Swaddlebees...

[sallyf104]

... is there ANYTHING you can use to boost these? Even with hemp insert they were soaked and leaking after half an hour!!

Which kind of swaddlebees? I had that problem with the pocket variety; I found a small prefold works a little bit better in the medium size, but they never were my favourite nappies. I suppose you could experiment with microfibre cloths, so see if that helps.

The pocket ones - in a size large... Where do you get microfibre cloths (never used them)?

Try a microfibre cloth (cleaning aisle in tesco etc) on top of the hemp insert (not underneath it)

Thanks - will give this a go...

Does anyone know if you can get white microfibre cloths anywhere (have found blue but a bit worried about colour run...)?
Thanks

Hmmm. I've found that swaddlebees have to fit really snug on the legs or the pee just rolls out, iykwim. Also, if the insert isn't in perfectly, it somehow screws up the fit and you have the rolling pee problem again.

I think that the velour inside the nappy takes a minute to absorb liquid, so if there's a lot it's a problem.

Once you get the fit right, it is really absorbent with that hemp insert!

My LO is quite a heavy wee-er so I think its too much liquid in one go for the hemp to cope with. I can see that the microfibre could work... I will report back once I've tried it...

You could try fleece liners if you dont already use them to help get the moisture into the nappy quicker. Although with swaddlebees you will get a little overhang with just rectangular ones.

I always preferred the microfibre inserts. If you need more absorbancy there arent many options as the SB's are so slim but Bambinex do a small bamboo booster which might fit in as well as an insert. Otherwise if you have Baby Beehinds nappies the smaller of their boosters would work well due to their size.
HTH

For my ds, I noticed that the insert was soaking at the front and dry at the back, so I started to fold over the front of the Microfibre and a hemp insert so that there was 4 layers of booster over his willy, the middle was still narrow enough not to mis-shape the bit between his legs and there was less over his bottom.

Worked for us but it is certainly not one you can forget about.

I have ordered a Swaddlebee microfibre insert - am thinking I will try this and I can make some fleece liners of the correct shape. I have managed to get some microfibre cloth (blue but have washed it several times so hopefully colour won't now run) - will make an extra booster with that I think.
Think I will also try 2 inserts - 1 hemp and 1 microfibre on top - or would this be too thick and cause bunching?

I dont know about you but I always found it difficult to get the hemp inserts in (we were using mediums) and they seemed a bit stiff to me. I would say its worth a go as the microfibre are relatively thin so you may get away with but havent done that one myself. We outgrew the all in one style pockets and havent got large ones yet but we do use a velour pocket and can fit a microfibre insert and a bamboo booster in there so you might be ok.