Liners for newborns

[tassis]

OK, maybe I'm just being dense, but can someone please talk me through what to do in terms of using a liner with a newborn's cloth nappy.

Thanks

If you are breastfeeding you don't need to use a liner. Only use with formula fed babies or when moving onto solids with a breastfed babies. Poo is more solid then and the liner makes it easier to flush away.

Breastfed poo is usually liquid (chicken korma like) and will wash away. The nappies will have lovely orange stains but a)what does it matter? and b)they do come out on the line.

My nappies have gone through 2 children and there is no sign of the stains!

Thanks both.

I have spoken to various people about this and answers seem to vary from using both fleece and disp (think that's what Twiga does) to using nothing at all.

So Gem, if you use nothing do you just sluice lovely breastfed poo off down loo or just stick it in bucket and let washing maching do job.

For various reasons, I'm keen to avoid flushing disp liners down loo. Wondering about composting them, but then what do you do about the poo?? (feel that may be another thread...)

Do you not use liners for the dryness aspect too though Gem? DS is very clammy if DH forgets to put a liner in.

I tended to use disposables for the first few weeks, but then once I got more settled, I switched to fleece and just chuck the whole thing in the machine, and do a rinse cycle before washing the nappy.

yep fleece liners

scraped poo off with dedicated loo brush

Flameboo, I will use disps for a few weeks too. Just haven't used cloth with bf poo before - switched when ds was 15ish months.

Might just use fleece from start then. Had forgotten about dryness thing.

If you just bung em in machine poo how's the smell situation?

you can get biodegradable liners for example from little green earthlets

you can actually wash and reuse them with the nappies as well if you like.

tassis i used cloth with b/f poo and cursed everytime I went to stay at mils, used disposables and watched in horror as dd pooed her way past the leg gussets, back gusset....

it was horrid

had about 2 leaks with cloth, but every time she pooed in a disp I had to change her whole outfit. go for the cloth as soon as you can

No smell issues - I put the machine on an empty boil wash with vinegar once every few weeks to give it a bit of a blast through.

I use flease liners with any nappythat isn;t flease lined. Brest feed newborn pooh is sooooo runny it's not worth trying to flush it off it all come off Ok in the washing machine.
My F-liners are strips of thin flease about 25cm x 10cm , goes in the nappy to cover his bum and between the legs and up over his willy. they keep DS's skin dry as wee wicks through them into the terry.