A rash of savings: Get the cheapest nappies/MoneySavingExpert.com Discussion

Zziggi

I started with pampers, then moved to cloth nappies (tots bots £8.50ea with motherease covers£8ea) but i have recently been given half a dozen terries(£2ea if i bought them). I have to say, i am converted to terries!! They are MUCH easier to dry (useful in winter) and i find them just as good as the shaped cloth nappies. If i needed more cloth nappies then i think i'd go for the 2 quid 60cm square terries in future.

I never thought i'd go for terries - i thought they were a thing of the past!

BTW is there any point to buying the 40cm terries? Can you use 60cm terries on a newborn? if so, what fold is best?

Thanks.

mum26

you can but they'd probably be very bulky, you can use muslins though or just use a tots style booster with a wrap, newborns get changed so often anyway..

oooh and also the new tots fluffles, if anyone is considering buying these, buy size 2 only as they popper down SMALLER than size 1! so can be used from birth, they are much softer and flexible than standard tots xx

Gingham_Ribbon

We used kushies and terries until a few months ago. My son has just turned 2 and grew out of washables about 4 or 5 months ago. I tried making do with a terry padded out with flannels etc but they were just far too small. The toddler kushies only lasted until he was about 18 months old.

I know my son is unusually large, but he can't be the only big kid whose parents would like to use washables.

His size 6 Morrisons own brand nappies are frequently coming undone because they're too small and I am probably going to have to resort to using sticky tape to keep his nappies on. I hope there's a solution out there for other mums with big kids, or older kids who still need nappies.

mum26

size 3 tots bots should be ok and xl minki nappies or yo yo's would be good too, may seem pricey but the resale value will be high as well so in the long term wil work out good value.

Gingham_Ribbon

Tots bots and minky were too small. The lollipop advisor was stumped. So was the nappylady advisor. And so am I. I'm hoping he won't take too long to potty train...

Zziggi

mum26 wrote:

size 3 tots bots should be ok and xl minki nappies or yo yo's would be good too, may seem pricey but the resale value will be high as well so in the long term wil work out good value.

Gingham ribbon - i was using size 6 pampers that were a touch too small for my DS (much older than your son though!) and i also found the size 3 tots bots too small too. I had to use drynites (aged 4-7years) to find something to fit him. For a cloth alternative i have been using the lovely-named "bedwetter pants" size small in place of the drynites. These are pull up and pant-like so when you do wish to start toilet training, before you are confident to let him lose on normal pants - he can pull them up and down. Then you can just use the bedwetter pants at night. They can be washed and tumble dried OK.

They aren;t cheap though (£16.95ea if i recall)... but then at drynites £4.79 for only 10 - the drynites certainally aren;t cheap either!!

mum26

have you tried emailing minki, she custom makes so she would be happy to make them bigger for you, she does right up to adult sizes

Rachel021967

I use Lidls Maxi nappies 50 for #5.29. Sorry pound sign doesn't work. - it comes up as #. I would like to use reusuable but they appear to be expensive and I wouldn't know where to start with Terries.

jellyhead

can your health visitor help? there will be some older children (perhaps with health problems) still in nappies out there, some of them might be in washables. or maybe search for adult nappies on ebay, there might be a small adult size, or custom made. a work at home mum on ebay might be able to adjust a pattern to make larger nappies (says the lazy mare whose large baby has been in disposables for a couple of months now - ooops!)

BernadetteN

For Gingham Ribbon :

I have 2 bedwetters out of 3 children over the age of 2 and I can recommend Motherease Bedwetter pants for children who wet the bed and are struggling to fit in to the large size disposable pull up pants. They do cost between £16 and £18 each depending on the size but mine have been washed over 700 times each and are still going strong. Try buying 700 pull up pants at around 20p each (that's a cheap price too) and that comes to £140!!!
These Motherease Bedwetter pants would sell at a good second hand price on ebay if anyone is still worried about the large initial outlay.