Cloth Nappies #180

[teruteru]

who was after the swaddlebee fitted?

[damprye]

I have no idea where the flats discussion part is lol i tried but pretty hard to deciffer lol
i know someone said it on the BIG cloth nappy discussion board but im just hopeless lol

[Arimeh]

I have no idea where the flats discussion part is lol i tried but pretty hard to deciffer lol
i know someone said it on the BIG cloth nappy discussion board but im just hopeless lol

Here you go
CLICK HERE

[damprye]

thank you

[Livinthedream]

Yay foe you Mel, bit spewin ur moving away tho.

Lots of chatter today.

Am lovin my Pookey Pockets. will def get some more.

We sacked the dummy today, sick of getting up 20 times a night to put it back in. Might get ugly at about midnight, thats when he usually starts up. he is pretty buggered tho, refused his arvo sleep without his dum dum, so am reeeaaaally hoping he will just sleep through. I feel really mean, after all, we are the ones who got the poor lil bugga hooked on it.

[lilprecious75]

Hi All!

It has been AGES since I've been in the forum!

I am now the proud mother of TWO little boys!

Jeremy Paul Wilson was born at 10:50am on Saturday 25th July 2009 and his father, older brother, and I couldn't be happier or more proud!

I successfully achieved the VBAC I was hoping for and delivered a whopper - he was 4.2 kgs and 58 cms!! Beat his older brother by half a kilo and 6 cms!

Now for the cloth related stuff - sorry mods - I should have put all that in the birth announcements section!!

Anyway, Jeremy is in cloth about 50-70% of the time and I'm hoping to have him in cloth 100% of the time very soon. A friend of mine gifted me with a near full big packet of disposable nappies which I've been alternating with the cloth.

I have a pretty big stash but it isn't that conducive to cloth for a newborn. Though he weighed 4.2 kilos at birth he has chicken legs and a scrawny bum so a lot of my stash doesn't fit him yet. So I'm doing my best with my prefolds and PUL covers and for the most part they are working well. I'm just keen to get him in some other nappies (like my Baby Beehinds for one) and they still swim on him!!

I will try to pop in here much more often as I have missed you guys! Thus far Jeremy is a MUCH better sleeper then James was but he is doing a fair bit of his sleeping in the daytime and then cluster feeds for much of the night.

Good thing my hubby and I are pro co-sleeping as that allows me to get some sleep when I need it.

I will look forward to catching up with all of you in the days and weeks to come!

MAZ: Can you PM me please?????

[Arimeh]

Yayyyyyyyyyyyyy Heidi - congrats on the birth of bub - and WOOOOFREAKINHOOOOO for your VBAC!!!!!!

[teruteru]

congrats heidi

[teruteru]

congrats heidi

[Gigi]

ARIMEH - how fantastic you have got yourself a birthing centre place in Tassie already - that's great!! (talk about "meant to be" heh heh).

MLM - good luck with the dummy weaning

LIL PRECIOUS - welcome back adn CONGRATS on your vbac, CONGRATS on your new baby boy Jeremy.

have you got any NEWBORN sized PUL covers with leg gussets?

i had a 3.79kg bub, so just a tad smaller than yours, and the one mcn combo that gave us 100% leakproofness was a bamboo prefold in a nb PUL cover with leg gussets. we used them 24/7, home and out, cos leakage was much worse if it happened whilst i was out (at doctors etc), and so i stuck to what DIDN"T leak. the small aio's i had bought for "the going out bag" soon got ditched, for "what didn't leak". (prefolds and covers).

I had only bought SMALL covers when pregnant, so had to go get NB sized ones in a hurry (the smalls made for LEAK CITY). bilby was Miss chicken legs for the first four months too. so tummy and leg gapage were my #1 priority (to get rid of them).

i tried some small fleece pockets when she was around 5kg, and i got the fleece ones to work but not the PUL ones.

MAZ - which GF have you ordered? are they customs? after seeing Missymoo's bees and sealife GF creations, blimey, DROOLING doesn't even come CLOSE to describing my reaction!!

TAN - sorry to hear you've had gastro, that sure knocks you about.

wotbb: bluberry trainers and longies

********for the new person**********, sorry, i'm too lazy to go back pages and pages of post to find your name. Yes, i think you're on the right track. but as Kitten alluded to, the ONE thing you can safely buy in advance, is bamboo prefolds and nb covers. and a few OSFA fitteds e.g Mandy Macs, Cute Tooshies. whizz kidz etc.

the bamboo prefolds/foldups etc, you will use as boosters, inserts in other stages of nappying, so it's not like you ONLY use them at nb stage. the nb covers, yes, that is the expensive bit, you ONLY use them at nb stage but they are SO USEFUL, that it's worth it.

other things to buy in advance (to make your transition into using mcn, easy) may include:

- a little squirt (to rinse the poop off the nappies before putting now sopping nappy in the dry pail)

- two nappy buckets (one in use, one washed and drying) - if you have toddlers, you can get "lockable" nappy buckets at target for $12 each

- two wetbags (one in nappy bag ready to go, one in the wash)

- a nappy free time mat

- nappy rash cream (there are petroleum based ones, and non-petroleum based ones.) The petroleum based ones (barrier creams) will need to be used with a liner, if used in mcn, else you will stop the absorbent fabrics from being absorbent.

- a clothes horse

- make sure your washing machine is in good condition, if it's on it's last legs, buy a new one NOW, or at least, research "what new machine would i buy, if the washer died soon". I say this, cos MY washing machine DIED when my bub was two months old, i was ill, and it was really bad timing, when you use MCN and REALLY rely on your washing machine working.

- zippered wash bags

- one of those little round plastic rings with the pegs on it, that you hang up socks on, to hang up all the little mcn things e.g boosters, liners.

- mild washing detergent (to avoid nappy rash) examples are ecostore, aware sensitive, euca, soapnuts - the idea is to avoid perfumes, parabens, enzymes, optical brighteners, colours etc

- a nappy bag big enough to accomodate cloth nappies and wetbag, most are designed to fit sposies only (which are much tinier)

- buy baby clothing (bottoms, onesies) a bit bigger (to accomodate the cloth bottom). if the clothing is too firm, you may get compression leaks, eg where the snaps do up in the crotch area.

- a stash of cloth wipes/face washers e.g of cotton velour, to use instead of disposable baby wipes. (Most of these have the major active ingredient of propylene glycol, which gives many bubs nappy rash). You just use water and the cloth wipe. Then "little squirt" the cloth wipe after you have cleaned up a pooey little bottom and throw the cloth wipe in with the nappies.

- half a metre of micropolar fleece, to cut up into liners. no sewing needed, the edges don't fray.

- a few dozen bamboo trifolds/foldups (at booroi)

- a four pack of nb sized PUL leg gusset covers (on sale at nurture nappies). Don't take the labels off, don't wash them, if you happen to have a bigger baby than the reccomended size for those covers, then exchange them for the bigger size.

- you are human, you are pregnant, you are NESTING, buy something "just cos it's cute" to show off your new baby's little bot.

- if you are a basic sewer, buy a metre of bamboo fleece and have a try at making some trifolds yourself - double layer of 30 x 30cm, overlock all around. you're done. fold it into three, lay that into a leg gusset cover, lie a microfleece liner on top of the bamboo - now put that combo on a teddybear for practice LOL.

- join the ozclothnappies yahoo group, wonderful resource, (read their link FAQ frequently asked questions about mcn)

- join the nappycino forum, wonderful mcn advocacy resource (read their section "how to nappy a newborn")

- go in the Great Down under Nappy Hunt in September, it's a treasure hunt, you find icons along the way and collect those (for prizes of mcn!). Many of the participating sponsors have good discounts on too, for that month.

- don't be scared of SIZED nappies. there are some brands that do generous weight ranges, i got excellent value out of nappies that went from 7 - 16kg for example. my child tt-d at around 12kg anyhoo. (i wouldn't mind if that had happened later, i MISS her being in mcn!!!).

From birth to 7 kg, we used the bamboo prefolds and covers mainly.
From 7kg to toilet training, we used mainly pocket/ all in two nappies in the 7 - 16kg size. (i read a stat that the average age for a bub in cloth to TT is 13kg, so i bought the "up to 16kg nappies thinking i had given us a 3 kg window).

my initial fear, when i was brand new like you hon, was that i would have to buy
36 x nb nappies
36 x small nappies
36 x medium nappies
36 x large nappies
36 x extra large nappies
THAT was my view of SIZED nappies ($$$$$$$$) LOL. and it scared me silly! turned out to be NOTHING like what i had feared at all.

I haven't given you links, cos we are not allowed to do that on this forum. but google will help you no end.

hth

[LaDolceVita]

WOW!! Thankyou sooooo much for all of your help and advice ladies! What a friendly thread!

Thankyou once again for your wealth of knowledge Arimeh! Can't wait until your store is all stocked up again! You are continuing from Tas yea?!

Thanks also to Sas, Kitt3n, MissyMoo & Maz - You have given me lots more to think about! Maz I am stalking your store now - I still have to learn what everything is though - I don't have much of an idea of what I am looking for yet!

GIGI - You are an Angel! I can't thank you enough for your mammoth post of information, rest assured I read it all and am extrememly grateful!

Welcome Damprye!

Congrats lilprecious!

You have all given me much more to research! TBH I hadn't even thought about Prefolds/Flats for NB's, I was kinda hoping to be lazy and do dispoasables if my AIO's don't fit and wait until they do - Just becuase I am scared off by the research I have to do into more kinds of nappies after it took me ages to even learn the small amount I have about AIO's! Honestly, I like the AIO's beacuse they're gorgeous, great for the environment, will save me $$ in the long run (We plan to have 2-3 children) and because they seem so EASY! Just as easy as a disposable but with washing time, which I don't mind! But every other nappy seems like so much work and I am overwhelmed!

I am so confused by all the fibres available, at the Baby Expo an Itti Bitti's lady was explaining to me why she uses different nappies for night time, Bamboo with inserts or something, this all confuses me to no end! Although I do love the idea of keeping it as natural as possible! There's soooooo much to learn!

I have just bid on one of Schmickers Brand New Cushie Tushies on Buy for Babies - The Blue one with the white spots I have loved forever - Excited about that! Even DH is excited about "minky bums"


Ok so I am going on a hunt now, I am looking for covers with leg gussets, flats, fitteds & prefolds - Preferably Bamboo and I am going to search through Maz's store, Rikki's & Tot Bots for more of an idea of what I am after... Aaaah it's too early for me, Im a bit frazzled already!


So a quick question, (I am sure after I get back from my research hunt I will have many more!) what is the process of rinsing/washing/soaking for the prefolds/fitted/flats & covers? Just the same as AIO's pretty much?? Prob a silly question, I am just trying to get the gist of what my workload will be day to day, nappy to nappy if that makes sense??

Thankyou all soooooooo much again! Especially for your patience with a new Mum to be on her L plates with EVERYTHING! Your kindness and advice is GREATLY appreciated!

Alicia xox

Oh PS - WOMB and WOAB - The acronyms, can someone please fill me in? Thanks again! A x

[*charmalea*]

morning all!!

woha on the whopper but YAY on the VBAC ! i had a VBAC at 42 weeks ... and thankfully i had a small 3kg one .kudos to you !!! for heidi !!

my laptop is possesed today , keeps going funky on me ,, grr so i will stay away ... maybe ...

WOGB- a minky MA ---- still in her night nappy ... better get her out of bed and changer her ...

[sweetpea678]

Well, I got most of my nappies now that I had ordered, they are washed and hanging out. Still not quiet enough to go full time though. but getting there if I was daily should have enough till I get the rest. I only have about 20 sposies left and don't want to buy anymore.

My dh made me a little squirt thing on the laundry tub, works great and only cost $30, and as I have a bad back no bending over to use it.

WORB red and white spotted itti bitti.

[Gigi]

SWEETPEA - you have a clever dh

ALICE - it's easy to buy "lemons" when you are new to it all
before you buy anything more, go read the FAQ section at ozclothnappies.
read the questions about fabrics
read the questions about washing mcn
read the questions about the different styles of nappies
this will make browsing thru mcn websites MUCH more understandable for you (to help you "get" the jargon).

LEA - a 3kg bub at 42wks! wow. i went to 42wks too, drank SO much raspberry leaf tea, trying to bring on labour LOL.

WOHB
What's on his bott?

we often put that at the end of our posts e.g what mcn is currently on our baby's bot

[sweetpea678]

On the dh front, he actually finally changed a cloth nappy yesterday, so he is coming around, and made the little squirt type thing. So I am getting there, my stach builiding is going ok, Though have to wash 1-2 daily so they are dry in time for the next day, as don't have quiet enough to wash 2-3 daily yet.

Have my nappies and new ones out dryin now, so hopefully bub will be in cloth again tomorrow, if not dry then will be sposies again.

WORB purple itti.

[SamiH]

Gosh I have the opposite problem - well not really - I dont have a huge stash - around 25 I think - and cos DS2 is in daycare now 2 days a week I only send a going home nappy for those two days so miss about 10 others getting used. On Wednesday his nappy shelf was FULL - but of course fast forward two days, half and half

[1MOREPLZ]

oh to be back to 25 nappies
we have up near 80 with afew more coming

[Cheeky_Monkey]

NER NER NER NER NER

Sorry just had to get that out. I had lovely cuddles today with Ali's Leah. Oh so gorgeous. Miss Sarah and Miss Emma are also extremely gorgeous little girls. Had a great time, thanks Ali.