cloth & meconium

So to follow on from my last question regarding the use of cloth nappies from birth...for those of you who did, how did you deal with the meconium?

I asked my MW this morning and she told me that it gets through nappy liners, and can completely ruin cloth nappies :-(

Maybe I will just have to suck it up and use disposables for first couple of days, but would be interested in hearing what others have done.

For the first few weeks Jody didn't have the bottom to hold onto her pocket nappies so we used flats. Had no problems with them. Personally I wouldn't use any 'good' MCNs in the first few days. If you are worried about keeping bubba's bottom dry you could cut up some microfleece liners to use in a flat nappy.

We used hosp nappies for the first day and that took care of all the meconium. But working with animals I often get meconium all over my clothes picking up newborn lambs and calves. I don't wear my best clothes, but it washes off after a couple of washes.

My bub did'nt fit MCN until a few weeks old anyway, so I used snappied prefolds until she did.

A snappi is used instead of pins, it's way easier. The prefold is wrapped around the baby and snappied into place, rather than just being folded into 3 and laid in the cover. It makes it much better for catching everything, and keeps the liner cleaner too.

I'm crap at links but there was a recent thread by mum2mac about leaking prefolds where weegee posted a picture of the snappi being used.

You can buy them at baby factory, but I could never get them to work with my flats! Couldn't get the little claws into the fabric. Would work well with terry (towelling) nappies.

THe Snazzipants website has a good eg of how the snappis work.

I was going to post the link to that thread, but the pic and link I posted was to the snazzipants website anyway so you've already seen it now

summerlamb - snappis don't work with flannel flats (eg the ones with the red stripe) but they do work with terry flats (the ones more like towelling material)

squoggs, to answer your original question, I'm planning to use microfleece liners if we have to (meconium doesn't last for long, so hopefully it will all be on the hospital's nappies) - it would get through disposable liners but I think microfleece ones would do the trick (and inexpensive so we can throw them out if we have to, although I expect a couple of days in the sun would fix them).