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How many people do YOU know who use reusable nappies?

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Alishanty · 11/04/2009 15:38

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.

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HolidaysQueen · 12/04/2009 14:18

Podrick - i'm not a SAHM - I work part time. We do have a nanny though so she just does what we do, but the nursery we are thinking of sending DS to in a few months was actually quite willing to consider using our reusables provided I collected them every night with DS - bGs are so similar to disposables and I dry pail them so they were happy to try that. So they are definitely doable even as a working mum (although I know not all nurseries would be that nappy-friendly!)

TheNatty · 12/04/2009 14:23

oh tree def! why is it these unreliable and frankly awful nappies are being sold everywhere? its enough to put anyone off reusables in my humble opinion!

treedelivery · 12/04/2009 14:28

I know. I think the big packs of birth tp potty nappies should just be banned for a start.

You need starter packs with different types of nappy in until you know your baby.

If bounty packs had a blueberry onesize in the landfills would empty.

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TheNatty · 12/04/2009 14:28

omg you are so right!

ahfeckit · 12/04/2009 14:47

I use them on DS when the weather is good, and it's disposables for holidays, trips out during the day and a disposable also for bedtime.
Including myself, I know 4 others who use real nappies, so not a lot really.

sasamaxx · 12/04/2009 15:46

I've never seen a real life bambino mio - how do they work then?

I see that MEOS aren't very popular but they are on my second baby now and although are very boring they seem to work great for both of them. Is there a reason others don't like them? (maybe I am too easy to please)

Incidentally I am onto sandy's now (but the MEOS are still pulled out when behind with washing) but purely because they are prettier.

What's so good about blueberry onesize?

I'm about to try wool wraps actually and am quite excited about it but they'll have to be brilliant to steer me away from airflow.

giraffesCantRunA10k · 12/04/2009 15:53

two people.

But one of them has 3 children in nappies so thats 4 children I know in reusables.

sasamaxx · 12/04/2009 16:02

OK I just looked up blueberry nappies.
They look absolutely TDF
I'm assuming they also work pretty well then?
What a price though!

TheNatty · 12/04/2009 16:28

oh they are ever so expensive, but you can get them cheap second hand.
pocket style nappies are so much similar, more adaptable, easier to put on, easier to wash. they are also fleeced lined, so babies bottom is always dry.
i found MEOS are good for young babies, and used them myself, but having switched to pockets i will never ever switch back.

try googling bum genious too

TheNatty · 12/04/2009 16:29

pocket nappies are so much simpler

juuule · 12/04/2009 18:07

Tree + thenatty I've found that cloth pads and mooncup cope really well with heavy flooding. Even overnight.

I appreciate that you feel a bit yuck about it but I think it's one of those things that will stay yuck unless you dive in and try it.

Think of it like people who have the yuck factor for poo-ey nappies. Might have bothered you at one time but it doesn't now.

Not sure why poo and blood should be different. Especially your own.

treedelivery · 12/04/2009 18:09

juuule you are totally right, and I'll give it a go at very least.

Flamesparrow · 12/04/2009 18:24

Treedelivery - so with you on birth to potty packs. I go to demos, I explain the whole thing about needing different nappies and trying them, and people still come and order btp packs and then I get an email a few months later asking where they can sell them on It takes a lot of restraint not to yell "why didn't you listen to me?!?!!?"

Cloth san pro is amazing though. I have a mooncup although haven't really used it since DS was born (I have used insteads occasionally which although aren't reusable reusable, I was using one per day and nappiesgalore used one per period and had no problems - they are softcups and much more user friendly than mooncups iyswim). My fairy hammock though are my most loved - especially my wool backed pantyliner

Flamesparrow · 12/04/2009 18:25

Oh, I only got over the ick factor with periods when thrush meant I couldn't use sanitary towels, and internal issues meant that tampons were hell - I just had to gulp and went in at the deep end with sea sponges which I think are probably the ultimate in ick

treedelivery · 12/04/2009 18:27

This is a whole new cloth world for me!

..of to research, though 3 months in bf then egg donating [hopefully] so will be a while before I need them.

sasamaxx · 12/04/2009 18:39

Thanks thenatty - might try to get a hold of a used one to try. It's dangerous though - I have an enormous stash of meos, sandies and various tots - finding it hard to justify but...well maybe just one or two if I like them...

FrannyandZooey · 12/04/2009 19:03

thanks for advice chaps - it was not our detergent, and we aren't currently using chemical type disposables, but ideas are always helpful
he is much worse in cloth than in disposables sadly
possibly pure cotton would be ok (we had fluffles) but we have no drier and are not forking out for more cloth atm!
perhaps one day we'll get some use from them
eczema is a different kettle of fish to most nappy rash ime - it's not always compatible with cloth use - which i agree in itself doesn't cause nappy rash - had 1 ds in cloth very happily with never had any rash to speak of

FrannyandZooey · 12/04/2009 19:15

oh and can i second the encouragement to try a mooncup - really not icky at all; if you are used to dealing with pooey nappies a mooncup is really a very clean and mess free way to deal with bodily fluids!

kickassangel · 13/04/2009 03:21

oh, and i gave all my reusables to a friend who's ttc, so there's another one.
our local waitrose sold motherease ones, and tesco sold single of some brand, can't remember which. alos, more towns running nappy services, where you just hand it over each week, and get clean ones back.
if anyone has trouble with a nursery, they HAVE to follow any 'reasonable' instructions from the parents, and a cloth nappy is reasonable. i wohm ft, and used cloth, as did a friend of mine. i still reckon they're less hassle & less smellt, specially as dc gets older.
however, i did use paper for night, couldn't find any cloth which didn't leak.

tis the only part of life where we've accepted a paper substitute for the real thing, e.g. paper plates, paper clothes, perhaps tissue & bags from shops, but i think more people use hankies & reusable bags. with modern washing machines, real nappies just aren't a problem, when disp. came in, they were crap, only good for an hour or two, how did they ever catch on?

georgimama · 13/04/2009 07:08

I did (until DS was 9 months and I went back to work fulltime) and so did both my sisters in law, but I don't know anyone else who did.

georgimama · 13/04/2009 07:10

And I just used terries with wraps, I'm far too tight to pay eight quid for one nappy.

hophophippidtyhop · 13/04/2009 07:44

4 including me, 2 people part time at work, and my sister who converted after seeing me use them. dp was always happy about the idea of using them, and has now become almost, I'm not sure of the right word but, evangelical about them. He refuses to see why anyone would consider anything else and why people see them as a pain to use. If he ever wants a career change I think he'll become a nappy advisor!

Littlepurpleprincess · 13/04/2009 08:09

I used them for about 2 years. I knew I was doing the right thing but people have a strange attiutde towards it.

i.e.

How do you handle all the extra washing?! ...erm I use a washing machine (it's the 21st century you know!)

also got comments about them being unhygienic or making the machine smell - didn't smell until we got a new machine and all the washine came out smelling, doesn't take much to work out the machine was faulty.

Some people just looked at me as though I was on another planet.

The worst attitude I found was at a nursery I used to work at where a child was refered to as "skanky" because he wore re-usable nappies.

clothaddict · 13/04/2009 17:13

One friend that lives further away and others (2 or 3) I met at nappucino thing. But no-one local in my day to day baby stuff. Think they all consider me bit of a hippy.

Other friends said when I asked about it when I was pregnant that they tried and they all found they leaked and no use. I was really keen to use. I have a great stash now and have to stop myself buying more delicious pocket/ all in one's.

I think it's down to how motivated you are when you start using them to troubleshoot any problems.

I really have had no problems and wouldn't go back (but still use odd dispo at night or out now and again).

BabyValentine · 13/04/2009 17:30

I do and I know 1 other who does; 1 intends to soon; 3 don't

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