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I am expecting a baby in August. I wanted to know if any of you used Motherease right away with a newborn. if so, how did you deal with the diapers before the umbilical stump fell off. are you able to roll the tops of the diapers down the way that they recommend until it falls off? Was the meconium harder to get out of the diapers than the breastfed poop?
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| What we did is use disposables at the hospital and cloth as soon as we left. We managed to get it out of the way of the umbilical cord. As for meconium, he was done before we left the hospital, if not we would have used disposable liners to try and protect the diapers. I think meconium stains. |
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| I'm due at the beginning of August as well with our first and have been wondering the same thing. After talking with a friend who cloth diapers she recommended using disposables for the first few days so you don't worry about ruining your cloth diapers and also so you don't have any extra laundry right off the hop that may discourage you from continuing with cloth diapering. (Unless you have lots of help with that kind of thing then you may want to just use a disposable liner) |
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| I did cloth from Day 1, in the hospital. The meconium did not stain, and I didn't wash for 2 days, until I got home. I didn't use Mother-ease though as I didn't have any Sandys in newborn. Mine were small, and we started using them at about 5 weeks, so I don't know how they would fit on a just born newborn with a cord stump. I used Kissaluvs because they had the snap down umbilical dip. |
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My son is currently 10 days old, and I put him in cloth at 4 days (I think  ). He was 7 lb 9 oz at birth and the xsm sandy's work great. I'm using a mix of xsm sandy's, kissaluvs, bamboozles, and nb swaddlebees. So far the xsm sandy's and the swaddlebees have been my favorite, although the others work great too. If you are using ME's airflow covers, the xsm fits a newborn great, but I've been using my smalls too, and they work just as well, they just come up a little higher around the waist, so they cover the belly button, whereas the xsms don't. I know some people use the sm sandy's right away - for me I prefer less bulk on such a tiny person, but that's just personal preference. Same goes for the OS.
I never had any issues with the meconium... |
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| Just wanted to add, kissaluvs and swaddlebees snap down for the umbilical cord, but even without that I've found the xsm sandy's fit under the stump it hasn't been an issue. Also the bamboo is quite a bit trimmer than the cotton. |
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| I wish I had known the XS Sandys didn't come up to the belly button, I went with Kissaluvs because of the snap-down. It's too bad there are not pics on the website of the diapers on babies in each size. |
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Ya, I tried a little bit of everything, but I think if I was to do it over again I would go with the bamboo xsm sandy's. I just tried one yesterday, and it is such a trim fit! I love it. If only I had more than one...  |
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| I just wanted to add that I used both the XS Sandy's and the OS from day 3 on my 7 pound newborn without any problem. I don't remember exactly how the OS fitted, but we managed to use it before the stump fell, no problem... |
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| For small babes, no cloth could be better than prefolds or flats. You get a customized fit (easy to avoid the umbilicus), easy to wash and dry, they are so inexpensive, and you will probably find many uses for them throughout your cloth diapering years - and after. More practical than investing in Xsmall fitteds. Rikki wraps work especially well with prefolds. |
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Ah, this is all true and when I was expecting twins I even bought some newborn sized prefolds since there was a possibility that even the x-smalls would be big at first if they were particularly small. I used them for about 2-3 days when the girls were born (at normal singleton weights so no issues with them being very small) and very quickly put them aside in favor of the x-smalls Sandy's and size 0 Kissaluvs that I had, even if they were actually slightly bulkier. Fwiw, I prefered the Sandy's (over the Kissaluvs) even if they didn't have the dip for the cord, the fabric was much softer, less dense & stiff and I just found myself reaching for the Sandy's first all the time.
While everything the previous poster said is totally true and definetly something to consider, I found that the poop leaking onto the cover all the time got really old really fast. It never leaked past the cover but with no elastic and soft breastfed baby poop, it was pretty much inevitable that it got on the cover. Perhaps I would have been more patient with it had I only had one child, but with twins and two older kids I just didn't have the patience for changing covers every second change nor for the hand washing I would have had to do in order to have enough covers clean/dry all the time. That said, there are some folds that apparently help lessen this but it requires experimentation and there's no guarantee it'll work. Definetly no harm in getting a dozen or two to use either exclusively or in addition to fitteds like the x-small but personally I wouldn't be without my x-smalls as long as I could afford them.
The umbilical cord was never a problem for us but then my kids all tend to lose it quickly and easily anyway. Meconium I handled by using two disposable liners placed in such a way as to totally cover the whole diaper. But then I remember with my second him having a huge poopslosion on the way home from the hospital (in a disposable of course!) and having meconium all over his clothing and it all washed out fine. I would recomend a liner of some sort just in case but most babes pass much of it in the first couple of days when you're likely to be in the hospital anyway.
Karen. |
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I had an 8lbs. baby boy and used the XS Sandys. They still pushed up against his umbilical stump and the AFcover would sometimes cover it, but it seemed to work fine. His stump took almost a month to fall off and I would've hated to be in sposies the whole time! That said, I did wait until he was about a week old before we started with cloth. We used the sposies in the hospital and with the challenges of breastfeeding, I went for one "new" thing at a time until I felt comfortable and ready to add another. I've loved the XS Sandys, though at 10 weeks he's about grown out of them, but the OS don't look nearly so monstrous anymore, either.
Good luck! |
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| I just wanted to add that on my now 2 week old son, he can thoroughly saturate an xsm sandy's if he goes more than a couple hours between diaper changes, so I've already switched to using the small sandy's at night. I'm still using the xsms during the day cuz they fit fine, but at night we need the extra absorbancy. |
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| I have been using the xsmall since the beginning. The one thing that I found helped with the wetness at night was to put in a stay dry liner. They are really thin, so they don't add to the bulk. I love how soft the diapers are and how well they fit. I have 18 and wash every night |
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| The stay dry liner makes sense. I only have 3 xsmalls so only using them during the day hasn't really been that big of an issue cuz by night I've already used them. |
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I used ME prefolds for my first child and xs sandys for my second and third, all from day one. The meconium did not stain. (The only things that's stained so far has been beets)
Our midwife had recommended we use disposables until the meconium was done and it's the only advice she gave that I'm thrilled I ignored. I hadn't changed many diapers before our first child and I don't know that my hubby had even SEEN a diaper changed let alone done it himself, So we were both learned to change diapers using the type we wanted to stick with. |
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Hi. My baby was one hour old and 6.5 lbs. when I put a BumGenius one size on him. The nurses brought out a disposable and my husband told them that we brought our own diapers. The doctor really liked our diapers. Cloth diapering is not common where we live in the midwest.
The dirty diapers were taken back home and when we arrived home later with baby, I washed them. They never stained. I have many pictures of him as a newborn in his cloth diapers. I now use cotton and bamboo fitteds with wool covers and ME Ariflows at the age of 20 months. If we ever are blessed with another, I will again use cloth diapers only right from birth! |
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| I also plan on putting cloth on right from the start. I am a nurse and hate using the adult diapers at work. I was wondering about using them in the hospital at the start until one day at work I had one of the disposables break open and go everywhere. Then and there I decided to use cloth from the start. No one in my family is supportive of our decision, but some of my friends are. The way I see it, they don't have to wash them! Everyone enjoy your fluff this week! |
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| My mom spent two weeks with us after our baby was born. She certainly wasn't supportive at first, she wanted to help so she figured she WOULD have to wash our diapers. On day 3 she changed her tune, she was soooo impressed that we didn't have a single blowout and were able to keep the same pajamas on our baby for a whole day without it getting dirty! And seeing the diapers helped too, she was picturing in her mind the old style that she used with us, with safety pins and all. |
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| Just wanted to add that after velcroing the XS rikki cover, I folded the cover down until DS' stump fell off. |
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