Help me out

1. Cloth are cheaper...you can expect to save between $500-$1000 in your first year alone (we'll leave nappy addictions out of this discussion shall we?? )over 2 children you can save a whopping $6000 and this is taking into account washing.

Even if you sell your nappies after one child you can make back 80% of your orginal cost. Can't do that with used 'spoises!

2. Better for baby....less instance of nappy rash...I believe the stats i read on an American study were along the lines of "in 1950 100% or babies were in cloth and 5% had nappy rash, in 1990 95% were in disposables and 90% had nappy rash"...i'd need to double check the quote once TNN is back up and running though...but the point is that it is a huge leap.

3. Disposables are also full of gels that absorb the liquid, if these gels get on baby's skin it can in many cases, cause a reaction that looks like nappy rash. Do you really want to do that to your child???

4. The vast majority of us (including me) can testify to less or no leaks in cloth. We've only ever had 1. 2 days ago. That was the first.

5. Your house doesn't stink of nappies sitting around until rubbish day and believe me when I say sangenics still stink to high heaven when you open them.

6. You're not dumping all that stuff into the rubbish to sit in landfills for the next 500 years or whatever it takes to break down.

7. with Modern Cloth you don't have to scrape or soak them....just chuck them in the washing machine so that's no longer a valid argument against cloth.

8. No matter what, disposbles will never be as cute as flowers or fairies or my little pony or dinosaurs or dalmation fluff covering your childs butt!

I think that about covers it from me.

Edited by Paws

yep...

better for your wallet, better for baby (softer, less rashes, no chemicals), better for the environment.

I concur with the above - nice sum up paws!!

I am going with them because of the environmental factor, when I found out they were HEAPS CHEAPER I thought "hey, what a bonus....that never happens" and also I found out how good they are for baby.

And they are SO DAMN CUTE!!!!! We even sold the grandmothers on them and I thought we'd have a battle over why we arent doing oragami.

To add to it, when I have my 3rd (it's now a WHEN not an IF ) I'll be able to be a SAHM and I will be going cloth the MCN way. I'm quite looking forward to it. Would of done it with Josh but he is ging into daycare very soon and the only take disposibles. For me it will be the saving of money as even with the resale (as Paws said) you will still get some money back after using them on TradeMe.

They are definately easy to put on....just like sposies but I havent washed one yet so I'll let the more experienced mums talk about that

They are very easy to use.....easier even. Hubby hated how the wings on sposises never stayed flat and always got caught under maddie when he was trying to change a nappy. He constantly raves about how easier modern cloth is.

As for the soaking thing, we recommend that you don't soak becuase for a start you can soak the stains right in and second it can cause a build up on the nappy that prevents the stay dry layer working and the inner absorbing properly. (that's my mum hat and fuzzi agent hat on there).

For washing all we do is dry pail which means we rinse the pooey nappies and chuck them into a dry bucket and chuck them in the washing machine each day or so. We do a hot wash and hang in the sun. Sun is the best sanitiser you can get. And it is totally hygenic. The fact that we also hot wash is added insurance but I know of plenty of people who only cold wash and hot wash occassionally.

You also only need half the washing powder you would normally use. We have a front loader and use eco-store so it means we use 1 tablesoon of powder. That's nothing!

So in summery...they go on like disposables and wash like our clothes. Couldn't be easier.

Ahhh this is where it gets complicated as that completely depends on what you find easy and is influenced by the size/age of your baby, how heavy wetter they are etc.

Check out the table at Snazzipants to see the pros and cons of each system.

Edited by nikkiwhyte

You have all changed my mind about using cloth. I was sure we were doing the sposies only! I have even bought washable wipes (feeling very proud of that). So I am definitley going to use the cloth, and am pretty sure I have settled on Fuzzibunz as prefered choice, but want to know if I should wait until Sam is a little bit bigger so I don't spend too much on something she is going to grow out of pretty quickly. We have a couple of hundred sposies that have been given to us, so will obviously use them first, but I don't know what I should do in regards to when to start on the fuzzi's. Any thoughts?

Sterryn wrote: So I am definitley going to use the cloth, and am pretty sure I have settled on Fuzzibunz as prefered choice, but want to know if I should wait until Sam is a little bit bigger so I don't spend too much on something she is going to grow out of pretty quickly. We have a couple of hundred sposies that have been given to us, so will obviously use them first, but I don't know what I should do in regards to when to start on the fuzzi's. Any thoughts?

i would either get a hire kit to start or just buy a few. the thing with MCN's is that not all babies suit the same type or brand. so my advice would be to use up your sposies first - or at least for the first couple of weeks - then either get a hire kit or buy some trial naps of diff types.