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What's your worst cloth nappy buy and why?

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MissFrodo
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Re: What's your worst cloth nappy buy and why?

Postby MissFrodo » Wed Nov 25, 2009 1:31 pm

The Bambinex one size wrap.......impossible fit for my daugther. And so far that;s the only thing that really doesn't work...

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Re: What's your worst cloth nappy buy and why?

Postby cazza1982_123 » Thu Dec 10, 2009 7:32 pm

Hmmmmm my worst buy was probably my fluffles, not that they were bad nappies but they were huge and I couldn't fit my LO in clothes when he was wearing them!

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Re: What's your worst cloth nappy buy and why?

Postby mamarozi » Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:46 am

Easy Peasy Harmony hemp nappy. Once again...what were they thinking, when making that one??? The fit is terrible!!! Not a BTP, no way!!! Just putting in an extra row of poppers does not make a nappy a BTP one! I tried really hard to make them fit on my 4 months old-no success :x :x :x . Too big, too small, wing droop... And they look awful! Can hardly imagine a worse buy!
I feel like I threw my money away. I try to think, that maybe they will fit in few months time, but they would still be considered my worse buy!

Reading some of your worst buys I remembered another one. Wonderoo one size one. Disaster. Does not fit my 4 months old either, Looks terrible on her and it leaks. It waits in the deepest and darkest drawer with the EP Harmony ones for bigger times, when I will not have to try and make them fit on any other then the biggest setting.

BTP my ass! :x :x

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Re: What's your worst cloth nappy buy and why?

Postby purplehearts » Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:52 pm

I've been pretty happy with most of my cloth nappy buys - I did a lot of research and read loads about nappies on forums like this one.
I was really tempted by some of the BTP packs you can get at first - I knew the general consensus was to wait until you've tried a nappy before you spend a fortune and that it's best to build up a collection gradually but I was impatient and loved the idea of getting a huge big bundle of nappies in the post!
I'm really glad I waited and bought gradually now because I have a collection of nappies that work really well for us. Also because I bought preloved, and gradually, I've got lots of gorgeous nappies in my stash that I couldn't have afforded new/a BTP pack of.
Soo... my worst buy...
Probably a Wonderoo - the first nappy that I tried that I really hated. It's a terrible fit on my son - it gapes terribly at the legs which causes leaking and wicking, and is really bulky between the legs. I totally agree with the above post - there is no way this is a BTP nappy! It's huge and bulky on my 20 month old. It also looks really untidy poppered down to the smaller sizes.
Wonderoo inserts are pretty good though and I use them in other nappies.
Funnily enough, the BTP pack I was most tempted by was one containing Wonderoos - and of the many many nappies I've tried it's the only one I really can't get on with so it's lucky I didn't make an expensive mistake!
Now, this could def not be considered a 'worst buy' as such, but I was a bit disappointed with Wee Notions one size nappies. They're not a good fit on my DS - when they're adequetely stuffed they gape pretty badly. Hopefully they'll be a better fit in a few month's time. Shame because I love the fit of the WeeNotions side snaps, and their new style NNs are fab.
Another nappy that deserves a mention here is a Palm & Pond one. I got it as part of a pack from Ebay - I can't really complain because it was super cheap and had some decent nappies in it too - but this is truly an apalling nappy - completely and totally unabsorbant, pee just goes straight through it. It's like sticking your baby in a pair of cotton knickers. It's now been given away as a doll's nappy - I seriously couldn't sell it or even give it away for use as a baby nappy!

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Re: What's your worst cloth nappy buy and why?

Postby nabroc » Wed Jan 20, 2010 9:38 am

Worst nappy buy for us was the kushie....I've never had a nappy leak like that one did, absolutely soaked everytime, if I wanted to keep DS dry he needed changing every hour. :nono:

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Re: What's your worst cloth nappy buy and why?

Postby Miss_Purple » Sat Feb 06, 2010 12:27 am

My worst mistake was trialling nappies for 2 weeks and then going mad and buying loads of the ones I thought I liked best.
I imported Happy Heinys from America because I wanted them in colours that I couldn't find in this country. I have used them a bit, but they tend to leak after about 2 hours so I'm trying to sell them at the moment, though no-one is interested :-(. I also bought 6 Tots Bots easyfit as I loved the idea of bamboo AIOs but they have never worked on DD so they are also for sale now.

I wish I had known to look for pre-loved nappies when I first started - in the last couple of weeks I have bought some gorgeos WNSS and Itti Bittis - they are great and no more expensive than my other nappies that I bought new - and you can't tell the difference between the pre-loved stuff and the stuff I've had from new.

My best buy apart from that is my Nature Babies bamboo loveables - I use these at night and have never had a leak in them, even after 14 hours. I bought them direct from the manufacturer on ebay and they were only £5 each, but they work like a much more expensive nappy :-)

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Re: What's your worst cloth nappy buy and why?

Postby purpleduck » Thu Feb 11, 2010 12:48 pm

Worst nappy so far was the Tots Bots pocket tot. Just leaked within an our. A friend's goign to try them though to see if it's just E's shape or if they do just suck.
(Funnily other Tots Bots are my best nappies though!)

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Re: What's your worst cloth nappy buy and why?

Postby shoogah01 » Thu Feb 11, 2010 1:05 pm

got to be Bambino mio's, we bought the birth to potty set :oops: it started off bad for the newborn size since we could not get the prefolds to fit inside without a lot of creative folding, they gott better with the medium size then went back to bad again, plus every time DH put them on they would leak everywhere :x
Now we have none left since I moved on to fitteds, wool, fleece and pockets :wine:

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Re: What's your worst cloth nappy buy and why?

Postby abigail_71 » Sun Feb 21, 2010 10:19 pm

Well, I'm still quite new to cloth but really like bumgenius flip stay drys, itti bitti aio and bumgenius v3.

terrible fit - motherease one size, reckon they'd fit me better than my LO.

Still got a bambinex teddy, greenkids and tots bots to try out.....I hope the greenkids minkys are good cos I've gone to town a bit on those....waiting for the postman..... :waiting:

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