To all users of terry nappies

[SunshinePine]

Reading this thread right the way through it would appear that this woman has something against terries.

Wanted all of us to share our experiences with terry nappies and show how great they really are.

hum!!! I hate it when people start a new thread to moan about another. I think Sunfield is getting enough of a bashing on the other thread, you don't need to call up more cavalry. .

I am an big terry fan, btw, but we tend to not use them with uncooperative babies/toddlers. Not when there are other options that result in less stress (for the tot being nappified, I mean). Just common sense, no?

Thank god someone at last sees the point I'm making

I didn't mean for this thread to be a bashing ground for sunfeild, sorry that it appeared that way. I agree there may have been less stressful ways to sort out the toddler but he might have been just as distressed with any nappy. Just on your thread you contradicted yourself many times for the sake of putting down terries when disposables may have been no better.

I just wanted to hear from others who use terries and to make this a constructive thing, not a bashing ground.

Sorry for any misinterpreted intentions.

Anyway let's leave bashing to the other thread and share our wonderful experience and advice with using terries on here.

lljkk -my 6month old is very uncooperative, and of course I use terries on him. What cooperative babies do you know?

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wastingmyeducation - exactly, my 7yo is very co-operative when it comes to his nappy at bedtime, wish I could say the same when he was 7 months.

OK so the child in question was 4 but when it comes to having nappies put on in public any potty trained child is going to be un co-operative if a stranger is watching.

I've always used terry nappies. They are the cheapest option imo, and are so versatile, you can do different folds for different shaped DC, and are easily boosted for night time use etc. They also pass down to other DC. I'm not sure how you manage to pin a 60cm terry nappy on a 7yo SunshinePine? I've not had to face that problem yet. Presumably you've bought larger size teries, or made your own? I know you can get 75cm terry squares.

My mother is good at crafts so she made larger nappies for my 7 and 9 year old boys. She also made larger nappies for my incontinent 5yo so that we can use the bat fold (also called the Chinese or origami fold) and still have it fit her.

Thank you for steering this thread back on course!

SunshinePine - I would like to contact you off the message boards, any suggestions?

I dont use the CAT service but you can contact me at [email protected]

I'm a great fan of terry nappies. The problem with disposable nappies is they are NOT disposable. The thought of all that s+++ going out with the rubbish to landfill sites is horrifying. I also use traditional pull-on type plastic pants as the best leak proof cover to put on over a terry nappy, and they are also cheap to buy. I'd be interested to know if anyone else does the same, because the trend these days is to use those more expensive type "wraps", which I've never found to be as good.

I did use plastic pants for 6+ months with first baby, but found the polyester wraps much better/nicer. The plastic pants just ripped to shreds after a few months use, were quite stiff, cut into legs, etc.

SunshinePine -- what wrap (pants) do you use on your 7yo? I started a thread on here years ago about using cloth on children at night, and nobody else seemed to be doing it. I felt quite the weirdo at the time.

We use old bath towels I got off Freecycle for 4yoDS's night terries. He's been fine in daytime for over 2 years, just havent cracked nights. We used some Ellas house and other shaped nappies for DD when she was still in cloth at age 5yo, but she hardly wet them. DS4yo really NEEDS a big cloth nappy at night. He looks pretty silly wearing it, I must admit. And we get leaks, but we get leaks with his nighttime disps, too, so can't win.

We have a Rebus XXL wrap for his night nappies, (we only needed a Motherease XL for DD when she was 5yo, but she was quite petite). We have disps too in case the wrap is in the wash (or otherwise un-locatable). They're partly the old style Moltex Oko disps, at least.

We still use terries for DS (9months) night nappies, with a prefold as the booster. I guess I am lucky someone gave me a lot of shaped nappies which is what I usually use in daytime, they are a bit quicker/easier/less stressful to put on than terries.

We use plastic pants as a wrap for all my children's nappies I don't see the need for a fancy one unless the child is just walking round the house in a nappy. And let's face it my 5yo DD might but my 7 and 9 yo DS aren't going to!

jeanybeeny - one of the reasons I use cloth is because of the thought of all the landfill waste and what is effectively raw sewage inside the disposables. Even though DD is incontinent her poohs are quite well-formed so we use a bio-degradable liner and put the solids down the loo where it should be.

lljkk - I think there are lots of reasons your bedwetting thread didn't get replies.

1. Not many people like to admit they have an older bedwetter.
2. even less would like to say they are in nappies
3. less again would admit to putting a cloth nappy on an older child. For some reason it's ok to have them wear a pull-up but not so to put them in cloth.

Maybe it's because of the bulk needed if the child is a heavy wetter. Mine aren't bad so the terry is not too bulky, even if they wore PJs over the top their nappy would be very obvious but it is not ridiculous.

Plastic pants are cheap and cheerful, and easy to use imo. Boots sell them in packs of 5 for about £2.99, so they're cheap enough to replace if they wear out or rip to shreds. They have a soft cotton trim around the leg openings, so they should'nt cut in. Mothercare also sell packs of 5 plastic pants. They're a bit more expensive, but perhaps a bit better quality. I think the key is to get the right size pants, so that they cover the nappy completely, but at the same time not too tight around the legs and waist. If you ensure that no part of the nappy is sticking out you should'nt get any leaks. I'd be interested to know what sort of waterproof pant the Rebus XXL wrap is? Is it a pull-on type, and where can you buy them?

The Boots plastic pants I bought 8 yrs ago definitely didn't have cotton trim, sounds like they've improved hugely. Nylon pants were a good compromise, too.

Sorry, not Rebus, but Reb. Here's just one seller. It's a pull-over type. Waterproof enough, we get leaks when it slips down though.

Can anyone assist me with regard to boosters/whatever for terry nappies please? I'm hoping to use terries on my lo when the time comes but I know nothing about boosters (am old enough to remember terries on my brother but afaik there was nothing else!)
I've got the plastic pants, is that enough for a newborn?

I used Muslin cloths as newborn nappies, use the origami fold. Boosters are for babies age 3m+ ime. I used old rags as liners to get theru the meconium stage (although it will wash out).

thanks lljkk, there's so much to learn

NappyLady website also describes it as butterfly or bat fold. Devil to learn unless someone can show you in person, but very clever fold (also in back of Chris Green's Babies book). Best one for tiny babies, because very adjustable.

Sorry I was terse in prev message, onehanded typing!

thanks lljkk am wrestling with folding now. These long nights!...

jamescagney we have used bamboo boosters inside a terry nappy. They add a lot of absorbency for not much bulk. Ours are babeco but there are lots of options.
ds1 could wee for Britain.

As a matter of interest, how do all you terry nappy lovers fix the nappy on DC? I mean, do you use those nappy nipper things, or pins? I've never got to grips with nappy nippers, if you'll excuse the pun, because now that DS1 is a lot bigger, the nappy fold I use needs pinning on each side, so I use traditional nappy pins with locking heads. You also get a much tighter, snugger fit with nappy pins imo.

i always used nippas.

I am with Queenbebe on pins - I never managed to get the Nippas to stay in place once the baby could crawl, let alone walk, so after DS1 was 9 months I only used pins What is more in what must be over 20,000 nappy changes - or so DH told me last month - I have never skewered any of them. My MIL did once confess to me that she had stuck a pin into DH - and that depsite her Great Ormond Street training.

cheesesarnie. I find with growing DC the need to fix the nappy at each side. I'd be interested to know if anyone can tell me how you do that successfully with nippas?