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  • i used real nappies for my twins, and when this happened i just put an extra liner between the nappy and the plastic so that it overlapped the edge of the plastic, over the elastic and out of the plastic pants - bit of a frilly effect if you like ... then any leaking poo just goes onto the extra liner and not onto the plastic elastic :):)

    does that make sense? lol ... cant think of any other way to describe it!!

    just had another thought ... when i used babysrus fitted plastic pants (the ones that are shaped like a disposable nappy with velcro fasteners at the jip) that you put nappies into (kept em held in firmer!) i folded the liner so that it was rolled into the middle from either side ... kept all the poo in the middle! again ... cant think of any way of describing it!
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  • helenhugs
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    I have to ask what nappies you are using, with so many different types it can be hard to suggest something without knowing what you are already using. I'd def recommend line drying so the sun can do it's natural bleaching on the stains you currently have.
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  • janeawej
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    are u using plain square terry toweling ones or fancy shaped ones? what folding method do u use if terry squares? if u use kite method try folding edged of legs inwards (nappy not baby!) so doubling up should save ambarresing leaks!
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  • Andybez38
    Andybez38 Posts: 1,773 Forumite
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    BIG UP!!!!! for the terrys nappy users. :D Also see this thread http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=224455
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  • The nappies are not terry, but are thick cotton rectangular things. At the moment I take the outside edges and sort of roll them into the middle (swiss roll style!) as this was what was recommended by the supplier for newborn runny poo.

    had thought about line drying bleaching them naturally, but realistically where I live I think the next opportunity to line dry will probably be in about May next year!! I'll certainly be doing it if the weather permits though.
  • Liney_2
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    My little one likes a big poo or two or several each day - I use OneLife washables - they leak and I feel like I am forever changing him. The liners just seem to make the poo smear around more but there isn't an alternative unless you just let them 'go' directly on the nappy which is to say the least very messy. I am hoping mine grows out of this constant pooing phase soon too.
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  • joannasmum
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    Hi

    Sounds like your using pre-folds. Unfortunatley newborns do produce really runny poo and prefolds are not the best for catching it. As Lillbet said it does get better as they get older. To bleach out stains in the winter put the wraps on a sunny window sill.

    Hope that of some help

    PS. If your using paper liners try fleece. I couldnt get on with paper at all but have never looked back when I bought a cheap fleece blanket and choped it into liners
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  • I'm afraid my son dirtied almost every nappy till he was about 4 or 5 months old. (About 9 a day including night time.) We didn't have any problem with the Kushies - it all just soaked in, but we didn't use liners. By the time he was on terries he was on solids so they were more er solid, so less of an issue anyway.

    Have you tried not using liners? I know it sounds daft but I didn't like them. I thought the cotton of the nappies was more absorbant and his skin seemed to be less irritated. Someone also told me there's a right and a wrong side on the liners but I gave up on them before working out if that was true.

    If you don't use a liner, you might need to do a sloosh down the loo but other than that it wasn't a problem for us.
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  • Actually, there are some more threads on real nappies in the families board. Would you like me to move this over?
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  • I found the 'paper' liners made the problem worse at the begging with runny poo's. I stopped using them as the cotton would absorb the poo and stop it leaking onto the leg bands. I dry pailed my nappys, then washed at 60c pre wash cycle with reg washing powder boosted with a scoop of soda crystals and a couple of drops of tea tree oil in the rinse. I line dried when possible, or opn the maid but always finished them off with 10 mins fluff up in the tumble drier as it made them far more absorbant.
    I always rinsed out the wraps by hand if any leakage had occured then put them in with the next 40c wash.

    Once we passed that stage i went back to using the flushable liners which made clean up of the solids easier to deal with.

    HTH
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