extra protection over minkies

do any of u wear anything protective over your minki's like wool to help keep dry? Or do u find that they are pretty good on their own? Susannah

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Do you mean a slinki / standard minki? As they have a waterproof layer, we don't use anything else; they're fine on their own.

We don't use anything over our Minky pockets either.

WTS

Just to add, a pocket nappy is only as good as the inserts you use, and I find that I have to pack our slinki minki with bamboo and hemp to last the night - I do sometimes worry that I'm sending my LO to sleep on a brick

again WSS

We use a wn bamboo trifold and a big weed in Jaks

What they all said. But.....
Minkis generally are fleece with PUL inside (the best ones are anyway, in my opinion), you can get minkee with PUL too, but they aren't as good. On one or two very exceptional nights I've changed Rhys come morning and the nappy has wicked slightly (you can only tell by really trying to feel for it), but with being fleece it evaporates off so the slight wicking doesn't affect the performance of the nappy at all....does that make sense? I suppose that if you had a REALLY mega-wetter you could put an extra fleece wrap over the top, but honestly, we find them so reliable that, for us at least, there's really no need.

We stuff with a prefold and an EP hemp, or more recently, an IKEA näckten towel and an EP hemp.

thanks. We have a few pockets that we have used at night, but i have always been paranoid that they will leak! We have had a few leaks, thats why i have gone 4 some standard minki's!

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Yep Minkis are good on their own, well stuffed. We do sometimes put longies over the top but just as pj's really not to add protection, although it would work