I'm having a DFW baby!!

Snaggles

At the risk of being pelted with rotten tomatoes by everyone who has ever had a baby, Natasha slept for 8 hours last night, for the 3rd night running. :A

I actually feel a bit guilty because I think she must be absolutely starving when she wakes up, but no amount of prodding will wake her unless she wants to be woken.

I've finally taken the plunge and bought some re-useable nappies. I've only bought a very small pack (2 wraps and 6 nappy pads) plus some liners and some nappy soak, and that lot cost £25, so I need to make sure we get on with them okay before I decide whether to buy any more.

I've worked out that to make them pay for themselves, I need to use them for 40 days (6 nappies per day, so 240 uses in total) - it doesn't sound a lot, but I only tend to do a whites wash twice a week, so using them 2 days a week, it will take 20 weeks before I actually save any money. :eek: But either I'll use them for the next baby or sell them on eBay afterwards, so one way or another they should be cheaper!

Me and Stu have also decided to have a take-away free month too, which is well underway - we're too skint to buy any take-aways now anyway!

beanielou

Hope that you get on ok with them.
Great news on N's sleeping.
Take care

Sea78

Good luck with the reuseables

Kiddicare do a good discounted price for a whole load and NCT sales are good for them too sometimes. Do your coucil offer a cash incentive for using them? Might be worth checking out.

Really pleased she's sleeping for now. I'm sure you'll need the sleep as she'll be coming up to a growth spurt soon

My DD keeps begging for another baby - eeek! Especially a baby sister lol. Don't see it somehow!!

Sea xxx

jammydodga

ok, i feel a bit silly asking, but how do you use reusable nappies? i got some from a local scheme when ds was born, but the one time i tried one, lets just say there was leakage... it went straight in the washer and was banished to the bucket it came in.

what do you do with the soak and is there really a boy fold and a girl fold for the liner?
Jxx

Snaggles

I'll let you know how I get on with them - it might be a complete disaster and a waste of money, but I would have been disappointed with myself if I hadn't at least tried them.

I haven't actually tried them yet because you have to pre-wash them (which I've done today), so I'll try them tomorrow hopefully, but here's what I've worked out so far - there's basically 3 parts - the liner, the nappy pad and the cover. You fold the nappy pad (yes, there's a girl fold and a boy fold, and numerous other folds too, depending on where you need the thickest bit to be - but some girls suit the boy fold better and vice versa), pop a liner on the top, and then stick the whole thing inside the cover. Then you just put it on like you would a disposable nappy.

When they're full, you can flush the liner down the loo (the liner should catch the majority of the poo, although it wont at first while it's still so watery), and then you put the nappy pad in the wash, and put a new pad & liner inside the cover. The covers themselves are wipe-clean, so don't need to be changed each time. You can get washable liners too, but I haven't bought any of those.

The ones I've got say you don't need to soak them, just put them in a covered bucket, but I think I would rather soak them.

jammydodga

Thanks for that, i think ill give them another go!!! ds is on solids now so no need to worry about watery poo anymore.

Natasha is gorgeous btw!!!

Snaggles

Jammy your avatar is lovely, soooo cute! Have you changed it or have I just not noticed it before?

sammy115

Snaggles - if your little un is such a good sleeper why on earth were you still on here at 1.10am you NUTTER!

Snaggles

Argued with Stu - couldn't sleep

Then I just got to sleep and the little monkey decided to want a 3am feed - typical lol!

kathfisch

Snaggles wrote: »

Argued with Stu - couldn't sleep

Then I just got to sleep and the little monkey decided to want a 3am feed - typical lol!

I hope things aren't too difficult between you Snaggles, arguing is horrible isn't it. Will you get a chance to nap today, while Natasha's snoozing?