Old style cloth nappies...
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Topic: Old style cloth nappies...
Posted By: aussiegirl
Subject: Old style cloth nappies...
Date Posted: 10 May 2008 at 5:49pm
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Does anyone use these anymore? I got given a lot of flannelette nappies and was thinking of using them as nappies while I'm at home.My MIL also gave me some fluffies.
I do want to get MCN's at some stage, so have been researching a lot and will start buying them slowly. 
Also with the flannelette nappies can you use the SNAPPI nappy fasteners...do they stick ok? (prob a very silly question!)or do you have to use pins??  -------------  Mum to Hayley **30.6.08
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 10 May 2008 at 6:09pm
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i have and use flats... a snappy is no good with them...but i just used a pinless fold cause modern pins just dont seem to do the trick! ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: aussiegirl
Date Posted: 10 May 2008 at 6:21pm
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Would you have to use the towelling type nappies with a snappi?
oooh, a pinless fold! is there a website where I can see how to do that? MIL has shown me a few different folding styles, but no pinless ones! ------------- Mum to Hayley **30.6.08
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Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 10 May 2008 at 6:24pm
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I used them for a bit with Ella and found them ok. Just not as efficient as mcns! I didn't like having to pin them either, especially once she got wriggly and impatient with changing times, I was always scared of sticking her.
I use them now for stuffing my mcns and they make great change mats/playmats/burp cloths/spew catchers/boobie leak stoppers....  ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: AliaDawn
Date Posted: 10 May 2008 at 10:36pm
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I would use cloth flats, but not fluffies (other than maybe the nb stage) investing in a few good basic PUL covers shouldn't cost that much, and will save you alot of headaches in regards to leaks, wet bedding/clothes etc. There's a pinless fold, but would only really work on an immobile baby.
Towelling flats do work with snappies, because they can grip onto the fabric -------------  
 
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Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 10 May 2008 at 10:41pm
| I had Jack in them when he was a newborn. The midwives at the hospital showed me how to fold them and I never used pins, just folded it and then put a cover over top. It works fine for when they aren't moving much. You could then use then as inserts for pockets? |
Posted By: aussiegirl
Date Posted: 11 May 2008 at 9:33am
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I was looking at some covers from snazzipants etc, so might get some of those :)
Thanks so much for your help! ------------- Mum to Hayley **30.6.08
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Posted By: AliaDawn
Date Posted: 11 May 2008 at 11:24am
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Oh yes they make great inserts for pockets if you get thsoe when bubs is bigger -------------
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 11 May 2008 at 5:10pm
try this one, or google it. http://www.nznappies.co.nz/folding.html - nappy folds ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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aussiegirl wrote:Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 11 May 2008 at 8:24pm
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I used flats and pins on Maya from 8 weeks till she TT at 22 mths, and for the first 6 or so weeks with the gremlins, and I agree, a decent cover is what makes them work well! I didn't find pins too much of an issue, altho given how wriggly the gremlins are now I have no idea how I managed to get pins into Maya's nappies when she was this age.
Now I use flats as inserts, in fact they're the only inserts I use as my nanny couldn't seem to figure out how to pair up microfibre/hemp/bamboo inserts so they worked, so flats are just easier, and equally as absorbent IMO. ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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