Nappies for the hospital?

[Stefka]

I was just wondering if people took cloth nappies to the hospital with them or if they got some biodegradable disposables for that.

I had to take my own nappies, our hospital stopped giving out nappies, they should be able to tell you.

It hadn't occurred to me - are they designed to take the meconium (sp?) - might it stain more than normal baby poo?

Apologies if this is quite ignorant!

I know I have to take my own but I just wondered if people bothered taking cloth ones with them or if that is just far too much hassle at the start.

I took biodegradable disposables for hospital. Got on with the cloth ones when I got home. I thought it would be easier. HTH

You won't have facilitie to wash your cloth nappies appropriately in hospital, and to give you an idea my ds went through 8 disposables before all the meconium was out!

Thanks - I was thinking that it was best to use disposables for the hospital but I was interested to see what others had done.

I used cloth from day one with DS2 as I had a home birth, no probs with staining from meconium. With DD I was in hosp after and emergency cs and used disp as there was no way DH could cope with DS1 and visiting me and remember to take home the dirty nappies and wash them and bring me back clean ones

I used bio disposables for the first few weeks, there's enough to be going on with at that time without washing nappies too.
My dh said the meconium was like engine oil

Ditto curlywurly - I got disposables for ds when he was born and have a pack of disposables for this db in my hospital bag - I'm leaving dh in charge of our other three (including ds who is still in washable nappies) and felt it was just too much to expect him to wash and return nappies for the baby too!

In the scheme of things I don't feel too guilty about using one pack of disposables (though it never occurred to me to buy biodegradable ones )

i suppose it would depend if your planning on staying in long - i know at our hosp after a normal delivery with no major tears or trauma you can come home within 4 hrs but then you never know if your going to have a normal delivery or how its going/ gone etc until afterwards. Like curly says i dont thik my dh would have coped with remebering anything else - he brought my dd to visit and he couldnt even manage to brush her hair let alone cart anything useful in with him!

in my local hospital they provide (and launder) washable nappies for the babys

If the hospital allows it i'll take my cloth nappies in with me.