So I got a few of these in the closing down sale of the UK Itti Website and I wish I'd bought more! I really like them!
Fit - 5/5
Now when I first started our cloth journey I had an Itti Tutto, and I sold it on after a few wears because I didn't like the fit. Turns out I just didn't get it. Itti's are meant to be trim fitting. They're really narrow between the legs, slim fitting so they fit nicely under trousers. The Medium on Squishy Bear fits a dream. He's a 16lb 9oz chunk with a little waist and thunder thighs so he can be quite awkward to fit, but the D'lish fits him really nicely without giving him an enormous bottom. I have also borrowed a large D'lish out of curiousity from the Nappy Library, so see how the fit was on Baby Bear. I was pleasantly surprised that he also fits well in them, despite his big bum and skinny waist.
Absorbancy 4/5
Even without the mini boosters, the D'lish last about 3 hours on SB, and bout 2.5 on BB. Impressive! I think I'm going to buy some mini boosters when they come back into stock everywhere.
Containment 4/5
Few nappies without a double gusset contain breastfed baby pooplosions. And given SB saves up a good 5 days worth before he explodes so I can only pray its in a decent nappy. And the itti isn't bad! There's no poo fence, so although nothing escapes out of the sides a small amount did a Houdini and escaped up the back and onto his vest, but it was only a tiny bit and nothing compared to some others! We've had a few pooplosions since which have been completely contained so I'm pretty impressed.
Ease of use 3/5
So stuffing isn't hard. Unless you find yellow poppers to yellow poppers and purple poppers to purple poppers hard... There's two inserts, a bamboo trifold and an hourglass one with a staydry top that lays on top. Simple. It's the putting on that gets DB. He can do poppers. Ish. But where the D'lish is so trim, you need to run your finger around the leg elastic to tuck it right into the knicker line to get a nice fit, and that's to complex for him.
Drying Time 3/5
I tumble the inserts for half an hour on high, pop them over the radiator and they're dry in a day. Lovely stuff. They will dry in about a day and a half without a drier, which is still fine!
Overall 4/5
Love them. Want more! Might not be fantastic for childcare/daddies but I love them and the prints are amazing! We have red, orange, zebra, stripes and giraffe print, and I have plans to collect many more, mwahahaha!
Thursday, 24 January 2013
Wednesday, 23 January 2013
Tots Bots Easyfit v2 Review
Okay so I figured it was time to start reviewing my vast collection of cloth... I know I'm a relative newbie, I clothed BB from 14 months, and SB from 2 weeks, but I've tried a fair few types of nappies, plus I help out at our local nappy library - does that qualify me??
Tots Bots Easyfit v2
Fit - 4/5
These fit both my long skinny toddler and my chubby baby. They're quite chunky poppered down on a diddy baby, which makes for huge bottoms but I find that quite cute ;). Admittedly, whilst they do fit BB (Who is a 30lb 21 month old) they're getting a bit tight but they still go on comfortably, and cover his tush nicely. The rise is still poppered on the smallest setting on SB (16lb 4 month old), but he's' starting to get a builder's bum so i guess it's time to change ;)
Absorbancy 3/5
So I have two heavy wetting boys. They pee like racehorses. I can get two hours out of an unboosted Easyfit on BB but for us, they are useless for naptime as he drinks milk before he sleeps and wakes up soaked. However, during the day, I tend to pop a bamboo booster in an they last three hours :). SB also gets about 2-3 hours.
Containment 5/5
Have had no issues with my Easyfits containing, the flap at the back catches the most explosive of poos, and despite the lack of a second gusset there haven't been any accidents :)
Ease of use 5/5
These get full 'dad-proof' marks. I wash all nappies, and stuff when dried, which simply consists of folding the insert in half and stuffing it in the pocket, therefore all DB has to do is velcro it onto one of the Bears. Simples.
Drying Time 3/5
Once wash I throw them in the tumble drier on low for 20 mins, naughty I know. But with two in cloth and endless loads of washing to do it's the only way I don't end up running out of nappies! Bamboo does have a longer drying time than microfibre, so hanging over my radiator airers has them dry in a day and a half-ish.
Overall 4/5
So they're not the most absorbant nappies, but they are easy to put on so brilliant for daddies/childminer/nursery, they're not bulky so they fit well under clothes and don't take up too much room in your changing bag, and they come in cute patterns! They are easy to boost too so you can adjust them to your LO's needs.
Tots Bots Easyfit v2
Fit - 4/5
These fit both my long skinny toddler and my chubby baby. They're quite chunky poppered down on a diddy baby, which makes for huge bottoms but I find that quite cute ;). Admittedly, whilst they do fit BB (Who is a 30lb 21 month old) they're getting a bit tight but they still go on comfortably, and cover his tush nicely. The rise is still poppered on the smallest setting on SB (16lb 4 month old), but he's' starting to get a builder's bum so i guess it's time to change ;)
Absorbancy 3/5
So I have two heavy wetting boys. They pee like racehorses. I can get two hours out of an unboosted Easyfit on BB but for us, they are useless for naptime as he drinks milk before he sleeps and wakes up soaked. However, during the day, I tend to pop a bamboo booster in an they last three hours :). SB also gets about 2-3 hours.
Containment 5/5
Have had no issues with my Easyfits containing, the flap at the back catches the most explosive of poos, and despite the lack of a second gusset there haven't been any accidents :)
Ease of use 5/5
These get full 'dad-proof' marks. I wash all nappies, and stuff when dried, which simply consists of folding the insert in half and stuffing it in the pocket, therefore all DB has to do is velcro it onto one of the Bears. Simples.
Drying Time 3/5
Once wash I throw them in the tumble drier on low for 20 mins, naughty I know. But with two in cloth and endless loads of washing to do it's the only way I don't end up running out of nappies! Bamboo does have a longer drying time than microfibre, so hanging over my radiator airers has them dry in a day and a half-ish.
Overall 4/5
So they're not the most absorbant nappies, but they are easy to put on so brilliant for daddies/childminer/nursery, they're not bulky so they fit well under clothes and don't take up too much room in your changing bag, and they come in cute patterns! They are easy to boost too so you can adjust them to your LO's needs.
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
Babywearing - trials and tribulations of a toddler tantrum in public
Babywearing 1 - toddler 0....
Baby bear isn't such a baby anymore. And the older he gets, the more stubborn he gets.
He wasn't impressed we had left nanny's house early to run errands so decided at the end of nanny's road he didn't want to walk. Squishy bear was snoozing in the pram ( a rare sight, he usually refuses point blank to sleep in the pram so I rarely take the double).
Mb: bb why are you stopping? Come on let's go home!
Bb: no.
Mb: come on bb...
Bb: no.
Mb: do you want to go in the pram?
Bb: NO!! Cue foot stamping, screaming etc etc
Mb: okay, let's walk then.
Bb: mummy carry?
Mb: (looks at the 30lb toddler staring back at her) erm...
Bb: carry me mummy?
Now I was wearing the wrap around my neck as a scarf as that way it does take up room in my bag, so I took it off, removed his reins, wrapping it around him and super manned him onto my back without him even dropping his biscuit. Now I was quite impressed. I can do a double hammock in my sleep but with a four month old baby, not a 21 month old toddler... He's only ever been on my back once for all of five minutes so he was quite confused and wriggled as I did the quickest ruck of my life. Once he was in place I started walking, and he was happy enough talking to passers by and shouting at birds in trees. Now it wasn't the best of carries, the seat wasn't as deep as I'd have liked it and we both had coats on so it all felt a bit loose but it held all the way home! Can honestly say carrying a child that large was much harder but the ellaroo is only cotton do with a more supportive wrap I think we would do better. I look forward to carrying him more, I think I'm going to attempt a tandem next!
Baby bear isn't such a baby anymore. And the older he gets, the more stubborn he gets.
He wasn't impressed we had left nanny's house early to run errands so decided at the end of nanny's road he didn't want to walk. Squishy bear was snoozing in the pram ( a rare sight, he usually refuses point blank to sleep in the pram so I rarely take the double).
Mb: bb why are you stopping? Come on let's go home!
Bb: no.
Mb: come on bb...
Bb: no.
Mb: do you want to go in the pram?
Bb: NO!! Cue foot stamping, screaming etc etc
Mb: okay, let's walk then.
Bb: mummy carry?
Mb: (looks at the 30lb toddler staring back at her) erm...
Bb: carry me mummy?
Now I was wearing the wrap around my neck as a scarf as that way it does take up room in my bag, so I took it off, removed his reins, wrapping it around him and super manned him onto my back without him even dropping his biscuit. Now I was quite impressed. I can do a double hammock in my sleep but with a four month old baby, not a 21 month old toddler... He's only ever been on my back once for all of five minutes so he was quite confused and wriggled as I did the quickest ruck of my life. Once he was in place I started walking, and he was happy enough talking to passers by and shouting at birds in trees. Now it wasn't the best of carries, the seat wasn't as deep as I'd have liked it and we both had coats on so it all felt a bit loose but it held all the way home! Can honestly say carrying a child that large was much harder but the ellaroo is only cotton do with a more supportive wrap I think we would do better. I look forward to carrying him more, I think I'm going to attempt a tandem next!
Saturday, 5 January 2013
So Christmas came and went in a rush of presents and E numbers.#
The kids were spoilt.
I ate too much.
There are even more toys in my tiny house.
And I am left feeling flat. There are no better words for it.
Or maybe one. Bleurgh.
And it isn't one too many quality streets that's making me feel this way. I wake up and I want to go back to bed. I don't, I get through my day in a blur of nappies, toys and baby sick. My children are played with, talked to, clean, fed, my house is immaculate, I'm getting dressed (which makes a change)...
And I still don't feel right.
*whispers*
I have a funny feeling it's a bit more than baby blues...
I cry. All the time. Not at films or TV, or when my toddler won't eat, or my baby won't sleep. But just randomly in the middle of the day. Or night. I don't want people around me, or touching me. I don't know how to fix it. I've suffered with depression in the past, but that was because my life was falling apart and I was in an unhappy relationship.
But I have two beautiful children (one is slightly insane but that's irrelevant), a wonderful partner who's trying his best to make me happy, I'm surrounded by friends and family.
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH ME?!?!?!
I keep telling myself I'm tired. Hormonal. Having a bad day. Due on.
But there comes a point when I have to admit to myself it might be more than that. I have a doctor's appointment booked. I'm hoping they're going to tell me to buck up.
The kids were spoilt.
I ate too much.
There are even more toys in my tiny house.
And I am left feeling flat. There are no better words for it.
Or maybe one. Bleurgh.
And it isn't one too many quality streets that's making me feel this way. I wake up and I want to go back to bed. I don't, I get through my day in a blur of nappies, toys and baby sick. My children are played with, talked to, clean, fed, my house is immaculate, I'm getting dressed (which makes a change)...
And I still don't feel right.
*whispers*
I have a funny feeling it's a bit more than baby blues...
I cry. All the time. Not at films or TV, or when my toddler won't eat, or my baby won't sleep. But just randomly in the middle of the day. Or night. I don't want people around me, or touching me. I don't know how to fix it. I've suffered with depression in the past, but that was because my life was falling apart and I was in an unhappy relationship.
But I have two beautiful children (one is slightly insane but that's irrelevant), a wonderful partner who's trying his best to make me happy, I'm surrounded by friends and family.
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH ME?!?!?!
I keep telling myself I'm tired. Hormonal. Having a bad day. Due on.
But there comes a point when I have to admit to myself it might be more than that. I have a doctor's appointment booked. I'm hoping they're going to tell me to buck up.
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