Anyone using Terry Nappies

My dd bought a load of those (2nd hand) for her 3rd baby, Rubysong but sadly didn’t find them absorbent or ‘containing’ enough after about 6 months.

With 2 older dcs she had a lot of washing anyway, so the extra nappy load - plus the reusable wipes - was another negative. She does wish they’d worked out better, though.

As regards standard terry nappies, I had to use two together for dd1 at night from only about 12 months - and they were still sodden in the morning. She must have been a particularly wet baby!

I am also proud of your DC for making the effort rubysong!
They definitely do have 2nd hand value and look smart.
I am still of the opinion that a baby in a soggy nappy wants to be out of them asap whereas if in a permanently dry state cocooned in plastic foam of the not disposables, they have little incentive to be potty trained. 4 yr olds in nappies - I ask you!

Disposable nappies are primarily made of a plastic outer layer, a “core” and a protective top layer: The core is composed of absorbent cellulose fibre and a water-absorbent polymer which acts as a gelling agent (to solidify liquids), while the outer layer is made up of fabric-like plastic that’s comfortable against the skin and cheap to produce.

My DGS has been mostly in washable nappies. They are all in one with colourful waterproof covers and poppers or velcro to fasten. I am very proud of his parents for using them. Once they are no longer needed they will have value second hand. Yes, they do have to have liners to keep them from staining, anfpd they also have booster pads inside them for added absorbancy.

Mogsmaw

The new style reusable nappies are fab, here is my ‘line when my DGD was staying.

Those indeed, with a liner for solids. Brilliant.

BlueBelle

No I prefer my hilegged Asda specials ??

Bluebelle ?

I used them for my DC but when disposables were first introduced I used them when we went camping.
Terrible things - like large sanitary towels, with a kind of tie-in plastic cover.
They just didn't work.
My DD bought shaped bamboo nappies for DGS but they took ages to dry.

Disposables are so easy, but need to be disposed of as clinical waste and dealt with accordingly.

No I prefer my hilegged Asda specials ??

Blue Sky the thing is nappies once were disposable as they were paper but if you throw away a pampers type nappy now it won't bio degrade in our lifetimes or our DGC lifetime

Each day in the UK alone, eight million disposable nappies are thrown away and sent to landfill where they take up to 500 years to degrade. Here they emit harmful greenhouse gases in the form of methane, which contributes to climate change.

I can’t believe people want to use terry nappies again! When my children were little there was nothing else, or at least we couldn’t afford disposables, and we had no washing machine, no drier, only a coal fire. Not so bad in the summer but a nightmare in the winter!

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The new style reusable nappies are fab, here is my ‘line when my DGD was staying.

I gave terry nappies to all 4 DC when their babies were born.
I asked first because it was an investment. Only one family used them all the time and they live in NZ where sunny and windy days mean they dry in minutes. The Scottish ones despaired when they had washing draped over radiators..
Some used them at night only.
I have no regrets at all. I used disposables sometimes too.
Real nappies are so attractive these days
www.bambinomio.co.uk/

My DD wanted to use them with my first GD but she lived in a flat with no outside space so bought biodegradable disposable ones but she did use reusable Terry wipes. You soak them in a tub in Milton and then wash on a 60 in the washer then you soak them in another tub in essential oil they smell lovely. She’s due to have another baby in five weeks and is considering Terry nappies and definately re using her Terry wipes. She’s moved into a spacious house with a garden now. I remember having a line full of snowy white nappies when mine were babies.