‘I thought that now my order has arrived I’d update you with our thoughts on the nappy!  Up till the order arrived I tended to put her in the d’lish once a day, normally if  we were going out we’d use it then. I hoped that doing this Mr D would realise that its not that scary having her in clothies.

The nappy lasted for around 4 hours before it got really hard and E herself would start to look uncomfortable in it, never once though did the outer shell get damp and my girl wees a LOT!

We also only had one leaky nappy and that was totally my fault,  hadn’t run my finger as I normally would around the legs and a little of the insert was exposed.  Dirty nappies well, they have been really well contained up to now. I didn’t get a fleece liner so I got some disposable ones instead so not even a mark on the inserts.

Everything washes up really well, dries really quickly so all in all I was looking forward to my order arriving, which it did so today was our first full day in the nappy and I’m impressed!  I have a load of washing ready to go in tonight with a bag for the inserts all ready to go. We still have 5 to keep us going tomorrow too and I am looking forward to it.

I’m not daft enough to think that we’ll never have a big leak or an exploding nappy but I’d get those with a ’sposie too so we’ll del with it and hopefully within a day or two I’ll be brave enough to do the full 24 hours instead of wimping out and putting a pampers on at night!

Mr D has taken it all on board and is happy with how the nappies have preformed, J thinks they are pretty cool and E loves them, she giggles when I show her one and sticks her legs up in the air.

 Thanks for choosing us to do the challenge, I’m really enjoying it and am definitely on the road to converting altogether!’

I’ll post further updates as I receive them, but this feedback has definitely brought a smile to my face.

Fliss A, Mum to J (18 months), currently uses 4 or 5 pampers baby active a day. ‘I always wanted to use cloth, but thought I would start with disposables so I didn’t have to worry about washing in the early days leaving me time to get to grips with motherhood in general. I tried one cloth nappy when J was approx 3 months, but it was massive & leaked (I forget the name of it) & have never really bothered again!’

Louise D, Mum to W (aged 10 weeks) ‘W is my second child and I always fancied trying reusable nappies with my first baby but I was quite scared! I’m worried about shelling out for a stack of nappies to take us up until potty training and then not getting on with them so they’re left unused. My main concern is the amount of washing involved, there’s no nappy collection scheme in our area and our washing machine is located in the outhouse so keeping on top of the normal washing is already a challenge!’

Angela B, Mum to L, (8 months) ‘I have kept to disposables purely for convenience to be honest and to try to keep the washing down, after a while I have just become dependant on them.’

Johanne G, Mum to J (13 years) and E (5 months) ‘My mum used cloth nappies with me and used to go through around 12 a day because of my skin, J is like me and I assumed Eloise would be the same. So I stuck with pampers which were fine for J. However I keep looking online as I am not as comfortable using sposies as I was with J 13 years ago.’

Helen H, Mum to J, (23 months) and I (10 weeks) ‘I did plan to use cloth but never got round to it. I even bought some second hand off online but I never figured out how they did up so they never got used!!! I also think that I envisaged so much extra washing but have found that using cheeky wipes has made no difference. J has always had quite squishy poo so I dont really fancy peeling it off either. ‘

It’s been interesting for me to hear reasons why people don’t use cloth. I’ll have a few more to update over the weekend and hopefully will be able to start posting some feedback soon.

Things are looking good already as I’ve had one person contact me to buy some extra boosters to give it a proper go, so I’m delighted that everyone is really taking the challenge on board.

I reckon I can convert at least 2 to part-time Cloth use.   What do you think?

They’re here if you want to take a look at them:

http://www.cheekywipes.com/itti-bitti-dlish-nappy

If you’re interested in taking part and sharing your experience, drop me a line to helen@cheekywipes.com and I’ll be in touch.