Starting out - Motherease, help pls!

[HappyLittleMa]

Hi there,

I would really like to try cloth nappies with my DS2 (used disposables with DS1). I have been given 9X Motherease nappies (from what I can make out, they are birth to potty, one size ones). I cant figure out if they are 'dry' or not, they look the same when I google them!?

They all have a pop in liner. Do I also need boosters? And do I need a roll/pack of liners?

I am ordering a couple of wraps and a bucket, please tell me what else I need, I am so confused!

 

[Rachel_C]

This pics show the insides of the different ones.

https://www.mother-ease.com/cms/editor1/images/OSD_Fabrics_Staydry.jpg
https://www.mother-ease.com/cms/editor1/images/OSD_Fabrics_Organic.jpg
https://www.mother-ease.com/cms/editor1/images/OSD_Fabrics_Bamboo.jpg
https://www.mother-ease.com/cms/editor1/images/OSD_Fabrics_StretchyCotton1.jpg
https://www.mother-ease.com/cms/editor1/images/OSD_Fabrics_StretchyCotton2.jpg

The top is the stay dry - you can see on the inside there's a synthetic fabric that has a sort of diamond pattern in it I think. From what I remember of the Motherease stay dry fabric, it's almost like a very fine mesh over the top of something else... kind of like the mesh type top layer of a sanitary pad! The cotton ones will feel more like a towel inside and so will the bamboo probably if they're preloved. If they're new, the cotton ones will feel like a normal towel and the bamboo will feel silkier.

What Motherease call the 'snap in liner' is actually a booster (liners aren't usually absorbent; boosters are used to add extra absorbency to a nappy, that why I'd call it a booster!). For an 11 month old I would say you'll definitely need to snap the booster in all of the time, for days. The 'snap in liners' are available in the same fabric options as the nappy, so you might find you have cotton nappies but stay dry liners or something, they won't necessarily match If the liner is topped with stay dry fabric (the synthetic mesh-like stuff), you won't need anything else for LO to feel dry and comfortable. However, if it isn't stay dry, LO will feel the wet. Some babies don't mind that but if he's been in sposies I think he will need a stay dry nappy. If your snap in boosters aren't stay dry, you can just add a simple piece of fleece - any old fleece blanket cut up will work (do it to around the same size as the snap in liner) and just lay it in, or you can buy them online. The other option is disposable liners but I wouldn't bother unless you feel you need them to help poo clean-up. They don't keep LO feeling particularly dry and mean something you have to throw away. With an 11 month old, you can probably just tip poo off the nappy into the toilet, or wipe it in with some loo roll (no worse than wiping LO's bum!).

You may want to buy some extra boosters but I wouldn't at first, just try what you have for now. An old face cloth/teatowel would work if you need something straight away.

Sorry for waffling. What I think you might need/want:
Wraps and bucket, as you already know
Fleece liners if the ones you have aren't stay dry
Perhaps boosters later on, if the nappies don't last very long

 

[HappyLittleMa]

Thank you so much for that Rachel! I will have a closer look at the nappies later on and make a decision on what to buy.

You're a star! x

 

[Aunty E]

Make sure to order Motherease wraps - the one size don't work very well with any others Rikki are velcro wraps and come up a bit smaller than Airflow, which are poppered. For an eleven month old, I would buy Airflow in medium or rikki in large (assuming he's a fairly average eleven month old). Flushable disposable liners might also be nice, although if he's doing good solid poos, fleece liners will be easy to use (flick poo off them into the loo). We use flushable because we're a bit lazy and both of mine have quite loose poos. We get the bambino mio ones from Babiesrus and they last ages. We only put them in if we're expecting poop. I always put a fleece liner in now, I find that it helps the disposable liner stay in place and it's so soft against their botties

 

[HappyLittleMa]

Aunty E, so use the pop in ones, a fleece liner and a disposable one (if I can predict a poo is due) - if I have this right, then in what order??

Whats wrong with me, why cant I get this!?!

 

[Aunty E]

That's it. I rarely unpoppered our boosters as we always need them, so they just stayed in the nappies and if they came off in the wash, I poppered them back on when I was putting the laundry away.

How we have it set up is a basket of nappies, a basket of fleece liners, a roll of disposable liners and a basket of wraps on a bookcase. So you go along the production line to make up your nappy I know some people who do it in advance, but we've been doing it so long, I tend to tailor nappies to the time of day etc (I'm such a freak honestly).

 

[HappyLittleMa]

Fab thanks, will do my ordering tonight and see how I get on! (you sound very organised!)