nine different types

Duncan leaves Canada today for Oz. He'll lose a day in the air so to speak and he'll be back down under on Monday yay. Sometimes Eden has looked over at the computer as if wondering where his Dad is. Awww. He wasn't fabbed with me doing his bath tonight so he'll love to have that male bonding time back soon!

My Mum looked after Eden last night while I went on a girls night out to say good bye to one of our lovely ante natal friends. (Unfortunately Mum's babysitting experience wasn't as peaceful as Georgies...) I admitted to 'the girls' that I own nine different types of cloth nappy. They were a bit incredulous and probably think I'm ridiculous (or addicted to internet shopping). I prefer to call it making the mundane far more interesting. There are various ways to use various products and different things to do and change as baby gets bigger.

And as I've said before, being good to the environment and saving money is also nice (I won't mention the scraping off poo bit).

Here is the list for the record in the order of when purchased:
1) The original cloth nappy from way back with pink stripe on two sides (12)
2) Snazzipants cotton fitted nappy with velcro (my favourites) (6) NZ
with Bumis whisper pant covers (4) Canada
3) Wonderoos pocket nappies (6) USA/China
4) Prefolded nappy flats (12) NZ, with Bumis whisper wrap covers (3) Canada
5) Snazzipants hemp one size fits all fitted nappy with snappy fastening (1) NZ
6) Snazzipants quick dry hemp fitted nappy with velcro (1) NZ
7) Fuzzibunz pocket nappy (1 for now and 1 bigger) USA
8) Stuffable pocket nappy by nature babies (1) UK
9) Happy Heinys pocket nappy with velcro (1) USA

Does it count if I don't actually use no. (1) as actual nappies? Just as very handy cloths to lie the wee boy on whilst changing the other naps? I also use 4 different types of water proof covers for the different snazzipants and prefolds plus a selection of absorbent inserts for the pocket nappies.

I started off with just (2) (3) & (4) but when that wasn't enough to get by on I got (5) and (6) because they'd dry quicker being hemp. I got a couple of Fuzzibunz recently since loads of people I know use them and they were having a post Christmas type sale (I chose Snazzis over fuzzis originally because they were kiwi, worked better and were cheaper). One of my wonderoos had faulty snaps so I sent it back and bought the 'stuffable' on sale to replace it. My friend at the snazzipants.co.nz web site actually replaced it with one of her new imports - the happy heiny - very cool.

Complicated - well yes just like one of my sagas! I do enjoy mixing and matching my nappy paraphenalia but don't ask me if the snazzipants are still my favourite because I need to use my new three quite a lot yet in different experimental ways before I crown snazzis king yet again. If you are out there is cyberspace googling about nappies like I have done, feel free to leave a question or comment! A great website is the NZ Green Party website which has loads of info about cloth nappies.