How often do you change your cloth nappy?

I have recently become a convert to MCN's but am not liking having to change my 8 month girl sometimes every hour, more often every 2 hours!! I only have a small supply at the moment and have been trialing baby first and pea pods, needless to say i'm not impressed with either as unless i change often i just get leaks and then its a whole other load of clothes in the wash!

BUT.... i have done some further research (that is reading all the cloth nappy OHbaby forums and have fallen in love with itti bitti's so I plan on buying some of the d'lish SIO's next. If anyone uses itti's or any other CN how often do you have to change? I hate my baby going for a nap with a wet nappy on so at this stage i put a clean one on her for a nap, then change again when she gets up and then during that awake time i'll change at least once again (and these days shes only up for 2 -3 hours!) Do i sound crazy or what? I really am against going back to disposables but man they did hold a tonne more. Strange for someone who isn't having the best CN experience to be addicted and wanting to carry on eh!! What are everyones thoughts?

Also girls if disposable liners are flushable does anyone think wipes are flushable as well? I'm on town supply. Cool, thanks and look forward to the chats :)

wipes generally arent flushable - except maybe the wiggles ones that are more for toilet training... the nappy will last longer if it has more to absorb the wees. so if you only have one peapod insert in the nappy then no it wont hold much.

We often only change when she gets up from a sleep. We'll check her nappy before she goes down for a sleep but will only change it if it's wet to touch (usually aren't, we use flushable liners and they stay dry) or if it's dirty. Often when she's awake she has no nappy on anyway, so usually the fresh nappy goes on just before we put her down for a sleep.
So we are only going through about 6 nappies a day at the mo. Even when she was littler it wasn't that many - maybe 8 to 10, with a nappy change overnight when she was still waking for feeds.
We do go through lots of flat nappies when she's on the floor with nappy off though!

I used to have to change at least every 2 hours or we'd get leaks but as DS has gotten older and having less bottles I can go 2-3 hours, sometimes a bit longer in the afternoon if I'm lucky as he's probably not drinking as much. I think now that he's super active and barely sits still it helps as when he was small and spent a lot of time sitting or laying we had loads of leaks and I nearly gave up on cloth.

When he was on 2-3 naps I'd usually change before and after naps and in between if necessary (eg poos).

I don't use AIOs anymore but I bought boosters and always used those and it made a big difference. Might be worth getting some of those to add into your SIOs too just to make them last a bit longer.

I think peapods need to be washed quite a few times to get maximum absorbency? I've only got one and I mainly use it as a short time at home nappy as I never found it worked or fit as well as itti bittis.

I change my 16 month olds roughly every 3 hours or less if I see he has done a poo.

also usually change just before we go out even if I put him in a clean nappy only an hour before hand

Ive been using the babyfirst brand and they work great. when she goes down for her naps (and nights if shes had poos in day) ill use disp since they hold more. Theres a service you can use that takes the nappies and recycles them into a sort of compost i think it is. It costs but i dont think that much really. Its all iv heard about it when i move to a proper house ill fully be doing that if iv the mulla.

OMG!
I'm a newbie on here & would like to convert from disposables to MCN. I have a few Itti Bittis to trial that I've had for awhile & too freaked out to try. Recommended by a few people who use them. I'm determine to use as I would like to save some moolah for our household.

I shall read on in this thread. Very informative & great tips

Thanks so much for the info whitewave