Run before you can walk? Who says?

[ailbhe]

Walking has lost its thrall. Running is the new project. It works well until the goal is in sight; once she's a body-length from the goal, she throws herself forwards. She has not yet hit her chin smartly on the goal as she goes down, but I feel sure it's a matter of time.

She dislikes being laughed at for throwing a temper tantrum, but I thought both of us crying might be unproductive. I viciously took a receipt away from her. I am a Bad Mother. Her Real Parents wouldn't have done that. I bet she's really a princess. Or a fairy baby and stolen by Gypsies and we bought her from a wicked witch. Because later on, as well as having taken a receipt away from her, I changed her nappy. Which is in the Geneva Convention, you know, right there next to genocide and putting hot things under the fingernails of prisoners of war.

Whatever she had, it wasn't thrush, unless thrush vanishes overnight with a few applications of lanolin cream. We've sterilised her nappies anyway; they're all drying very whitely now. Now to deal with the disposable-nappy irritation... at least it doesn't cause her as much pain.

It really looks like we need to wake at about 3 am for a nappy change; she gets one in a disposable because she always cries when her disposable is wet, but cloth nappies don't bother her so she sleeps very wetly unless she wakes for a feed. I strongly suspect that that 3-hour wet period in the night is what caused the chapping in the first place. Suggestions from cloth nappy users very welcome; we're already using two cotton bottoms and a polyester insert for extra absorbency. As to disposables - neither Huggies nor Pampers can take the water-weight reliably without getting soaked enough to leave crystals on her skin. We haven't had vouchers for any other disposables so we haven't tried any.

Comments

[tiggsybabes.livejournal.com]

I've only ever used disposables so far & my favourite is Nature Boy & Girl (or Nature Girl as it was when Kate used them) They don't have a plastic lining like most disposables & are partly biodegradable. I've only seen them for sale in Sainsburys & Waitrose so we use Pampers otherwise as we get tokens & Asda sell them.

[griffen.livejournal.com]

I viciously took a receipt away from her. I am a Bad Mother. Her Real Parents wouldn't have done that. I bet she's really a princess. Or a fairy baby and stolen by Gypsies and we bought her from a wicked witch. Because later on, as well as having taken a receipt away from her, I changed her nappy. Which is in the Geneva Convention, you know, right there next to genocide and putting hot things under the fingernails of prisoners of war.

This is crying out to be put in metaquotes.

[ailbhe]

Well, did you?

[griffen.livejournal.com]

I was waiting for your permission. :)

[ailbhe]

Permed. I'm a sucker for flattery. Do you read lniamh?

[griffen.livejournal.com]

Didn't know about it. *investigates it* Oooo! *adds!*

[griffen.livejournal.com]

You're metaquotes'ed, btw: http://www.livejournal.com/community/metaquotes/2625023.html

[k425.livejournal.com]

Have you tried Moltex dispos?
http://www.smilechild.co.uk/products/products2.asp?prodid=738 for free sample of 4, but you pay postage.

We've been really impressed with them, and YB has worn them during bouts of thrush and overnight. We are dreadful parents because he wears his night nappy for nearly 12 hours.

At nights we either use a Kushies with a booster or a Moltex. If he feels damp at any point we change him but it's not so common these days since he isn't feeding so madly at night now.

[supermouse.livejournal.com]

I viciously took a receipt away from her. I am a Bad Mother. Her Real Parents wouldn't have done that.

Beautiful. Just beautiful.
I hav this next week off. Can I come and bother you? I don't think I have anything infectious. I have nothing useful to say on the subject of nappies.

[ailbhe]

Sounds great! Tuesday particularly; Rob is in Brighton until 10 pm so it will be a long, lonely day for me. When suits you?

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

Are you using the Rilly Expensive Pampers? Those are the only ones that don't leave crystals on Xander. Cruisers.

[ailbhe]

I don't know; we use very few disposables generally, and we tend to try to buy the ones that say they are for Very Active babies. All the disposables we've had so far struck me as really expensive.

A.