tis been a bit quiet .....

Stopped thinking about nappies? As if!!!! I dream about the blimmin things!!

I've been feeling a bit off with ms sickness this week and don't have any purchasing needs right now - dispite being so jealous of all this talk of buying D'lish's by the 6pk!!

I was thinking the same thing today! No posts at all!!

Arohanui, do you use something like canestan inwash? I think dettol is another. works brilliantly for the smell.

Finding it fine to keep on top of nappies here - if I was every 2nd day, hanging them inside on the rack, but then I have 27 that fit seb....

Yeah I have been feeling the same Liz. They never used to stink, for a whole yeah of using them fulltime- we didnt have hotwater in our washing machine, so soaked them in ecostore nappy soak in bucket of hot water, then rinsed in washing machine and all was great.
Now do a warm wash with ecostor powder, soak poo ones only, and they al l the liners are brown and stink so bad now.

Please help!! Would love to love my cloth naps again!

I am desperate for new nappies, but just can't afford any at the moment

As for the washing thing, we use the Dettol rinse in every load. I just pop it in the fabric softener dispenser. The nappies never smell yuck so it must be working

I use regular Detol in the fabric softener dispenser once a week - with an extra rinse after - and we don't have any problems with smells. I wash every 1-2 days. Otherwise I do a cold pre-rinse cycle in the machine followed by a warm wash with Eco-store powder.

Emma - what's your favourite nappy on Chaira at the moment?

I have been feeling a bit disillusioned too! Twelve days with no sun, sick kids and drying racks all over the place... had driven me back to sposies. Must get back into cloth again.

We have been getting leaks though so that was another reason I had stopped. May be they need stripping. Have put Harry on formula so he is now getting way more fluid in a day than he was ( another story for another thread!) so he is weeing way more too.

My ecobubs seem to be the worst though?? My fuzzis seem to be better at holding in the wee. Maybe it is the difference in side snaps as opposed to front snaps ( not sure if my nappy jargon is correct there but hopefully you get the idea?).

Any ideas ladies? He is wet around the edges of his bodysuits ( around the leg and crutch) and sometimes along the top of the nappy????

Maybe I need more inserts or something?

Kellz wrote: Ok cool will try the dettol stuff. Although I hate the smell of dettol!

Your in luck - it doesn't smell anything like Dettol. It's in the laundry section of the supermarket and it smells like eucalyptus. I actually find once they are washed and dried they don't really smell like anything though - just clean and fresh

I don't think winter helps with the cloth love. I know I struggle with washing at the best of times!

Soon will be spring and the washing line will be fully operational again (may even help with the smell issues )

im forcing myself back into the cloth love...not quite there yet for 2 reasons - #1 ALL THE WASHING!! AND NON DRYING!! #2 the smell!!! his day nappies (which are all new itti bitti) dont smell but the nighttime naps always smell like mice! (when they havnt been cleaned! ) and all his bedding smells of it! and he seems to be leaking through every night regardless of what i do i use HC stuffed with 3 inserts at night and they have been stripped.

oh and despite soaking and stripping them - they still smell

totally loving itti though