How many nappies?

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Hi ladies, hope you can give me some advice! Our baby is due in 3 months, we're going to be using cloth nappies and I am wondering how many of everything to buy? I'm hoping to use a mixture of Popolini Organics and TotsBots Bamboozles (but am open to any other suggestions!!) with some square terries on standby. I was thinking about 8 of each? Does this sound about right? And how many pairs of waterproof pants/ wraps should I buy? Hope you can help!!

depends how often you're planning to wash and how you're going to dry them. Newborns need changing every 2 to 3 hours, I think, so 16 would be OK for a day, but you'd have to wash and dry them overnight. If you're getting PUL wraps you'll get by with 4 or 5.

i always buy 6 wraps. with dd2 i was advised to have 10 nappies and 3 wraps, but istarted with her at the age of 1. i quickly bought extra wraps. my kids are the kind who do exlosive poos lol.

It does depend on how often you want to wash and how many nappy buckets you want to have hanging around the house unwashed.

We had quite a few nappies and used terries as well. Average out to have 8 a day, I tried to wash on the third day. So total of 24 to begin with, but had more terries that other nappies as it worked out expensive.

I also didn't use cloth nappies the first two weeks. Use disp. for the first two weeks as I spent quite a bit of time in the hospital and wanted to get used to baby.

I have 13 Bumbles, 3 bimbles and 1 each of Mother ease, polino and tots bots. Tend to only use the polino and ME if the others arn't dry yet.
We are washing every other day and line and airing cupboard drying.Bumbles and bimbles dry quick, every thing else is slow. Its working out fine at present our baby is 6 wks old. When he grow out of the bimbles and tots bots I'll have to think about getting a couple more bumbles or something else.
Wraps- I'm doing fine with 3 Mother ease air flow (poppered) small. I also have a 2nd hand velcroed wrap that lives in change bag as a spare. Again when he grow bigger I'll need larger wraps, but I got lucky and found 2 ME mediums in a charity shop.

I had 12 totsbots and 3 or 4 flat ones - we averaged about 5 a day. you need 2 waterproofs per day - so 4 if you intend to washe every other day, or 6 for every 3rd day etc. remember that rubbers dry much quicker than nappies so you don't really need a spare.