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clover 
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 Posted: 07 October 2011 at 3:16pm |
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Sposies, had cloth, used them like twice and sold them all on. I struggle to stay on top of the washing as it is let alone putting another load in. Plus cloth nappies are really expensive to buy for what they are and sposies are 35cents each most of the time.
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kiwiking
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Posted: 07 October 2011 at 6:40pm |
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I'm planning on using cloth, I hate the idea of disposables and their impact on the environment.
And the cost is also a huge factor.
I'm going for itti bitti tuttos and have been getting them on special (and my mum bought me my first 5).
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Jenny_PracticallyPerfect
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Posted: 09 October 2011 at 8:08pm |
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We used disposables for the first 2 weeks of our son's life - we had enough to deal with just trying to adjust! Once he was 2 weeks' old, we started using a one-size-fits-all cloth nappy. We have used BumGenius (love them!) and FuzziBunz (like them, but not as much as BG). I bought a wet bag for when we are out and about. The wet bag is from PlanetWise and will hold 2 cloth nappies and keeps the moisture and odour locked in.
Also, I use a flushable liner and just place that on top of the nappy. That way, any waste is caught by the flushable liner, and I can just flush it away rather than dealing with rinsing or scraping out the nappy. I do keep some disposables around, though, for times when we are in creche at church (cloth nappies aren't allowed). Check out The Nappy Lady online for some great resources and information.
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Hopes
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Posted: 09 October 2011 at 8:25pm |
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Cloth in the day, sposies at night. We went with cloth to save money, mostly, and it really does. Also, they look so damn cute. We use itti bitti d'lish nappies.
I'm pretty flexible, though, I'll use sposies sometimes when I'm out as they last longer, and when Jacob has nappy rash I find cloth tends to make it worse (I know others have the opposite experience - I think in our case sposies tend to keep his botty drier).
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Danda08
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Posted: 09 October 2011 at 8:51pm |
 Hopes wrote:
...when Jacob has nappy rash I find cloth tends to make it worse (I know others have the opposite experience - I think in our case they tend to keep his botty drier). |
Same with my girls Hopes. Takes a couple of days of sposies and masses of bum cream then we can get back to cloth.
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E&L+1
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Posted: 09 October 2011 at 9:04pm |
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Depending on the rash we sometimes have to switch to sposies too. I'm mainly full time cloth but do use sposies at times. Generally when we are travelling or she has bad nappy rash. I prefer cloth for many reasons though and it's always a good feeling when I'm using them again after using sposies. I'll very shortly have 2 in cloth.
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Hopes
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Posted: 09 October 2011 at 9:13pm |
Oh, and I don't really enjoy rinsing off a particularly messy dirty nappy... but I enjoy the money I save more than I hate the job of washing them  And it's not really a biggie - I agree with whoever said that wiping a wriggling dirty bottom can be plenty grosser.
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pudgy
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Posted: 09 October 2011 at 9:54pm |
Dd was in cloth at 3 days old, ds I think we used sposies or a week. Then both in fulltime cloth with a sposie overnight. Until.........we moved and between the 2 of them I had almost 2.5 weeks of v& d and a broken washing line  Now ds is in sposies. I do feel awful about the amount of rubbish
Cloth nappies saved us heaps of money and they've been passed on.  still using cloth wipes though.
^^^^ I agree with the wiggling dirty bottom being worse than rinsing nappies lol
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