If your nursery were going to use cloth....

[MrsDoolittle]

and they asked for comments

1. what would you say?

1. which ones would you suggest?

Thanks!
I'll nip over there!

lua - I bought a \link{http:\minkinappies.co.uk\minki} bag and my nursery put my cloth nappies in there. I send fleece liners, washable wipes for them to run under the tap, and my minki bag; I get no plastic stuff back

if the nursery were going for prefolds I'd say cotton bottoms wraps last longer, after having used both. I've used prefolds and they are a very easy-care system

are they going to use eco-disposables too for the last change?

lua no good at links - www.minkinappies.co.uk

and lua - minki stuffables are what I use both for nursery and for nights

slinki minkis would I think be a good option for you

(sorry for millions of separate posts)

I'd have a fit. Would move my child. I don't like the idea of cloth one bit, and the parents would then be responsible for new clothes to fit the nappies.

we had a cloth nappy lady coem to mother and toddler group a few weeks ago. She didn't sell any and I did feel sorry for her, but then her dd started leaking poo over the floor!

All nappies leak at some point - disposables more for me. That poor woman though, she must have been sooooooo embarrassed.

Thanks for the tip capuccino! Will check!

Joggers seem to be a standard uniform at nursery and will fit over cloth bums really well. I think that cloth is soooo much better and would prefer to send mine to a nursery where cloth was used.

I tried pre-folds, cotton bottoms before I discovered Mumsnet and I couldn't get on with them atall. Hence my reason for thinking something else would be easier and therefore more attractive.
IlanaK I see your point, so I guess that what the nursery is likely to do then.

I saw that bumgenius have to washed warm, otherwise they look like an excellent option.

I personally wouldn't be happy with nappies that are generally shared and hadn't been washed to a good standard, and I am a cloth fanatic who has bought many second hand nappies (I give thema one off blast).

Plus, I think I remember reading somewhere that using a laundering service, even when nappies are washed at 90 is slightly more eco than washing them at 60 at home.

Ilanak, out of interest, what were parent's reactions when you changed over? Were there any parents that refused and what happens with them?

Actually, I have to agree with one of Kelly1978's points -- cloth-bottomed babies often need careful clothes shopping. DS is generally either in (a) dungarees, (b) a size bigger trousers with the bottoms rolled up, or (c) specifically cut for cloth trousers. Parents who weren't going to cloth full-time might be a bit miffed if their DCs wound up needing special clothes for nursery (so if they do do this, a slim-fitting nappy would be important in addition to the laundering (no elastic) issues).

Would also like to point out that DS has never leaked poo anywhere when wearing cloth even at the explosive bf poo stage.

We have had only positive reactions. And we are in an area where no one uses cloth at home and are the only nursery using it. The parents are of course given a choice. They do not have to use cloth if they do not want to. But we do explain all the ins and outs and our environmental reasons for doing it. They also see that their children do not have any worse nappy rash - which is always their worry. And many welcome not having to buy so many nappies. We do not provide disposables - parents have always brought them in. So they now have a financial incentive to use the cloth.

I was less worried about the parent's reactions than about the staff. None had ever used cloth before (excpet in changing my kids and they were shaped nappies). But the manager was fully behind it and they are all getting on fine.

By the way, I did not canvas parent's opinions first. I am sure that the overwhelming majority would have said that they did not want it. However, with the right information, and having it in place aleady, they are all happy.

Sorry, I forgot to add about the clothes.

This has not been an issue at all. Prefolds seem to be slimmer fitting than the shaped nappies that I used. The wraps are fairly thin too. We have yet to have a child whose clothes had not fitted. But if that was the case, we would simply change them into some spare nursery clothes while they were in cloth and then put their own clothes back on to go home.

So there aren't so many options Ilana?
I guess there isn't much help I can offer them so.

All the nappies I can think of otherwise have elastic apart from Motherease and I think they can be bulky on smaller children, particularly slim ones.
I would suggest tots nippa but they are bulky or bumbles.

They would be best to just find their local nappy laundering service and have a chat with them. They are usually very helpful and have experience of nurseries or other large places using cloth on multiple children.

I would say great, get on with it. I would recommend Bambino Mios. Cos I use them. I have used terries and a shaped terry nappy but Bambino Mios and their wraps are my fave.

leah and kelly; I agree that bulky nappies like tots bots and stuffables mean it's difficult to dress a child, but Bambino Mios and prefold systems are no problem at all

and for everyone like Kelly who would 'move their child' - their child, and their child's children and grandchildren, are all going to have to live with the mountains of disposables currently being created

kelly, what is wrtong with cloth? [puzzled?]

tots bots with fleece wraps.

or just go for the squares-they're really easy to use...

(SOrry have't read whole thread)..it would make me choose a nusery of they did cloth nappies!

We send ours in terries - they love us!!!!!!