Help from you experienced parents!

Roxie

Nappy wrappers - save your money and use scented bags.

Monitor - we had a Tomy one, which was fine for use in garden (1920s semi/fairly large garden).

Kiddicare are worth a look for baby goods, I've always found them very reasonably priced and they do free delivery to mainland UK.

http://www.kiddicare.com/icat/monitors

Chriswil

Becles wrote:

Keep checking on baby if you do that.

One of my worst memories of my eldest is putting him down for his afternoon nap in the nude as he had awful ezcema on his thighs and bottom. However he'd woken up early and not made a sound, then he'd done a poo.

By the time I found him, he was covered from head to toe in poo, and he'd smeared it all over the cot bars, up the wall and all over the activity centre that hangs on the cot bars :eek:

OMG!

All to look forward to...

Chriswil

Thanks for all of your comments! I really appreciated the advice. 6 weeks to go now...

sooz

ooh, i have only 6 weeks to go too....

anyway, just wanted to add re the baby monitors, we used to have the tomy walkabout one, which was fantastic and did everything it was supposed to until we had the loft converted. now the extra insulation and the new fire doors mean that it does not work - really you cannot get a signal. so we changed to a bt digital one which is amazing, and has a talk back function which is really useful with a toddler!

bikerqueen

i've got 5 weeks to go. so ner!

jellyhead

oooooh, so many MSE pregnancies

i use a nappy wrapper to be honest, am i the only one? my sister has one, she bought it 9 years ago for her first baby and is using it now on her third baby. it's a cartridge style and she loves it, she buys nappy bags for when she's out though.

my nappy wrapper doesn't really wrap the nappies (it's a cheap one lol!), it's an ordinary bin bag and the bin has a mechanism that keeps the bag with the nappies in sealed off so smells can't escape. sometimes when changing the bin liner (every 4 days i think) if you don't grip it correctly you get a smell of dirty nappies. my sister reckons my bin is rubbish, that hers seals every nappy and there are never any smells. she paid around £15 for hers at half price, and cartridges are around a fiver each, i initially thought each cartridge only lasted for 28 nappies, but apparently they last for around a month and it's the bin capactity that the 28 nappies refers to - doh! mine cost £20 from boots because somebody had pinched the bin bags from the box so they reduced it, but it's around £50 normally. the bags are cheap, just normal swing bin liners.

it's true that you can't always get wipes etc. sealed into a dirty nappy, and sometimes the nappy itself is so messy that you can't seal it :eek: so a few bags are needed if you don't want to clean out the top of your nappy bin, also for when you're out.

i don't know about the rest of you but my baby has smelly nappies. cheap nappy sacks don't stop them from smelling, and not everyone has their outside bin just a few steps away from their door. using a swing bin didn't work for us, the nappies smelled really bad, and even using a betterware carrier bag bin (changed every day at least) means the house smells of his nappies. the nappy wrapper was a good option for me.

essexhoney

i have a nappy wrapper too jellyhead!! though to be honest i barely ever use it lol i think mine cost me about £25 from mothercare (was in the sale when i bought it)
id say unless you think you think you are really going to need one dont bother with one

Congrats to all those expecting at the mo!

jellyhead

if you live in a flat and don't fancy trecking to your outside bin after every nappy change then it might be a good idea. the first week i bought it i used it for every nappy, but unless it's dirty i just fold it up and tape it, then it goes in the normal bin.

i'm glad it's here though, for the 2 dirty nappies a day. maybe it varies for different babies too, my baby is 11 months old and perhaps because of his lactose intolerance his nappies are still liquid, they smell bad too. most babies by this age have solid poo i suppose, and it's less likely to leak through the nappy, go up their back, through the legs, etc. gosh what a lovely conversation lol!

essexhoney

haha as lovely as it is i can so relate to it lol

i live in a flat but its in a tower block so we have a rubbish chute literally outside the door so its not to bad mind you when i have this one with DD too watch aswell i may well use it a lot more lol