Cloth Nappies

I have a cloth question here. The other day I had Jack in cloth at night (a wonderoos one size pocket) I have never had a problem with leaks or anything before this and used it for months although I haven't used it for about a month or 2. Anyway he had runny poo explosion that went everywhere and when I took it off it hardly had kept any poo in it like most of the poo shot out the side. He had been sick a month before so I had him in huggies then and they seemed to hold the explosions way more. So my question is do you think I had stuffed too much into it so there was no room for the poo to stay or is he maybe just between snaps?

Rach maybe it was too gapey around the leg? Too much stuffing makes it loose around legs.

sometimes runny poos will escape no matter what you do...if your push their legs up and check it doesnt gape when you do the nappy up it may help to get a feel of the fit...

How often do you change your baby in cloth naps?
I'm using pockets and having issues with Benjy getting damp between his legs. I've experimented with tucking the elastic in, using boosters, covers and overnaps to no avail. I change every two to three hours.
Any ideas?

Maybe increase the absorbancy... (stuff with more stuff)... your naps do have the microfleece liner in them right???

I used to change Han just a bit more often than with sposies, but that is because now I have figured out that I probably should have been stuffing with more

And yeah, I'm pretty sure talc is fine to use with naps. (Paws might be able to shed some more light on that )

Mel, the pockets that you have are quite large sizes, could be the Benji may be more suited to a small? I'll bring a small one over and we'll have a play?

Ok so I am starting to get more and more intrested in these nap's. However I have soooooo Many flat cloth Nappies seem's a waste not to use them. Plus money is really tight. I am having a little trouble finding over nap's to fit Alan. Any suggestion's? I have been using the one's from t&t and the warehose the polarflece ones, but they are attached with valcro and come undone and the valcro rub's on his leg's leaving read mark's.

Deb I was using the Pam's ones, do some maths and you'll see you'll pay off years' supply in a few months . It will seem like a waste of flat cloths, you can still use them as liners but they are not as absorbent so I kind think they are better ditched altogether.

You can pay off FB (and presumably other brands) on a weekly/monthly basis so it will work out about the same as disposables until paid. And the peapods that Nikki posted somewhere look about the same as FB but lots cheaper, worth looking at.

It's a hard decision to make but if you are using cloth nappies on and off it may be worthwhile changing completely just for the benefit of a system which works well enough that you'll be happy to use. I found flat cloths so frustrating because they are so bulky for little absorbency.

Edited by busymum

WHere can I get them from going to really look into now. I did not know you could pay them off that would work really well for us.

Argh no one sell's them in Taranaki so I will have to try and arrange a demo while I am in Palmy I have emailed one of the rep's there. Untill then can someone give me any more infolike how the payment plan's work etc and deposit's thing's like that.