Comments on: Me and Bowie. Ch-ch-ch-changes….

By: seepi

seepi — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:31:29 +0000

Moltex are good,but expensive, and on the thin side. I could only get them mail order. We find Eco-bots the best (from Coles) but who knows how Eco they really are. Coles Own Eco nappies are very thin, and separate inside if you keep them kicking around in a napy bag for months.

By: Rae

Rae — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:00:01 +0000

Damn me, hitting enter when I meant to hit caps lock to unlock. Anyway… start again…

Hazzah! Welcome to the world of baby-in-my-life-and-i sleep. Gotta love it.

By: Rae

Rae — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:58:58 +0000

HAZZAH!!

By: b:p

b:p — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:49:05 +0000

@ Karen - I have heard that from people my mum’s age - that babies used to toilet train earlier because they didn’t like feeling wet in those white square cloth nappies. I hope to start introducing Small Z to the potty as soon as she learns to sit up, just to get her acquainted with it.

@J OH MY GOD YOU COMMENTED HERE! YOU FILTHY LURKER! And you KNOW how to make me feel BAD! I wish we WERE seeing you this weekend as planned. No moneyo maximo stupido
I bought some Safeties last night as Small Z and I did an unplanned stay at my mum’s as the traffic was too bad to get home. Mega leak in the middle of the night - on mum’s bed!! Not impressed. Will keep eye out for MOLTEX (even though that sounds like some brand of cat fur remover).

@ Seepi - half and half is better than nothing! I have found it’s really saved me a lot of time. All those nights I spent composing the most absorbent night nappies that I could - SIX of them a night. ARGH!

By: seepi

seepi — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:06:29 +0000

We are eco by day and disposable by night too!

Although to be honest now we are disposable for going out, and on daycare days, so we are probably down to half and half.

Every bit counts I reckon.

And the more of us that buy Eco disposables the better they will get too.

By: J

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:58:10 +0000

Special guest comment from ‘J’ - she who always snoops but makes not a murmur on these pages…
YES - the sleep thing is weird. Now that I sleep better (from my crazy mental insomnia interspersed with baby feeding) I have to DRAAAG my sorry arse out of bed to feed little ‘M’ once. Somehow makes the rythymn of the two hourly feeds in the early days seem easier(?) Now that adrenaline is not my constant friend - I am TIRED.
After much research MOLTEX might be the best (eco) nappies (SAFETIES have stopped production, and are under investigation for their 100% biodegradeable claims). SHOPHOUSE (online) is the cheapest place I’ve found (so far). Happy sleeping Chickie! - Oh you’ll be here in a few days, so I can confer in person - right?

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:41:25 +0000

I have to admit that when I had my kids it was really before the enviromental awareness that we have today. I think from reading various blogs that possibly Australia is a bit ahead of the game when compared to Canada as well.

I started off using cloth diapers (ill-made ones) and converted to disposables. By the time the last baby was born the science of disposables had improved so much with their moisture absorbing ablility that I literally had to take my son out of them at three years of age and put him into cloth pants to toilet train him because wearing the disposables was no hardship to him and he never felt wet.

Glad you got some sleep time and I hope it continues