How many people do YOU know who use reusable nappies?

[Alishanty]

Apart from ourselves I know of 3 other people in person who use reusable nappies at least some of the time. Was just interested as I wonder if they are becoming more popular, there seems to be loads of people on the net who use them. I know of a few others who intended using them but then didn't for whatever reason. Hopefully the amount of people now using them is making a difference to the amount of nappies that go to landfill.

5 including me, 2 of whom coverted after seeing my itti and bbos fluff

i know scads of people with babies but i have no clue how many of them use cloth nappies

Lots as I used to go to meet ups of real nappy users! There was even a fashion show (of real nappies). Very cute! That was in London though. Since moving south west met erm none.

Riven- I think there are more people using or considering terries and that they're a lot more mainstream now than there were when our first batch of children were little (they are of a similar age). I'd say how many you know depends on who your peer group is at the time. I always thought real nappy use spread rather virally as well- the more people see the benefits, the more likely they are to use themselves.

And really, don't feel at all guilty about using disposables on your daughter- you are so busy it makes sense not cut one chore out, no?

And anecdotally, when my parents took us and my now 35 yr old sister on holiday to Portugal in 1973, and my sister developed a nasty D&V bug, my bastard tightwad of a father agreed to buy more terries so that my mother had some spare while the others were drying (can't help thinking that must have been some holiday for her... ). They went to a baby goods shop and could not find a single cloth nappy- even in Portugal back then they were using disposables and could not understand why these strange English people would want to buy anything as retrograde as wahsable nappies.

2 but I met them fairly recently at NCT antenatal . None of my longer standing friends use cloth. I used disposables at first but suddenly a cloth nappy addiction has snuck up on me . There is something satisfying about seeing them drying on the line .
A friend asked me today where I bought them and it made me realise that without the internet the choice would be very limited!

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And friends who are otherwise green-ish in their attitudes to the planet STILL use disposables.

I don't geddit. Why would anyone want a week's worth of shitty disposables hanging around their house? Hideous.

And reusables are just soooo cute (although DH has just told me that he's leaving if I buy any more after catching me looking wistfully at some Bumbles )

we have one relative who uses them, in fact they alerted us to them. Everyone else I know uses disposables.

I used to keep a couple of disposables in my bag for DS just in case (am hardened user now so don't bother) and when changing him from reusable to disposable one of my more stupid unenlightened relatives said "are you putting him in a proper nappy now?"

Including myself, 8.

Apart from me, none of my friends that I see day to day use them. I know of 2 other (not so close) friends who do. Out of my closer friends, I know 2 who started with cloth but had stopped by about 6 months, if that.

Am using mine on baby no 3 now and love them. I find them so easy to use, but don't like to mention that to disp users in case they think that I am preaching or something (which would not be my intention), so just keep my mouth shut!

22years ago when I was using terries plus disposables for my eldest ds, there wasn't anyone else at all that I knew who was using reusables. I was considered a bit odd for using them.

In fact, it has only been with my last 2 children (8 and 5) that I met any other cloth users and that was because I went to a nappy network meeting.

Including myself, 1.

In real life i know 4 people including myself - of the 4 one is now residing in oz, and 2 are currently potty training. My sil is due in June and i have never aproached the subject but my dh asked her last night in a casual way and was told it definetly wasnt for them. I do have preg friends at work who i have not coaxed at all honestly guv and they have both asked for a selection to try - one other who isnt even preg has looked at them online and touched a minkytime for real and said she defo going to use them when she ever has a baby and actually own a zebra print minkytime she keeps at home to scare her boyfriend lol.

1 other person and I honestly think its because people are terrified of pooh and believe you see/smell/touch less of it if you use disposables.

Surely disposable users also wash up sick, snot, blood, pooh, wee etc. My husband was DISGUSTED and TERRIFIED pf pooh but has hapily adapted to changing nappies [though I wash them.....I quite enjoy it...]

Though it is more effort and if lifestyle / needs of child and family don't allow this then respect to them.

I do think its a shame that reuasables have this middle class/hippy image that go wih them. How can scraping crap off with a spoon be considered middle class [was called this at breast feeding group.....]

Sad that pregnant people wont even consider it..

NO way does washing 30 nappies cost as much as buying 30 nappies [£4 in morrisons today]

disposables stink and are hard work if you live in a flat up lots of stairs.

I don't know any other parents of nappy aged children so do not know but never see any while out and about.

I must say I quite like my 50 home made reusable nappies they are very cute.

Personally I couldn't stand the stench of disposables. That's not why we switched to reusables but it was pretty compelling. Once you get the combination of nappy, liner and wrap that suits you (and lots of councils do trial packs so people can try out lots of different things before buying), it's soooo much nicer to use washables.

The only annoying thing is that you have to hunt for a bigger trouser for your cloth nappied child. The plus point is that the larger-bummed trouser still fits 3 years later as a pedal pusher. Swings and roundabouts.

On that note we have never had an issue with trousers fittin though we do use mainly slimmer pocket nappies, a few weeks back i picked up ds from nursery and as he had had an extra poo that day he was in a sposie - i picked him up and sooooo missed the squishy soft bum - the smell of it when he weeed was awful though admitedly when dd was in sposies early on i quite liked that smell - now it makes me wretch.

no one.
i must admit that ds had a d&v bug a couple of weeks ago and i lapsed into disposies, which is very bad of me.
everyone thinks i'm a bit of a hippy earth mother type!
nothing cuter than a fat cloth bum

I didn't realise dispo's stank so much till I used the cloth. The smell is remarkable. Yak.

Think I'll freak when periods return too and i'm wrestling with wings.

Hmm I can only think of 1 other person that uses cloth - although I have noticed some children in them at DS' nursery too. Strangely, they all seem to use Onelife nappies, whereas my nappy collection is quite varied.

just one other person apart from me, but they stopped using them at 1yo.

I can think of about 12 who're either using them now or have in the past.

4 including me.

Sorry, that should be 5 including me. Can't count .

the mw who delivered ds2 and the daughter of the nice lady at the garden centre (i haven't actually met her though). so really no-one i know to talk to, just 2 people i've come across in 4 years of using cloth

according to that lady's PHN [HV] she's the only woman under her care who either breastfeeds or uses cloth nappies

i know my docs and PHNs have always been shocked, but delighted, to see the cloth.

i can't buy cloth nappies here, only bambino mios in a very few baby shops but no shaped nappies at all. i have to order online