You may be breastfeeding or bottle feeding, bed sharing, cosleeping or have your child in a cot, you may be puree - ing baby food or following baby led weaning, you may be
using cloth nappies or disposables, you might «wear» your baby or use a pram, you might wear birkenstocks or high heels — or you may be doing a mixture of all of these things.
I was very keen on
using cloth nappies as soon as I found out I was pregnant.
That's all I was really aiming for at the start, as we were
using cloth nappies and it made a huge difference to our cleaning jobs.
At FMP we stock a range of accessories to make
using cloth nappies easier, liners make cleaning dirty nappies easier and fleece keep delicate baby skin dry, wetabags are great for storing used nappies either at home or when out and about, boosters add extra absorbancy for heavy wetters and for night time.
If you're already
using cloth nappies and have a nappy bin (not everyone has!)
If you're
using cloth nappies, put in a nappy liner and then fasten the nappy.
I thought about
using cloth nappies with my first, before she was born.
I did consider
using cloth nappies when Eliza was a baby but they always seemed so complicated.
Think about back ups too — for example, if you have decided to
use cloth nappies, it could be sensible to have a pack of disposables in the drawer as well, just in case.
Last night
I used a cloth nappy plus cover, and there is a tiny spot on the sheet — I think there's actually a lot less laundry with cloth because the baby doesn't ruin so many outfits with poo explosions.
We used cloth nappies with both of our children during the day (purely to save money and not necessarily the environment) but at night it was disposables.
If
you use cloth nappies, you may want to sign up to a nappy laundry service that will take away the dirty nappies and deliver a fresh batch each week.
I did
use cloth nappies (and am still using Itti Bitti's on my little girl).
Bucket - this is used to store
used cloth nappies until wash day, to make it easier put a mesh inside the bucket and then just left out the mesh and put it in the machine so you don't need to touch the soiled nappies.
Let's face it, convenience is a factor in choosing whether or not to
use cloth nappies.
I'm currently pregnant with my second child, and having
used cloth nappies from about 5 months with our daughter I have been eagerly looking for newborn nappies to start earlier with this little one.
We use cloth nappies (btw, I notice a lot of US folk wash in hot, do you?
Many councils offer incentive schemes to encourage people to
use cloth nappies instead of disposables.
Not exact matches
You can also
use those newborn cotton
nappy cloth that we often us as diapers, light blanket or wipers etc..
We
used terry squares with a
nappy nippa and covers for ours which were great and after the kids were dry we were able to
use them as cleaning
cloths to get that last bit of
use out of them!
If you are ever caught short cut up a clean disposable or old
cloth nappy for short term
use until you can get more pads.
I love to
use them as boosters in my Birdseye flats and in the disana tie
nappies, as the feel of them against babies skin has got to be a welcome break for baby skin in
cloth all the time.
They made the transition from disposable to
cloth SO easy!I
use the flushable inserts occasionally, but typically
use an all bamboo insert and sometimes hemp inserts from The
Nappy Shoppe, http://www.nappyshoppe.com They are a great alternative to the gcloth, especially for the heavy wetters!
You are also enhancing your communication and bond with your baby, moving gently towards early toileting independence, removing the risk of genital rashes and saving heaps of energy and water
used in washing
cloth nappies and / or all the money that you would otherwise be spending on disposables.
You have a two buckets, a clean one and a mucky one and you take your wet wipes (it's for
cloth nappies, actually) and
use them and pop them in the mucky bucket, which is lined with a mesh bag.
«Three - quarters of parents who have no experience of
cloth nappies have outdated ideas far from the reality of
using modern
nappies.»
If I
cloth diaper in the future, I would
use simple white cotton
nappies, maybe with a soft thin fleece liner and maybe a cover.
Unlike previous month - long visits with toddlers, when I brought my own
cloth diapers and happily enough washed and dried them while out there, this time I am going to
use disposable
nappies.
Using nappies makes me lazy, and using disposables makes me SUPER lazy, so I use cloth as much as possible, or none if I'm feeling up fo
Using nappies makes me lazy, and
using disposables makes me SUPER lazy, so I use cloth as much as possible, or none if I'm feeling up fo
using disposables makes me SUPER lazy, so I
use cloth as much as possible, or none if I'm feeling up for it.
I've
used them on all 4 of my kids and love them, many of my friends question how I can manage
cloth nappies with two sets of twins but I think that every mother managed before the invention of «sposies so why can't I?
LYETTE REBACK: Well as far as the newborn goes like whenever the baby's umbilical cord hasn't fallen off, usually what I will do is I will place a couple of
nappies, you know the cross diaper you call this Gerber diaper things, I'll lay one or two of those down and then put the baby on top of the counter in that and I
use a wash
cloth I warm that up and I put that on top of their chest so that they just don't scream intentionally because they're cold and then I give them a sponge bath.
Not all modern
cloth nappies use organic material, however they usually
use bamboo and hemp fabric as these materials hold more fluid and also have antibacterial properties.
babygrows white x 20 (10 0 - 3 months 10 3 - 6 months) vests white x 20 (10 3 - 6 months 10 6 - 9 months we
cloth nappy so always size up) hand knitted cardigans x 5 second hand cot, remove the side and
use bungy cords to attach to the adult bed, large piece of memory foam cut to fit the cot, so you do nt have to roll up a towel to fill the gap plenty of how tos if you google it.
The Ubbi
nappy bin can be
used with any regular tall kitchen bag or
cloth liner providing savings over bins that
use expensive, inconvenient and hard - to - find cartridges.
To reduce the impact of
cloth nappies on climate change parents would have to hang wet
nappies out to dry all year round, keep them for years for
use on younger children, and make sure the water in their washing machines does not exceed 60C.
It took me a while to get into it, but I soon got going with the
cloth nappies, and then my local
nappy advisor suggested
using washable wipes since I was already washing
nappies.
another way to save with
cloth - if you are
using and washing
cloth nappies it makes sense to
use and wash
cloth wipes too - i cut up and hemmed an old towel and saved hundreds of dollars on babywipes too.
Using reusable
cloth nappies requires a large
cloth nappy so that you need not run out of them in between washes.
«For reusable
cloth nappies the study states «The baseline scenario based on average washer and drier
use produced a global warming impact of approximately 570 kg of carbon dioxide equivalents.»
I know, I know — they scream of extra work and hours labouring over the laundry basket — a tiresome task we associate with OUR parents generation — BUT — take a look at a few of these disposable diaper facts before I launch into why my household chose to
use CHARLIE BANANA
cloth nappies...