Ok now don't attack me.. :pray: *hiding in the corner covering my head* lol
I don't understand everyone's addiction to Mcn's.
Tell me what all the hype is?
Convince me they are better and why?
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Ok now don't attack me.. :pray: *hiding in the corner covering my head* lol
I don't understand everyone's addiction to Mcn's.
Tell me what all the hype is?
Convince me they are better and why?
cos they're soft and pretty, and you can pat them all day long..mmmm..minky...
disposables cost a lot more, DS would go through a box a week. We have a f/l cycle washing machine, so its not a lot of extra water when we're using half what a top loader uses anyway.
Its environmentally friendly, natural and kind on my sensitive bubs skin... sposies give her rashes. There cute, fluffy and soft. I hate paying for things i throw out. and once u start u cant stop its an addiction...
Because I look for excuses to show off Pip's gorgeous bum, instead of hiding the paper & plastic from sight.
They are a functional fashion statement.
And I love knowing that now I no longer *need* to buy nappies. I choose to instead! And that's even if I have another 1, 2, 3 kids ...
Coz they are sooooo funky!
Oh & good for the environment & bubbies butt.
But mostly the funkiness! The softness, The minkyness...
All of the above.
Oh & its really not any extra work. Pretty much the same. Just no stinky bins.
Cos I got sick of throwing money in the bin basically. I got sick of having one kid in nappies and totally stinking up my bin with crappy sposies. Couldn't imagine having two kids in stinky nappies stinking up my bin!!! LOL
First time I used a MCN I felt a weight lifted off my shoulders - I really did. Felt much better knowing that I was doing something better for the environment, rather than rubbishing it.
Love how functional they are. Love that I can adjust the absorbency for my kids needs, cos DS used to wet through a sposie overnight and I got sick of changing the sheets late at night!!!
Love minky... mmmm.. minky... *drools*
Especially love the looks you get from people - "yes I'm one of THOSE mothers.. "
ROFL
Once you go cloth - prepare to be addicted!!!! (Well, first overwhelmed by all the information and choices - and THEN addicted ;))
For us it was more the cost than anything, but they are so gorgeous. For me to have enough nappies to have 2 in cloth full time was about the same as buying disposables for a year, and they last longer than a year. MCN also take less work than Terry Flats and breathe better.
Well for starters they are just so damn gorgeous! Disposibles smell and make bub smell like wee, cloth does not even if i have just taken a sopping wet nappy off him. They cost a heck of lot less than buying sposies every week. Only 1 extra load of washing per week which is effortless. And i like to know i am not throwing plastic into the enviroment that doesn't break down and leaves a nasty mess. They also last more than 1 child so are even less expensive that way.
Thanks for your replies
Ok i agree that they look cute etc
I understand its better for the environment, but surely it is more work for yourself?
Also i know a few of you have changed from sposies to cloth recently when bubs is older, do you think it has made it more expensive now after being in sposies for 10+ months?
Is it worth changing now, being Hamish is almost 11 months?
Given i am not sure i am able to have any more kids will i be able to resell them?
Yes you can resell them (on buy for baby not ebay) so not only are you getting monies worth - you will also get some back - can't say that for sposies.
I'd say I will still end up saving money. I have nappies that will do for the 3rd child - and then I will still be able to sell them - so will do 3 kids PLUS get some money back.
I wouldn't say its that much more work for myself? I do a load every second night, and then the next night, put the machine on rinse, and then hang them out inside. Takes me about 10 minutes to hang out nappies. Then when its time to take them off - I throw inserts in the dryer for a few minutes if not completely dry - and then it takes about 15 minutes to put them all together. However - I have 2 in cloth so I would have double the amount that you would.
I started when DS was around 14 months and I'm glad I would never go back. I do have some sposies left over, but I don't think they would fit the kids now, and I've never needed to go back to them (nor would I want to!)
AbbIt wasnt a huge switch for me... we have been using flats during the day for ages... i only used them when going out and nights until i found MCN's. It has cost me a bit but now i dont need sposies anymore... DD as u know is same age as Hamish... so i dont think she will be TT for a while and i intend on having another so it wasnt so bad for me... i was buying box a fortnight so bout $35p/fn calculate that over a year its about $900... Once i get enough to last 2 days i would have only spent about $400-500... Only cos i brought babylegs to match... LOL.
Its not that much more work for me. 1 extra load of washing per week and folding them is rather therapeutic for me.
He's only 11mths old so a long way off from toilet training. So i reckon it'd be worth it.
For DP and I cost is a huge factor... when we found out we were pg we were ecstatic as we were actively TTC - but then things started to happen... DP is an independent contractor and we had to start relying more and more on my wage to get by. This was my huge panic moment - how on earth were we going to survive with a bub $$ wise.
We then decided that we would use cloth - I spend now on cloth so that once bubs is here the $$ that would have gone to nappies can go to the other things
As I said, its not any extra work to me. ATM I am doing a small load every night. I hang them on the clothes rack out the front to get the morning sun (all the sun we get, lol) & if not completely dry they go in the dryer.
10 minutes to hang out, 10 or so to fold.
I only have about 10 MCN's & 8 terry flats. I started with flats, while waiting to get the MCN's. I buy 1 or 2 MCNs a week. So I end up spending around the amount I used to spend on sposies.
The ones I have are enough. I don't need any more long as I wash every day, but I do anyway, so thats no big deal.
You can easily resell, or I plan to keep mine for my sister & SIL. My sister is 19 & a long way off having kids & she already can't wait to be buying fluff!!
lots of things helped to decide me
my mum used to do FDC and her bin always reeked from sposies! my bro and SIL then had three kids and it continued. i looked at using cloth as the bins are smaller now than they used to be, and i just can't stand the smell of sposies in the bin. i wasn't keen on the idea of flats (cos i've seen too many kids pull them off) plus i hate (with a passion) the old "plastic pants" - i wanted something that would breathe. i have very sensitive skin myself, so am assuming Gremlin will be the same
when i joined BB, i started looking around. had never heard of MCN's so when i seen them mentioned, i had to look (i'm such a beak!) - and i fell in love. over the time we were TTC DH and I spoke about the impact (environmental, financial) of both sposies and MCN's and came to the conclusion that MCN's would be better for us - we live a fair way from anywhere that i can buy sposies, for a lot of the time, given DH's job, i will be doing this solo - so we wanted to be as prepared as possible for me to NOT have to go out for anything if i don't want to. so we decided on MCN's!
my mum was dead set against cloth - told me she'd have a stash of sposies at her house for Gremlin for anytime she is looking after her (mum will care for her when i go back to work after 12 months) - i told her to give it a chance, see what MCN's are about etc. showed her and dad some fluffy mail one day, and the biggest issue we now have is making sure that we have outfits taht work with the fluff when she's at Granmas! Granma has even said she'll probably work out what nappies work best for Gremlin and buy her own stash for the two days per week bubba will be there - huge turn around!
Sorry not to hijack this thread but...
how would you girls reccommend a lazy person do mcn's?? I do washing once a week, so the thought of doing washing every 2 days, AH! we dont have a dryer either...
jords - if you're not an active washer (i'm certainly not) you may find you need a larger stash. a lot of ladies on here are able to get by with very few nappies cos they are able to wash every day (this probably applies to larger families cos they have no choice!) - as a once a week (or fortnight) washer myself (i live alone a lot of the time and refuse to wash unless i have a full load) - this is something that has bugged me a bit - how can i be motivated. however, i decided to make the leap and simply commit to washing at least twice a week (only nappies though - the rest can still wait!) - it means having a larger stash of nappies, but i can cope with that! my intent is to wash every second night but not having pressure on myself to do so. i probably have enough nappies for four days, so could go to three days and then just dry in the dryer if we need to (so i do have an advantage over you!) - but it's one of those things you have to balance yourself
Jords - I'm a pretty lazy person (truly, you should see the rest of my house) but the thought of the nappies sitting there for more than 2 days with pee in them - yukko - nope, its easy to chuck her in the washing machine and let it do its stuff!!! lol
And sometimes - I even get DH to do it ;)
Putting on a load of washing isn't that hard though, I always laugh when people say "isn't it more work" and I say... "Well, I'm not HAND washing" LOL! Chuck them in the machine and then a few minutes to put them on the line. Seriously easy! And if you have between 20-30 nappies, you can get away with washing every 2-3 days. Honestly, you wouldn't want to leave them any longer...
BTW we didn't have a dryer until a few weeks ago, and Jazz has been in cloth since she came home from hospital. just get a clothes airer, that way you can wash and hang inside even if its wet.
PMSL Mel... i like the looks... I like it when i get comments like "oh isn't that a cute outfit" "oh, its a cloth nappy actually" ;);) hehehe
They're pretty colours and they're so nice and soft. The look really cute too. Environmentally friendly. I hate buying stuff then throwing it in the bin. If Claire is wearing sposies, I can fill up a whole bin in a day. Not cool!
Theyre really not much work at all. We use a flushable liner in each nappy, so if she does a poo in it, usually we can just pick up the liner and put it all into the toilet. The poo just comes up with the liner. You're not supposed to put poo in the bin anyway, so you should be doing the same with a disposable nappy (put the poo in the toilet not the bin). Then I just chuck the dirty nappies in the bucket and when the bucket is full, they all go in the wash. Its probably 2 extra loads of washing per week.
Jords, if you want to wash less, get more nappies. But if you leave them for more than 2-3 days the smell is horrendous. Its the wee smells, not the poo smells that knock me flat.
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The average time it adds to wash and fold mcns (in a washing machine lol) is 7 mins a day.
So no, not really extra work, just like folding any other washing.
For me it wasnt that they are a bit better for the environment - they are EXPONENTIALLY better for the environment. Disposable nappies take hundreds of years to decompose...so EVERY SINGLE disposable every put in land fill is still sitting there. Can you imagine the biological hazard that creates? And that is only one concern that creates!
Is 7 minutes a day really all that much when you think about how much work you are creating for your son and his childrens' generations to clean up the mess?
That is my thinking anyway. Disposables are dirty, disgusting, hazardous, expensive - for you, the environment and your kids, full of chemicals that are banned for use in womens sanitary pads because they are known to cause TSS....
...And beautiful gorgeous fluffy MCNs are none of those things...they are renewable, resellable, mostly made by WAHMs so you suppoprt grass roots economy, cheaper over the course of your babys nappy life and I know I am making an active contribution to ensuring Im not contaminating the world my daughter and grandchildren will live in :)
So why NOT fluff? ;)
I am one that started late with MCN....I am so glad I did!! It really isn't any extra work, with 5 people to wash for already it's only one more load every couple of days.
I love how gorgeous they are...everyone comments when you are out.
Jack never really got rashes anyway....but they are great if your baby has sensitive skin.
It is quite expensive to buy all at once when you are starting late, but it is well worth it and you are saving money in the long run.
You can re-sell them on buy for baby (a baby auction site) and they really do fetch quite a good price!
I wish I had known about them before, I would have started buying while I was preggers. But I will keep what I have for the next one. ;)