Nappy - NatureBaby Girl & boy

jellyhead

Lyndsay_21 wrote:

I was really scared at trying them out as my son is a year and i've only just started but it is SOOOO easy i wish i'd have known how easy it was i'd have done it with my first one.
I was given some re-useables but https://www.kittykins.co.uk do a trial pack for £30 which has several diff types of nappies & wraps included, plus your local council might do an incentive scheme where they give you some money normally £25 for going cloth!!!
I use a mix of fleece liners which i bought from ebay and find them better than the dispsable liners which i do also use.

i'm being dumb, which of the nappies in the trial pack is the nippa for? my local council does a £30 incentive, i had to get a form signed by my health visitor to say she'd seen my baby in a washable nappy and am sending it off for a £30 cheque. i bought my nappies second hand off ebay, some were new but some were used, there's no hygeine problem, i just washed them on a hot wash. i'm using a mix of different types, mostly kushies all in ones (they are like disposables really, all in one but i use a disposable liner inside) but i also use prefolds in a variety of wraps. i'm still on my first pack of disposable liners, each cotton bottoms liner gets cut into 3 and if they're just wet they can also be washed a few times and re-used. my baby doesn't like feeling wet and wants changing every 2 hours at least when in washables so i use a huggies overnight. i don't soak, i just put my nappies into a bucket, the velcro fasteners need fastening first and i bought 2 net bags for the bucket so all i need to do is stick the net bag full of nappies into the machine.

if you bought this trial pack you could buy a pack of prefolds to use with the wraps, it doesn't have to be shaped nappies inside them. i got bambino mio prefolds off ebay. they are just a rectangle shape and you fold it over twice, so it's 3-ply, still in a rectangle shape then you just put it inside the wrap, add a liner.

Gingham_Ribbon

I don't know about the other things you mentioned, Jellyhead, but the nippa is for the terry squares. You fold them and use a rubber clip to hold them in place instead of pins. They work a treat and don't stab anyone! They work by having lots of little 'teeth' to catch the fabric of the nappy, then stretch to keep it taught.

Lyndsay_21

i dont use one that need a nippa so wouldn't know! i have the kushies but not the AIO i have the 2 part system, just as easy and i find them a better fit than the 2 AIO's i have got.
I got given mine i advertised on freecycle and someone offered me some otherwise i'd have never been able to afford to buy them as we're skint!!

jellyhead

i just looked for the diddy diaper online and that's the one you use the nippa with. i like the look of the trial packs on that site but maybe i'd need the large - my baby is 7 weeks old and already grown out of a lot of the nappies i got for him. i bought lots of different ones off ebay, i thought they would last for months.

i have been given some terries (they are at least 20 years old, still good lol!) but splodge looks a bit funny in them, also i haven't got him enough clothes in his size that are suitable for a fat nappy! glad to hear that nippas work, i'll get some for when i use the terries.

if anyone's looking into washables different ones will suit different babies, although i suppose terries suit both fat and skinny. at 4 weeks weighing 12 lbs splodge was too big for the little lamb size 1 shaped, at 5 weeks too big for modern baby shaped size small and prowrap all in one size small (both are for up to 14lbs roughly). bambino mio newborn never fit - the wraps were too small even when he was a week old. he was 8lb 7 born, so was nowhere near the 11lb limit that the newborn wraps are supposed to fit. the prefolds are good in other wraps though. the modern baby small wrap will fit for a week or so more and the prowrap that came with the littlelamb trial kit will fit for a couple of weeks.

kushies and boots all in ones still fit fine, they are designed for up to 22lbs though.

Lemoncurd

HappySad wrote:

I am a bit scared to go down the cloth nappy but I know that they are the most green and chemical less option. What are they like to keeping in the poo? Do you need to use buckets to pre-soak? I've heard that you just need to put them in the washmachine with a prewash at 60%.

What about those fancy prefolded velcro ones? I saw a prefolded with adjustable poppers so that one size fits all in Waitrose are they any good? Do you need to buy liners.. I heard that some people make their own with fleece. Where can you get an idiots starter's guide aims at the scared to get started with cloth nappies.

We found that the cloth nappies were much better at keeping things in, it was so frustrating that the disposables always seemed to leak.
Some people soak but you don't have to - I tried it once but hated it so much that I stuck to "dry pailing" in a nappy net after that - much easier and you just pull the net out of the bin and put it straight in the wash without even having to handle the nappies.

My favourites were the Motherease onesize like you get in Waitrose (you can get some prettier wraps from some of the nappy sites listed) sometimes Waitrose have special offers on and you can then get them cheaper from Waitrose than the online places. They are very easy to use and quite slim fitting and quick to dry.

I cut up some fleece fabric to make liners and also used disposable ones, to be honest as soon as you start using the nappies you will develop your own preferences and ways of doing things.

Someone asked which ones you can use a nippa with - the ones we used were Tots Bots and Bumbles (from the easy peasy nappy company), both similar shaped nappies. You could just use them with standard terry squares or many other types of nappy.

Lyndsay_21

or if you were worried about buying some why dont you go for a nappy laundering service. i think it normally costs about £8 a week but if you only tried it for a month and didnt get on with it then you haven't spent £100s of pounds on something your not going to use again!

HappySad

Thanks Lemoncurd for your advice. I have seen the Motherese nappies (on the internet) where one fits all and they look good as they are adjustable and you don't have to go out to my another size when your child gets bigger. I'll buy a one of them with a pack of disposable liners and try it out.... Ebay sell them new for under £10.

I'll also have a look again at the WAitrose one size fit all ones as they to my memory look just like the Motherese ones and it will be easy for me to just pop to the shops and buy it.

Why do you need the net? It this so that you don't have to touch the nappies or is this because the net is needed when they are being washed in the washing machine?

By the way do any shops sell the Motherese nappies?

Lemoncurd

HappySad wrote:

I have seen the Motherese nappies (on the internet) where one fits all and they look good as they are adjustable and you don't have to go out to my another size when your child gets bigger. I'll buy a one of them with a pack of disposable liners and try it out.... Ebay sell them new for under £10.

I'll also have a look again at the WAitrose one size fit all ones as they to my memory look just like the Motherese ones and it will be easy for me to just pop to the shops and buy it.

Why do you need the net? It this so that you don't have to touch the nappies or is this because the net is needed when they are being washed in the washing machine?

By the way do any shops sell the Motherese nappies?

Sorry - the ones you get in Waitrose ARE Motherease Onesize.

I used a net (a net bag with a drawstring at the top) because it made it much easier to put the whole lot into the washing machine at once rather than picking up each nappy to transfer it in.

HappySad

I am going down to Watrose tomorrow to look at the nappies..

Thanks Lemoncurd.

jellyhead

i fasten the velcro tabs before putting nappies into the bucket, then just pick out the net and put it in the machine - no need to touch the nappies. i haven't seen motherease for sale here but my mum got me a wrap from a shop in cornwall. the only washables for sale in my town are terries.