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Babies and nappies
dgwebster
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My partner gave birth to our beautiful daughter in July this year. Before she was born, we discussed using re-usable nappies - better for the environment and cheaper too.
Practical Parenting magazine (a publication my partner had been buying each month since finding out we were expecting) made an offer - a free re-usable nappy starter pack when you take out a subscription.
My partner had made it clear she liked the magazine so I offered:
1) get subscription, we will save some money on the mag.
2) we get free starter pack, so a free way to find out if we like it.
the nappies came, they were used for 1 day and the nappies went. they were terrible we decided and so we started to buy disposables.
This cost us about £6 per week, not too much to complain about. But recently my partner saw another type of re-usable nappy and so we plucked up courage and started to research again.
One thing we found was severe trouble in finding out just WHAT we had to buy and how many.
Now I don't want to sound like im plugging here, feel free to buy them from ANYWHERE you like, but https://www.babykind.co.uk gave us the best advise on what bits we needed to buy.
It cost us £114 for a days supply - initially pricey yes i know. but the range we bought change as the baby grows to fit from birth to potty (10lbs being birth - ha!)
We worked out that it will take 9 months to recover the full cost of 3 days supply but even though she is 5 months old still plenty of time to save month.
but we have cheated and asked friends and family to club together to get us another 2 days supply for her 1st xmas - might as well get something we need.
They ones we bought from baby kind really do work. we renamed the bits though to make more sense. We have the inner, middle and outer:
inner: just a cheap disposable layer to catch pooh that is flushed down the lavvy
middle: a fleecy thing that fits like a nappy - this absorbs the liquids
the inner and middle are changed 8 times a day
outer: a nappy wrap that goes over the lot. we have 2 a day: 1 for daytime use, waterrepellent etc. and a warm cosy fabric night one for extra absorbing should she need it on the longer time between changes (last change at 6pm not done again till 7am.)
anyway, the whole point to this is how to save money. at first glance we hated reusable nappies to discover we just had poor quality.
Most councils offer a vouchar towards purchase of nappies.
Get the friends an family to bunch together to purchase some.
Next baby - even bigger saving as you already have the lot.
Practical Parenting magazine (a publication my partner had been buying each month since finding out we were expecting) made an offer - a free re-usable nappy starter pack when you take out a subscription.
My partner had made it clear she liked the magazine so I offered:
1) get subscription, we will save some money on the mag.
2) we get free starter pack, so a free way to find out if we like it.
the nappies came, they were used for 1 day and the nappies went. they were terrible we decided and so we started to buy disposables.
This cost us about £6 per week, not too much to complain about. But recently my partner saw another type of re-usable nappy and so we plucked up courage and started to research again.
One thing we found was severe trouble in finding out just WHAT we had to buy and how many.
Now I don't want to sound like im plugging here, feel free to buy them from ANYWHERE you like, but https://www.babykind.co.uk gave us the best advise on what bits we needed to buy.
It cost us £114 for a days supply - initially pricey yes i know. but the range we bought change as the baby grows to fit from birth to potty (10lbs being birth - ha!)
We worked out that it will take 9 months to recover the full cost of 3 days supply but even though she is 5 months old still plenty of time to save month.
but we have cheated and asked friends and family to club together to get us another 2 days supply for her 1st xmas - might as well get something we need.
They ones we bought from baby kind really do work. we renamed the bits though to make more sense. We have the inner, middle and outer:
inner: just a cheap disposable layer to catch pooh that is flushed down the lavvy
middle: a fleecy thing that fits like a nappy - this absorbs the liquids
the inner and middle are changed 8 times a day
outer: a nappy wrap that goes over the lot. we have 2 a day: 1 for daytime use, waterrepellent etc. and a warm cosy fabric night one for extra absorbing should she need it on the longer time between changes (last change at 6pm not done again till 7am.)
anyway, the whole point to this is how to save money. at first glance we hated reusable nappies to discover we just had poor quality.
Most councils offer a vouchar towards purchase of nappies.
Get the friends an family to bunch together to purchase some.
Next baby - even bigger saving as you already have the lot.
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