Cloth Nappy Review
Brand/business:
Itty Bitty Bums
Business info:
A Victorian based WAHM owned business, all IBB nappies are
currently sewn by the business owner to her own patterns.
Nappy reviewed:
IBB cotton
outer pocket nappies (Designer Pocket Nappies)
Where you can find it:
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ittybittybums.com.au?fref=ts
Website: http://www.ittybittybums.com.au/
Price (RRP at time of review):
$29.00
Size:
OSFM
Style:
Designer Pocket Nappy
Baby's details:
Gender: Female
Age: 18mo
Height: 85cm
Weight: 10kg
Build: slim, tall
Jodi's review:
Initial thoughts:
I love IBBs, I was lucky and
selected as one of the testers for these nappies while IBBs perfected their
pocket pattern. Today I have a super cute bright blue care bears print pocket in my
hands. The cotton used is a good quality fabric, feels thick and strong, PUL
appears to be strong too, nice and thick, not crunchy and visibly well laminated. The inside microchamois is very soft
and snowy white. Nappy has 4 rise settings in the front and is front snapping
with 3 snaps to avoid wing droopage. The snaps are colour co-ordinated to the
cotton print, mine are blue . Inside the pocket nappies have a bamboo
doubler and a microfire trifold booster. The pocket opening is at the back.
After use:
Now let’s start by saying –
I have not encountered many cotton outter nappies that we haven’t had a wicking
problem with (wicking is when liquid (wee) travels across the fibres of a
fabric – basically the outside of the nappy ends up wet) and the first few
times Pie wore this nappy the outside got wet which I was so disapointed by cos I just love it BUT I was finding the absorbent
layers were completely soaked (dripping) when I took it off so I put on my thinking cap and thought “Hmm, maybe these nappies are
getting flooded rather than it being a wicking problem.” So I added an extra
booster and low and behold – crisis averted.
Now don’t let that scare you
off – Miss 18mo has to have an extra layer of absorbency in all her nappies
these days – her b*cheeks have a bamboo or microfiber 3 layer insert squished
in with the double fold bamboo insert, we use 2 long fold over inserts with
snapped in boosters in her itti bittis and her CCs have a thick 3 layer
microfibre insert (or 2!) plus 3-4 layers of bamboo minimum in them (and
I’m not talking those microfleece inner bamboo outer inserts, these are heavy duty, 3
or 4 layers of bamboo, take 2 days to dry, ready to handle the 20 yr floods
type inserts.) Luckily, my daughter was not ‘blessed’ with my giant booty and
her slim frame can handle the extra junk in her MCN trunk. But like I said, she
isn’t a normal wetter these days (but if your child is a bit like Pie then you
can pick up heavy wetter inserts at Itty Bitty Bums too – just click
here)
So anyway, once we got the
right level of absorbency for princess piddle pants (she will kill me if she
ever reads this blog!) we were in action. That’s when we got our next prolem –
apparently the soft fluffy feel on microchamois against Pie’s cute little
tushie sends a trigger straight to her bowels and I don’t need to tell you what
comes next! It’s making it rather hard to get some really decent photos of her
running around in this nappy for you all to see it in action. But I do have a
few and will add some more if she is ever in it long enough to allow me to get
the camera out ;)
The fit is really nice and would fit most newborns
(unlike a lot of OSFM) – it says 3-20kg on their website and I think that
sounds about right. Miss 10kg wears it on the large rise setting and the medium
to large (depending how big her lunch was ;) tummy settings so there is plenty
of room to grow for her and would fit a much bigger toddler. When it’s snapped
to its smallest settings it makes my uterus skip a beat (similar to the affect
tiny baby hats and booties and 00000 onesies have on a girl ;) The leg and
waist elastic are a good fit too so we never have any thigh fall outs. The multiple rise adjustments make it really easy to get a good fit for just about any bubba's shape.
Photos:
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| A side view |
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| A quick back view as my model escapes into her castle! |
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| Visiting Zink MacRabbit |
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| Adorable care bear butt! |
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I will add more photo's
(and better ones!)
when I can keep her in the nappy
and poop free for long enough!
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| Back view! |
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Side view of the fit (you can see her
cute little 'bum knees' too) |
