them

thx for all the replies re childcare nappies. guess the BGs i have should be sufficient for now.

i'll be swamped with woolies in no time :lol: the footy soaker i ordered from SHP is done, and today i got email from the knitter for PP that she can start on longies for me by end of the week! not to mention theres a pair being knitted already & i want one frm canada...can one own too much woolies??

i really ought to solve the sewing machine mystery so i can make more wipes

eej- have u tried bepanthen? i find it usu treats the rash pretty good between changes.

pmsl @ "china"

I have nothing else to add - just cracked up at that..

we really need to invest in some longies..BUT as usual $$ come into affect...i know they don't cost an arm & leg BUT we have another car rego this month....

am trying desperatly to get the majority of nappies washed and dried prior to Friday....before we leave :) am sooo excited!!!! can't believe i am actually going to meet the queen of fluff herself...Maz!!!!!

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can't believe i am actually going to meet the queen of fluff herself...Maz!!!!!

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I'm so jealous :(

I am soo excited!!!!! to be meeting Maz :) soo excited that i'm going to have to give her a BIG smooch :p

oh behave honey!!! ROFL im no different to you :) ok maybe a little weird and fatter but hey we are all pink on the inside ;)

PMSL @ China aswell...love it...Vy call's her her Jarr Jarr...cracks me up when she says it. We only get NR that bad when molars are coming through...so stay away from acidy foods for a bit babe to help. I also use gaia powder and avenda nappy paste or moo goo ezcmer cream. ANd We also free ball at that time too :lol:

im tired.....tired tired tired.....hanging out for swome longies to..some gorgie monkey ones, some cow shorties :rolleyes: and a sun pair heheheheh Nasty girl....blah blah

sorry lost the plot

going to run away...the hill's are alive with the sound of maz's farts..........

WOMB - Mirabai NN and lime spider MAL
WOVB - :dunno: bugger

hmmmm farts hey?? happening ALOT in this house tonight too :p I can also hear them coming from Jacks room and he is out to the world :lol:

Gawd i hope these nappies dry in time..otherwise i will have to be bad and wack em in the dryer :rolleyes:

awww I wish I was in Melbourne still!!!!

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ETA: did you get my FB message maz?

What's all this talk of farting about? Glad I can't smell yas!

Ya know what, I was hoping to put DS's new sandman on him tonight - and it godamn rained before I could get it off the line. GRRR. So tomorrow night it is :rolleyes:

Oh how I hate when DF is on night shift. So bored!

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sooo over waiting for my longies to dry :( lanolised them yesterday and they have been on top of the airer , even had 2 fans on full ball when i was out and they are still damp .. how can i dry them quicker ???

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when you take your longies out of your sink/bucket of water/woolwash and dissolved lanolin, lay a bath towel DOUBLED OVER nearby. Lay the wet longies on that. Roll up the doubled towel, as you roll, water is squeezed OUT of the longies, INTO the towel.

then lie the longies on ANOTHER doubled over towel, to dry.

this DRAMATICALLY shortens the drying time.

wringing them out by hand can make the longies go out of shape too. so the towel method is good on a few levels.

hope that helps you Charmlea, i think Raven told me that trick, it's worked really well for us.

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One of my girlfriends gave me her trial nappies as is only having one bub and decided not to use cloth (yay for me). I got given 4!! Small -8kg Imse Vimse White Covers with couple of nappies. They are brand new with tags but don't know where she got from. Would really like to swap for different sizes as would like to keep maybe 1, but I already have 3 small covers and I use a combo of AIO's and fitteds so don't need heaps of covers. Anyone know who supplies them and if they might send me 'replacement' sizes if sent 3 back??

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i think the IV smalls are 5-9kg.

places like Nurture nappies, newage nappies, little koala, they stock them.
Can you ask your girlfriend where she bought them from?
that was a very generous gift from her!

I'm having another one of those nights.

Last night I went to bed tired as tired could be. Couldn't sleep. Kept thinking "I really should have put those nappies in the machine". After lying there for an hour, maybe two, I got out of bed... I snuck into DS's bedroom and took his nappy bucket outside, down the outside stairs and into the laundry. Popped them in the machine and went to bed. Out like a light.

Tonight I went to bed, can't sleep... Kept thinking about the pre-loved nappies that arrived today and need strip washing. So I got out of bed, trapsed all the way downstairs nappy bucket in hand and popped them in the machine. Now I'm going back to bed, and hopefully to sleep.

Nappies causing insomnia - who would have thought.

xx night girls (that are ALREADY in bed )

CM- nappies in ur head all the time?! mebbe count nappies to sleep??

i can understand that CM!

Lea, Yer, what Gigi said....

Kat/Maz, I cant believe I am going to be in the same state as you all and I wont get to meet you.:(

Wow, this packing to take a baby away is a whole new deal isn't it? I started last night. So much to remember.... and all of it essential. I think I have less then 1/4 of the suitcase dedicated to me. How the hell did that happen?:doh:

Have taken 6 pockets with 6 spare inserts and 4 ittis. I will have to wash everyday, but thats fine, in theory the pockets plus inserts makes 12 nappies so that will be heaps.

I am starting to get very scared about taking my kid on a plane to vic with this flu thing. Vic girls, we dont hear as much of it up here as you do, any tips?

Gotta run, he he gotta go buy new jeans, cant fit my fat bum in my pre preg jeans and cant go to melb in shorts :redface:

Lil man has an osteo app too.

Have a great day xxx

Hun i am taking Jack on the plane to Melb. i spoke with our GP on Monday in regards to this and he said it is all over-exagerated, it is just another strain of the flu...nothing to be overly worried about he is actually going to melb on friday aswell and not concerned. As long as bub is a healthy bub you basically have nothing to be worried about.

Hmmm nappies.... well i haven't even started packing yet!!!! Thursday night i will pack everything and then do the finishing touches on Friday morning (hoping fingers crossed all nappies are dry!!!)

thanks ladies, had akready rolled them in a towell but not layed them on a dry towell , just on the clothes horse ... hopefully they will be dry today ...

got lots of nappies to wash , but its raining ... grr so now its TT for a day or two so the washed naps can dry on the clothes horse over a few days ... grrr @ winter !!

the chemist said that if your going to the airport to wear a mask and thats exactly what im doing on friday when I pick up Jodi. I cant afford for my little M to get sick full stop cause of his CP

shiat gotta get dressed and take kids to school and then take M for his 12 month needles :rolleyes:

2 days worthe of nappies got rained on last night on the balcony.

Whoever was the architect for this place should have made the eaves bigger than the damn balcony! argh.

I so need a spare room.

WOHB - cute tooshie Ai2.........

Maz- LOVE ur new ticker... Too cute... with the face masks they have to be a special grade to protect u... I heard it on the news... Lots of people buying masks but not the right grade ones... GL...

Havent been able to keep up in this thread the last few days... Hopefully i can get back into the swing on things soon...

No fluffy news here except that Miss T is on the IB website in there customer gallery... YAY...

WOTB Cushie High tea

shell- we had the same packing issue with Monsta when we went interstate n overseas. Better to overpaid than under! Its goin to b chilly n bit rainy these couple of days so keep in mind

Pb- congrats on miss t, will go scope her out. Nappy in ur tinker looks cute :)

Bbl Monsta just did his business yet again...

Teru - I read your suggestion before bed and yep you guessed it - I was lying there counting nappies lol How sad is it when your last thoughts at night are about nappies?

Fingers crossed for Ali today girls - she has her OB appointment.

Jess - Saw Tiahna on the IB site, very cute.

Kitt3n - I know exactly how you feel. The same thing happened to me yesterday! At least they get another rinse right? lol

Maz - do whatever you have to do to protect your littlies from getting sick hun.

Shell - You certainly sound cool calm and collected. When I took DS on our first trip away I was sooooooo flustered!!!

Off to the post office - hopefully I have some mail. Probably not of the fluffy sort though.

WOPB: Bumble Bee CT - soon to be changed.

how'd you go today ali ???

my loniges are dry and they are on gabis bum :) yay !!!!!

they are a little too long for her tho ... she is such a shortie !! i must get another pair .. anyone tried the ebay ones ?? they look smaller so they might fit gabs better, she is currently wearing the 6mths size in llamjama .. or anyone know smaller makes ??

what about trim narrow crotch fitted ? all my BBH are too bulky for gabi .. even when floded down ...
and its the only style of fitteds i have .... thinking about swaddlebees or itti fitteds but im not too sure about absorbency

Kozy designs are smaller (I have found) than llamajama. The large fits DS like a glove, whereas his llamajamas are quite baggy on him. So you could give them a try maybe?
As for fitteds - spunky butts are pretty trim in the crotch area - some people say cute tooshies too - but I think they are pretty wide myself. Or the itti bitti ones - they are trim yeah?

Ali - do tell!!

'allo 'allo to everyone else. Here but just stalking until I get two secs to post. Electricians are here (and have been since early morning) installing new lights and fans in every room. We now have a nice silver fan in the loungeroom.DH thinks that will make people want to buy the house.. ROFL... pffft.. don't think so man..

WOTB's: nappies. Um. yeah. Nappies.

Thanks CM and Lea ;)

I saw the Ob today (senior reg, not senior Ob but she tells him what she wants and he says yes) and we have the plan in place!!! She will do a VE next appointment and if my cervix is favourable (which it is, I have felt it) she wants me to be at the hospital at about 6:30am on the 15th to break my waters. If the induction fails then they will do an emergency CS. So I should have her by dinner time on the 15th considering I have quick labours!! I will use the birthing stool (considering that is the only position I can birth in, I cant roll onto my side which is what they usually do with DSP) and for pain relief I will use the tens and water before I consider the epi. So in the meantime we continue to do as much home induction as possible and if she comes earlier - Fantastic!!

So on the 15th the little fluffies come out to play!!!

Sarah is being a rebel. She took her nappy off during her nap time and then woke Em. she is now whingeing and FIL is trying to make her see sense. 3 year olds :rolleyes:

Lea - roll up the legs hun. Too long in the legs is always better than not long enough.

Those traveling with nappies - do you have a whole suitcase set aside for nappies? The teeny tiny ones fill half my suitcase and I am not even going to bother weighing it!! I dont think I am quite that game with more than 1 in nappies!!

hi girls,

Just thought I'd pop my head in and say hello. :hello:

I've got 1 in nappies now- night only and #2 on the way, so busily trying to work myself out for cloth-bumming a newborn!!! The options are raging through my head and I seem to change my mind every week.

I didn't have DS in cloth until about 7months, so this little baby thing is all new to me with cloth- but I'm soooo excited!!!

xx
Hailey

Hey girls,

How do I pre-wash and wash my eco-bubs?? It's the wool one. Just throw it in with my other one's and do cold prewash then warm or cold wash with mild detergent?!!? as per usual? :dunno: I tried looking on their website but can't see wash instructions.

TIA :D

WOHB: GK Minky Pink Retro - love it!

Hi Hailey!!! I am about to start clothing a NB and have some of each style of nappy for her. It really depends on the bubs though so we will see how we go!!

Ren - I think it is a cold wash (being wool I wouldnt do hot because of the shrink factor)

And a little quicky from me as promised
http://forums.bellybelly.com.au/foru...28#post1825828

Ren - I just chuck it in with the rest of the nappies - so I do a cold prewash and then a warm wash. Or if I forget to change it, its a cold wash. I dont think it shrinks like longies and stuff do cos of the way its milled - or something...

Ali - congrats on having a date babe! Thats awesome!! Here comes those fluffies!! woohooo!!!!!! I can't wait to get mine out again - sooooo long to wait though!!!

Hi Hailey - I found prefolds and a good cover with gussets were the perfect recipe for clothing a newborn's butt!! actually, fitteds and covers were by far the best way to go for us here. Wasn't till she was around 3 months that I put her in AIO's and stuff :)

WOAB: Grizzly guts is wearing a blue HH. He is nearly asleep on my lap, but I juiced him up with some snake lollies so I could get him through till bed time.. rofl... ahhh.. mean mumma.

WOMB: Special custom GF. Love them now that I have my new snaps! Awesome fit.

Thanks Ali & Mel :D

ok now i want a new born and some snake lollies !

hi all - haven't had a chance to catch up on a week worth of posts and i'm not even gonna try! just wanted to pop in and say wooooo hooo i finally have my girl in cloth - it's still only flats with a cover, but it's cloth - no more plastic snibs from hospital! yay


soooooo WOEB - flannel flat and Maz NB cover (one she sent as a present for Miss E with my very first order - will upload pics to FB when it plays nice Maz!)

Yay welcome home BG and Miss Emerald!!

wooohooo BG!!!!!!! yay for newborn clothie bums!!!!

Lea - snakes all gone my friend. Aricyn ran off with the packet and ate them all. He's awake for sure now.