Water Wipes

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Anyone know if it's ok to take water wipes to use at the hospital?
Picked a couple of packs up today at one of the supermarkets while the baby event is on

Why wouldn’t it?

Yes they're fine. The hospital can only advise you to use cotton wool and water, it isn't compulsory to do as they say!

Georgie I've heard that the midwives encourage you to only use cotton wool and water? But I thought I remembered reading on here that Water Wipes are 'acceptable'.
This is my first baby so just trying to figure everything out.

Assassinated that's great, thanks don't get me wrong, I know it's my choice at the end of the day. Just didn't know how pushy they'd be!

Encourage maybe, not force. It’s your baby!

Great, the water wipes will be coming with me then!

They will be totally fine, however when in hospital with DD one midwife got really funny with us was adamant that we only use cotton wool and warm water. Given that we were first time parents we obvjust did as we were told and didn't have the confidence to go against here.

Essentially, they are totally fine, but maybe take some cotton wool (lots!) Incase you end up in a similar situation.

I took water wipes for after DC3s birth because I can't touch cotton wool and the staff on the ward kept taking them away! Three separate times it happened. Maybe don't leave them in view.

@Hippydippydoo and @BonesyBones those are exactly the kinds of scenarios I want to avoid!
I would like to think I would stand up for myself and my choice, but aware that hormones might kick in and I might just sob instead

The bounty lady gave me some free pampers sensitive wipes even though we weren't meant to use wipes. I'm not a pampers fan but sometimes you need more than a blob of cotton wool or you get black tarry poo on your hand. They came in handy.

This post has interested me but really confused me. I’ve been eyeing up the water wipes but they are so expensive I think when you can get others so much cheaper but I understand they are free of everything. So does the hospital only let you use these wipes and not others? I’ve heard other people say they only took these into the hospital. Really interested to find out why and whether I should put them in my hospital bag?

We took sensitive wipes into hospital and they tried taking them away - the threat of being charged with theft was enough for them to back down after the second pack went missing and was found in a staff locker (marked pack).

Use whatever you want, your baby but don't let anyone boss you around as sometimes Shitnados happen at 12 hrs old lol

After spending a fortune on water wipes I tried out a few of the alternatives, and I find the Huggies 99% water wipes to be a good alternative. They also cost about 85p a packet compared to around £2 for water wipes.

We just used baby wipes for both babies. No one commented.

£land are now doing their own version of waterwipes, called naturelwipes - saw them on Instagram, the pack is almost the same.
Waterwipes are 99.9% water and the £land version is 98.7%

I used waterwipes with my DD and really liked them, I stocked up when ocado did their baby events as they had the boxes at £9.99 instead of £19.99 and I used to tear the wipes in half too as they were more than big enough.

I took in water wipes and the midwife borrowed them to show to another mum, so she obviously thought they were fine. This time I've bought a pack but am also taking reusable wipes with me.

I've bought a box because they were super cheap on Amazon. I'd like to see them try and stop me from using them (or any other wipes I choose to use)

Water wipes seem to be accepted now. Expensive though. I use cotton wool pads, like the ones you use to remove make up. The large oval kind. Work so much better than cotton balls!!

My daughter has very sensitive skin and id second the recommendation for huggies pure as an alternative to the water wipes. We did end up using cotton wool for about 3 months and sometimes had to revert to the cotton wool when she got nappy rash. However, I wouldn’t hesitate to take waterwipes to the hospital as well as cotton wool for future pregnancies.

While she has been totally fine with water wipes and huggies pure, I tried a pack of Johnson’s when she was around 1 and they brought her out in a huge rash almost like they had burnt her skin. I’d hate to think what they would have done to her as a newborn so I can see why they are less keen on wipes in hospital.

Haven't used them but heard a lot of positive stuff about cheeky wipes; reusable and washable wipes. A friend said they were better than normal wipes.

Water wipes are great, just really expensive! So I would get them for the hospital, as they're convenient, but after that you could just switch to cotton wool and warm water.

Yes to cheeky wipes, they're so much better at poo removal than baby wipes! Approx £40 to get started and then all you do is wash them. They use pure water too so no harmful chemicals.

When I was at the hospital with DD (11 weeks ago) they only encouraged water and cotton wool or Water Wipes.

Just to second another comment further up - my DD never had nappy rash and we used exclusively waterwipes up until 2yo.

I think I lasted one day of faffing about with cotton wool and water before moving to Aldi sensitive wipes.

At 12 months DD still hasn't ever had nappy rash.