Cloth nappies questions number 234872384738473879 because I'm lazy tired and busy

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Are cloth nappies ok for toddlers?

Which are the best? How much do they cost? How often is your washing machine on? Do they look flipping ridiculous? Are they as absorbent as throw awayers?

Any other info would be useful or links or whatnot... just curious... DH probably wouldn't be very happy about em trying this as I'm cr*p at keeping up with the washing already..

I guess the freakish lentil weavers are too busy washing their nappies in the mornings then

I've got a toddler in cloth; dd1 wore them till she trained. Of course they don't look ridiculous - are you saying my dd looks ridiculous? Well?

as to which is the best, it depends on your budget really. I use prefolds which are v cheap and v easy to wash, but now a load of motherease fascists will turn up and sneer at me no doubt. it all depends on what you want. some people spend a fortune on really fancy ones and then spend all day talking about them

I wash about every 3 days although dh is not happy about this because it means having two nappy buckets in his lovely minimalist bathroom. Absorbency... again depends on what you use. I can leave a 16-month-old in a prefold all morning unless she has a drink-fest.

that's enough advice for now since you called me a 'freakish lentil weaver'

No I'm one too!!!!

And I live in Liverpool, so I never flipping See cloth nappies!!

ah no, you can't buy them in shops. you have to go underground

www.kittikins.co.uk
www.minkinappies.co.uk
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the nappy lady - I've bought and sold stuff thro' her classifieds section

except for waitrose the sell MEOS... and those awful all in one nappies they sell in boots

but IMO there are so many better ones availaibe online.

I REALLY think John Lewis should sell a whole range, but they dont

With a toddler I'd be inclined to go for a stuffable pocket nappy, personally (something like Fuzzi Bunz, Supadupas or Bear Behinds) and then you can tailor what you stuff them with to match your DC's weeing capacity. Personally we mostly use Tesco Value range microfibre cloths which are dead cheap, but have some hemp soakers as well.

Just as absorbant as disposables and IMO look very cute (DS's nursery carers are in love with one of his Bear Behinds zebra print nappies). We wash every other day normally.

Other websites:

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there are quite a few shops round here that sell them... do you have any local independant nursery shops?

i am loving ellas house bumhuggers ATM... hemp, so VERY absorbant, but also slim fitting.
quite expensive though.

motherease one size are also fabby, you can get snap in boosters for heavy wetters.

They're MORE absorbant than disposables. I can't leave ds in a disposable overnight, but never had a prob with cloth

How many do I buy for each bubs??

Do I need liners??

I can't afford 32 nappies at 9 quid each are you insane!

To afford those I would have to stop buying normal nappies for a few months and let my children poo anywhere willy nilly!!!

fast I can show you clothes...as you know I use them for H. J also used them for beth.
personally think for both your littlies to wear them you would be better with MEOS as they can both wear them and then a couple of shaped for bedtime. How many you need depends on how often you want to wash them. H goes through around 6 nappies a day. With T you would go through less as he is a bit older although he may not like the clothes as A doesnt so have to still use disposables for bed for him. You can buy 2nd hand nappies on ebay if you dont mind that.
How heavy is S as have a couple of smaller nappies but with her being older than H she might weigh more or she could be little like T.

Got no idea how heavy S is she's not as skinny as T was though so they probably weigh about the same (H and S that is)...

I'll look on EBay.....

32 nappies at 9 quid each

I am totally unsure about which to buy now lol!

Oh like I could ever afford it anyway

H is about 13lb at the min.

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However I am using old fashioned terry squares 6 for a tenner at mothercare. Not sure about toddlers as DS is only 7 months. We go through about 7 a day as he can pee for england. I put 1 wash of nappies through every two days atm on a sixty degree wash. Seem to remember mum saying that we were in them till we trained but that was 30 odd years ago.

£9 each if you buy new (I don't normally). Better place to pick up second-hand nappies than eBay is the buy-and-sell nappy forums at ukparents. A lot of the eBay seller of new nappies actually sell them for more than you can buy them for on the online nappy retailer sites, and even second hand nappies there often go for silly money (bad silly money, not good silly money).

Also worth bearing in mind that if you have the ready cash to invest up front you can sell the nappies on eBay once you're finished for at least half what you paid for them -- probably more like two-thirds if they are a popular brand, and if they are a limited edition popular brand very probably more than you paid for them brand new (yes, madness, I know). So ultimately you recoup a very large chunk of your investment.

For example I've bought Fuzzi Bunz and Wonderoos generally for about £4 each second-hand on average. Allow an 89p pack of Tesco value microfibre cloths for stuffing, that still works out at less than £5 per nappy. I can use them for subsequent children and then if they are still in good nick probably still sell them on for £4 each, or nearly that much. It starts to make a lot more financial sense from that point of view.

If the initial cash investment is too much, though, plenty of people use prefolds or even terry squares perffectly happily (I even know people who've given up the "fancier" brands in favour of terry squares because they were happier with the terries) and those are much cheaper. The key there is to find a fold that suits you and your DC (some folds are better for newborn poo containment than others, and different folds suit different sizes and builds of DC) and to get good wraps (you only need about 4 wraps per DC).

As for liners try fleece. (the same stuff they use for jackets & jumpers). I bought a meter of it off the market and cut it down to size saves a couple of quid in the long run as you can just wash them with the nappies.

I might try terries, do I need a fancy nappy pin thingy... I can buy fleece cheaply :)

got a website with a huge list of folds..

doe you think a 2 year old will accept terries?

YOU DO OF COURSE ALSO HAVE WAHMS NAPPIES WHICH TEND TO SELL NEW FOR AROUND £4. oops sorry for shouting...anyways some of those sites are fab. They alspo do wraps for similair amounts.
Fleece liners are a must imo .

Or flushable biodegradable paper liners which is what I use, DS's poo not having read the books that say it's supposed to easily come off fleece...

I can afford terries so that's what I'll try!

IF I can persuade DH who knows I can leave washing about for yonks..

You'd need a few nappy nippas (the modern equivalent to the nappy pin) -- they come in packs of three normally so how many you need depends on how many you think you'll lose...

Nappy pins are only a couple of quid or you could get some nippas, a friend kindly sent me some and I am converted to the god that is a nappy nippa. (Y shaped stretchy clawed thingy that just nips the nappy).

fas have got a pack of nippas you can have plus my boots is doing them at 88p a pack at the min...town might be doing them too.

also got some prefolds given to me that I dont use.

Do you put prefolds inside a wrap or can you use them like terries....?

Can I cut up my old terry sheets and use those as nappies? DH is going to be mega sceptical you see...

Nippas, right