How ridicilous are the prices of pampers and huggies!!

beth.stephenson2009

So I was working out today the prices of nappies, and the cheapest (up untill potty training) is the Kiddicare nappies- with the first size there was a saving of £30 month over pampers, I couldnt believe it- thats 3/4 of a shop for me!!

Does anyone think the named brands are also ridiculously expensive?!!?

Volupturaptor

Well, yes, but you don't have to buy them!

VfM4meplse

If I were a SAHM I would train myself to recognise when they are ready to go and rush them over to a potty - similar to what people in rural Africa / India / China do. It takes some watching to see the signs of a forthcoming wee, but it's doable. That way you could get away with buying the bare minimum for night times and in case of daytime accidents, or even a terrytowel if you are brave enough!!

Once the baby is mobile, they will be so used to the system they will find the pot by themselves.

midnightraven3

using cheaper nappies may be false economy though
you may use more, or have more leaks (which increases washing and drying of clothes/beds etc)

i found using cheaper nappies gave mine nappy rash as well which wasnt nice, so back to pampers we went
(long time since any were in nappies now though)

beth.stephenson2009

VfM4meplse wrote: »

If I were a SAHM I would train myself to recognise when they are ready to go and rush them over to a potty - similar to what people in rural Africa / India / China do. It takes some watching to see the signs of a forthcoming wee, but it's doable. That way you could get away with buying the bare minimum for night times and in case of daytime accidents, or even a terrytowel if you are brave enough!!

Once the baby is mobile, they will be so used to the system they will find the pot by themselves.

I saw this on a channel 4 documentary the other week!

Rebecca01

I found the cheaper nappies from Lidl a lot better than the Huggies and pampers. My hairdresser said the same thing the other day.

However there are some rubbish ones out there that leak easily.

zaksmum

I always used terry nappies for mine, and a young mum in my road still does. Says you only have to pay the one time and they save her an absolute fortune!

VfM4meplse

beth.stephenson2009 wrote: »

I saw this on a channel 4 documentary the other week!

Can you share the name of the documentary / the 4OD link?

DevilsAdvocate1

beth.stephenson2009 wrote: »

So I was working out today the prices of nappies, and the cheapest (up untill potty training) is the Kiddicare nappies- with the first size there was a saving of £30 month over pampers, I couldnt believe it- thats 3/4 of a shop for me!!

Does anyone think the named brands are also ridiculously expensive?!!?

I don't as it happens, because I was walking down the baby aisle the other day and noticed that Pampers and Huggies are similar in price to when my oldest was a baby and he is 14 today! So they don't seem to have gone up much in the intervening years. And they were on offer. There were never any offers on nappies when my were small, though there were often offers on the wipes.

When my oldest was a baby there Pampers advert talked about doing a roll test. Basically, you got several different disposable nappies and poured a certain amount of water in. You then took a sheet of kitchen roll, placed it on the nappy and rolled a bowl over the top of the kitchen roll. With Pampers and Huggies the kitchen roll was virtually dry. With all other makes it was much wetter with the value brands having a soaking wet piece of kitchen roll after the test. So there are differences.

lostinrates

zaksmum wrote: »

I always used terry nappies for mine, and a young mum in my road still does. Says you only have to pay the one time and they save her an absolute fortune!

Imy mother still uses the terry nappies i wore as cleaning clothes. Those things are hard wearing. She also used to hold me over a potty from teeeny tiny, after every feed. Not just recognising signs of wanting the loo, but training almost a pavlovian repsonce. Apparantly it made pot training early and easy.

But, in my thirties i still want to pee every time i see or think of the loo and after every thing ingested. In fact........

beth.stephenson2009

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Can you share the name of the documentary / the 4OD link?

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/how-to-be-a-good-mother-with-sharon-horgan/4od