we went to sleep school, got told the same thing. But their refusal to let me use them on bilby, was based on flat nappies, pilchers and napisan. They had never seen MCN or understood how they worked.

So i took a big bag of MCN. A nappy pail. During the day, i changed bilby, put the poo in the loo and the used nappies in the nappy pail. Each evening, her father visited the sleep school, swapped a clean nappy bucket and a bag of washed mcn, took home the pail of used mcn. This worked well, but we lived maybe 30mins drive from sleep school and the sleep school was near his work.

After two days of doing this, the midwives (who had never seen MCN before) begrudgingly said it was ok for us to use cloth nappies at sleep school.

Just one person's experience.