Terry Squares

[sophiesmiles]

Hi, I want to use Terry squares on my next baby. Has anyone else ever used them on a newborn. Did you use pins or nappy nippas? What covers did you use?

I'm not a terry user myself (prefer shaped two-parters), but most people use muslins at first and then move on the terries later. Just because they are so bulky on a newborn.

Pins or nippas is a personal preference thing TBH, although most people go for nippas. I didn't get on with them myself so use pins on my fastener free nappies.

Motherease wraps are pretty much universally recognised as the best, they do two the Airflow (poppers) and the Rikki (velcro). I use the Airflow but the Rikki is great too.

Mothersease wraps. The prints are pretty dull/naff IMHE but the plain are OK colours (being boring I stick to the white though).

Do you mean small flannel sized ones that are folded inside an outside cover? Or big ones that go round the baby?

The 'flannel sized ones' (although the ones I've met were more hand towel size) are called prefolds, so I think she can only mean old school terries.

Terries are ace. A nice slim bamboo one on a newborn with a rikki.

Well mine were flannel sized I used wool wraps with them and they were fab until dd was 6 months, but then got given some tots bots and switched to these because the wool reproofing was getting tedious.

thank you for your advice, yes I do mean 'old school terries'.

I'd forgotten about Bamboo terries Indith

Bamboo is fab for nappies, all mine are bamboo. It's slim fitting and naturally antibacterial. The only downsides are that it is slower to dry than cotton (because it absorbs more moisture weight for weight) and that can't be washed/dried hotter than 60. TBH there is no reason to wash nappies hotter than 60 anyway, so IMO that's not a problem at all.

am planning on using terries for new baby. Just a word of warning, the general advice I've picked up from here and everywhere is disposables for the first week or so (until meconium is gone?)and to use paper liners for a bit (poo will be mustardy!). I have cut up loads of fleece to make washable liners and have muslin squares and terries ready. My MIL showed me a brilliant way of folding terries to suit different baby sizes and am quite excited about showing off my "expertise" in this area. Sad, I know

I hated paper liners, poo seems to sort of stick to fleece and you can just rinse it but paper gets soggy and the poo slops around on it.

I'd second that. I do find paper liners useful now DD's weaned but they used to make the whole poo experience nightmarish.

Used them on ds2 from when he was 10 days old. With motherease wraps and nappy nippas. To start with the bat fold worked best for us for containing everything.
Ds2 actually was still passing some meconium when he went in terries (we only bought a couple of packs of disposables) - or at least his poos weren't anyway near 'normal'! - but washing machine coped. My memory is that it was a bit gross scraping off what we could. Has become second nature now. Even the odd occasion we use disposables now I flush what I can down the loo.

I used terries from day 1 on both of mine.

Old fashioned folding with dd and a nappy nippa. But when she got a bit wriggly the nippa would ping off, so moved onto pins.

Used the same terries for ds, but just used to fold them into an oblong and put in a Rikki wrap which was fab.

Bit bulky when baby was brand new I suppose, but not for long, especially with ds because he was a whopper anyway.

I also used the bat fold when ds was newborn. I prefer nippas over pins. Agree that motherease wraps are good, I prefer airflow at a push

didn't know that about paper liners. I have one pack but I definitely won't stock up now!

Fleece liners are great, they work as a stay-dry liner and the poo comes off them really easily. If/when you do use paper liner just put them over the fleece ones.

A lot of people just put BF poo through the washing machine, it's almost totally inoffensive.

I've always used terry nappies and reckon they're the cheapest and most versatile option in the long run. I've never got on very well with those nippa things and prefer traditional nappy pins with locking heads. There are loads of different nappy folds to try out depending on the size and sex of DC. The best place to look is on the Nappy Lady website. My favourites are the kite and Jo folds. You can get very good waterproof pants to put on over the nappy from Boots, they're the pull on variety, but it's important to get the sizing right to avoid leaks. It's a question of experimenting and seeing what works best for you.

Haven't tried terries before 2 months. Fleece is amazing for runny bf baby poo. Splodgy weaning poo, though, not so good...paper liners have been better since then. Still use fleece at night and ds2 has a dry bottom in the morning (but a very large wet nappy outside the fleece).
Don't buy terries on the high street there are much thicker nicer ones on the internet (try the nappylady or twinkleonthe web).
I found the velcro on wraps rubbed when the ds were small - naturebabies multiwrap with poppers suits our skinny 2, but it does up round the side which is slightly more fiddly, or the classic one was good too and is less fiddly.