Sal - said it before, will say it again, great news. Any good news is great news in my book I know still a way to go but hey!

Delph - no good about Gumnut being unsettled during the day. I know what you mean about DH arriving home and throwing the baby at him... I do it with mine all the time and there are two of them!!! Poor DH, sometimes he is so filthy from crawling through rooves at work (he's an electrician) and he walks in just wanting a shower and some clean clothes and here's me going nutso! She will get better hun And your DH sounds pretty awesome

As for us TTC, probably not as small an age gap as between DD and DS... it is pretty full on with the two of them and if we buy a new house we will need me to be back at work for longer than the 5mths I managed this time

TBH I have days where I think I won't cope with a third bundle... but I just feel in my heart that I'm not done yet, that there's another bub in my future.

Hey again EJ!! Twice in one day, woo!

I was wondering the same thing about our BB threads... I think they are archived somewhere. Maybe post in the help section of the forum, one of the mods should be able to help you out.

"Sticky" means that it stays at the top of the list of threads, all the time. So no matter if someone posts or not, it'll always be at the top. Normal threads get bumped up and down the list depending on when people reply. Does that make sense? Mods will "sticky" something if they want people to see it. Oh and the most recent belly buddy groups are stickies, likewise the newest baby buddy groups.

WRT cloth - we're in cloth full time, I have a different nappy that I use overnight for my two. During the day they'll be in a cotton/microfibre nappy, its a slimmer, less absorbent, more trim nappy because we change more frequently. Overnight, I use a big chunky bamboo nappy with booster of some variety. My DD uses a terry flat folded up as her booster, it is massively chunky but anything else she just wets through. She also wears a silk liner in her night nappy as it helps prevent nappy rash being in the cloth for 12ish hours.

X, I have just started putting him into a "night nappy" and not changing him overnight. I still use a bamboo nappy, similar to DD, but he doesn't need as a big a booster - he gets a bamboo trifold, basically a rectangle of bamboo that I fold in three and it sits in the nappy. That absorbs all his overnight wees! I use a liner for him too, but it is microfleece, which wicks the moisture away from his skin and makes him feel drier overnight.

I've found cloth a bit trial and error overnight, with DD I really had to try out a few different nappy/booster combos to find one that was absorbent enough for her. She just wees heaps! We use a PUL cover, which doesn't breathe as much as a wool or fleece cover on the nappy, because anything other than PUL and she wakes up wet. So to combat the PUL cover we use the silk liner. Took us ages to find the best solution for her!

As for cloth in the car, I haven't heard anything about that sorry!


Sooo ladies, Delph's question about TTC has got me thinking, I've been meaning to ask - what is everyone doing about contraception? If you don't mind sharing?