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06-04-2017, 01:50 PM | #1 |
Rose Garden
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Loosing the cloth love
This pregnancy has been hard on my relationship with cloth We're having issues again and I'm just so. over having to keep trouble shooting all the time. Financially though, we need to be in cloth and I don't want to give in from an environmental standpoint either. I'm giving myself tomorrow in pull ups to recoup and try to figure things out.
S is 23 months, probably about 23/24lb at this point, and a heavy wetter. We are currently using flats and covers. Some Terry flats, some FSTs, some flannel flats (homemade or receiving blankets). Covers are new. We use a combination of snappi, pins, and just pad folding into the covers. Oh, we have a handful of prefolds too. S has a sensitivity to synthetic fabric against his skin. We can get away with it for a few days but then he breaks out in a persistent rash that does not respond to anything except removing the synthetics. Issue 1; he is peeing through EVERYTHING! If I change him every 2 hours on the dot (I set an alarm) we can sometimes save the outfit and maybe even reuse the cover if I'm really lucky, but most of the time by 2 hours he has out-peed the nappy. Several times his week he has been soaked through, outfit included, before the 1h30 mark. The fsts and flannel flats I use doubled up, I've tried adding hemp boosters to things, I've tried a billion different folds. He just soaks it. The whole thing is just sopping. And I feel bad for him when I find him sitting in it. I cannot be changing him every hour on the hour though.i have 2 tots bots all in ones that are microfibre core and they last less than an hour, even with a hemp trifold booster. Issue 2: he fights being changed like I'm trying to saw his leg off. Especially poop. I have ended up having to change MY outfit after a poop change because he fights much. Getting multiple layers on without someone being injured by a pin or a snappi is next to impossible, and he Wiggles so much that the nappy gets smushed and the fold goes all wrong and I have to start again. I had to stop changing him on the dresser after he tried throwing himself off and smashed his face on the corner, but changing him on the floor is so hard with my SPD, plus he can run away easier, plus he keeps kicking my big belly while he's fighting. It just takes so much out of me that I feel like giving up. Pull ups are just so much easier. Velcro pocket nappies make it 10x easier but I can't use them consistently without triggering the rash. Issue 3: the poop. UK = no sprayers. I have disposable liners but they always end up bunched up in a random corner and they're expensive to use when I'm having to change him so much, especially when they do nothing! His poop texture varies from 'ploppable' to mush, and he's teething right now for extra grossness. Scrubbing out 3+ poopy flats (so many crevices!) a day in my sink is just more than I have the energy and motivation for right now. Fleece liners helped a tonne, but after 3 days we came back to 'the rash'. He will poop on the potty at home, if he's naked, but he will also pee all over my carpet while he's naked. I think I could cope with one of these issues but everything together is just too much. We have very limited spending money right now but I could maybe be tempted into trying a new kind of nappy if I knew it would work. |
06-04-2017, 01:59 PM | #2 |
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Re: Loosing the cloth love
First off I am a die hard cloth diaper lover and even then there were periods of time when I used sposies for my own sanity. Each time it was just the break I needed to re-discover my love of cloth. So if it's what you need in short term go with it. Finances do make that more difficult tho.... Could you go with a cheaper sposie in the short term than the pull ups? That might buy you more time or save on the costs. At least here pull ups are ridiculously more expensive than regular sposies.
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06-04-2017, 02:29 PM | #3 |
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Re: Loosing the cloth love
Does he poop at the same time each day? If so I would consider a disposable diaper when you think he's going to poop.
Wool covers are good for heavy wetters. They are expensive to buy but you can also make them out of thrifted wool sweaters. It doesn't have to be cloth OR disposable- maybe there is a combination that will work well for you. You could even put a cloth diaper (no cover) IN a disposable diaper and try to change it soon enough to reuse the disposable but if not then oh well. Are you just too tired to change him every hour? Or just emotionally difficult for you to deal with the fighting? Can dh do it when he's home (or every other change so that between the two of you it's every hour)? Can you use a distraction while you change him? Something else he doesn't get any other time? Does he do better with pull-up changing standing up? (like if there isn't poop, I mean). If so you could get cloth pull-ups.
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06-04-2017, 02:37 PM | #4 |
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Re: Loosing the cloth love
The own brand we use there is about 2p per nappy difference between using the pull ups and the taped nappies, so not a significant difference. The pull ups have Peppa Pig on them so he doesn't fight having them on so much
Thinking some more, he does 12-14 hours in his night nappy without leaking, which is a bamboo fitted, wool cover and hemp booster. If I could figure out an affordable way to make wool work, in the day time that would probably make a huge difference, but if we use what we have with secured flats or prefolds the nappy always ends up falling down even though the wool stays where it is. Trying different wool covers is expensive and we only have 3 fitteds now. I'd need atleast 12 to use full time, not accounting for drying time and at that point it's probably cheaper to use the pulls ups until he trains. Fitteds wouldn't fix the poop issue though, but I guess it's a little easier to scrub out?
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06-04-2017, 02:58 PM | #5 |
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Re: Loosing the cloth love
You say the flat always falls down. What are you using to secure them? Pins? Snappi? I LOVED pins and used them regularly but found the snappi to get a quicker and more snug fit on a wiggly kid.
And you can make your own wool covers with felted wool sweaters if you have any or can pick some up for cheap at a thrift shop! Makes wool very affordable!
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06-04-2017, 03:08 PM | #6 |
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Re: Loosing the cloth love
We have pins and snappies. It falls down either way the snappi has the added fun that he can reach in and take it off, and usually sticks it in his mouth. I knit/crochet all our wool covers but can't justify the time investment to make more if I can't guarantee it'll work, kwim? I tried the sweater method once; the one disintegrated at the felting stage and then my dog ate the other one and I haven't had the heart to try again
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06-04-2017, 03:22 PM | #7 |
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Re: Loosing the cloth love
What about fleece covers? They aren't as hardcore as wool but may work for you and are not too spendy to make or buy.
I feel like I've seen tutorials for turning prefolds into fitteds, if you are more capable than me. |
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