Cloth pull up review: WomButts

Brand/business:
WomButts
 
Business info:

WomButts is a Victorian based Modern Cloth Nappy (MCN) business specialising in cloth pull-up style nappies.

Nappy reviewed:
Medium sized pull-up nappy

Where you can find it:
WomButts is very new and only on facebook right now or via email
http://www.facebook.com/WomButts
wombutts@hotmail.com.au

Price (RRP at time of review):

Ranging from $18-$22 (sm-Xl)

During February members of MCN Lovers R Us can pick up their very own WombButts pull up nappy for $25 inlcuding post - great was to try them out :-)

Size:
Sm, M, L, XL - we tried out a M

Style:
WAHM made pull up style, sized MCN, available in a range of standard colours or made using custom fabrics for additional cost.

Baby's details:
Gender: Female
Age: 23mo
Height: 90cm 
Weight: 12kg
Build: slim, tall

Jodi's review:

Initial thoughts:

Well made nappy that appears easy to use, elastic sides are fairly stretchy to make pulling up or down easier.

After use:
These nappies are a generous sized nappy - the medium fit Piper well on the tighter setting and the rise was quite high (which is usually where we have troubles with nappy sizing as she is tall). There were super simple to use and basically consist of a long pocket with elastic wings on the sides. You fold up the insert to meet ur requirements, stuff it in and snap the sides on so its ready to go. Piper generally is happy to lay flat for changes but there were good when she wanted to sit on the potty as I'd just pull them down without any adjustments and as the don't have a front wing there was no wing droopage when trying to pull them back up. They would be great for wriggly bubs who just don't want to lay still for changes and of course for beginning to toilet train.
The absorbency is good, 1 rectangular double layered bamboo insert is provided and you can fold it long or short ways - 3 or 4 times to get the absorbency where you require it. We've had it in circulation for a few weeks and haven't had any leaks.

Photos:

Our red WomButt

Inside view with arms folded over - back and front elastic,
leg elastic right to the arms which are elasticated too.

Side view and the label

The insert is thick and generously sized

Little Miss wriggling around on the change mat

Side view of the fit

Side view on the WomButts model

Butt view - nice trim fit (picture from WomButts)

Front view on the WomButts
model

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Cloth Nappy Review: Itty Bitty Bums Designer Pockets

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:

A side view

A quick back view as my model escapes into her castle!

Visiting Zink MacRabbit

Adorable care bear butt!

I will add more photo's
(and better ones!)
when I can keep her in the nappy
and poop free for long enough!

Back view!

Side view of the fit (you can see her
cute little 'bum knees' too)