General Chat Thread For Cloth Users-PART 9 how we are dressing our itti bitti baby behinds

[4andnotout]

New thread as the other was running out!

I need help!

Ds wears ittis and weenotions in the daytime and fitteds at night. I've just bought a load of motherease wraps, but every morning he has red rings round his tummy and thighs. I bought larges in case the mediums were too tight and causing this but he was the same this morning and the wrap was quite loose on him, so I think he must be allergic to the binding.

I do have one red tots fleece (from rachelinscotland!) and he seems better with that one. So I think I'm going to have to sell all my motherease wraps and get more suitable ones.

Tell me what's best please! Fleece or woolies? And will they both not leak through onto his babygros. He's 6 months and around 17lbs.

Oh, and does anyone have anything suitable they might be selling?

scotia we cant use ME either same problems. dont have the same problem with my baby beehinds wraps, or my cotton bottoms. infact ive not had that problem with any other wrap ive tried, i thinks its a problem with ME.

id advise going on CNT and buying one of each type you can and trying that.

Baron - I'm off to the post ofice soon so if you email me your address to the same account as paypal I will get your nappies off today. But will be able to post again soon so no worries. x

Scotia: Have you tried the newer style Tots Bots wraps? I've just got some the other day and very impressed! Totally waterproof (no leaks, even under a totally sodden bamboozle on my 2yo!). It's the ones with newer bindings. However, these are similar to ME (but wrap is quite different fabric) so might be worth a try! Though I'd advise trying one first before getting more, in case it doesn't work. Maybe you could post a swap somewhere and ask to trade a ME wrap for a new style bindings Tots wrap?

Scotia - same here with ME although she has got better with age.
Thirsties wraps are working well for us too, although they are a tidy fit. Somewhere has them on sale...maybe greenjelly or nappyzone.....

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tree cross your heart and promise not to tell anyone on CNT, I sent it gifted!! (huge no-no emoticon)

So will PM you my address as it won't be on the paypal notification.

Paid you £5 for each, is that ok? Now just hoping I can get the hang of a nippa, I don't have any pins either!!!

I have just bought 5 more baby beehinds from UKPL. £25 for 5 posted - can't be bad. They are good on both the girls in the day and Talia is still just about getting away with them at nights.

Have also worked out that my size 2 bamboo clwt twt fit both of the girls which is good. Hopefully, I will eventually get rid of all the nappies that don't fit both of them. Except UDs - there has to be a special allowance for soy! I have asked them about a onesize soy fitted and although they said they weren't planning on them, they did sound like they were thinking about it. Need lots of people to ask! LOL. And obviously night nappies need to be sized. Although mediums do actuallly fit both of them! But large is better on Elouise and she needs the extra absorbancy really.

cheers Baron! Won't tell, shuuush shuuush everyone
Will post tomorrow.
Jenny - bargain!

Oh bugger! I just bought Purple Haze AND Stormy Skies #3!. But they were on sale. With a 20% discount. So only just over £17 each posted from the USofA.

swampster

Hello - can anyone recommend brands of all-in-ones with velcro?

I've got a couple Kushies which are fab and planning to get more as it's getting hard to get nippas and nappy and wrap on Mr Speedy. My parents would also appreciate idiot-proof nappies (and probably his nursery where he's about to go).

Keep seeing ads for Kushies but mainly too small - need 22-35 lb ones.

I have kushies but THINK all the large ones sold. Will check for you though.

Ittis are the best all in one I have tried but they are expensive - about £9 each second hand. MUCH nicer than kushies though. Although they are poppers.

Have you thought about pocket nappies? Then it goes on and off like an AIO but comes apart for washing and drying?

notcitrus - I am currently loving the Lollipop pop n gro, which is an all-in-one with velcro, has lovely bright colours, and seems spectacularly absorbant so far! Got one to test when they were launched and have just bought two more. A lovely lady from this thread called octothechildherder sells them on her nappy wardrobe website...

Pop'n'grow [soft lovely nappy quite bulky on smaller babies], also Beehinds magic-alls [very soft and lush and strokable like an itti, slower to dry] and Thirsties AIO too [practical no wow factor but very usable, bombproof on mine anyway.

Would you look at pockets [BumGenius is as easy as a disposable and is the same sort of shape] and FuzziBunz, very easy adn dependable.

You need at least one Itti Bitti D'lish for fun. It is the way of things and the law.

Ladies, a question for you. I have some terry towelling squares I would like to be able to use as an emergency measure in case of swine flu eco-disposable shortages, but I am wondering whether it is still possible to buy the plastic pants I used to use over them in the 1980s? I assume the disposable liners are the same as ever.

I realise that read a bit oddly - what I mean is, if stocks of disposables run out when we all keel over and the supply chain fails.

I don't think you could get those plastic ones - but motherease airflow etc in PUL fabric are all still knocking about pre loved and new.

If civilisation is coming to an end - do I have an excuse to buy every colour Itti?

Thanks for the advice everyone - those thirsties wraps are a bit too small though for ds. I'll have a scout around though.

BoffinMum, I think they sell the plastic pants in Boots.

tree, it is your duty to buy an Itti in every colour and size [stern].

I agree. Lend us a hundred quid would you mate?

You know, I think if I had a windfall of a hundred quid that is what I would do! Really I suppose I ought to treat myself or my husband or even something as a couple.

Nah...buy nappies

Thanks people - will look into the Lollipop and Itti... I want bright fun patterns/colours!

I have some BumGenius but they are a bit narrow for MrChubbyBottom and leak - even after I realised the inserts go inside the actual nappy not just like a pad.

They do sell the plastic pants in Boots - SIL2 used them until I farmed my Bumgeniuses onto her tall skinny ds where they fit perfectly!

Sorry, mate. A bedbug ate yer bung.

Sorry, nocitrus, that was aimed at tree.