Please recommend some new born nappies.

[LittleB]

I used washables with dd (4.8) (motherease and tots bots) but found they were too big on her when she was born so didn't start using them until she was around 11 weeeks. This time (just about to start TTC so planning well in advance - but so broody can't help it!) I'd like to get some tiny nappies first, then move on to BTP nappies. I plan to buy nappies second hand (although will buy new wraps as had some probs with 2nd hand wraps), so need to start collecting soon to get enough at sensible prices! I will wait until I am actually pregnant before I spend any money but I want to do some research first. What newborn nappies would you recommend? Also night nappie tips would be good as never got dd sorted through the night and resorted to disposables - had minki huggle and wee notions microfibre which we loved but still didn't do night - used for long journeys/long days out instead. Had a hemp nappy which I didn't like much at all - very stiff and took ages to dry. I see you can get bamboo nappies now, are they good? Quite excited about trying lots of new nappies!

I have been using bambinex bamboo fitted nappies size one with DD#3 since we got over the meconium stage at a few days old. I use them with Motherease Airflow wraps and I have been well impressed with them. We have never had a wee leak or wicking, and have had only very occasional poo leaks that I don't think anything could contain when she really fills the nappies. Mostly however the poo nappies are well contained. They are very absorbant nappies and I have been very happy with them. She is just starting to look a little big in them and I am working on what we will move onto next. She is 10 weeks now (but a big 10 weeks) but I think we will get another couple of weeks probably more out of them yet. The airflow wraps will still fit her for longer though.
Have fun!

Bimbles are a newborn favourite for me, with any Motherease wrap, especially the pretty coloured ones. For nights, was it the Wee Notions night nappy you tried? They are brill. With a little fleece soaker like Bebesnuggles or pumpkin Pants.

ive used muslins on all 3 of mine as newborns, then moved on to various shapd ones.

A cheaper option I also used was bright bots terries with a nippa in the origami fold. Lovely colours and I use them as face towels now!

For really newborn would use muslins and eenie snibs (only on ebay now as no UK distributor). Then would progress to xs sandys and motherease small covers. Then would go mad and buy loads of different ones For fleece would also recommend Pumpkin Pants, for PUL motherease, for wool snugglepants or nappygarden stuff. For all in ones try babybots, for super specialist stuff check out jabula - there are so many to choose from!

I'd reccommend muslins and Nature babies classic wraps or Motherease to start with.

Next i'd look at Diddy diapers and micro diddy's, again by Nature Babies very slim and great for newborns.

HTH

Thanks thats useful - I'd forgotten I did use some muslins with a small bambino mio wrap with dd when she was tiny, but only had one wrap so only did it sporadically and the wrap wore out v quickly. Will go and look into all the nappies you've suggested. Thanks!

I didn't get into real nappies til DD was 6 months as the council free trial pack of Bambino Mio prefold put me off altogether and then I went for BTP but my friend highly recommends Little Lamb for newborns.

Bimbles are definitely the best two part shaped newborn nappy as they are small and petite. But you might not get much use out of them if your baby is big. They go up to 15lb but start to get tight around 11b. My kids were both tiny and still are, so I got nearly 6 months out of mine, but not everyone starts off with a 4lb2oz baby!

I used small Itti Bittis on DD from 6 weeks (only that late as she's our PFB and I couldn't contemplate washing nappies any sooner!). Really easy to use though, even DH can manage them.

We used bambino mio pre-folds at first, and they worked pretty well. (Newborns are not yet mobile, so you'll have 5 extra seconds to do a quick fold). As for the wraps, we started with Imse Vimse in newborn size. Then (around 7/8 weeks) we moved on to Tots Bots Flexi Tots size 1. I think the Flexi Tots are now made as a BTP, but there's still quite a few size 1s around, so you can get a real bargain . They're bamboo, so really absorbant and stay soft after washing (big issue for us, as we're in London and unless you use some sort of fabric conditioner, clothes come out stiff as cardboard).

aaaahhh bambino mio prefolds were what our council hands out as our real nappy sample pack. They were enough to put me off real nappies for 6 months. I thought there were sh!t.

I would skip BM prefolds - have just said this on another thread lol

After a bit of experimenting I am using micro-diddy diapers with either nature babies classic wraps or motherease rikkis on DD2 (4 weeks) working well. nature babies wraps are really soft, velcro seems better than poppers. DD1 got on well with motherease airflows but dd2 is longer and thinner (very spindly legs) - airflows didn't work so well with her!

Maybe wait to see what shape baby you have!