Thinking of converting to cloth pads...advice?

[Marlene]

Thanks Mel, I will be checking out your album

[Kitt3n]

diary of clothing, day two

used a swaddlebees overnight, a long one. this definately needs snug fitting undies

also tried a happy heiny yesterday - these are microfleece topped. nice. very nice, but i do prefer the velour.

jar seems to be working well - need to do a load of nappies this morning so i will just chuck them in with that and see how it goes......

[Nadine216]

I've been toying with this idea too. *TMI Warning* but after having two kids tampons just don't do it for me anymore. I constantly FEEL them and it was not like that before ... and I DID NOT EVEN HAVE A VB

I use tampons for the first two days (pads at night - after ds anyway) and then I just spot for about a week and no reliable bleeding at night. I use a pad .. I don't spot at night, I don't ... well, ya know So I keep throwing away un-spotted clean pads that I wore during the day/night. And I really feel that if I'm going to put ds in cloth, might as well do myself too, right?

I'm going to make my own ... any ideas on good free patterns that I can download? Do they really (seriously) really feel better than disposables? And do you really need a waterproof layer if you spot really light? Would something like just a nylon backing work .. for light days.

TIA (and sorry for highjacking)