Bonjour mes ami!
lovely to hear from you NaNa! The pollution in Lebanon sounds scary (if you had to live there all the time i mean). Enjoy the sun in Nice.
CHARMLEA
re photo shoots, i have heard of people on purpose, using black and white mcn on their bubs for the photo shoot e.g dalmation print, pony print, zebra stripes, all that high contrast type stuff. ANd if you have it on covers, even better, cos if baby needs a change during shoot, just change the fitted nappy underneath, and re=use the cover.
Maybe Gabs suits narrow crotched nappies?
RAYRAY, are you doing up the ecobubs diagonally?
e.g i'm assuming there are two rows of side snaps.
do up the top row to suit the waist
do up the bottom row to suit the legs
say there are three pairs of snaps on the back wings
you might have the nappy done up on the FIRST snap for the waist
you might have the nappy done up on the SECOND snap for the legs
so that means the FRONT wing will look diagonal
hard to put down in words
easy to show you IRL - if only we weren't 1,000's of kilometres away from each other!
Princess Xanthe
i LOVE the photo of your dd in your siggy!
one of the reasons some people don't put PUL nappies on their bubs overnight, is that some babies react to PUL being in contact with their skin, for that length of time. E>g they're fine in the day, when the same nappy is on them for say two hours at a time, but not for a long stretch like 8.5hrs.
sounds like the absorbency part of the nappy worked for you, but not what the outer is made out of.
Without seeing her little bottom, so only making guesses here, another possibility - reaction to the suedecloth inner of the Greenkids pocket. Again, she might be fine for SHORT wears of nappies that have synthetic inners, but not for LONG wears.
Greenkids have concealed elastic, so i don't suspect the elastic (again, impossible to call, unless you get to see it IRL). Many people have problems with FOE (fold over elastic) on their bubs overnight e.g the baby beehinds wool wraps. but that is not an issue with the Greenkids pockets.
i will share something with you, that i found, when i had a month old bub too, re overnight changes. If i put her in an APLIX closing nappy, the SOUND of the aplix, would rouse her heaps, so it was hard to get her to sleep again. So i worked out, it wasn't the changes that roused her, it was the SOUND OF THE APLIX (the rip rip rip when you open it up). So i tried to have non-aplix options for the night time changes - that helped heaps. Also, doing the changes in dim light (having nappy combos ready and waiting, so i didn't need the big light on, to find what i needed). and making no eye contact. You may be doing all this already, just put it, JIC it might help you or someone else reading this.
MissyMoo
woo hoo on the mediation going so well.
and woot on reducing your drier time, that is quite a feat (in Tassie i mean).
Katie Rabbit
the version 2 bum genius have had the most complaints re the elastic
when the version 3 was released, the BG company said they had addressed the elastic problems of the Version 2. The V2 had a six month warranty, the V3 has a 12 month warranty.
if your DD soaked thru a wool cover last night, my first thoughts would be
- when was the cover lanolised last?
- how much lanolin was used?
- was a day or a night nappy on underneath the wool cover?
- if a day nappy, i would suggest you use a night nappy for night
- if a night nappy, i would suggest some OUTER boosting, that means you add a booster or a trifold (bamboo) inbetween the outer of the fitted night nappy, but inside the wool cover. that way, the extra layers won't give you any leg gape issues.
(once again, all "in the dark" guesses, cos i can't see the nappy in question, or the cover, or your bub). but i try to give you some possibilities.
Katie Rabbit - to lanolise - turn item INSIDE OUT before you soak it.
Kitten - you unlucky chickadee to have the disintegrating nappy fabrics! it really seems to be like a lottery, who gets that fabric that does that. I've read posts by a person online (another forum) who is washing her child's night nappies either once or twice a week, and my thought every time i see that comment is "won't the nappies be wrecked, by the urine being left so long?" - i cringe every time i read it. I figure night nappies are (understandably) pricier, so i felt very strongly about preserving and looking after them - i figure they do a hard job, and they did it so well, so deserved some TLC (said, as only could be said, by a mum of ONE child LOL). I know no-one here leaves the night nappies in the bucket for four days, so i'm not aiming this at any of you, just venting out loud. (note: i am still missing bilby NOT being in mcn).
Cheeky Monkey - congrats and commiserations all at the same time. Your clever lad. Was he ok with "strange" toilets in shopping centres? We went thru a week of absolute refusal to use ANY toilet except at home LOL.
WIllow - sounds like de-laminated PUL, faulty fabric. Just contact whoever you bought the nappies from. They will ask you how you cared for the nappies. If you cared for them in a way, that is contrary to that brand's care instructions, you may or may not get help. If you followed the care instructions to the letter, and are still in the warranty period, you will get help.
wotbb: she's fast asleep, so blueberry trainer and woollen longies (sleeping on a brollysheet, so if she wets, i just change the brollysheet (and replace it with the spare brollysheet) and don't have to change the sheets. She's wetting about 2 nights in 7 now.
considering she comes into my bed from about 1 or 2am nearly every night (stumbles into my room,eyes barely open, "booby mummy"), i should have a brolly sheet on MY bed, but i'm so slack, i haven't done that.
MAZ - Vy is just so lovely, that new photo is wonderful, makes me smile ear to ear
