All muslins are not created equal!

[maggie111]

I'm aiming for about 30 but I am constantly reading that no matter how many you have it is never enough

(I've never had a baby I hope someone more qualified tells us how many lol!)

 

[dizz]

I'm aiming for about 30 but I am constantly reading that no matter how many you have it is never enough

(I've never had a baby I hope someone more qualified tells us how many lol!)

Disclaimer - number 1 was not a particularly sicky baby.

Think I have about 20 lying around the place (I've got a small drawerful - remember buying a pack of 10, another of 6 and I think people have bought me about another 6 or so here and there)... to be honest, I could manage on half of those and it's only since we started weaning I've really started using them heavily - although to start with I did the folded muslin where her head would be in the moses and pram mattresses to reduce washing (if baby sicks up and it's just a mini-sick you can often get away with just whipping off the muslin and replacing rather than the entire sheet) and she tends to use one as a comforter and toy if we're out and about (muslin-wrestling is a serious sport ya know), but it's only really now we're drowning in teething drool and weaning mess (I tend to use a muslin rather than baby wipes to clear around her mouth up as her cheeks are suffering with the teething drool rash) that I'm putting more than a couple a day in the wash.

Obviously if she was a refluxy vomiting child I'd have gone through many more.

 

[imaswimmer2]

What is it? Diapers?

Muslin is a type of material used in lots of things. It's a really really fine cotton - very thin.

They're used a lot in raising babies because they can be used for all sorts of things. Think of them like a tea towel but nicer to babies because they're so soft and light.

So they are great for placing over your shoulder whilst you wind - to catch any spit up. Wiping faces and hands. Placing as a "protective layer" between a public changing matt, or sofa or something. They make a very light blanket.

And lots of things. The more I'm reading up the more uses I am reading of lol.

Ohhhh ok thanks! That's interesting. I've never heard of them in the US but I'm sure I could find it if I tried lol

 

[2ndtimeluckyX]

I had some for lo but never used them, I don't really see how people use so many?
I recently used mine when painting the lounge to put under paint tins and use as rags

 

[solitaire89]

If colours are what you're after, buy some better quality white ones and dye them! I dyed shed loads of ours in all the colours under the sun, and tie-dyed a load more. But, I can confirm that cheap muslins are rubbish. If the weave is too open all the sick comes through! As for quantity - you can never have too many. I had about 30 good ones, and about 10/15 more cheap ones, and they still get used so much, even though LO is 16 months!

 

[rainkat]

Ohhhh ok thanks! That's interesting. I've never heard of them in the US but I'm sure I could find it if I tried lol

Not sure about the US but here we call them receiving blankets. They're usually flannel.

 

[summer rain]

to be honest even though I have had sicky babies I have found I have never used more than about 6 out of a pack of Muslins, as they are so easy to chuck in the wash with the baby clothes that invariably need washing on a daily basis; so I think I will do this time what I did last time- just buy 2 packs of 3 xx

 

[CupcakeBaby]

If colours are what you're after, buy some better quality white ones and dye them! I dyed shed loads of ours in all the colours under the sun, and tie-dyed a load more. But, I can confirm that cheap muslins are rubbish. If the weave is too open all the sick comes through! As for quantity - you can never have too many. I had about 30 good ones, and about 10/15 more cheap ones, and they still get used so much, even though LO is 16 months!

Thanks.

I looove dying stuff so was actually going to dye the 2 white ones in this pack anyway as I have some lovely purple dye.

 

[Rozz1e1]

What is it? Diapers?

Muslin is a type of material used in lots of things. It's a really really fine cotton - very thin.

They're used a lot in raising babies because they can be used for all sorts of things. Think of them like a tea towel but nicer to babies because they're so soft and light.

So they are great for placing over your shoulder whilst you wind - to catch any spit up. Wiping faces and hands. Placing as a "protective layer" between a public changing matt, or sofa or something. They make a very light blanket.

And lots of things. The more I'm reading up the more uses I am reading of lol.

Ohhhh ok thanks! That's interesting. I've never heard of them in the US but I'm sure I could find it if I tried lol

I think in the US you guys call them swaddle cloths xxxx

 

[Bethi22]

Burp cloths or Receiving blankets here in the US

 

[imaswimmer2]

Oh now I get it first time mom here, obviously lol. Anything I know is from trying to remember when my little sister was born in 93. Thank god for babyandbump for those of us with little female support system

 

[summer rain]

I'm aiming for about 30 but I am constantly reading that no matter how many you have it is never enough

(I've never had a baby I hope someone more qualified tells us how many lol!)

Says mothercare a lot of this info about what is indispensable is put out there by baby shops. Unless you don't have a washing machine you really don't need so many xx

 

[doggylover]

I bought a pack of 12 white ones from Mothercare, as the only coloured ones I've seen are blue/pink and we are

I know my SIL has plenty to lend us as well, so I'm not too fussed on getting many more.

 

[Midnight_Fairy]

The baby pukes on them. They dont need to be soft lol. This is my 3rd and I have definitely learnt where you need to spend more and spend less and trust me, you dont need to spend on muslins to do the job

 

[Annie77]

This is my third and I have never used muslins! BUT I have decided to buy 2 packs of 3 if only to cut down on sheets & bibs needing washed!

 

[MrsGards]

My daughters 6 and still uses her muslin or her foggy, which its now called, to go to sleep!! We have about 20 around the house as she won't sleep without them! I'll buy a small pack for this baby buy im sure dd won't mind sharing if we need to!!

 

[Lulu1982]

The softest ones I ever found were for tescos! Softer than m&s, mother are etc. sainsburys do some lovely colourful ones.

I like the, soft as I tuck the, under their chins when their feeding, bibs don't stop the milk going in the neck creates and turning rancid and green!