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Did somebody say something? :tmi: I am a virtuous goddess of sale avoidance. Luckily AGs and I don't see eye to eye.:
Re: liners - to use with cream, you need to use something pretty sturdy that the cream won't go straight through. So chux wipe type things and flushable or supermarket liners won't protect your precious nappies as well as something like microfleece or silk.
WONB: Dragon Auriel. Poppet is in size 2s already!
Thanks Audax! That gives me a better mental image! I was almost dry heaving thinking a care provider had used another bub's pot :lol::
ETA: Fluffy mail! Newborn sized Maz covers rocked up on my doorstep today. I got prefolds too and they look super easy to use. I'm going to practice on one of DD's dolls tonight after she goes to bed or they'd go missing. It took me 30 odd mins to get them off her :lol: Fluff addict in the making! :D
I got fluffy mail today too! But not my candies, poo!
I got a medium itti d'lish and an izzy bear with day and night inserts :D
Waaaah!!! One of my tutto shells made it into the drier where I was finishing off some inserts...
On "extra dry" :(
I hope it's ok :(
fingers crossed its ok helle! :hug:
i would love to buy new nappies but alas bills must be paid so it must wait for a bit longer :(
WOHB - bbh mulitfit in purple
Hopefully as a once off it should be ok. I used to put my shells in the dryer before I was told otherwise and they lived for a while. They died earlier than other's but still lived :p:
I discovered a sun area for my boosters that's a puppy free zone so they're back to being sunned :lol: I was using the laundry window but I had to leave them there a couple of days to really unstain them. I dunno what I'm going to do in winter though...
WOCB: Pink skulls on black Abby Gro!
I hope so. It doesn't sound crickley...
Is it one of those dryers that just have the cycle lengths rather then the switch to control the heat? My dryer has no heat options and just cycle lengths and it isn't as hot as the older style dryers. It should be okay if it doesn't sound like a plastic bag has been put in it!
It has delicate, dry and extra dry. Then 30, 60 and 90. I always put it on extra dry cos it's a heap of crap XD:
Definitely no plastic bag. Phew!
Oh no Helle!! Hope its ok!
Well we are at sydney airport waiting for our flight to canberra. I bought only cloth!! Bit scared but looking forward to seeing if i can handle it!
Wocb: sposie until we get to canberra..
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We are off on a camping trip and took only cloth too. Will be interesting!
Wojb eBay cheapie with extra boosting for the car trip
ah, me ... well, we're at teething central here, and have had EXPLOSIVE POO for days on end! DH, who is a SAHD made the executive decision to switch to disposables for the past few days, and we have today gone back to cloth ... very pleased :)
does anyone else here use terry squares?
WOJB? red terry square :D
to all those who have AIOs,pockets etc.
what did you do to prepare ur nappies when you got them. iv heard you need to wash them several times before use. do u need to wash them with detergent for these washes. and also do you need to do these prep washes on the shells aswell if ur have SIO's,pockets?
just a quickie, has anyone elses bub reacted to baby powder?
WOAB: flnell flat bamboo booster motherease cover and a lot of benpanthen!
WOKB: bambooty
I've never actually used it :redface::
Mummajj usually it's three washes is clothes washing detergent. Ecostore is tops for nappies otherwise use half a scoop of your normal stuff :) you don't HAVE to do it before wear tho, but it does make them more absorbent :)
I never wash anything to prepare it, I just let the kids wear it for less time until it's been a few washes and wears, then it lasts the 2-3 hours. Shells will only need one wash to remove manufacturing residue if they have no boosting in them:
because they don't have anything to increase absorbency. ITMS?
Sarah - I don't use baby powder, I use cornflour if needed. :)
No nappy news here other than I need more haha
Oh but S is out of her newborn Maz covers now so that's exciting.. Gives me something to sell lol
I second the corn flour. At the moment I've got a wriggler who doesn't lie still. Velcro is the easiest to get on him, but it's also the easiest for him to get off.
Boys pulling at their bits is normal right? I'm surprised he doesn't pull it off he tweaks it so roughly.
Issy Bear for us at the mo...
Don't you hate it when you forget to pack the night time nappy covers!! I have one cover and it's too small to go over night nappy!
WOMB:bubblebubs bam bam and NB BBH cover
peanutter - I'm going to be use terry and flannel flats in combo with MCN. Do you use flats exclusively? I'm not sure how long I'll use them, if they'll be absorbant enough once Das gets bigger?
I use flats. I give them extra boost with a bamboo trifold.
what's a bamboo trifold?:
its like a rectangle of bamboo u fold into 3 :)
WOMB: sposie and longies
WOJB: nic nap night
I'll be using terry flats for new bub but DD is a champion piddler and even with extra boosting it'd be messed up :lol:. We have colds AND teeth here so the extra snotties combined with teething is making DD a poo factory again. Last 2 year old tooth coming through now so I am looking forward to all this s--t being over with (no pun intended). After literally only 12 hours I am gagging on the ammonia smell that is in the nappy bucket. I am even separating shells and inserts and little squirting inserts to try and dilute the ammonia stench. Good job DD uses 6-8 nappies a day still so I don't feel sooooo bad about my nightly washing.
WOCB: airing her poor bits after all the poo today! looking a tad red even with moogoo slathered on every change and only water wipes to clean.
:lol: yup compleatly normal!! my 1yo dd has curently "discovered" herself and each change is a struggle, i was shocked at first as i thought only boys done that!:
i thought id be safe with the baby powder as well its, powder, but obviously not. dd1 wasnt this bad and she grew out of it, i thought it was the nappy as its a difrent liner to the others but it is only were the powder was, and its like a burn, poor little thing.
i use the flats ocasionaly, both the flannell and terry ive been using the peapod boosters and microfiber ones just so there got the extra absorbancey.
ah, thanks!
we use a bamboo pad wrapped in a terry overnight as the insert to an internet cheapie ... works well for us!
but during the day, it's normal terries - we probaby still change him 4-6 times during the day, depending on need :)
DS has been sitting in the bath lately just grabbing it and pulling it so far out! i keep thinking he is going to pull it off! we keep his hands busy at change time tho as he is so much of a wriggler
WOHB - sposie. about to be a bbh petite
So. We are staying at a place that has a newsagence, grocery store, deli, butcher and chemist. That's it. Walk into the chemist and what do they sell? Peapods. I live in a small city and nowhere sells MCNs?!
So anyway... I got some bamboo peapod trifolds to use with our flats and eBay cheapie pockets (instead of the microfibre). Considering the nappies are average they make wicked boosters.
They only have peapods at my local baby shop. I was quite shocked that anywhere in Kalgoorlie sold MCNs. I only know of about 4 women in town that use MCN and 2 of those use Cushie Tushies (one's a rep and the other is her friend :lol:). I did however bump into a cloth addict a while back who I put onto Maz night nappies.:
Nappy news is my puppy has a deathwish and tried to nab an abby gro shell when I had the laundry door open. He stopped mid tracks when he heard the tone in my voice :lol: If only I could get Pixie to listen to me like that today...
WOCB: Marine Green BBH magicall. Last wear I think because we have bum crack happening!
I miss my nappies :(
Can't wait to get home and get my boy in some cloth!
CL my sister lived in Kal. She just moved to Perth tho. Was a teacher at the High school.
bubba slept in his first cloth nappy last night. slept 7 hours and no leaks!! yippeee.
ew, that would have been scary. I've seen some of the teenagers getting around and I think they're a tad intimidating. I might just be getting old though :lol::
Mummajj-which night nappy did you end up going for?
WOCB- Sposie with a bum smothered in msm cream. now onto snotty poo with this cold so poor pixie's bum isn't getting a rest!
Lol nah, she was the metal work and woodwork (etc) teacher so she could defo hold her own with the wee *****s.
Now that I did not expect :lol: I almost spat my coffee at the computer :rofl:
How absorbant are itti bitti Tuttos? Trying to plan ahead for a heavy wetter really after judging DD's quantity of wee. On a scale of 1-10 VS say a BBH magicall on absorbancy and drying time what are everyone's thoughts?
WOCB: Red minky Abby Gro
I find my tuttos awesome!! 12hrs overnight with no leaks and really really full!!! She only ever leaks of the booster is sitting over the elastic on the legs (whenever dh changes her):
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After how many pre washes was that MrsBexie? Did it have the bamboo booster in or microfibre?
We are finally home and my boy is back in cloth! Yay!!!
Wowb- hippybottomus + extra BL booster... Altho it's not exactly night anymore!
I only did one prewash but they have been washed about 5-8 times. And thats the bamboo. I have 2 microfibre too and they are fine. If i want it to be more absorbant with microfibre i but in a bamboo mini booster.
Yay weemansmum!!!
I am going good with using cloth away. Have to wash today and pop them in the sun as early as possible! Glad i bought extra boosters too!
Wocb sposie overnight.
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For absorbancy I would given them an 8, for drying (especially in winter) maybe a 5. They have a sewn in booster that can take a while to dry.:
Nappies that are completely snap in or pockets that don't have sewn in boosters will dry quicker. Alternatively, in winter around the house I especially like using the BBH bamboo fitteds with a pair of longies because I can put the whole fitted in the dryer if I need to without having to worry about PUL.
For a heavy wetter and quick drying have you thought about Issy Bears (minky only, cotton outer nappies will wick)? They can be a bit on the bulky side but I've never had a leak from those and they dry really quick. Tuttos are good too, but I think are more suitable to medium-light wetters...
Thanks Yeddi. A 5 in drying time I can do in winter because Kal isn't that wet. I have a heap of abby gros that have super fast drying shells and tumble dryable inserts but a few are getting tired. I think there is maximum of a month total here that you have to use the dryer because there will be a massive dump of rain on a day and then sun for 3 days lol. I just didn't want to get anything with most of the boosters sewn into the shell. We have heaps of Bonnibuns and abby gro backups while tuttos are drying anyway. I'll be using mostly flats until summer (early octoberish gets warm) and it's quite warm until late march (and was even 34 degrees on monday!)
WOCB: nothing, post night air before we have a shower and get dressed for playgroup