Been 3 days, and ready to give up!

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We've been doing cloth nappies during the day, and I've had enough already! I've had to change her clothes 3 times today due to leaks, they are so huge that none of her clothes fit over her bum, and she just looks so uncomfortable! I wonder, actually, if they are affecting her sleep with the leaks, she hasn't slept longer than 2 hours since we started using them, and now that I've given up for today she's still going 3+hrs later... it's so hard knowing! We actually can't afford to buy disposables all the time, so I need to figure this out.

We've been using a million types of nappies to try and figure it out. I have a HEAP of the cloth flats and covers, a few bitti-d'lish that seem to work ok, and a whole heap of varying types second or third hand from my SIL. I try and have things fitting as closely as possible, but how do you make things tight without cutting the poor baby in half? Sadly, we can't afford to buy more cloth nappies either, so we have to work with what we've got.

Any suggestions? Please help!

Yeah and three weeks old is a pretty teeny baby! We didnt start with clothes until Issy was about 12 weeks (so a little more chunky).

we also didn't start cloth until about 3 months, but i also second that too-tight clothes can cause wicking of moisture out of the nappy. To be fair, we got leaking from even disposables when Natalie was really little - nothing can contain those newborn poo-splosions!

Hiya,
I put Amelie in fuzzibunz and bumgenius nappies when she was 12 weeks old. I tried when she was really little but they pee & poo so much it wasn't fun for anyone! If the inserts are old they sometimes don't retain the moisture as well - perhaps you could make your own new inserts for the covers? I also found clothes like overalls were better than trousers as they aren't so hugging to the waist etc. Amelie is almost 2 and prefers her nappies to disposables so will be using them again when no.2 arrives - but will wait till it gets over the constant poos!
Stick with it, as it definitely saves you money!

I had Joel in cloth at 8 days with no leaks...but only during the day when we were at home. Once he got a bit bigger it was all the time but just started out slow. At the beginning we used home made polarfleece covers with real nappies inserts. they were the only ones that fit inside the nappy covers. Once he got bigger we used th next size (good on mum for making me heaps of different sizes) with my microfibre inserts and bamboo boosters. Now hes mainly in ittis during the day and berry plush for nights. Only time we have leaks is if I have left him too long or the carseat straps are pushing against his too wet nap and it pushes it out.

I would try her in cloth once she is a lil more "chunky" We were going to put Caden in cloth from newborn but he had such skinny legs I thought nahhh no way is that gonna work, so we used huggies.
We have actually only just started him full time in cloth, we use the baby cheeks from baby factory etc and they are fab. My nana got us 12 of them so we could start fulltime cloth, we have had hardly any leaks with these.

I think when they are teeny wee newborns, the MCN's are just too big for them...

ETA-Caden wears a sposie at night cos I cnat be bothered with cloth at night lol, and we use homebrand, $5 a pack, nice and cheap!!! Huggies etc are just too expensive now.

Edited by Sheza

Hey kiwivic - can you use your stripping recipe on pocket nappies i.e. fuzzibunz? I was going to buy some more inserts and see whether they held more but perhaps 2 year old nappies just need stripping???

Stripping doesn't alays work I found out.....I stripped a huge pile of nappies my sister gave me, took all day, and they are still the same to the point i'm not using them as they smell so bad. Did kiwivics way and it was pretty much a waste of a day!