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Hi ladies,
Was just wondering what your all planning to use for nappies? Also if you already have a baby, what you use? I really would like to use cloth, but the convenience of disposable is starting to look a whole lot more appealing!!! Maybe cloth at home and disposable when you go anywhere????
Hi Nina, I've just started using cloth at home. I usually use disposables when I go out. I do use disposables at home sometimes too but mainly cloth. I found disposables good for when she was a newborn and did explosive poos. To be honest, I dont find cloth to be any more difficult than disposables. It just means a bit more washing, but I have enough cloth nappies so that I dont have to do a load every day. If I run out, I stil have disposables anyway. I dont like the way that disposbles take up so much room (ie, I feel like I am constantly emptying the bin when I've been using disposbles.. it seems like such a waste of resources to me!) Plus you can get some very pretty modern cloth nappies :)
I have just started using MCN in the last week, after 2.5 years of sposies. I am loving them - they aren't a lot of work - a little bit of extra washing and a little bit of extra folding is all. And they are way cheaper (well, they are dearer to start with but it doesn't take long to recoup it), as well as cuter as Shannon said. I really wish I had discovered them earlier - I would have saved hundreds of dollars. I recommend you at least research them - there are lots of website, and have a peek at the cloth nappy threads here on BB. There is tonnes of info.
I used spoises for the first 9 months, now use MCN most of the time. I only use sposies for FDC and when we go out now.
New bub will be in sposies for the first 4-6 weeks then into cloth.
I have used cloth since DS was about 10 months old and love them. i used terry flats to start with but found them too bulky and not too absorbent, now i have mcn and am addicted they are just too cute and they are nice and soft, so easy to change and wash, you can cuck em in the dryer if you have a wet climate like me. I have ben using disposables when we go away for a weekend but am thinking i might even start taking cloth with me instead.
If i had another baby i would probably use disposables for the first few months til i got over the new baby thing, but definately switch to mcn when you feel ready, thy re easy to use, cost effective, comfier, and way cuter, and your bin doesnt fill up nearly as quickly!
Cloth is easier - you never need remember to buy nappies at the shops! I do cloth all day (AIOs when we're out and about in the nappy bag) and disposable at night as DS sleeps better with that... unless I forget to buy them, then it's cloth at night. I've done cloth on holiday too, but then there was a washing machine there.
Major cloth advantages include trousers not falling down and no marmitevegemite smell coming from the nappy.
Nina, I notice this is going to be your first kiddo - perhaps give cloth a shot! We'd like to have at least 3, so the fact that I can re-use cloth for 3 kids is a big financial winner in my mind.
We have used disposables at times, and all I ever feel like I'm doing is emptying the bin! So there's pain in both, washing cloth or constantly emptying the nappy bin! I'm pretty lazy though, and cloth's been fine for me. Even going out, it's just as easy as using cloth at home really.
Plus, a newborn in cloth will usually be in a fitted PLUS a cover, which gives two lines of defence against those loaded newborn poos - I found that disposables often leaked on me in those solely breastfed stages, which isn't the end of the world, but pretty darned annoying.
You're pretty early on in your pregnancy, which is good, you'll have plenty of time to research and pace yourself with your learning - it can be a bit of information overload at first!
All the best, and keep asking questions as they occur to you. :)
I also used sposies for the first 8 or so months then switched to MCN and I now wouldnt look back. I honestly dont find it anymore diffcult than using sposies, I use them all day at home and out and just sposies over night or when DD is at daycare or mum's. Really the only extra work for us is an extra load of washing every 2 days and 5 more mins folding washing.
Another fantastic thing about MCN is that you get to get some sunshine every second day or so as you're at the clothes line. It might just be the only outdoor time you get for the first few weeks! Plus you'll get nice firm arms from hanging your nappies out! Bonus!
And a cloth butt is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO much cuter than a sposie butt. Sposie butts are flat and boring whilst cloth butts are nicely rounded and colorful.
Thanks ladies, that is all I needed to know....that they weren't that much work cause according to ppl that I have spoken to they are. I've always wanted to use cloth so I'm gonna now!! :)
Yeah that is what I thought....they probably haven't even tried it!!
sposies leak like billyo for b/fed newborn poos - definitely go the cloth for the first few months if you don't want to have to leap up in horror every time you hear a poo for fear of it going on your clothes!
try terry flats with great covers for the first few weeks - you must tuck in the legs adn this adds extra poo catching ability. the reason I say try these is you will go through so many during n/born stage and these dry quickly so you don't have to buy quite so many. AIO's may not contain projectile poos quite so well as there aren't two lines of defence.
also, have a read about EC, it makes cloth nappying so much easier - and fun! (and no, you don't need to have them naked all day, or even at all, or allow accidents, or be there 24/7, or do it all the time, or co-sleep, or any of the other silly myths you migth hear about it at first.)
I only own 30 nappies and I haven't washed since saturday. I still have 16 nappies left clean in my stacker and I only used 5 sposies since the last wash. I will only need to wash nappies once this week - all due to pottying!
I keep her cloth nappied full time but I just hold her over the potty when I change her. marvellous for future toilet training as she already has a reason to try to hold on a little longer each day and so her muscles are strengthening. she now pees much less often than the average 1 year old that wears nappies - and she's only 4 months! she will also never find the feeling of wetness/dirtiness acceptable and so she will avoid the psychological problesm later on that some kids have where they don't care if they're dirty or not.
some days one nappy lasts me about 25 hours. (clean and dry the whole time.) she has been dry overnight even - 8 hours!
do a search for elimination communication online for more info - especiallky pictures as the position you hold them in is important.