to give up on cloth nappies....

[cerealqueen]

DD2 (16months) is in cloth, but am sorely tempted to give up on them. She does a lot of poos, and am sick of scraping poo into the toilet up to 5x a day and washing them and hanging them to dry (indoors still, grrrrr). Some of the poos are just scapings and dont always smell through the various layers of fabic and wraps them so she can be sitting in them for a while before I get round to check, eg after school run. (I seem to be forever checking for poo), so often gets some kind of rash, not bad but often red.

On the other hand, we have a lovely stash of nappies and we have come so far having used them on two children and we don't have over flowing bins with fortnightly collections and we are saving money..or are we with all the washing .

Please somebody inspire me to carry on (or not)

In your position, I'd do a mixture of both.

I tried cloth, then gave up. Just today I was looking at the overflowing bin and wishing I'd stuck with cloth.

It he's pooing a lot it will cost you a fortune in disposable nappies.

Have you tried disposable liners? IF he?s doing smallish poos they should catch it with no problem and then you can just throw the liner with no nasty scraping and you can just chuck the nappy in the next wash your doing = no particular extra work.

Everyone used cloth nappies when my dcs were babies since disposables were expensive and horribly unreliable. However, I always used nappy liners and except for exceptionally explosive occasions never had to scrape poo off cloth. If liners are still available I'd recommend them.

I use reusable nappies with disposable paper liners and don't have to scrape poo off just chuck liner in bin and even if tgere is residue left on nappy it comes off in the wash.

clouds she is in a disposable at night. If only I could predict the poos!

We have the fleece liners but the poos aren't the roll on/off type, they are mainly the spready type, often beyond the liner. If its a fresh-ish nappy contained to the liner I do often just replace the liner.

Maybe I'll try those disposable liners, redskyatnight good thought. Would I just then put the liner and poo in a nappy bag, seems kind of wrong!

Can you get liners that flush? Or are they like flushable wipes and not really advisable for the pipes/plumbing?

Don't really want to go to disposable nappies (DP calls them travel nappies!) as yes, it will cost a lot.

I didn't scrape, I did a good shake and that was good enough.

If you want to give up then give up.

yes you can get flushable liners.

It's a while since I used them (DS3 is now 4) but disposable liners used to flushable.
And of course, you are supposed to rinse the poo off disposable nappies too.

I use flushable liners and have had no problems disposing of them so far. Bambino Mio make them and there are a few other brands but I forget. I buy them in bulk from Kiddicare normally.

We too use disposables overnight as the cloth just wasn't absorbant enough anymore.

Flushable liners!!! Flushable liners!!! They're just made of paper like loo roll, so they flush fine. We use the TotsBots ones and the cheapest I've found are here - www.fill-your-pants.com/. They are brilliant and I don't think i could have stuck with washable nappies without them, dd is a spreadable poo girl as well!!

Don't give up yet!

Right, will look into flushable liners, thanks everybody!

I seem to remember that Moneysavingexpert.com estimates that on average using washable nappies will save you about £5-600/ year even with factoring in the cost of washing the nappies and the initial expensive of buying them, so you are definitely saving a lot of money sticking with it! Definitely get the flushable liners though, they are dirt cheap and you just tip it into the bin

Did MSE factor in an hourly rate, or assume that you had enough time to spare easily?

Obviously if you absolutely don't have the cash then you cut time out of other things, but seems to me that a lot of money-saving tips aren't necessarily that great if you have to spend more elsewhere to compensate for lack of time.

For us, it not just the nappies but the wipes which we save on. We use washable wipes too, which go in the nappy wash. Can't see us using them with disposables.

I'll have a look in Tesco.

I'm not invested in this argument but I've rarely spent over £20 a month on nappies so how the heck could I save £600 a year using reusable?

We also support flushable liners. Amazing things! We also keep a bucket in the bathroom next to the loo and any really bad nappies get chucked in there in some water to wash the worst off.

Dd is also a multiple squidgy poos per day sort of girl.

Flushable wipes are great. And if you buy decent-ish ones, you can put them through the wash with the nappies if they haven't been pooed on (i.e. if they're just wet) and so you can then reuse them, which saves money and the environment. We use the Bambino Mio ones which I like because they're big enough to catch almost all of the poo.

I use flushable liners. They just go in the loo like toilet paper. DD has been pooing every 2 hours for the last 9 days. My nappy wash has been upped to daily!

I used old rags as liners, if large enough, they catch all the poo, wrap up as you would a disp nappy & remaining washing not too bad.

YWBU to give up before you've tried the flushable liners. Don't think I could have done cloth without those liners. :)

I'm just going to say flushable liners just like everyone else!

Hourly rate? What a load of shite. Do disposables change themselves? Buy themselves? Take themselves to the bin?

Flushable liners all the way - and you only need flush ones with poo on, you can just wash the wet ones and they last a few goes.
I try to rip them in half before flushing to minimise any pipe-clogging potential.

I particularly like Popolini ones, they seem smoother and softer next to the skin than the Bambino mio ones.