which nappies will you use?

[babynelly2010]

disposable?
cloth?
Are there other kind?
What are pluses/minuses?

Thank you

Hi there is a nappies thread in products near bottom of the list! I use Pampers!

I'm planning on getting some disposables for the meconium stage at least, but may then try a reuseable such as Bumgenius. Definitely won't be doing fold-your-own cloth nappies!

I told myself I'd use reusables after the first couple of weeks with DC1, but then found disposables so easy, and was already inundated with washing, so gave up on the idea of reusables, much to my shame.

Started with Nature Babycare nappies, but then switched to Sainsbury's Eco nappies when they started doing them. They're about the same in terms of fit and absorbency, but the Sainsbury's ones are £1 cheaper per pack.

Am tempted to give reusables a go this time around, but know that I'm probably too lazy. Will appease Mother Nature somehow...

Same as i did for dd some sort of eco nappy nature babycare or whichever are most easily available for the first couple of weeks until we settle a bit.

Then cotton ones I have bambino mio which i really liked with dd but will be getting some different wraps as I wasn't keen on the mio wraps.

reusable can be time consuming if you don't have enough nappies or enough space to let them dry in the winter (or a tumble dryer). But they are fantastic if you get yourself set up with enough nappies because you never run out and they cost a lot less each week than buying disposables. And they can look really cute! Check out the nappy section for info on reusables

I am having first baby and plan on using disposables have stocked up on sizes 1-4+ not hundreds of packs but enough that we dont need to buy any more sz 1-2, poss enough sz3 but will need more sz4/4+ - did this whilst have 2 full time wages as I am main earner and mat pay is not great.

I have brought 4 resusuables 2 in small and 2 in medium and some disposable liners got them from green baby whilst they had a 25% offer on over the world cup cost me £36 and my local council give you £30 cashback - thought would have if desperate and ran out of disposables or for days where we are at home.

this is my second DC on the way. I looked into using reusables, and they do seem to be a lot cheaper in the long run. BUT we have a never-ending washing pile already, so to add 6 nappies a day to this terrifies me (as well as a bucket full of nappies - in a tiny semi-detached house. No, thanks. It'll be Pampers again this time (altho I have promised to try the eco disposables, to see how they are). Huggies always seemed to leak on my DS for some reason.

I have disposables for the first few weeks, but after that i'll be using terry nappies. My mum managed it with two babies and no tumble dryer, I can do it with one

My bin is only emptied every other week, theres no way I'd have space for two weeks worth of nappies on top of the rubbish, I have no idea how anyone else manages it!!

Plus I forsee money being a bit tight and dont want to be worrying about how i can afford the next pack of nappies...

used disposables with DD1, added up the cost for the 2.8 years she wore them and am suitably horrified at the in excess of £1200 spent (always purchased when on offer and averaged 4-5 changes a day). Going to try the reuseable option this time with disposables when out and about and perhaps at night.

Got reusable ones and I'm determined to use them after the first couple of weeks have passed and hopefully I am no longer in shock and baby has started pausing slightly between poos. Even though every single person I've told that I'm using them has looked at me with a look of horror and disbelief. Which has only made me more determined.

I am planning (perhaps naively!) to use BumGenius after the first couple of weeks...

Bought 18 nappies which i'm hoping will be enough. Wish me luck!

We've got a lot of free ones from various nappy companies and shops, we joined all the clubs we could to get the free stuff, so they will last us the first couple of weeks. Our hospital provides nappies so don't need to worry about that one.

Once we're out of the tiny newborn stage we're using terry nappies. We used Bambino Mio with DS and they were horrendous, I hated them with a passio, so terry nappies can only be better! We're using the wraps from the bambino mios though.

With DD I used disposibles ( Moltex eco) for the first few weeks and then little lamb bamboo fibre nappies until she was 9 months.

Got some swabblebees for 9 months +, but I have to admit I found reusables more of a hassle at this age for leakages and also real food makes real poo! I tried but she was in eco disposibles only from about 14 month to potty training.

I'll definitely be doing the little lambs again this time, they were great and I didn't find them a hassle to fit into the never ending washing cycle.

Apphia 18 nappies sounds perfect. That's how many we got and we settled into an every other day wash ( as long as you can dry them quick if you're having a particlularly squishy day)

I would say that whatever you think you'll use, don't get too many.

DD1 was 9lb 12. She spent all of 10 days in Size 1 nappies, and then only because we'd already bought them - after that she was straight into Size 2. She switched between Pampers and Huggies as different brands leaked as she grew. I tried some of the Eco brands but they always seemed really stiff and uncomfortable. I always intended to try reuseables but never got round to it.

Our friends planned on reuseables for their DC1. When it came to it they didn't get on with them and only used them for about a week. It was an expensive mistake for them, as they'd got a complete kit rather than a few to try.

Oh that's one of the things I'm really looking forward to getting out my lovely fluffy cloth nappies again. Can't wait used them from about 3months to potty training with DD although never quit got the hang off overnight as she was such a heavy wetter. Am determined to crak it this time round.

I've got a bit of a mix, got given a few onelifes, mainly have Bambinex size 1 and 2 nappies plus a few swabblebees and the odd other nappy to. Oh I'm addicted have the most gourgues wrap from weenoations they do made to order and it has my little girls name embrodied on it looked fab under dresses.

Not sure why people find them such a hasul to be honist DD was such a sicky baby I had so much washing anyway another load every two days didn't seem to make any difference. Plus our bin only gets emptied every 2 week's and it scared my how quikly it filled up when she was in dispoables to start with.

Oh a good point on getting a few to try first, almost forgot we got a trial kit to try different types of nappies first. This came from the retailer that I bough my nappies as I got most of that money back on my first order.

Also, it's worth checking out whether your council gives you cashback for buying reusable nappies. Leicestershire council gives us £40 when we provide them a copy of our receipt.

I've brought a load of different types of reuseables and keeping an eye out for free disposable nappy packs.
If you sign up to askamum.co.uk and get their emails they often have different promotions with huggies club so I held off joining and last week they did sign up with huggies club and get a free pack of nappies at Boots.(plus got a couple of friends to do the same for me) Also in the bounty pack there was a voucher for a free pack of newborn huggies nappies so I've got them to use which I hope will mean I will have enough for the mel poo stage plus some bigger sizes for when we hopefully get to go on holiday!
I've also stocked up on the disposable swim nappies as I noticed that some pools won't let you use reuseable swim nappies. Sainsburys seem to have them on 1/3 off sometimes which is the best value I've found for the larger sizes and Boots had the newborn/small baby size really cheap the other day so grabbed a pack.

I'm using washable nappies and finding them pretty easy (only have one child though!) I've got the Bumgenius version 3 and they're great.

I don't like disposable liners though - they just stick to DD's bum and it made her sore. Have switched to fleece liners now and they're much more effective - all the poo sticks to the liners and DD's bum is kept much much cleaner.

Also have the Dream-Dri Pop-In nappies, which are good too but more bulky on a small baby (DD is currently 9lb 15oz and the Bumgenius ones are a much better fit thanks to the different absorbent inserts - the Dream-Dri only have one size insert and it's quite bulky).

I'm going to be using the nappies my mum used on me! Recycling at its best, abeit with a 30 year delay!

Have also bought some wraps to go over them and some pocket nappies to see how they compare to the terry squares.

Will probably use disposables while in the hospital to avoid having to send DH home with laundry and to get past the meconium stage.

I have also been laughed at for my cloth intension, but I honestly couldn't live with landfilling 7300 nappies (8 per day, 365 days per year, 2.5 yrs in nappies) per child - I'm expecting twins, so that'd be 14,600 nappies. Can't do it.

I'm going to go for terry nappies this time, don't like disposables and I refuse to pay ridiculous amounts of money for ready made reusables.

There are so many to choose from and such differing reviews, so you can never be sure if you're going to be weasting your money. My Mum used terries on me, and I think that they will be just as good for my baby.

I looked seriously at reusables as I really feel uncomfortable about the landfill issue.

However, I live overseas and rely on tumble drying for everything (no outside space and either have to use the TD or run the dehumidifer 24/7 to get air humidity low enough to dry things on the rack).

Apparently, if you TD all the time, there's no environmental benefit.

BUT, I still feel bad about landfill so once I get past the first couple of weeks I may well still switch to reusables, especially as will (hopefully) have at least one more child.

[gets back on fence]

I use washables and find that they actually dry faster on a clothes rack than they do either outside on the line or in the tumble drier... no idea why. I do my wash, lay them on the rack (no central heating on or anything obviously as it's warm here at the moment) and they're dry overnight.

Same as with DS, disposables for a couple of week while I get my breath back, and then reusables at home/ relatives houses disposables for going out.

It really wasn't a big deal to me, but I do have a tumble dryer.

I'm going to use eco disposables. The environmental/financial cost equation for reusable versus disposable is a lot more complex than it looks, and the info councils give out is very skewed - for political reasons.

The financial costs look much cheaper for reuaables, but are not, it works out around the same - once you take into account the cost of electric,water and cleaning products. Most studies use unrealistic data to come up with the costings - ie, that you only ever run a full washing machine, at 30 deg, never a hot wash, and never tumble dry or use a heater to help dry the nappies. Even under these "ideal" conditions, which NO ONE is going to be able to match up to in real life, the total cost are only fractionally cheaper than disposibles.

The picture is the same for the environmental impact - including landfill costs for disposables, the chemical/water treatment costs for reusables, the two come out roughly the same in terms of impact.

If you use a nappy laundry service, you will increase the impact of using reusable nappies by a big chunk - the extra transport costs/carbon footprint, and they will be washed hot and tumble dried, every time!

As around 25% of the total energy used to make a disposable nappy is used to bleach the wood-pulp/cover etc to make it white, ANY type of eco unbleached disposable nappy wins hands down on total environmental impact over either normal disposibles or reusables.

slightly surprised that someone would have stocked up on nappies up to size 4+ - personally if money is going to be tight I would have put the money aside for the nappies which is easier to store than nappies themselves! I say this because we tried using huggies and they leaked each time we tried - did use the whole pack but will never buy again, would have been slightly annoying if I had a whole years worth.

If you do want to use disposables buy a pack of each sort (including supermarket own brands) and then see which ones you like best.

DS2 now 13 weeks still in size 2, used size one for around 6 weeks but went through hundreds as he needed 15+ changes a day (constantly pooing, and had horrible nappy rash because of it) - ended up buying the cheapest ones I could find.