HELP - best nappy for life expectancy???

I 100% agree with you Bobbie. That's how I made my decision when I bought my batch of nappies. I decided which ones I liked then read through 100s of posts on here and TNN reading the pros and cons and honest thoughts of people who actually use the product. I'm still happy with the decision I made and they're still good enough to use on #2 which is why we paid that bit extra in the first place

With the nappy. Some come in a one size fits all where you just adjust it as the baby grows and others come in set size ranges.

How many depends on how heavy a wetter the baby is and how often they do pooey nappies when they're a bit older. My DD has perfected the art of waiting for a new nappy and then pooing into it straight away But generally they last about 3 hours before needing a change for the daytime.

From memory I started with 8 Bum Genius and 6 small fuzzibunz and then moved up to 12 Bum Genius, 3 tots bots bamboozles, a bitti boo and a bitti d'lish plus assorted boosters and we have more than enough nappies to do a wash every alternate day. We do disposables at night but that's due to lazyness really.

I think that you would save a bit on the Cloth for one baby but heaps for the subsequent ones. The initial outlay is high but personally I've found it worth it.

I think some of the stickied threads in this forum will give you a lot of start up info too.