where to start - 6 months?

Ok, am getting excited about MCN's and am feeling more confident so my questions:

1. How many would I need for a 6 month old. Was every 2nd day?

2. Best type of nappy for this age group?

Am still finding it all so confusing so any help is appreciated. Have done a search but most threads relate to NB's.

Thanks

Sophie is the same age, and I use about 5 nappies per day, plus a night nappy. I would suggest about 15 nappies if you want to wash every second day. The more you have the easier it is - then you are not rushing trying to get them dry etc.

I mainly use pockets, and find them great, but am looking at getting a few AIO's to try. For night I use a fitted and cover. I think the best thing to do is to try a few different types. If you can, maybe get a hire kit, otherwise buy a few different sorts. I think I bought about 6 different brands of pockets to start with, and just worked out what worked for us. It a good idea to try different types of inserts - hemp, bamboo and MF.

Favourite brands: one size pocket would have to be bum genius. Other pockets, tweedles are great value and work well for us, foxybots are very cute. AIO you have to try a d'lish - they are devine!!

Oh, and size wise - Sophie is in mediums, she is about 7.5kgs! The only nappy I would look at getting a bigger size is the d'lish as they are so small fitting.

There must be someone is CHCH who can show you a few nappies, and possibly let you try a few!!

I started with just 6, washed every day, and used sposies at night. Grab a couple of extra inserts (if you are getting separates) because the outers are much faster drying. I agree that 15 is a good number, but you don't have to start with 15. Even just a few, used every couple of days, will still reduce your sposie costs.

Hi,
I'm using cloth part-time whilst I build up my stash of nappies... I have enough for a full day of cloth, but then use sposies at night, and the next day till they inserts are all dry again ready for use. Note to self: must get more inserts !! lol
So don't feel you need to fork out loads all at once, I'm just buying 1 or 2 (or 4 in the Mothers Instinct sale) every couple of weeks with the aim of being in cloth full-time by the time my daughter is 3 months old :D Tho Ava is a hefty 6kgs at only 8 weeks old, so I'm buying mediums to get more wear out of them as well as some one sized pockets :D

good luck

Peanut wrote: Ok, am getting excited about MCN's and am feeling more confident so my questions: 1. How many would I need for a 6 month old. Was every 2nd day? 2. Best type of nappy for this age group? Am still finding it all so confusing so any help is appreciated. Have done a search but most threads relate to NB's. Thanks

Hi there! I switched to cloth when my son was 5.5mths (around 15lbs) and went straight into mediums. I had 12 nappies which was enough for day & night, but I did a wash every day (5-6 per 24hrs so I had an extra set to wear on the second day while the first set was drying). Perhaps just buy a few different ones to try out and see what nappy suits your baby - I would recommend Fuzzi Bunz (although haven't tried the new style & have heard they're a bit bigger than the old version), Honeychild, Foxybots & Itti Bitti D'lish. There are plenty of other nappies out there too, these are just the ones that I've tried

Vic xx

Peanut, if you come to the craft night we can bring nappies to show you!

Mind you mine will be bigger because iv sold my smalls, i have honeychild, fuzzi, baby harmony, dlish, sewn in dlish (when it arrives) foxy and BG..

i definately recommend getting maybe 2 or 3 of a few different brands rather than all of one brand....if one doesn't work for you, they are easy to sell and then you can buy more of the ones you do like

my faves are baby harmony and drybees....i also love my d'lish, wish i could justify getting more of them

joel-eze and peapods (yes i like them) are good too

When you try them on, use a teatowel or something covering the inside of it, even pin it on him like a cloth nap, that way you should be able to return them fine. (unless he pees! but that is life? lol) Should be thin enough to still get a good idea of the fit too.