Cloth nappy users - when do you use disposables?

[girlinfrance]

At night? When you're out? On holiday? Never?

We started our 2-month-old in cloth this week and although I'm converted for use at home (including nights - first time last night and no leaks!), I'm a bit nervous of using them away from home.

What do you do?

I was surprised by the leaking night nappies too

When I go to the beach (so much to carry, already, have to keep it to minimum and 1 extra disp is enough for a beach outing). When we go for a cycle ride (DS in back seat) and are gone for several hours.

And sometimes at night. DS is over 2, a heavy wetter, and can soak 3 terries no problem at night. So am now using 2 hemp nappies and a terry booster (that's one mega-nappy, amazingly DS can still walk with it on!) but I think the wraps have to be wrapped on perfect or will still leak.

He leaks through disps at night sometimes, too, to be fair. The only trick is to wait until he falls asleep before putting nappy on, but DH often forgets.

I find that cloth is much better at night aswell - you can boost up just about anything and put a fleece liner in to keep their bums dry - and as that is generally the longest stretch they are in one for you don't need to worry about the side effects of the gel/heat like you might with disps. If you do use disps at night and they leak - put a wrap over the top!

T is better in cloth at night too I'm finding. Although the nappy is well and truly soaked by morning, his fab Rikkis keep the wet off his pjs and bedding. No nappy rash yet either.

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Since switching to cloth I have only ever used them for plane flights as I worry that I won't have enough cloth nappies at the airport if delayed, last time we flew, we used the nappies as packing for a guitar (to Spain???) so they came in doubly useful.

Never (unless you count the 2 freebies I got from p**pers that lasted 1/2 an hour each)

Using when you are out is easy peasy - get a large water proof bag (some nappy sellers sell them) to put the dirty ones in & then just bung the whole lot in the machine at home. When we go away we simply make sure we have access to a washine machine & take the bucket with us

Only on holiday or when we go out for a long time and I don't want to carry 20kg of wet smelly nappies.

My DS gets a rash anytime we've used a disposable on him so it's cloth all the time... Takes up a little more room in changing bag but not much - I bought quite cheap AIO's on ebay, they aren't great so wouldn't use them everyday but are fab for in the changing bag (they're bright green so easy to find too! )

I use nappy sacks (cheap tesco value - 100 for 25p!) to put the used nappy in to bring home then just shove it in nappy bucket.

we used disposables for first 5 weeks after ds was born and not since,i wish id used them from day 1.i found them much more reliable than disposables.

Only on holiday if we're backpacking or camping a long way from a washing machine for more than 3 days. have learnt the hard way about getting stuck with a bucket of dirty nappies for days in the middle of nowhere.

or if we've forgotten to wash the nappies.

I'm still doing 2 night feeds and not changing a nappy so I'm too scared to use cloth at night. Can't face a complete change at 2am! And wouldn't ds get really uncomfortable being in a wet nappy so long?

DS is in a cloth nappy for 13 hrs at night and it's not a problem, we use fleece liners so he doesn't feel too wet and wool or fleece wraps which allow evaporation (the nappies aren't nearly as wet as they can be using PUL). I gave up on using disposables at night as I kept getting leaks, at least with tcloth I can modify the amount of boosting needed to cover the entire night.

Yup - big boosters here too with fleece liner and fleece wrap (when they're washed ) But even without a fleece wrap, the wet has never bothered either of my two - I guess it must be warm {eeuwww emoticon]

have gone soft

i use reusables in the house

i use disposables if there is any chance of going out

so i have kind of slipped into disposable use

i just can't be bothered with carrying around all the nappies, it means i have to take a bag...and dd's pouch sling, and monitor a kamakaze car fasinated 3 yo...

ok, am lazy, must try harder

oh do if going out using car or pushchair, i suppose

but thats once in a blue moon, really.