Cloth Nappies

Ok now I have posted this in Pregnancy a while ago, but seen as this is here now I thoguht I'd do it here too.
What brand of cloth nappies do you use?
Good old fashioned cloth?
Or the new fancy schmancy Pocket system nappies?

I shall take a looksie at babyonline,

I have fuzzis (newfangled pocket system ), peapods, stuffables, and a swaddlebee pocket (old style).

Fuzzis and Pea Pods are great

Stuffables are next to useless (cute print though ) and swaddlebee never quite worked for me... but new style is much better - the old style was from early 2005.



Edited to get my damn dates right.

Edited by nikkiwhyte

Yep - did my first demo today. It went really badly. But I can only improve right?!?!

Nikki, you definitely get better!! I always have trouble starting off, its much easier when people just ask questions!

If I have another baby, I would prob do the same as with Hannah as a newborn - mainly old-fashioned cloth and covers, because she outgrew hew small size fuzzi at about 8 weeks, and then into modern cloth after that.

I have also tried fitteds with covers which were ok but they take too long to dry and are bulkier. I havent tried prefolds. Tried a one size nappy but hated that, it never fitted "perfect".

I love pocket nappies because:
- so easy to use
- dry really fast
- fleece against baby keeps them dry so dont need to use liners, and poo falls off/rinses out really easy
- trim fit
- can adjust the absorbancy
- lovely colours (there are some gorgeous fitted naps out there but you need to put covers over them )
- although you need a couple of sizes, the fit really well (cos they have domes for waist and thigh) and one sze fits for ages (eg Hannah started in medium at 2 months and has only just outgrown them cos she has large thighs, now in large whigh will fit until shes TT!)

Sorry long post, but obviously I have a lot to say about cloth nappies (and will prob think of more to add to this later!)

PS I am SOOOO happy to see so many of you using cloth and/or thinking about it, and even tho I love (and sell) Fuzzi Bunz, as long as people use cloth of any brand I am happy!

yay the Fuzzis!
so ridiculously easy to use and have saved us heaps!
Can't wait to upgrade to the next size and get crazy with some coloured ones

I should add. bought Taine medium sized fuzzis from about 4 months. he is now nearly 11 months (gulp!!!) and still fitting them well. we have also large and xtra large. large fit him, and xtra large fit for night time when they have a lot of stuffing. so even though you might feel that a one-size-fits all may be more economical, I have found the mediums to fit Taine for AGES! also worked out that it took me three months to pay for them - as in, the money that I would've spent on disposbales, so anything after three months of use, I'm saving money!

We've been lucky in that the small fuzzis still fit Maddie and I think they will for a while yet (wohoo!!). All the same I'm well stocked on mediums now too!

but that all depends on teh size of the child though. we have had issues finding a good size nappy for HAleigh at 14 months she is 13kg (at birth just under 5kg), and up until she was 11 months she had extremly chubby thighs, which is why we;re trying to get as much information on different kinds of cloth nappies as we can.
Even though we've used disposable for her, which is why we're looking into cloth to see if theyare better in sizes.

for me, fuzzis are adjustable so good for the chubby thigh child. also if you do the trial pack, i'm sure they offer a money bcak guarantee if they don't fit.