Our nappy company has gone bust!

[User482]

Thanks Chris, I was about to post something similar. The report you refer to was published by the Environment Agency and contained all sorts of ridiculous assumptions, including the ones you mention. I think they assumed that some people iron nappies too!

 

[Maz]

I reckon that has got to be the most environmentally friendly method. Regardless, it is definitely the cheapest. We have saved hundreds of pounds.

I tried to encourage my wife to buy terries but she was having none of it, remarking "Are you going to change the nappies?". I said "probably not most of them" and I backed down.

 

[Chris James]

wrong wrong on so many levels

For those interested in arguing the point

www.environment-agency.gov.uk/commondata/acrobat/nappies_1072099.pdf

FWIW, I think washables can be made to have a much lower 'life cycle cost' in practice due to the rather pessimistic assumptions for washables in the analysis.

Disposables cannot be made any better, other than using fewer of them.

But it does give pause for thought for those who might have a knee jerk reaction against seeing bins full of nappy sacks.

 

[Chris James]

I tried to encourage my wife to buy terries but she was having none of it, remarking "Are you going to change the nappies?". I said "probably not most of them" and I backed down.

Having changed lots of terries and also disposables, to be honest it makes little difference. Shite is shite!

You either have a bin full of stinky nappies or a washing machine full of them.

I think your crap revulsion instinct gets temporarily derailled when you have babies. Pukle on the other hand always remains unpleasant.

 

[MrGrumpy]

Our youngest (15 months) is a real nappy baby (our oldest was as well). We have a company that delivers the nappies every week and takes the dirty ones away for industrial cleaning (and sometimes it needs to be industrial. I think it is about the most environmentally friendly way of using nappies.

Anyway it seems we will have to go back to devil nappies (for a while at least) as the company is apparently going into liquidation (pun?) tomorrow.

It would appear that they weren't able to absorb the increase in costs...



Seriously though it is sad for the company employees and I hope they can find more work soon

used Real nappies with the third child, for some reason my wife went all eco and tree hugging on me. Cost aboot £200 for the nappies and stuff, used them for over a year and then realised with the amount of washing we were doing keeping supplied it was not exactly that eco really, so back to tesco`s own brand nappies which are more less Huggies but without the price increase, much better. Now however since gonna have to get into the potty training and dispense with all the mess entirly.

 

[domtyler]

The fuss, mess and extra work with terry nappies is quite extraordinary, why anyone would want to do all that to save a few quid is beyond me. Disposables are so cheap nowadays, they work out about 10p each if bought in bulk, and are also far kinder to babies skin. With terry my little one was constantly covered in red sores and rash, not to mention the extra stink. This all went when we switched over to disposables and everyone is far happier now.

 

[domtyler]

Now however since gonna have to get into the potty training and dispense with all the mess entirly.

Yeah, we're going through this joyful stage at the moment. All those cute little puddles eh?

 

[magnatom]

The fuss, mess and extra work with terry nappies is quite extraordinary, why anyone would want to do all that to save a few quid is beyond me. Disposables are so cheap nowadays, they work out about 10p each if bought in bulk, and are also far kinder to babies skin. With terry my little one was constantly covered in red sores and rash, not to mention the extra stink. This all went when we switched over to disposables and everyone is far happier now.

What, fuss? Honestly there is very little. Our first child, who I just happened to have fairly loose nappies nearly all of the time, was a real nappy kid until he stopped needing them during the day. It was dead easy, the nappies were delivered to us (so no need to buy them from the shops etc) and the dirty ones taken away. Folding them took seconds at most.

We don't have the space in the house to be drying our clothes and nappies (and I'm not buying a tumble dryer), so unless someone picks up the pieces of the failed company, then we will probably have to switch to pampers et al. I am really sad about that.

So if anyone is looking for a gap in the market, a real nappy laundry service in central Scotland, is an opportunity!

Oh, the only times we have had problems with nappy rash was when a nappy was left on too long (nursery). That got sorted quite easily.

 

[Chris James]

The fuss, mess and extra work with terry nappies is quite extraordinary, why anyone would want to do all that to save a few quid is beyond me. Disposables are so cheap nowadays, they work out about 10p each if bought in bulk, and are also far kinder to babies skin. With terry my little one was constantly covered in red sores and rash, not to mention the extra stink. This all went when we switched over to disposables and everyone is far happier now.

Care to list the extra fuss, mess and extra work? I supopse washing the nappies is extra work but then agina we don't have to buy more nappies, have repeated trips to the bin with nappy sacks etc

Funnily enough Dom, my eldest has eczema and his skin could be bad in either terries or disposables, largely depending on whether he was teething / on antibiotics etc. The type of nappy makes no difference in my experience.

Why did your daughters poohs smeel worse in terries rather than disposables? How strange!

 

[Maz]

Did any else see that documentary some time ago about a group of women in the US (and here) who never get their kids to wear nappies. Ever. From birth? They just let the kids poo and wee as and when they needed to. Yes, they had many a soiled bed and had floorboards, not carpets, throughout the house but they claimed they were potty trained significantly earlier than nappy-wearing kids.

 

[domtyler]

Come on Chris, washables are a lot of extra work, they stink when sitting around in buckets for days on end, they are messy, bad for the child's skin which has to endure wet cotton next to his or her skin for hours and are just inconvenient all round. Good for you if you are willing to endure the sacrifice, ostensibly on environmental grounds no doubt, but most people will continue to use disposables for the convenience, my family included, and Magnatom's too!!

 

[Dayvo]

rich p in the nappy thread!

 

[User482]

Come on Chris, washables are a lot of extra work, they stink when sitting around in buckets for days on end, they are messy, bad for the child's skin which has to endure wet cotton next to his or her skin for hours and are just inconvenient all round. Good for you if you are willing to endure the sacrifice, ostensibly on environmental grounds no doubt, but most people will continue to use disposables for the convenience, my family included, and Magnatom's too!!

It's curious that of all the people I know have used real nappies for their kids, you are the only person to have found them a significant problem.

 

[Dayvo]

Not having kids in nappies anymore is so good :0)

Never having kids in nappies at all is so gooder!

 

[numbnuts]

Southampton and a London university did a trial on urinary incontinence with adults using disposable and washable products, one of the washable products were a terry nappy yes just like the good old days. When the trial was over they were amazed to find that a good number liked the terry nappy against disposable ones as they said that "it felt more comfortable to wear even when wet", the down side was it was impracticable if you were going outside the house as changing would be impossible. On the cost side as incontinence products are free on the NHS it would save the tax payer quite a lot of money even if the said people were given an allowance for the washing.