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

Zziggi

jellyhead wrote:

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!)

I asked my H.V. and she didn't have a clue because - in her words- incontinence is only considered a medical problem in kids over 7 years of age (day or night wetting) so it is a school nurse who deals with that and not a H.V. However she did add that when i find some info out, would i let her know!

jellyhead

oh :-( i thought she might have details because some kids with special needs get free nappies after their third birthday, usually the referral comes from the health visitor. i got disposables free for spud but he was tiny and out of them by 4 so he never needed big ones.

i remember seeing some nappies on ebay made by work at home mums, they went into larger sizes, especially the american ones where children tend to be bigger.

i'll keep an eye on this thread - splodge is growing out of size 4 disposables and he's only 5 months old. even if he's out of nappies by the age of 2 he'll probably be the size of the average ten year old by then lol!

fesdufun

Gingham_Ribbon wrote:

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.

Have you tried Motherease Toddlerease - I use these at night on my 3 year old with the XL motherease wrap. He isn't particularly large but I would say there is some growing room left.

They are about £8.50 each but plenty of resale value on ebay if they don't work.

HTH :rudolf:

Zziggi

jellyhead wrote:

oh :-( i thought she might have details because some kids with special needs get free nappies after their third birthday, usually the referral comes from the health visitor. i got disposables free for spud but he was tiny and out of them by 4 so he never needed big ones.

Coudl you give me anymore information about this please jellyhead (either here or PM). My DS is 4 next month and still in nappies. I mentioned it to H.V. and "hinted" at free nappies for DS's medical reason but HV didn;t say a word....

jellyhead

my health visitor was skeptical too - grr! in the end it was the speech therapist who arranged it, they're all in the same building. it's social services who arrange the nappies but you don't have to have any kind of family problem - i saw one as part of an all inclusive assessment after the 2 year olds check-up and for most people she saw it was just nursery places/fees they needed help with. i don't know how it works for children not under the cdc for special needs assessment though. it may be worth asking social services. somebody had to fill in a form, it was the speech therapist who did ours.

spud's 9 so this was 6 years ago. the nappies were at the clinic with the free formula milk for people on benefits. i got half of his needs, so 2 small packs a month.

any assessments such as his statementing (one to one help at school) had a report from social services included (they paid half his nursery fees while i was at uni though, so maybe the nappies don't actually count as SS involvement) but all it said was 'financial assistance ONLY' to indicate that there were no family issues, no other SS involvement.

CharleneUK

Zziggi wrote:

Coudl you give me anymore information about this please jellyhead (either here or PM). My DS is 4 next month and still in nappies. I mentioned it to H.V. and "hinted" at free nappies for DS's medical reason but HV didn;t say a word....

Me as well please! My daughter is 9 years old and wears dry nites and they have been costing us a small fortune! We've been to Eurensis clinics without much luck.. May have to resort to meds, but really don't want to do that.

CharleneUK

Oops sorry! I alway have a thread open for ages before responding... I'll try social services.

Zziggi

CharleneUK wrote:

Oops sorry! I alway have a thread open for ages before responding... I'll try social services.

CHarlene, i think if it is only nighttime wetting then they don't do anything but tell you to buy drynites! I think if there is daytime wetting or wetting as a symptom of a medical problem the child has then it's a different case. That's as i understand it anyway...

CharleneUK

Zziggi wrote:

CHarlene, i think if it is only nighttime wetting then they don't do anything but tell you to buy drynites! I think if there is daytime wetting or wetting as a symptom of a medical problem the child has then it's a different case. That's as i understand it anyway...

THank you.

It is mostly night time wetting, but she has a hard time holding it in, the school know this, so are quite good with letting her go during the day.

I'll have a go anyway, the guy at the clinic said her kidneys are producing too much urine, etc and they wanted to put her on meds, but I was quite worried about the side effects.

Sorry, going on and on now! LOL.

Thanks again.

jellyhead

a friend at school has a daughter age 9 on kidney meds. i'll ask about side effects etc. she had an arrangement about bedwetting on the trip last year but not sure if the meds make her wet the bed or if she does it because of her kidney problem.