nappies - help please

Hello everyone,

I want to start stocking up on some newborn nappies but not sure which brand to buy. Cna you please tell me, from your experience, which would you recommend more - Huggies, Treasures Ultra or another brand. Also how many would you use up in a day and how fast do bubs grow to begin with - I'm trying to make sure I don't stock pile too many. I live in Auckland (in case that makes a difference).

that would be about right as long as your baby wasnt big. Some newborns can only be in newborn nappies for a couple of weeks. I use giggles when they are newborn and didnt spend the money on huggies etc... because you are changing them so often at that age they dont generally pee through them. I would wait till baby is sleeping longer at night then start using the more expensive ones. Personally Im a huggies fan, Treasure dont seem absorbant enough, well they didnt for Kobe anyway.

Yer im a huggies fan alot more softer esp their new nappies!!We only used a bulk box of the newborn nappies. Ella was big when born so yeh we were in infant early.

I love Huggies over any other nappy out there that I have tried. Ultras didn't contain any of Andrew's explosions when he was a newborn. Andrew was in just Huggies for the first year of his life - apart from the trial we had with Ultras.

I have got 4 bags of Huggies newborn, a box (108) of Huggies newborn. 4 bags of Ultra newborn (i'm going to try them again - taking them to the hospital so if we have any accidents they can clean the mess up) and 4 bags of Giggles. All up I have about 300 nappies and if I don't use them all I know of someone on here due in June that will have them as a gift from me.

I am also stocking up with the next size now and have 18 bags of different ranges (Huggies, Ultras and Giggles). I also have a box of Crawlers (6-11kgs) Huggies for my little man as well.

With Huggies you can only stock pile in Newborn at the moment, as Iam sure I read that your bubs was shy at the first scan. If you wanted to stock up with the next size up then you can look at Giggles and Ultra.

But remember everyone is different - all thou most of us on here are Huggies lovers I have a few friends that hate Huggies (I have no idea why), so everyone is different.

I used about 10 a day of treasures giggles at first and we went through about 10 packets before Charlotte needed to go up to the next size.

We then moved to Huggies but found she leaked something shocking so we used Treasures Ultra. However, they are so expensive that I tried Pam's brand nappies and honestly, I can't tell the difference between them and the Treasures Ultra - they look and feel very similar and are sometimes a third of the price!

Josiah is physically a small child... he was 7lb (3.18kg) at birth, and everything other than the Huggies newborn leaked either from the back or around his legs because they were too big. He's 18mths now, and weighs about 9.5kg... Huggies have been the only ones to consistently fit him well.

On a side note, Kiya was a bit bigger (7lb 13oz/3.54kg) and I used Giggles for her right through - as a single mum, they were the best I could afford and they worked really well. When she was 3.5yo, she was daytime toilet trained but not fully night trained when she broke her arm... we put her back in nappies to make sure the cast stayed dry at night, and the hospital had a couple of Huggies nappies we could use while she was in overnight... Kiya said they felt nicer than the ones we had at home!

I saw Huggies on special at Countdown a couple of days ago.

The Warehouse also has good deals on Huggies from time to time. I think they had two packets for about $20.

I just google-d nappies nz and found those two sites:

www.nappies.co.nz

www.babyonline.co.nz

They both seem to have about 2 boxes of 100 Huggies Newborn nappies selling for around $80.00. That seems pretty good to me - what do you think?

Also are those the 'real' thing - I mean do they look like what you get from supermarkets or are the supermarket ones better? I know that sounds odd - I guess I want to make sure the stuff on the web is not old stock/previous version etc...

Isla was 8lb 6 (3.82kg) and is rapidly gaining weight, but I tried 2 sample Huggies newborn size nappies on her when she was that weight, and both times they sort of cut into her leg/thigh, like left big marks in her skin after only a short time on. The first time I felt guilty cos I thought it was me putting it on too tight so I was extra careful the second time, and took it off to check after a short time, and it had marked her skin again.
We are using Tresures Giggles in the day and Ultras at night cos they appear to have a better inner leak guard than the giggles, but are way more expensive and we dont have many. Havent tried the giggles at night yet. We havent had any probs with either of them leaking, even tho she poo's almost every nappy change, and sometimes the nappy is very full but no leaks!
Am definatley pleased we stocked up before hand, but we seem to be using soo many!! Like 12- 15 a day at the mo. We brought a few packs of the infant size (4-8kg) Huggies (old style) and I tried them on her yesterday and they fit much better than the newborn size did,..no skin marks! She weighs 4.4kg (9lb 13) today.