To not understand why people buy expensive cloth nappies

[Reallytired]

OK, I know that disposibles are really expensive, but why is it that some people who use cloth nappies get carried away. I know a lady who has a beautiful wrap with embrodery.

What is the point of buying beautiful nappies if your child is going to poo all over them?

My daughter being wearing terry squares, with a nappi nippa and a motherease wrap. I do have a few shaped nappies for my husband to use. Up to date I have spent about £70 on nappies and we have everything we need.

I was looking on the web at nappies and some of them are stupidly expensive. It really defeats the point of using cloth. Especially if the nappies are so slow to dry that you need to use a tumble dryer.

I have no idea how much I have spent. It all started when some kind freecycler gave me some cloth nappies in a bundle of prem baby clothes for ds2. He is now 20m and i have somewhere in the region of 200 30 nappies. I have them in the cellar, wardrobe, chest of drawers, hidden from dp, hidden from ds1, errr more hidden from dp.
You should have seen me when someone stole my nappy bag which contained nappies, £250 digital camera, Mobile phone and purse....I was in tears over my nappies belongings. especially when at the time they were the only ones that fitted ds2.

HerBeatitudeLittleBella,
I'm pissing myself with laughing. lol... my pelvic floor muscles aren't quite what they were.

My husband is almost toilet trained, but like 99% of the male population his aim could be better.

I'm envious of all you lot who find bargains like a tots bots birth to potty pack for £25.

My daughter is going through vast numbers of nappies a day. I reckon it would cost about £15 a week to have her in disposibles. She is nine weeks tomorrow and been in cloth for 8 weeks now.

I thought this nappy was cute, but excessively expensive.

www.kittykins.co.uk/cloth-nappies/type/23/brand/swaddlebees

Embroidered does seem a bit far, but it's understandable, IMO, if you'll be looking at the things so often and nice ones make you happy. I'm just moving over to real nappies now, at 8 months, and I wanted soft, quick-drying, and ones that can cope with incredibly hard water. After trying a few I settled on Tots Bots fluffles - which they've stopped making, so I'm frantically snapping up ones I come across.

I love that they're so soft and silky. Although they do make ds look like a Weeble shagged a duckling, and his bottom was the outcome.

LOL!! Yes my supercheap nappies were 2nd hand as were the wraps I did wonder If I was being a bit grim buying a second hand something for my ds that had been crapped in by someone else but I figured if i'd kept the ones from dd1 they would have been crapped in by someone else too.

I am hoping that I won't need to get anything else nappy wise for ds until he potty trains - he's been in washables for about a month and is suddenly asking to be changed when he's wet and telling me when he's poo'd.

Am determined to put ds - due in august straight into washables, but any advice is appreciated as this is my 1st successful foray into washables.

qally!!! pmsl

kitkatqueen,
We used cloth from day 4. For the first couple of days we used disposibles because the miconium is really hard to clean and I just could not be bothered. Also if you have your baby in hospital then you have to use disposibles for a short period of time.

I found that cheap muslim squares pad folded were best. I got my muslim squares from sainburys. My daughter was 6lb 13.5oz and I found that the nature babies or a motherease small wraps worked well. I think that nature babies wraps are better for small babies and probably motherease are better for bigger newborns.

I also found that using paper liners was a waste of time with breastfed poo as the poo is so liquid. Fleece liners work well with a newborn.

In our case it wasn't about the expense, but about the waste overload in our planet.
I know you have to wash the cloth nappies (therefore using water), but I still think it is more ecologically friendly than throwing 5 nappies a day in the bin.

Having said that, DS1 has special needs, and at 4.5 he still needs nappies at night, so I use a disposable for him to sleep.

Hi, been lurking on the reusables threads, trying to work out if its the way to go this time around, but can't read anymore for the tears pouring down my face with laughter after reading Qally's post! Thank you, I haven't laughed so much for ages,

STT, 24 wks pg with DC2

LittleLamb Thanks, that clip you linked is just SO funny, love it. Have you seen 'We Can Be Heroes: Finding The Australian of the Year' (known as 'The Nominees' outside of Australia)?? Very funny too.

Sorry, hi-jack over!

I think my top limit for a nappy price-wise is about £10 if it needs a wrap and about £15 if it doesn't. But having said that, I have some 2nd hand ones and also bought some factory seconds aswell to cut costs.

I do get nappy envy though when I see babies in really expensive nappies...

OMG! I have never seen embroidered or velour cloth nappies before! How excessive

I have soem second hand ImseVimses which I got from a girl at work and some second hand Tots Bots, which are fab. But I am also using the terry sqaures that my mum had for me, 30 odd years ago! I am the third of 4 children, so goodness knows how old they are, how many bottoms they have hugged, and how many poos they have absorbed.

I did turn down the thirty year + old decayed and craked rubber pants though.

''I did turn down the thirty year + old decayed and craked rubber pants though. ''

A good call there, I think!

Some of my stash

I used to love ds3's tye dye wraps, and in the summer if it was really hot he would wear his leopardskin print wrap with a tshirt and sunnies and look very cool indeed.

M

4andnotout don't lead me astray.

They are goreous nappies, but my daughter would just cr@p all over them given half a chance.

We spent quite a lot on 15 BumGenius nappies for DS. (about 200 quid or so, I think). In my defence, I am planning on having 3 kids, so they will be worth it in the end. Besides, they are lovely, and wash and dry really easily.

Sometimes it's just cos they're really really cute, sometimes it's because expensive nappies will hopefully be better quality and last longer. My nappies are now on DD2, and some of them have bald towelling (the cheap ones) and some are still pristene (the expensive ones).

Mostly in life, you get what you pay for!

I don't really get the nappy-buying enthusiasm, we had motherease that lasted for 3 dc and then I gave them away, but we didn't go around buying lots of exciting ones.

But it's the same with slings, and buggies, and tents - I'm always surprised that the Camping threads are mostly about buying tents, not doing camping. People just like shopping, I suppose.

OMG you are all so restrained and responsible! Have you never seen these? or these? or everything on here???

I always feel that there is a nappy out there that is a)absorbent; b)trim; c)easy to wash; d)comfortable for baby; e)really, really cute so I keep looking and get sidetracked in my quest for the most perfect nappy ever by all the less perfect but cute nappies available.

They are v cute. I feel very old, there was nothing like that in my day (dd1 is 9, it's like several generations of real nappies have evolved since then, and we haven't bought any since). But surely, after a few washes, they're a bit the worse for wear, not all fluffy and strokeable?

My minkee itti's and blueberries are still soft and strokeable, infact i had two of the limited edition tiger print itti's arrive today for dd3 & dd4

YABU

Everyone needs a hobby . Some people buy shoes, others knit. For me, at times when I've had a little spare money and an all consuming breastfed baby who wears nappies 24/7 I've amused myself buying nappies I like. And yes, I have many embroidered wraps. So sue me ! Not everyone is motivated to use reusables solely by environmental or financial considerations. Over at least 3 children, despite having 60+ nappies and quite a few wraps and none of them bargain basement, I will still have saved money compared with disposables and babywipes (I use reusable wipes), even without taking into account that ultimately I'll be able to sell them on. In fact, had I been more lazy and not potty trained my first 2 under 2 years, I'd have saved even more . I have already sold a few on, and have recouped pretty decent amounts of what I paid for them.

A more suitable hobby for the real-nappy-enthusiast eco-mum would be to knit your own nappies, embroidered if you like, preferably from home-grown hemp. Rather than buying into the capitalist model of conspucuous consumption.

but I take your point that not everyone uses real nappies for environmental reasons and/or to save money (though most people i know in real life are doing it for that reason).

my local authority gave out huge real nappy sets for free,so i only bought a bucket.