Best reusable size one nappies for newborn?

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Hi I have bought enough nappies now really for my baby but they are all birth to potty and I dont think I could fit many newborn or 0-3 size clothes over them so was looking for some slim and good size 1 nappies. What would you recommend?
I know bamboo is the best for slim but I do not have a tumble drier so would prefer not to use bamboo.
Have dream dri and motherease so far BTW
Thanks

I'm going to be a bit unhelpful now and say a newborn usually produces 10 - 12 shitty nappies a day, leaky poo so you're often washing the vest and babygro (and blanket, car seat cover, your jeans...) at every change. You're a braver woman than I if you want to add 12 soiled nappies a day to that laundry mountain pile. Couldn't you use biodegradable disposables for the first month until the baby isn't pooing every 90 min?

Sorry, I really don't mean to sound preachy I just know I felt like I'd been run over for the first 2 or 3 weeks, I couldn't have been doing with scraping mustard like baby poo off nappies umpteen times a day (be gentle on yourself and keep an open mind, that's all I'm saying! you've got the rest of your life to be eco-friendly)

Oh and congrats on your little one, btw!

James, actually my DS only stopped shitting in every nappy when we started weaning at 6 months. So I have been using reuseables from the get-go. The newborn pre-weaning poo is so milky and innoffensive it all went straight in the washing machine, no scraping.

Oh and for the OP, we used muslins and nippas with ME airflow wraps in the early days. They are cheap, you can fold them in loads of different ways and they dry really quickly. Or you can get terry squares for a bit more absorbency (I just used to stuff the muslins with whatever cotton/bamboo boosters I had to hand for overnight).

Yeesh! 6 months! Like I said, braver woman than I.

Thanks yangymac, will have a look at fuzzi bunz. James, I have disposables for the first couple of weeks but will give it a shot after that.
Lionstar I am not very handy and not sure I would be able to get the hang of folding etc so would prefer shaped nappies I think. Also how on earth do those nippas work, I have a couple and cannot work them out at all?

James... if you use reusables you might be washing 12 nappies a day but you won't be washing 12 vests and 12 babygros because washable nappies are so much better at keeping everything in. Have you ever looked at teh elastic on a disposable?? And the elastic around the back?? Not a patch on the elastic on a washable nappy or a wrap.

i used BG AIOs xs for my LO, they were fantastic, contained BF poo explosions fine and no bigger than a disposable. didnt last that long though as outgrew them quickly so may be better with small rather than xs if baby more than 8lb.

I used motherease sandies at first, they were great at containing runny poo. My dd wasn't very pooey, but I never had a leak, even when she'd been saving it for a few days! The small size(8 - 20lb) should be ok.

Nappyshed, I just thought my ds had a faulty arse tbh, and washing was never my forte... (Got all this to come again in a few weeks!)

I second (or third!) those that said reusables actually make less washing with runny poos. DDs poo is contained by nappy and wrap far better than it is in a disposable - it's what got me over to them when she was only a couple of weeks old, saved changing her vest and gro every time! I had her in size one little lambs bamboo/cotton and never had a problem fitting clothes. Tried muslins with LL wraps but found they weren't absorbant enough for how wet DD got. Am transitioning between size 1 and 2 now, but have found that terry squares with size one LL wraps are the answer atm to avoid a disproportionate size bottom! I am not clever with my hands but got the hang or folding and nippas within a few go's! Good luck!

PS - no scraping needed with BF poo, just run a prewash/rinse cycle first if especially bad then wash as normal

Take a look at the new totsbots bamboozle stretchies - they are bamboo but seem to dry quicker than my other bamboos and seem pretty leak proof too. We pop them on the radiator to dry.

Muslins and nippers were the best i found, with a absorbant cloth/liner between muslin and wrap if needed

James do you not have an automatic washing machine then? Maybe pounding nappies on the rocks of the nearsest river would be a pain but opening a door, shoving in nappies, adding powder, closing door and pressing a button. Hardly bloody taxing is it? Even with a newborn!!
I'll be using muslins or terries in the first month as my babies are all tiddly 6pounders and my shaped nappies are all 8lb plus. My Mum assures me that bulky as they look, terries will fit fine in a newborn babygro kite folded.

Well no, maybe it's not that taxing but quite frankly since walking around with a pretty extensive tear was painful anyway, doing extra washing wasn't that appealing.

I only suggested she used biodegradable disposables for the first few weeks to make it easier on herself, no need to jump down my throat.

James - also please don't be fooled by the clever marketing of so-called "biodegradable disposables". Unless you live on a farm and are going to home compost they really aren't going to break down in a British landfill. Plus if you look at the packets, some of them only say that it is the packaging that is biodegradable - how misleading is that? And the best of teh others only offer 70% biodegradibility on a used nappy - most of that is wee and poo anyway, so the normal plastic is not going to break down. Very clever marketing taht alot of people fall for.

I found cloth much better at containing explosive poo than disps at every age. And when they are newborn, to be frank, that is the easy bit as they don't move - they just feed and sleep. That is bizarrely the time when you can pop an extra load in. Even if you have a cling on - best kept in a sling, you def have more time when they are little.

This may not seem like it now, but when you have three you realise how goddamn easy one was and wonder what all the fuss was. You also make sure the time you have when they are tiny is precious and the odd washload barely interferes at all.

I have also had two in cloth at the same time. I have just toilet trained my third and so am nappy free but can assure you that cloth is best and the odd disp may be the best solution every now and then but certainly not thwne they have explosive poo!

My best combo for a newborn would normamly be small fuzzis but they have made them bigger - so would now be extra small motherease sandys or some newborn nappies from nappy garden and some decent covers lie XS motherease rikkis.

normally not normamly lol

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I think that muslim squares pad folded with a motherease rika wrap is best. Or if you want shaped nappies then some second hand/ new but not used Diddy diapers off ebay.

I found that my birth to potty nappies were fine from about three weeks and my babies are smaller than average. If you have a little girl then you can always put dresses on her.

Don't feel bad if you decide to wait a couple of weeks. Having your first born is hard. There is no much to learn. Although if you are serious about wanting to cloth you don't want to put it off too long.

My husband washed the nappies for me for the first three weeeks of my dd life. Is that love or what!