Due Fab Feb 2009: the Curry and Cake Club

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Here is our new thread!

Now I've only gorn and ordered some bamboozles!!! This is ALL YOUR FAULT mrsy! You can get them heavily discounted on ebay at the mo...

I'm resisting. I have a birth to potty pack of Cotton Bottoms and keep telling myself it's enough.

What were you all doing up so late, girls? tut tut tut.

I loved the mothereases most as well. Actually, I had some disano wrap around things which were handed down by a friend which I liked too. Problem was (well, it's hardly a problem), I don't do the laundry, and I finally lost the washables v. disposables battle...

the playroom gradually seguing into nursery sounds most wise, Mrsy

There are a few people using cloth nappies on here, whenever i mention it to anyone they look at me like an alien and pass patronising comments about how i won't have time with a baby to look after, very helpful

Tinks mum not heard of cotton bottoms have you used them before?

Yes exciting organising nappies and nursery stuff, its our first so very new and feeling giddy!

They were made by Tommee Tippee, but they stopped making them about a year ago. I got a birth to potty pack for £225 (I think) from Boots, so got a lot of points back on them, plus I had about £15 in extra points vouchers to go with them. Yup, my sole decision about which nappy was the one they sold in Boots! I like them though, although a lot of people don't and they bring out the nappy snobs (what's wrong with prefolds?)

I don't find nappies that much harder to be honest and I think that if she'd have relied on disposables there would have been times we'd have had to stretch them out. As it was we just threw them all in the wash every other day between loads, stuck them in the tumble dryer (cause we're in a flat and they're better in a dryer anyway) and we had clean dry nappies in about 3 hours. Fill the bucket when everything's gone in and just stick nappies in there in the meantime.

O&U if you want to know why I was up late, have a look at FB and my little rant then when I went to bed someone was having a party (at 2am) so I had to call the HA and the police, goodness knows when it finished but I fell asleep exhausted in the end. Think it must have gone on for awhile because I think I was having waking dreams.

TBM, hope all is harmonious in your home again.

I never really got on with the prefolds I had (tried a few of everything). DS1 was the most phenominal pisser known to man or woman and NOTHING could contain him for long. Even WELL boosted, prefolds were particularly useless. And his legs were so skinny that unless you had loads of elasticated gateways, poo would spill out everywhere. And DH preferred the ones that looked like disposables. I find my prefolds are super handy now for mopping up wee spillages on the floor etc. and make great dusters - when I can be arsed to dust.

I was surprised last night when I asked DH what he'd like to use this time round and he expressed a HUGE preference for cloth.

I liked the disano ones too, onward - they really were like baby origami!

I can't see why cloth nappies are more time consuming than disposables, they don't take any longer to change and five minutes every other day to chuck them into the wash is hardly taxing...

I have to say that a big factor for me is the money and John is happy that they are nice and soft for her bum (he asked me to get different ones to test for softness!!) and the environment stuff is a bonus!

i used prefolds on dd from 5 weeks and she's always been fine in them so would have agreed with tink til ds came along.

however his big bum simply does not get on with prefolds in any way, shape or form! they're a disaster and i had to enter the dangerously addictive world of shaped nappies [glances guiltily at the stacks of nappies cascading from every surface] just need a couple more for the new baby. and some toddler sized one for ds as he's currently taxing them to the limits with his 10 gallon pees. and a few wraps.... maybe a few bamboo booter..........

they're definitely no more hassle than emptying bin fulls of stinking sposies. and sposies do seem to smell worse for some reason.

the washing of them just sort of gets assimilated into the piles of extra washing you'll be doing anyway (how do such small people create so much dirty washing? )

I'm missing using real nappies, but now we have a "big girl" who won't use them, she's trying to potty train but forgets if she has a nappy on, real nappies get handed back where ever we are because she won't stay in a wet nappy.

I'm thinking of maybe just getting a couple of others just for some variety...

Skinny legs?

PT, it's the chemicels that smell. What shocked me when I used disposables for the first time after using real nappies was the crystals I couldn't get my head around how that could be good for the baby.

Anyone used the fluffles? I heard the size 2 can be used from birth to potty - and they're £120 for the maxi pack on natural baby shower at the moment, but I'd be nervous of splashing out on that if she'll end up needing size 1's as well.

Also, can you give me an idea of how many to get - there are 15 in the tots bots packs, with 4 wraps - does that sound about right?

I use these...

www.babybeehinds.com.au/news/index.php

I've got them in blue and cream, but am wondering if I should just buy a few in pink !

Thay are great and I've not had a leak yet. I have to say I don't always use them at night: I use 1 moltex oko disposable - which then degrades in the composter. God, I sound all herbal now
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It's lovely and sunny here again today. Off down the park - if I can drag myself away from real nappy sites. Hmm mrsy - you have a lot to answer for !!

Teeny tiny legs, TBM - but how CUTE!

Fluffles weren't around when DS1 was small, but I certainly would have tried them. What puts me off though, is they are artificial material and part of the whole idea of cloth nappies (for me) is lovely, natural fibres, which is why I get so excited about bamboozles - less bulky than the cotton ones but more absorbent.

I LOVE the look of flexitots though, and I won't let a bit of polyester put me off getting a few.

As to whether to get the full set of fluffles or not - it really is down to personal choice (AND the shape of your baby!) which nappies work for you and which don't.

I wouldn't personally, because I found I liked using different nappies for different times - night/day, my general mood... I also didn't really buy into the birth-to-potty thing with size 2s cause I found them sooooooo bulky on a tiny one. I was happy to use them (well boosted) at night time but never during the day.

I also found I really didn't like nippa nappies and they were always the last in the pile, used when the aplix ones were in the wash. But I know people who wouldn't use anything else...

mrsy- I have about 20 nappies and 8 wraps.

I LOVED the wraps on the puddlepants site but discovered them too late for me.

That was her first bath at about 18/19 days. The skin hung off of her like an old lady because there was no fat behind it, it was funny bathing her because it flapped in the water lol

Sorry laidback - and swampster! but I'm only awakening a dormant desire, and you know it didn't take much, either!

Think I'm leaning towards flexitots - maybe 'cos they look more like a conventional nappy?

We're off to bluewater to buy out mothercare and john lewis - enjoy your sunny sundays everyone...

laidback - do you wash every day, or every other day?

also, where are people on the washable vs. disposable liners?

goodness you lot, Mrsy really got you going.I can't join in as I'm a disposables person.

Beautiful day here today - we even ate lunch outside in the sunshine. I'm now sitting here with ds and dh asleep on one sofa and my dad asleep on another. My mum and I are the only ones awake ! Typical.

Me thinks we need a trip to the park this afternoon...

mrsy... dipsosable liners all the way here! the washable are awful..... my 2 never had solid chunky poo that conveniently fell off the liner when dangled over the toilet.... my 2 had/have soft sludgy poo that melds itself into the liner and has to either scraped off or put into the machine with the nappies which somewhat deteates the purpose of having a liner.

the disposable one can just be peeled off and flushed which is alot better. you can get ones that are compostable too so definitely very ecofriendly... although our composter is overflowing at the best of times so i've never quite gotton into the habit of adding shedloads of poo to it as well!

you won't need liners til about 6 months if you bf though as they do nothing for bf poo...... it's literaly just yellow liquid.

when dd was newborn i was washing every day for a while as she went through 10/12 nappies a day, then managed to get sdown to every 2/3 days but when ds was born i was back to every day again as had 2 in cloth. am now doing a wash every 2 days with ds in full time cloth and dd in one prefold a night (night training not a success [sigh])

tink... the crystals are vile aren't they, especally when they explode everywhere and get stuck all over the babies bum... yuk!

I used disposable liners, especially with a breastfed baby!

Some nappies are worse than others and the baby always has crystals on their bum even if it doesn't explode. We had to stop using the real nappies because we couldn't wash them hot enough to get a thrush infection out of them, she looked like she'd been through a fire then she wanted to use the toilet anyway.

One advantage of real nappies is they tend to potty train sooner as they can feel when they've weed.

Afternoon all.

Well I have had a fun weekend and I feel loads better for it.

Went shopping with dd yesterday, got her some nice new clothes for the winter. Then I drive down to Suffolk and had hot chocolate in a lovely little cafe with my sister before dropping dd off with my parents and driving home. Got changed and went out for dinner.

For the foodies among us I had:

Starter- smoked salmon with horseradish foam, beetroot, red onion and mini toasts

Main- Slow roasted duck on creamy mash with a citrus sauce

Dessert- Pannacotta with warm figs and amaretto biscuits.

All washed down with a cold glass of chardonnay.

It was bloody gorgeous! My only complaint was the restaurant was quite hot, not good for a pregnant woman shovelling hot food into her gob but we had a brilliant time.

After that we went to friends new pub and I stood with a diet coke watching drunk people having abstract conversations.

Was introduced to someone in the pub who had a ds 2 months ago and she said to me 'When are you due? February? Bloodyhell, you've got ages yet, are you sure there isn't 2 in there?' pointing at my bump.

I blamed the food.

Have spent the day supermarket shopping and cleaning the house and now DH is making a roast while I MN. I am happy

Gosh MS, your DH is cooking a roast?????? Could you rent him out to my DH to teach him? Most he can manage is tea and toast!