Cloth Nappies #179

Can someone point me in the direction of the cloth pad threads? Silly ole me can't find them.

Lea - you're right. All kids are going to do it in their own time, when they're ready. This person I was talking about is one of the mothers you talk of too, the toilet nazi. Asks her kids if they want to go to the toilet every ten minutes and gets super angry if they had any accidents. Her littlest one who is now 15 months - she's trying to TT now.

I need more sandmans. Anyone want to pass some on? lol



ETA: Sorry Anna must have been posting when your post popped up. I will try for Monday. That's when her surgery is so I should be able to come while she's in theatre. PM me your mob number and I will text you. Or I have Ali's number I'll txt her.

Cloth pad chat in this forum http://forums.bellybelly.com.au/foru...ontraceptives/ :)

Monday sounds good!! The bigger 2 will be at kindy too and I am sure DH wouldn't mind having a few hours to himself (Paternity leave) and I STILL havent met River!! What time?

Lea and CM - I agree, they all do it in their own time. Who can really be bothered training themselves to put a child on the potty every 2 seconds? They do it themselves. Pushing them to do it sooner only gives you headaches and makes more mess!!

Well I must change Leah and feed her (exploding BBs!!).

WOLB: Sposie. Will be another sposie and then after her bath I will MCN her again.
WOEB: Froggy CT couture

Teru - Lotus nappies.

i scored two medium aio's, one large aio, and two night nappies from Lotus. They were hard to hyena (and now are shut for the moment). I thought they were fantastic, narrow crotch and side snapping, exactly what bilby needed.

Ezymay and TK

i started off using Omo Sensitive and then realised me and dh were reacting to it on our clothes, and bilby was reacting to it in her nappies, so i stood in a supermarket aisle for 30 mins (on my own obviously!) and read HEAPS of "ingredients" lists on various detergent products.

i was looking for products that were free of parabens, optical brighteners, SLS, fragrances, colours etc. The only ones i found that fitted ALL that list, were Ecostore and Aware Sensitive *by Planet ARk). there were a few others that NEARLY met all the criteria, e.g they might have ONE thing on the ingredient list, that didn't rock my world.

So we swapped to using Ecostore or Aware Sensitive (whichever is on special when i buy washing powder), and things markedly improved. I would also like to try the EUCA that Raven mentions.

TK -

you are not being silly, precious or hormonal.

MCN CAN be wrecked by well meaning rellies - in three years, i have read SO MANY posts about this!

here are some pre-washing ideas for you

- wash all the white stuff together (even if you only do this for the first little while, the amount of lint that comes out of terry fabric is a factor wash all the coloured stuff together

- put fleece covers, fleece pockets, fleece aio's in a zippered bag - avoids lint

- put aplix closing items in a zippered bag - avoids them snagging (not all items have laundry tabs, and i've had laundry tabs come undone in the wash)

- red peapods have a rep for running dye (that's PUL outer)

Gran needs a re-education if she is going to do this.

the Napisan and buckets of water, that she used, IT"S ALL GONE OUT THE WINDOW

technology has moved on

cotton flats have been replaced with BAMBOO, HEMP, MICROFIBRE

pilchers ahve been replaced with PUL, WATERPROOF FLEECE, LANOLISED WOOL

so if she is prepared to log onto ozclothnappies and read the FAQ section from top to bottom - yes, let her have a go

if she is not prepared to do that re-education, i wouldn't chance it. the idea about her washign the nappies in nothing but water (or give her a box of ecostore, but she must use a TINY bit of it, e.g one tablespoon per load) is good. but if you have the slightest feelign, she will "know best" adn use Napisan, i wouldn't chance it.

Maz - congrats honeypie! you're just not an even numbers kinda gal, heh?

Cheeky MOnkey - you even have to ask? what am i? chopped liver??? my child is tt-d and i am still allowed in here!!

wotbb: finally the bonds boylegs knickers (size 2/3) kinda fit her, so she's actually in knickers today. i ironed on a name label that has a monkey on it, so for her, they are MONKEY KNICKERS!

had a speech assessment yesterday, i will be on tenterhooks for the next two weeks, waiting to hear the results.

major newsflash, my fussy eater, who exists on snacks and purees, for the FIRST time, last night, ate a small portion of scrambled eggs LOVED IT, and a small portion of a cous cous chicken/veg thingy i made. only had a dummy spit when she hit one small cube of chicken meat. Hoping we have turned a corner with this nightly battle.

CM, Ali - 10:30am. CM just sms Ali and she'll fill you in, my reception sucks out here.

thats great news on the food issue Gigi . little ones can out of the blue try something and love it and amaze us !!!

and being a toilet nazi cant really be fun !! DS took ages to poo on the toilet . about 6-7mths after he got wees down pat , so i kept him in nappies untill he could do a poo in the toilet .. out of the blue he told me he needed to poo , so i said "yeah whatever ... off you go then " (coz i was sick of him doing it on the floor and didnt really believe him ) and whaddya know he pooed on the toilet .... !!!!
but it took him a few days until he did it again , and he had a bit of a runny tummy so did about 5 poos in one day .... from then its history ... (oh chocolate as bribery helped too !!! )

and for those who say bribery is wrong , it only lasted 2 weeks of say " come on - lets see if you can do a poo on the toilet , if you do you can have this choc (had it my had for proof) IF you dont do a poo , mummy gets to eat the chocolate " .... it didnt take him long to realise i was serious and did a poo every time , just so i didnt eat the chocolate :lol:

DD had the longest day nap ever and woke up in the happiest mood , and is now laughing at anything , mostly at herself ... hehe so cute ..

WOGB ? skull and cross bones lou lou ..... with from the smell of it - gluten free toast that was lunch !!

gigi- good to Bilby :D

i need to ban myself from certain forums so i stop buying nappies...BUT ive sold some to cover the new ones, so it doesnt sound as bad :D

Lotus nappy- everytime i used the nappy, ive had leak issues...grrr...

i need to get off the net haha

Ladies, calling on your collective wisdoms (I'm having trouble doing searches in BB - internet plays up when I try)

What do I need to have in my nappy bag?

I get that there should be:

• nappies (how many in general)
• a wet bag - for the dirty ones
• wipes of some sort (what do you recommend?)
• change mat

What else should I have?
I intend at this stage to BF - so I don't think I will need bottles to worry about for a while (will have to express later for CC)

i think most of us use cloth wipes instead of the disposable ones.

for me, i also had spare breastpads, bibs, hankies, extra change of clothes for bub, packet of tissue, Munchies!! and bottle of water (sometimes)

as for how many nappies...depends on your bub & how long u plan to go out for. i usu only have 2

Gigi - good luck with the speechie assessment for Bilby - is it delayed speech or a speech problem - hope it all works out. Woohoo on finding something she likes to eat - always a battle in our house with DS

Leckert
SOunds good to me
When DD was little I used to keep about 4- 6 nappies on our nappy bag with one or two wetbags depending on how long we were going out. Wipes I use cloth at home and out and about I use the Natures babycare (I think that's what it is - woolworths) changemat yes when I remembered

Liz I have 4 nappies for Leah and 2-3 for Em (usually she uses her own backpack though), Cloth wipes, Foamy wipes solution, changemat, clothes for Me and Leah (Either for BB leaks or pooplosions) a sling, BPs (I need a fair few pairs), nibblies, water, wetbag, spew rags, a plug (when I am out and those up the back poos... well you need a plug to use the sink to bath the baby), a muslin wrap, tissues and bandaids. I use all the pockets so it all fits - only just.

Gigi goodluck at the speechie.

teruteru Lotus nappies, LOVE them, as soon as I have some $ in my bank ill be spamming the forums to get some more in a large. Ashton had a M but he grew out of it :( They are so nice and trim and absorbant. On the cloth pads, let me know if you want a guinea pig :D

Lea you don't love cloth hey :P :lol:

PrincessXanthe sorry to hear your anniversary didn't go so well. Sometimes males are clueless :wall: Love love love our GF super night here too! Ash can wear it for 13 hours without a problem!

Maz holy hell how did I miss that? Congrats!! And I think the woolies your thinking of are the Kozy ones? We have a dino soaker here which I brought for $10 months and months and months ago, LOVE it!

leckert in our nappy bag we carry,
2 changes of clothes including singlets and socks,
a spare pair of babylegs or HL.
a wet bag that can hold up to 4 nappies or more,
around 4 nappies for a 5 hour trip, up to 8 for the day, better to be safe than sorry.
Around 10-15 wipes. We use face washers.
Baby carrier
Change mat
bonjella and panadol
and some toys
a couple of bibs
a spare pair of breastpads

Sorry but I can't think who was after pics of a GF night nappy?? But here is Ashton in his :) It's a large super night and a side snapper. Gorgeous nappy and lasts us all night easily!

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Not much nappy news here, still washing and drying, folding and changing lol

WOHB: Black berry plush

Ohmy goodness - I am shocking this time around and lucky if I remember to take a spare change of clothes for Z - the other day I went for a walk, had a tub of yoghurt and a container on the bench all ready to go - forgot it of course, so ducked into the supermarket and bought a banana - I still have some disposables in their I have forgotten about - which I am sure are far too small for him now :redface::redface::redface:

Fluff news - I bought 4 Itti D'lish in L off Nappychic yesterday ;) brand new - i think z will still be in a M for another couple of weeks, but now I will have them ready to go - oh and a L ecobub too ....

waiting and stalking to see when new Eco bub comes out ....

Speaking of ecobubs...i am waiting for stock of the new cookies n cream one to come out :) i also want a navy/cream striped one....awww heck i ant 'em all!!!!!

WOSB (whats on sookies bum) ~ Maz NN / Maz 2 up cowboy cover

Oooo cookies n cream eco bubs!! It that a choc and cream coloured one? Oh I would so love one of those!!!

Thanks for the info on cloth mumma stuff everyone I am def going to look into it!!! Yep lea u have been an enabler!!

Em did the grossest poo in her ecobubs today thick and green ...blah!! Not normal at all. She is nearly fully FF now as I have given up full time expressing. A little sad but feels good I was able to do it for so long! Not looking forward to those formula poos in our pretty nappies!!

Ezy...yep sure is....and i definatly want 1 or 2...hehehehe

Hi Girls

Not much happening here. Thanks for letting me continue to bore you with my posts even though my beautiful nappies are sitting unused in the wardrobe :(

I just received some hemp mandy macs for the next baby - anyone have these and like them?

I want at least 1 more sandman, have to replace a night nappy I have. Waiting to hear back from a certain someone about the one I'm letting go of. *HINT HINT WOMAN!*

WOPB: soon to be rainbow sandman and click clack maz cover.

ohh errr ... i have a sand man ..... ;)

Ali - Leah sounds like what bilby was like as a nb, pooping like it's an Olympic sport! i was changing her before and after every feed (she fed every two hours around the clock).

Leckert - great to meet you tonight at the meetup.

for the nappy bag (i am guessing, for a nb?):

this is what i had in there:

= baby beehinds wetbag (made to last, excellent quality, but no funky patterns)
= bottle of hand sanitiser for the times you have to change bubs when there is no tap e.g on the grass, on the beach, when you are far away from a toilet/parent's room etc. Hands First is a good brand, it contains no alcohol (which really dries out my hands, to the point of cracks that bleed).
= for a morning out, or going to a GP appointment for e.g four nappy combos e.g for us, that meant a prefold, folded up into a nb sized cover with leg gussets, microfleece liner laid inside - well, four of those setups. You will get to know, how often your bub needs changing, and pack accordingly. i liked to overpack, just in case.
= pack of Nature babycare sposie wipes (a brand sold at woollies that DOESN"T have propylene glycol in it)
= a spit rag e.g flat nappy
= a wrap (she was a summer nb so that was often used to create shade)
= bottle of gripe water and medical dropper (the silver bullet for bilby)
= spare breastpads for me (leaked like a sieve until bilby was 8 months old)
= tissues, chapstick, emergency $10 note, my purse, sunnies
= spare set of clothing for bilby
= pamphlet about mcn, to give to any interested parents that saw me changing bilby in parent's rooms, and asked me what we used.

and in the car, a 2nd nappy bag, for the times that i ran out of nappies, e.g we stayed out longer than i had expected. That one had a spare t-shirt for me, in case i needed that.

CHeeky MOnkey
to deal with used cloth pads, you just soak them in a container of cold water. You change the water once a day. I wash three days worth in one wash cycle, wash them the same way i wash MCN. My faves are the Noonee Wilga customs, you get to choose so many aspects. (how many layers, which fabrics, lengths etc).

Marlene, my friend has the Fluffybubs Dreams and she is mighty impressed with them too.

Teru, how are the Lotus fitting Monsta? any gape? which setting are they done up on?

Princess Xanthe - my commiserations on your wedding anniversary, hugs to you.

toilet training is a really emotive topic. i hope that my posting about bilby's tt-ing the last few months, hasn't come across the wrong way. i tried to do what suited bilby at the time, not saying every bub should TT the same time or way that bilby did. Most of the time, i am just shocked she can do this (when there are so many OTHER things, that kids her age do, and she cannot - like the talking, like dressing herself, like eating like a much younger child). She has a speech delay, i am told. and due to that, i couldn't rely on her TELLING me she wanted to go potty, she gave me other cues. So much of her communication is done thru mime, it's very effective but of course, i would prefer to hear her speak.

wotbb: blueberry training pants with woollen longies knitted by the lovely Melbel.

RAOK! someone needs med (possibly small) nappies for a girl. Have any spare PM me :)

Sorry cant help you there Mel!

Ah I got Leah cuddles last night :P She's so teeny and cute. Ali looks fabulous ofcourse and L showed off a great MAL cover!

Ugh happy birthday to me, I want to chop my head off :lol: Drinkies certainly dont agree with this old lady anymore ;)

happy bday Anna

nappy bag
- we have at least four nappies when we go out - "out" is usually at least a 60k round trip, at least a few hours out - and i'd rather have too many with this pooping machine! i also have a stash in the car just in case. last week i went out to MCHN and lunch with mum and should have been home within 3 hours, but E decided it was nap time at Granma's and i won't wake her just to drive home so an extra 3 hours later we finally got home. she is a bubba that gets changed a lot (like Gigi mentioned with Bilby) cos she just poops so much! lotsa little poops instead of a few big ones every couple of changes.
ummm - wipes, wetbag, at least two full changes of clothes (inc singlet, mittens and socks), spare blanket, bibs (chucky bub), baby record book in side pocket, swaddling wrap, puke rags, dummy, hand sanitiser, bottle of water for me

not a lot of nappy chatter. am in love with WW nappies - the smalls are the only MCN's that fit her properly with absolutely no leg gape - IB's aren't tooooo bad, but not as good. otherwise we're in flats/fitteds with a cover. have been flashing her WW clad butt all over the place!

WOEB - "i love grandpa" flannel flat from Aunty Maz and spider Maz cover

Oh how I wish I could shout my post this morning so you can hear it Anna rofl

Only news here is that DS was in his sandman from 8pm to 10am and didn't wet it at all. :(
Maybe I need to hold off on buying any more night nappies too?

Gigi - I wasn't having a go at you hon, or the way you TTed Bilby. I don't imagine you to be like the person I was talking about at all. Sorry if you took it the wrong way chicky. You've done a great job with Bilby and working around her delayed speech. :)

Well DS's "Pop-Pop" arrives today. For those of you that don't speak his language - that's his Poppy/Grandfather/Grandad lol He's very excited because he LURRRRRRRRRRRVES his Pop-Pop.

Glad Anna and Ali had a good night last night. Wish I could have been there! Probably could have come after putting DS to bed, but that wasn't until 10pm because he was having too much fun playing with Grandma lol

WOPB: "cars" undies.


ETA: I thought I typed it earlier but must have forgot?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANNA!

Tis ok CM you can shout, I pulled up alright this morning just really tired because exDH got the sleep in when I should have!

PMSL Anna!!! Happy birthday hun!! The first time back drinkies always hit the hardest. Glad you had fun!! What time did you get home? I am regretting wearing heels now though!!

Missy Mel - not yet unfortunately.

Ezy - yep, that's a FF poo through and through. Nasty stuff, but she wont be on it for long :hug:

Well I have decided now that these chicken legs and butt of Leah's are starting to get some rolls on them, I am using cloth and DH is using the last of the sposies. She has just fallen asleep though so I need to put her down.

WOLB: Booroi prefold with MAL boy blue cover
WOEB: Denim minky CT Couture.

Happy birthday anna!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think I have missed the last 2 threads - I am soooo out of the loop, I feel like an intruder now.

Have decided that Elly's pretty nappies are the one constant I can go to on this forum - even when she's rejecting my boobs for the bottle mostly these days, I am so sick of exercising to shift these damn pregnancy kilo's, and am starting to question whether AF will even come back to start TTC #2 towards end of year - there's always nappies!!!

Am really regretting not asking you ladies for the details of the nappy selling places you get stuff from are. Decided to sell my new surplus IV covers on Ebay - because had to do Something will them, and had to relist all 3 of them as nada the first time, and one just sold for only $5, which is not too bad but they're $20 covers, I was hoping for more like $10 . . am now really nervous that the other 2 might only sell for $1. Eeek, ah well.

Does anyone know how long you leave a wool nappy cover to soak in lanolising water??

WOEB - Fitted and IV Cover

Sas - I'm not sure if it's too late to pull out of ebay or not but the sites you are after are buy for baby and nappychic. Google them hon. Also for the cover, I'd say half hour is long enough - some do it overnight I believe but I've never done it more than half hour.

Anna - I'm having trouble figuring out why XDP got the sleep in instead when it's YOUR birthday? I'm starting to think maybe these are reasons he's now an X...?

Well I've just been told by DF that I'm not allowed to buy any more nappies until after our honeymoon.

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DS doesn't need them any more so each time you feel like buying a nappy - put the $30 into the savings account for honeymoon spending money

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How sad lol

Yeah CM, your spot on! His excuse was I should have kicked him out of his bed. Erm yeah cause its so worked the last 5 years :rolleyes: I got a short nap this arvo so Im still keepin on for now.

Ali, I crawled home at 1:30am :lol: Was a long night by mummy standards but a short night by pre-kids standards heh.

All my nappies are now officially packed. Ive kept out a few of our MAL covers so we can hide the dreaded sposies (I just couldnt not take some covers :redface: ). Now to just finish packing the suitcases and we're ready to go.

Happy birthday Anna *mwah* :hug:

Anna - 1:30? Gone soft in your mummy days hey lol I don't know if I could stay out that long, separation anxiety. Well done to you though! Who ended up joining you? Where did you go to dance the night away? I want all the gossip ;)

Have I scared everyone away from this thread? There are a lot of ladies missing, or only posting very seldomly lately. :(

Sorry girls :( I'm not really that bad am I?

Mabe you just have a life? lol

CM - :sick: nah you just SMELL :ROFL:

Mel - hope your sister is alright today hon :hug: and you..again sorry if my comment last night was out of place :(

AH crud I almost forgot

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANNA hon
hope you had a fantastic night letting your hair down

Auriels are being randomly stocked atm....i have missed out on so many :doh: BUT there is a lottery to for a gorgeous blue one with owl cotton ahhhh yummy!!!!

Have been out all day with the kids...Jed is in Melbourne and we went shopping, gotta say went into Pumpkin Patch and thought BLAH......I didnt like anything :( how sad...so I came home and bought bamboo fleece instead :ROFL:

BG hon - working on a certain little girls bum tonight..oh that jsut so didnt sound right did it hahahhaha.

:hello: hello everyone's mauws to you all.

WOMB - cowboy auriel and no doubt his tea soon (bourito's...noice and HOT)

Aww Mel I'm so sorry if I overlooked something. I hope your sis is ok?

Maz - if only you could REALLY smell my farts, you'd be running a mile.

Hellooooooooooo

*ECHO ECHO ECHO...*

:) im here....well sort of...glancing from a certain cream silk and lace baby dress ;) to the fabric on my ottoman

oh hav efolded a basket of nappies, all kids in bed and have hung up 2 loads. loving not having jed here atm...can he stay in Melbourne another night????

WOMB - WC and endless yarn longies
WOVB - purple BBH and big sis MAL cover

ETA..:think: i might have to invest in 1 or 2 BBH's again :rolleyes:

I'm baa-ack!!

WOAB: GFNN

Welcome home NaNa, hope you had an awesome time.
Converted my cousin to cloth, looks like she got Pop In wood too. :lol:
So will be shopping this week
Still lots of work on, lucky Lil Man is being extra co-operative and is going thru a predictable 2hrs awake 2hrs asleep throughout the day phase :dance: so i can get heaps done.
Hope it lasts a little while :pray:

Hope everyone is well and hope you have a better week Arimeh.

WOLB Ceejay fitted that he seems to be out growing :(

Morning everyone

Not much going on here today.

Just popping in out of boredom.

Hey girls. Haven't been in for a while...

We had a meet-up in Adelaide on Saturday night and had a door prize. A rockmelon itti bitti - medium. MeganH who won it is a few weeks off being a mummy, so it worked out really well. Both MeganH & Gracious_Goddess who were sitting next to each other hadn't seen MCN before, so good ol' Gigi gave them the 'big sell' and I think we have some converts!

WOHB: no idea - DH changed him! :lol:

Welcome home NaNa!! I hope your trip was fantastic and you all aren't too jet lagged!

Shell how nice your little man is being co-operative for you!! My little girl is a clingy whingy almost monster at the moment. I don't know what's up!

No nappy news..she is in one of course, a pale pink bum g i think.