Can someone please recommend reusable nappies for 13 month old?

[SaffronFields]

The thread the other day about disposables taking 500 years to break down in landfil has made me shudder.

How much work is it using cloth nappies? Are there brands that you can recommend? Are they more prone to leaking? Are they still comfortable to wear? My girl eats a lot and obviously, her nappies are pretty horrendous. But I know she has another 1-2 years in them so if I can save 1000 nappies from rotting in landfill then I’d like to try.

Any suggestions or tips are welcome!

If there’s a cloth library near you, try that! All babies seem to be different. We get on quite well with bambino miosolos and added hemp boosters but lots of people really hate them.

Honestly, it is extra work and I think you have to be quite motivated to stick with it. But it’s nowhere near as bad as I expected.

A really easy way to test the waters is reusable wipes, that’s so easy to do and gives you a little taste of the logistics!

Brilliant thank you Bellajay I’ll have a look to see if they have one in my area.

That sounds like a good first step with the wipes. I’m going to order some!

It’s one of those things, I wish disposables were never introduced so we didn’t know any different. I’ve got lazy and have always gone for convenience but that needs to change.

That's brilliant @SaffronFields, every day in cloth saves so many nappies from landfill. I have used cloth nappies with my 3rd DD and she is now 13 months. Atm we find the best to be Littles and Bloomz. They are available on Amazon, choose the option with two bamboo inserts. You can get poppers or Velcro. I'd go for poppers at this age. As my DD sometimes opens the Velcro.
It means a bit of extra washing of course but it's not too hard. Shake off poo down the loo, put nappies on a short wash cycle on their own, then add other washing and give them another cycle.
Look up Clean Cloth Nappies Down Under on Facebook for washing tips and washing powder recommendations.
Also join some Cloth nappy groups on Facebook for other support and tips.

Posted too soon, wanted to say good luck and enjoy the experience, there are some really cute patterns. :-)

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Thanks Jamhandprints I absolutely love those patterns too.

Just need to get DH on board. He’s very into savings money and loves a bargain so I’m going to approach it from a money saving angle.

Does your little one go to nursery? Are they on board with using them?

I’ve visited three nurseries recently and all said they were willing to do cloth. Mine will be starting next month doing 2 (consecutive) days so I’m planning to hand over 6-8 prepped nappies on the first day with a wet bag and take dirty ones home each evening.

I also meant to add, the Nappy Lady has a couple of Facebook groups that are really useful, one is general parenting and cloth chat and advice, the other is a buying a selling group. The groups as well as the nappy lady website are a great starting point to get a sense of what will work best for you.

I’ve just followed her Nappy Lady so I’m going to do a bit of research.

My nursery are general very good and adaptable so I can’t I imagine it would be a problem.

This sounds really dim but with reusable wipes do you take a bottle of water around with you? Or is there like a cleaning solution that is better?

We pre-soak the wipes in a water and essential oil at home then when going out take a few in a fresh wipes bag from Cheeky Wipes. They stay wet for ages.

Then dirty ones just go into a separate wet bag. We just use the wet bag for nappies but you can use a smaller one just for wipes.

This is the bag we have for taking wipes out and about: www.cheekywipes.com/wetbags-mesh-washbags/baby-wipes-wetbag-clean.html but any kind of similar bag would do.

At home they are stored in a Tupperware with water and a few drops of essential oil. I usually soak 20 or so at a time which lasts a few days and means you don't have to individually wet every time.

I've tried pretty much all brands and would highly recommend baba and boo or motherease unos (although motherease are well nigh impossible to get just now). Id also recommend a cloth nappy library and doing the nappy lady questionnaire though.

I don’t know about nursery, but I’m a childminder and it wouldn’t phase me to use cloth nappies on a child I look after, although I did use cloth on my own dc so they aren’t an unknown to me.

I know some childminders who only use reusable wipes now and they carry a little bag round for clean and another bag for dirty ones. They seem to get on really well with them.

My LO goes to a child minder who refuses to use them. :-( Unfortunately there was nobody else with a space for DD, so we have to buy disposables now and it has made me lazy about using the reusables now we have disposables in the house anyway. :-( But I think most nurseries are happy to use them if you show them how they work.