Our version of cloth nappies

So, this is our nappy system. I said I would do a wee (tee hee) blog on it, so here goes... We've been doing reusables since the day Joseph came home from the hospital - i.e. since he was 2 days old. It has been refined along the way! We have always had the old fashioned Indian cotton square naps, this outer is a Real Nappies, we also have Econaps outers that weren't so good on Joseph because he had no thighs! Rhys fits both perfectly. The Real Nappies outers are the ones we use most. So we have about 7 or 8 outers and about 36 cloths and liners. The liners are microfleece, started with a square metre and someone whipped them up for us into liners.

We fold the cloths into half, then half, then thirds, pop on a liner then store them up ready to go.

The fleece is perfect for just dropping bits into the toilet, rolls right off! Also, fleece and outers come out of the wash almost dry. We usually just dry pail all 3 parts but I like to soak the nappy and liner in water, not the outer as it looses it's waterproofness if soaked. Then we just wash with a tiny bit of normal soap powder on a normal wash. We half fold the cloths before hanging them to dry. The sun helps to keep them white. So there it is. No pins, and not that much of a big deal at all.

The secret is to start as soon as you have the baby home. The outers come in different sizes. We don't spend all our time in the laundry washing and scrubbing and it only takes about 10 minutes to fold the dry ones ready to go fo the next day. Nick's brother and his wife use the cloths that are made by Real Nappies, they are a bit thicker so take more time to dry, but less time to fold as they just need to be folded into thirds. It's easy, give it a go! Anyone use different ones? I know a few people who have used the Fuzzy Buns sort which are fleece. They are more expensive, and the outer has to be changed at every change - not like ours, if Rhys has just wet and the outer is fresh it can usually be used for a second round, so we just get another folded cloth...

Also, Joseph was out of nappies at 2, the first in his group of friends, most of which use the FBuns. I think because he felt the wetness he was out of them sooner, and also he was a STAR! It could be totally different with Rhys.