Saving money on nappies

System

I have 3 children, 2 were in disposables until toilet trained, my daughter is in cloth. I wish i had had the information about cloth when i had my sons. Im sure i would of used cloth with them as well. The claim that nappy rash is worse with disposables is totally ridiculous. I have used both, and from my experience since changing to cloth we have not had one case of nappy rash (maybe because daughters bot isnt in contact with chemicals all day). I feel that for a profesional person to make this claim is simply irresponsible. Surely we should be trying to encourage the use of cloth, which is kinder to our babies skin and our enviroment.

mistral_2

I have just one thought .....


God bless Pampers !!!.


P.s Has anyone actually stayed around for 100 yrs to see if they bio degrade ?

plumpmouse

I agree Mistral Custom

By the way pampers are on 2 for £14 at Boots so you can save a bit without swapping to reusable

mistral_2

My little boy was breast fed for 14 mths and never once had nappy rash !

Lucky I guess but it does make you wonder .

His bum however has kept pampers in profit !!!

It took a lot of hard work and tears for my girlfriend at first to start breast feeding after a c section .

This combined with the hospital trying to give formula by bottle without my permission even though we had stated we wished to breats feed .

I then had to throw the health visitor out the door after she was hassling us to start on formula .

Guess what the milk flowed soon after and all was well .

But the G/F deserved a hero award for all the hours spend feeding and then expressing .

Any excess being frozen .

I think a lot of people just cant be bothered with the hassle .

My boy seems to be slimmer than some of the formula fed babies

misty

A lot of pressure is put on parents by the "natural" brigade who seem to imply that if your not breast feeding or handwashing poo filled terry nappies that you are in some way a worse mother.  >:(Not talking about people on here specifically but generally a back lash against formula.Don't forget breast is best!Not likely to, when it is chanted from ante natal clinic to maternity ward to health visitor and now formula milk being withdrawn from baby clinics to force(sorry encourage)breast feeding. Formula milk was sold considerably cheaper in baby clinics. For mums who were unable to breastfeed, that adds pressure on to the already stressed heads - worrying that their babies will be smaller,asthmatic, less intelliigent versions of their breast fed contempories!  :(I was able to breast feed but my friend cried with the pain of trying to continue to breastfeed at the fuhrer's (sorry nurses) insistance.  >:(Then you've got to come home and start washing terry nappies!! Disposable nappies are fantastic. I'd sooner stick pins in my eyes than use fabric. The environment suffers? I already recycle,avoid CF gases etc and you can't do everything.  ::)

System

isnt there argument that the savings of not buying disposables is eaten up by the cost of extra electricity, wear and tear etc on the washing machine over the longer term, not to mention the cost to the environment. i read somewhere that the cost equaled out over time and that the cost to the envirionment was roughly the same whichever type of nappies were used

According to environmental footprinting analysis by Best Foot Forward (see Contacts) overall, disposables have almost double the environmental impact of a home-washed nappy system.

The Women's Environmental Network did some research on costs too, and found that even taking into account washing costs, powder, electricity etc, cloth nappies were still significantly cheaper.

Has anyone actually stayed around for 100 yrs to see if they bio degrade ?

The first disposables were invented around 50 years ago, and yes, they are still around in a landfill somewhere. When you think about it, with them being made largely of plastic they aren't going to decompose any time soon.

System

just a thought
ive never heard of the womens environmental network, i would be intersted to see peer review of the research they did

sly

System

It's been fun reading your comments on nappies. I've got three children aged 4 and under. I started with disposables as I couldn't find info. about washables. Once I got info., I switched to cloth and at times have had two in nappies at the same time. I have found the nappies very easy to deal with and have had no problems. Where I live in Norfolk, the local county council will provide £30 of free nappies (including training pants and swim nappies) per child - so I've had £90 worth of free nappies. A quick plug for my native Scotland is Totsbots nappies - which I think are great! By the way I've worn paper pants too in hospital and I wouldn't want to make my children wear them.

jo_b_2

Don't use reusables at the moment. Gave them a try when my son was born but found them too much faff!

Plan to use reusable 'trainer pants' when I start toilet training. (Assuming these are all-in-one and without the faff) Where is the cheapest place to buy these (bearing in mind postage costs?)

Also use reusable swim nappies and want another pair ready for Summer hols. Where's best (cheapest) place for these?

trafalgar_2

All my kids were in terry nappies, probably cause I couldn't afford throw away ones,and funnily enough all my friends used to" borrow "terry ones when their kids ended up with terrible nappy rash and the doctor adviced

Put them in terrys till the rash has gone, because the pee seeps away better/using 2 nappy liners to help

Worked every time


And it was so much easier to check if they had wet at all


Wouldn't catch me breastfeeding though :-/
It just wasn't my thing I'm afraid

Besides none of them suffered
All three are happy and healthy ;D ;D ;D ;D

Seriously, I think everyone should make up their own mind and not be pressured ;D ;D