The final nappy post! (Until the baby gets here and I start using them...)

[pezzae]

Comments

[nessbrain]

One further thing about the nappies - others may well disagree with me, but it is worth using disposables for the first few days until the meconium is out of the system. That stuff is like tar and damn near impossible to get off little bums and nappies without LOTS of effort. Save your effort for looking after yourself and your newborn, it's only about 3 days normally :-)

Other than that, your stash looks like it will do well, especially if you're doing part-time EC.

Not sure if anyone has posted about this site before or not, they're brilliant, run by an ex-PUCSter and there is a wealth of info there :-)

[pezzae]

I have read that often disposables don't actually fit newborns and there is much poop leakage... hence the attraction of ultra-adjustable flats. I do have some free flushable liners from the nappy shop, so will pack them in the birth centre bag.
Yes, Oz Cloth Nappies is a great site, especially the FAQ! The other sites I found really useful were allaboutnappies.com (Australian site despite the lack of .au) and of course thenappylady.co.uk (diagrams of folds! Videos!)

[thelancrewitch]

I forgot to recommend one thing which I find makes doing cloth full time much easier - the Little Squirt. You attach it to the line to your toilet (very simple, takes about five minutes with basic tools) and use it to squirt off the poo straight in the bowl. It's not essential before solids since you can just chuck the nappies straight in to the washing machine and the breastfed poo washes straight off, but after solids it's a great help in cleaning off the more, er, adhesive deposits ;)

[pezzae]

Yep, the Little Squirt has also been mentioned a fair bit on the forums. Very clever idea! I figure we can get that a little further down the track as the budget is sure taking a hit at the moment. Babies are expensive!

[nessbrain]

The alternative that I use is just a cheap kitchen spatula :-)

[daharja]

Try the disposable nappy liners, in combination with cloth (am I being evil in suggesting this?). Mum says she used them with us (yes, that long ago!) and they made the washing of nappies so much easier. They sell them in the supermarket, quite cheaply

[pezzae]

I have one nappy bucket - hadn't thought of separating the wet and the pooey nappies. Hopefully we'll manage to 'catch' most of the poos though - apparently the 'need to poo' signal tends to be clearer than the 'need to pee' signal. None of the nappy buckets I've seen had clip on lids, where did you get them?
We have only one line, but two clothes airers, so hopefully that will be enough? Can always buy another airer.

[daharja]

We got our nappy bucket (which we're STILL using!) from BabyCo at Highpoint, from memory. It's BIG, and has been excellent, with a flip lid that clips down

[daharja]

I just did a post about nappies on Cluttercut: http://cluttercut.blogspot.com/2009/07/disposable-versus-cloth-nappies-diapers.html

I think it's a good one, and fair, but I do have a go at the way the homebody types present cloth nappies, suggesting they need to update their image if they're to convince more women to use cloth.

How dare I? ;-)

Now watch the Etsy mafia chew me to bits!

[pezzae]

Now if you call people the mafia, how do you expect them to react? :o

[daharja]

What is really needed is a cloth nappy company where you pay a set amount over the course of weeks, buying the nappies on a pay per week basis. So you pay, say, $20 a week, and then, once you've covered costs, you own the nappies, but there's no up front cost like there is usually with cloth, which is a huge killer and disincentive.

Fancy going into business? If you advertised as a modern cloth nappy company and showed how much money people can save, as well as offering people the option of sizing up as their kids got bigger and selling the nappies back to the company, you'd do well I think.

[pezzae]

Nine?! Wow. Yeah, I'm really glad that I wasn't at an earlier stage of pregnancy in which case I would have gone and then spent the entire time freaking out about catching the flu(s!) while pregnant. Not fun! I'm glad everyone seems to have survived though :o)