Washable nappies - how do you clean the baby's bum?

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I'm in the process of moving my 5-week-old baby into cloth nappies and much happier now I'm not filling up the bin with so many disposables... BUT I'm still using nappy sacks for all the cotton wool used to wipe his bum clean, which doesn't seem right!

What do others use? I'm a bit squeamish about the idea of cloth wipes, especially once he's on solids. Does cotton wool biodegrade? I'm guessing it's probably not flushable - given that I don't even dare flush paper liners down our Victorian plumbing I'm sure there must be a better way...

Also: I got 20 Kushies nappies from my mum, but I'm finding them very leaky. Bearing in mind these are 14 years old, nappy technology may have improved since then - I've bought a few modern nappies to try out different brands and they've been much better. Anybody have experience of using Kushies? Should I try again when he's a bit bigger, or spend money on new nappies?

We use cloth wipes, honestly they are not scary, no more mess than disposable wipes, and after they just go straight into our wet bag with the nappies.

Do the 14 year old nappies have leg elastic and/or waterproof lining? Those two things would not survive 14 years.

Cloth wipes are fine. I am really squeamish and they honestly are not gross.

Cloth wipes are so much better than disposable, you are so much less likely to get pooey hands!

Big cloth nappy/wipes fans here. We bought our local Boots out of Water Wipes before our DS arrived and they have sat unopened.....I'm on a couple of Cloth Nappy FB Groups, which I've used to buy different styles to try out. I don't think we have a Nappy Library near us (Staffordshire) so it's been the next best thing! Have become SLIGHTY addicted, so many lovely patterns and colours...

I much prefer cloth wipes, and if you're using cloth nappies too then you just chuck them in the nappy bag / bin. I find I use far fewer cloth wipes, even on a really bad nappy.
I use Close Pop-Ins on my 14 month old, with thick bamboo boosters. I imagine nappies have moved on a bit in the last 10+ years!

Mountain of v cheap muslin cloths and a nappy bucket :)

Still in use how (new cloths) for daily clean face and body cloths- cheap and no harsh cleansers needed

We had cheeky wipes, they were brilliant! One washable wipe she's the job of about the disposable ones.

Cheeky wipes/nappy lady ones

Thanks guys - looks like cloth wipes is the way to go... I recently discovered that kitchen roll seems to work just as well as the paper liners you buy 😀

For the moment as I only have a few cloth nappies he's still in disposables half the time, so I just keep a nappy sack open in a little compost caddy and the cotton wool from a cloth nappy change goes in with the disposable nappies (the caddy isn't being used for compost because we were already composting food waste and then the council started collecting it and gave everybody a bin and a caddy - I'm using the bin as a nappy bucket 😁)

Washable wipes are MUCH better than disposable ones, and much more economical and not gross at all. There are some you can get called cheeky wipes, but they involve boxes and solutions and all that faff isn't needed. Just water with them works fine. These ones are REALLY good www.ebay.co.uk/itm/202029844121?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649