My plan for nappies - am I crazy?

[Maruschke]

Hi all,

I am eight weeks pregnant with my first child . We don't have many friends with babies and we are the first of our siblings to have children.

I would really love to have my child sleep in cloth nappies at night time, especially when they are sleeping through the night.

My plan was to use disposables for the first few weeks while I am finding my feet. Then I would switch to cloth for the longest sleep of the day / night, and if I felt I could cope with the work / if it worked for us, gradually buy more cloth nappies and phase out the disposables unless we were travelling.

Do you think this would work?

I am returning to work two days per week (one day from home, one day at work) when bubs is six months old. DH will work from home the day I am away. I don't want to be super busy washing nappies all day but I do love cloth. My friends have just laughed at me when I bring the idea up. They think I am a glutton for punishment!

Your honest opinions would be great, even from those of you who use disposables all the time.

EDIT: Forgot to add, I would like to buy the fitted cloth nappies on ebay, has anyone tried them?

[Arimeh]

Hi

I used disposables on DS until he was around 15 months old, and then switched over to cloth.

I brought a few so i would have a days worth of him in cloth, and built up my stash so now I have both kids in full time cloth. Including nights. DD is easy at nights still cos she wakes up so we change her, no special night time nappy required. DS has night nappies (and is a big wetter) but he used to leak through disposables (huggies)

I think I had DD in disposables for the first two weeks, cos i didn't want to deal with the horrible black poos you have at the start!!! YUKKOOOOO...

I do a load of nappies every two days, and its not that much work. Its only the one load.

I get a certain pleasure from rolling my trolley straight past the disposables at the supermarket every week!!!!

[visitor1]

I never started cloth til DD2 was 12 weeks old.....couldnt handle to poo in sposies...so no way was i going to attempt it in cloth!!!

I do use sposies when travelling, FDC and if im going to the shops....but cloth for home and night time

ETA: Depends what fitted you looking at eBay....id only buy 'name' brands...least then you know what your buying cos people can give you feedback on them!

[~Raven~]

I don't want to be super busy washing nappies all day

Seriously this won't happen! One load every second day, 10 mins to peg out and 10 mins to bring in an fold. That's it! You'd probably spend more time matching and folding socks together

I did a mix of sposies and flannel nappies from birth. I ended up not using them most of the time and reaching for a cloth from the pile. I found I was getting more leaks from the sposies and having to wash more clothes and bedding so using sposies wasn't making it easier for me!

Be really careful about what you buy from ebay. There are some good ones there but there is also a lot of rubbish too.

[Rach75]

I used good ole fashion flats from when Jack was about 4 weeks, we did use disp when going out or away, and I continued thru tillhe was about 9mths when I noticed he had trouble moving around with the bulk he was a biggish baby, so we went to disp fulltime...btu yeah its possible its not hard...

[Nai]

I put DD in MCN's at about 2 weeks (after the yukky black poo phase) and she has been in them ever since. I work 4 days a week and DP works full time. The washing has minimal impact on our lives. It takes approx 5 extra minutes per day to use MCN's over disposables plus you don't have to keep taking out the rubbish

Your plan is completely do-able although I would probably do it the other way round first ie. have disposables for sleeping and MCN's during wake times. They look so cute in them that you want to see them awake in them.