Eco friendly disposable nappies?

[Bikbikmum]

Hi everyone,

What is your experience with biodegradable nappies? So far, I couldn't find a brand which doesn't have a negative review for leaking.

Eco by Naty / Beaming Baby/ Bambo Nature/ Kit &Kin

Or any other brand? What is your experience?

Thank you!

We have kit and kin and never had a leak unless its been a diarrhoea poo.

Whatever you buy there will always be people who have had a good experience with them and a bad one so i wouldn't pay too much attention to the reviews.

I would try a pack of each and see what they are like

I love the Mum and You nappies and wipes, but I’ve never had a problem with any and tend to get whichever of the ones you mention is on offer!!

Most nappies aren’t biodegradable as such, but eco ones are more sustainably produced so better than buying Pampers or whatever.

Even listed as biodegradable, they'll still ultimately go to landfill and be surrounded by plastic. Have you looked at cloth nappies at all? Not suitable for everyone - with my eldest I couldn't as we didn't have suitable laundry facilities so we used eco ones - but so much easier than the old fashioned sort and quite cost as well as eco friendly especially if you're planning more DCs.

@ANiceLuxury @ClubfootMaestro @Stuckforthefourthtime thank you so much for getting back to me!

First time pregnancy, everything seems like a puzzle 😂

I don't want to use reusables because at some point, we need to start nursery (I need to get to work for financial reasons)

I guess I'll buy couple of them (one pack or sth) and try. I will certainly start with your suggestions.

Naty used to be great but they changed the design and the new ones were stiff and scratchy and leaked loads, one even cut my boys leg because the material was so stiff. That was about 2 years ago before we moved to cloth full time (and have since potty trained)

You can still do cloth with nursery, send them made up ready (all in ones or pocket nappies are good) and a wet bag for them to go in then bring them home at the end of the day, or even using cloth at home and disposables at nursery would still save a lot of nappies at landfill.

Naty baby were fine but did occasionally leak unlike Pampers etc
Dont rate the pull ups though

You can do cloth at home and send disposables to nursery, we did that for both DC

I switched to Naty full time for DD at 9 months, I couldn't bear chasing his wiggly bum with a thick cloth nappy and had almost a phobia of change time before we switched

Naty worked great for us, we use them still for the occasional long car journey if needed

Don't write cloth off, every cloth nappy used is one fewer in landfill. Get some second hand and give it a go

Nurseries and CM should be willing to use cloth. Didn't try eco disposables as I couldn't afford them.

If you do try cloth then def go 2nd hand as what fits one baby well doesn't the next much like disposables. Most reliable is a 2 part system a nappy that uses a nippa (modern equivalent of a nappy pin) and a popper wrap like mother ease airflow. However many people get on really well with all in one nappies and that is what I provided my CM with.

@TheJoxter @RandomMess @Owlsintowels do you recommend any websites or brands for reusable nappies? I was a bit scared for cloth ones but it is very encouraging to see lots of mums have been using these.. to be honest, I might use them both, but agreed every little helps for the planet.

@30not13 it is said that after recent changes, they start leaking... but yet so far a lot of people recommended naty.

It's worth checking the UK nappy library map to see if there's one near you. These offer demonstrations and a try before you buy service on kits as, like disposables, some brands offer a better fit on different babies.

We used cloth about 75% of the time with #2 and it's good to know that even our part time contribution makes a little bit of a difference to the ever expanding landfill issues.

The Nappy Lady website has a questionnaire on it that is helpful.

I liked Tots Bots and I would recommend buying from Facebook, there are so many discussion and buy / sell groups.
Join a group or two, have some chats, try and grab a bargain bundle to get started and dive in!

There are also plenty of council run schemes to try out cloth nappies, get googling

Are you planning on home composting? If not then not thtas eco really still end up in landfill or incinarater. I found nature nappies like they sell in boots ok.

I second cloth though. Look at your council they may have nappy trials/ incentives/ advisors. ) or look up goreal they have maps of nappy libraries and advisors so you can try before you buy.

@TwoFeets @RandomMess @Owlsintowels I will certainly check. 🙏🏻 thank you

@june2007 we are not in a position to home compost because we are living in a flat and space is very limited already .unless we have a garden, I dont think I can manage home composting, especially if you think about the number of nappies. However I will do a proper research for cloth option. Good to know from this post that even some nurseries accept them. Most likely we will use them both

Another recommendation for cloth here. They're really not as hard work as you think and definitely work out cheaper.
I'm expecting 3rd baby and will use my nappies again for this baby.
I was thinking of using eco disposables for the early days just to make my life a bit easier in the first few weeks but I couldn't believe the price! £7.50 for 24 newborn size when ALDI do 24 nappies for 79p.

I work in a nursery and we have a child who uses cloth. I have sent my cloth babies to child minders as well.