June '07- Can you pinch more than and inch? If not then bugger off!

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Daisy, as someone else who started motherhood as a single-parent, do you agree it was easier in those days without menfolk? Lonely in the evenings, yes, but parenthood with one was easier IMHO!

Jamantha, hope you are doing OK home-alone. The fresh-air will surely tire her out.

Andiem, I am a rugby-widow too! Invited DP to share a take-away, film and sofa tonight. but he's "got sport to watch".

Don't be Jamantha, the reason I get on with two is that I ignore the housework completely through the week.

And to make me feel , DH has just presented me with a huge bowl of salad niciose with fresh tune that he shopped for and made when I was out.....

Hi all, hope everyone is ok - we're back from our hol in Devon, which was great, although DH and I both ended up with stinking colds . Not caught up yet and not sure I can read a whole week of messages but will try and skim ..... Did I miss any major events / news?!

Mostly it's DH/P's are twunts (sometimes anyway)!

Foxy...definately easier without manfolk. I had my own wee groove going. Evenings weren't too bad for me, as I had lived on my own for two years before DS was born (DH, or BF as was at the time, was in here and I was in Edinburgh).

I had lots of new mum friends and went to three different baby groups and my big sister was only 10 minute drive away ~(her LOs were 2.5 and 9mo at the time)

Also as I was primary carer...DH bowed to my parenting superiority and ethos. When we got married it took a big adjustment for me to step back and let DH find his parenting groove.

BTW great thread title - after eating far too much all week, I can probably pinch several feet!

Ok nappy addicts, I've just got two mothease one size nappies from ebay. What do I need to go with them?

Quite excited, going to look for some more...

Haven't seen one in the flesh as it were bumper, but the basic principal is you put on the nappy, cover with a waterproof wrap, and send one less dispo to the landfill every time you use them

Have you got any wraps?

Salad was delicious.....but DH put fresh garlic (we grew it ourselves so very very fresh) in the dressing. I now stink of stale milk and garlic....lovely

BTW....I was at my pg mate's the other day and she was telling me that her friend uses Motherease and swears by them. I think sputnik may just agree.

friends friend has eight oif them only and she washes them every night and tumble dries for use the next day...

...only eight nappies....I would be twitching all over at the thought!

No haven't got a wrap. Will investigate... Do you use liners?

Bless dh though, they are not all bad are they?

I use fleece liners as they keep babyboos lovely little bottom nice and dry. They cost about 30p each. I've got white ones...but on hindsight some wacky coloured ones would be better for hiding any stains!

You can buy then dirt cheap on e-bay too.

I've got a couple of Prorap wraps that I go second hand that I'm not using any more (well they are my emergency supply)...if you are only trialling nappies before committing I could send you one?

8 nappies! Would leave DD bare for part of the day, I wash an average of 9 nappies each day. (Was 11 or 12 in 1st few weeks)

I use disposable liners. We bought 600 for £25 recently - you do the maths! They can be washed and reused though if just wet. Apparently up to 4 or 5 times, but we just use them teice before disposal.

holly, I don't want to alarm you, but DH was just telling me that a friend of his who is in the soft drink industry was telling him that because of the crap summer, the blackcurrant crop has been piss poor. As a result the price of squash containing real blackcurrant juice is set to soar. Start stockpiling your Ribena NOW!!!!

Jamantha, what are the fleece liners like on sloppy BF baby poo? do they stop it or does it just go right through to the nappy?

I only tried a disposable one the once and when I took the nappy off it was all wrinkled up. I thought it looked very uncomfy (akin to when you are caught short with your AF arriving and have to use toilet paper.....)

I would also be a bit about flushing something that can survive 4 or 5 spins around the washing machine

durr Jamamnths, I meant disposable liners

I do agree about the fleece liners keeping nice and dry though daisy - we got given too fetching pink ones and they are nice. But I'm afraid we like the convenience of the paper ones, and anyway I've got 350 of them stored away at the moment so not going to stop using them just yet

Sloppy poo does soak through to the nappy, tis true. I am also concerned about blocking up our plumbing, so only flush the pooey ones, the wet ones go in the bin. Am bit about the green-ness of doing that, but it is still better than binning disposables. i wonder if I could add them to the compost bin?

DH loves the fact that urine helps the compost break down by the way. It gives him an excuse not to go upstairs to the loo, but to stand outside the back door and pee into an old jug and pour it onto the compost! He's really looking forward to when we've grown some veg in our home-made compost, telling friends over dinner that his wee made those carrots what they are!

bumper, THESE might be worth watching. they are listed in a funny place on the site so may not get many hits...so price may be low. there is a reserve though, so maybe not

When I say soak through, most is held within the liner, but the nappy has definite yellowy marks on it when you take the liner off.

Thanks daisy, but I caught your post too late and now I am hooked! Just bought 2 wraps off ebay, and some disposable liners, and a mnetter is selling two pocket nappies for £9 which I have bagged...gosh it is addictive! DH is skeptical though...

LOL Jamantha....DH makes it his mission to pee in the compost bin on a regular basis.

Apparently you're not meant to put human faeces on compost...but surely BF baby poo isn't the same thing? I've actually slopped out my bucket onto a grass in our border that wasn't doing very well with the water from rinsing out pooey nappies before I put them in the machine....It's now thriving .

Is it just me or are the plot lines on casualty getting ever more ridiculous?

LOL bumper....and when you see the really cute ones

My DH is all for it, but is obtuse about what nappy goes weith what wrap etc. Keep telling him 'tis not rocket science. Ella's house for night time, anyhitng else for day time...if it has a built in fleece liner no need for one, if no liner, use one. I still get 20 questions every time!

But then again, every time he comes home there a re more nappies in the collection so it's no wonder he gets confused the poor soul!

DD's pooey liners go down the loo definitely, wouldn't want to be carrying them any further than I have to. Will look into composting the wet ones though.

I was reading about washable sanitary towels and how the water you get from soaking them before washing is a good plant fertiliser (makes sense). One woman said her BF reminded her each month to give the plants her "bloodwater".

eeeeeeewwwwww