13 days and counting

[noxibox]

Have been chatting to my government...
She advises that you use disposables for the first two months.
If you then want to use towelling nappies, it must be the thick ones together with the liners. The liners you get from most retail shops (Checkers, etc).
However, from a practical perspective in today's world, she advises that you stick with disposables.

Even when using disposables a liner should be used and flushed. It's either that or hold the disposable in the toilet and flush to wash it off. It should never just be thrown into the bin.

Yeah, 10 nappies per baby per day seems a little excessive imo.

Sounds about right actually.

That sounds cool.. You dont by any chance know where to obtain these nappies / liners... then at least i can still afford a few beers every now and then.

Mother Nature

You can either use their liners or get something like the Cherubs ones from your local supermarket. Liners should be used regardless of whether you are using cloth or disposable.

i suggested that to SO... You should have seen that face !

Cloth nappies? They really aren't that much hassle, if you go for the modern fitted ones. If we all had to wash our clothes by hand then I could understand having a problem with using cloth nappies, but they go into the washing and it takes a few minutes to hang them up.

You should definitely use disposables for first few days until the meconium has been flushed from their system. It's close to sterile, so not necessarily such a big deal if you let it go to the landfill.

 

[MickeyD]

You should definitely use disposables for first few days until the meconium has been flushed from their system.

Fully agree!

 

[Venomous]

Just spoke to an older lady She says the correct process to follow with towelling nappies are:

after use dispose of any poop if there is
place nappy in a bucket containing a sterilising chemical( not good for machine)
water in the bucket should ideally be changed twice a day.
nappies from today should be washed tomorrow morning
process for that: wash nappies BY HAND to remove any stains & to rinse out the chemicals
then place in machine & wash.

No wonder people prefer disposable nappies....

she also says that with the cost of the cleaning chemicals, water , electricity & replacing a few nappies here & there the costs are very similar to diposables per month.

 

[cerebus]

We went the cloth nappy route from the beginning. I'm not a screaming advocate of either way, but we definitely have saved a packet with the cloths. You lose on the convenience though.

The first set of cloths we got for baby nr 1 were Mother Natures - noxi has provided the link. We thought they were great - unfortunately they began to disintegrate after about 10 months. You can look at the reviews to see it's not just our complaint. So now they're pretty useless. Then we just bought a whole bunch of square traditional cloths - and surprisingly it was the best decision. You get these snappy things that make it very easy to put them on, and like they say you use the bin liners for disposing of the poop.

The best quality clothies we have found were the Woolworths ones. In general they're the same price as any of the others, but they just have a softer towelling and last longer.

she also says that with the cost of the cleaning chemicals, water , electricity & replacing a few nappies here & there the costs are very similar to diposables per month.

I'm sorry but that's total nonsense. Does it cost you r1200/month to wash your own clothes? The actual costs even with cleaning factored in are overwhelmingly skewed towards cloths - especially in this country where disposables cost much more than the UK/US (a megapack of 168 huggies in the Uk costs 25.00). I think if cost wasn't an issue we would probably have just gone the disposable way, but for us it was - and we have saved a lot by doing this.

 

[tcofran]

Hmmm, interesting. I just turned 37 and am expecting twins, well, we both are

Looking at 600 nappies a month for the 1st 3 months, that's 10 per child per day. That's about R1200. Blimmin heck man, there go all my hobbies...

Was just thinking... probably gonna see each other in the "Who is still awake" thread ?