Nappies I made!

Heres the nappies I made .. the green one being the first attempt!! Not bad really .. I didn't have any white thread so thats hy you can see the stitching on the velcro .. the first one took a little whicle because was trying towork out the sewing machine and get it all right .. but now have figured it .. the red one took a matter of hours stopping and starting as had Chloe to see to while doing it!!! But yes .. I am quite pleased with them :) I have ordered 3 different fabrics which are waterproof and also a big lot of fleece from ebay to make some more!!! I am enjoying this nappy making thing!!!

Ready to sew ...

The nappy pieces all cut up and pinned together. 3 soaker pads which are 3 layers of towel pinned together. Will then sew the 6 pieces together .. will have to unpin the green fleece from the jersey material to sew the soaker pad to the green fleece. Pin it back together round the edges, sew round the edges leaving a top edge open to turn in the right side out. Sew the elastic where it needs to be . Turn the right way .. stitch the top .. then add the velcro when it arrives!!! Hopefully for a first attempt it will turn out ok!!! We shall see I guess ...

Making Cloth nappies ..

I have decided to have a go at making my own .. I have seen many tutorials online so thought why not!! They seem easy enough to do!!! Anyway I have the materials .. just waiting on sew on velcro to arrive from ebay. I have a sewing machine my mum gave me but it doesn't seem to work properly .. so shes bringing me hers tomorrow to borrow!! Looking forward to it!! Will make them up and then when the velcro arrives just add it to the nappy!! They will be non waterproof ones so will need a wrap with them!! So can't wait to get making!! I will be back later with pics of the mall cut out and ready to sew together!!!

My ENTIRE stash !!!

My ENTIRE nappy stash so far. We have : 18 newborn prefolds and 20 cotton bottoms wraps up to 11lbs. Then there is 21 birth to potty nappies ( 5 being wonderoos) and 1 medium fuzzibunz. 3 tots bots wraps size 2 and 2 tots bots bamboozles size 2. spare inserts (each nappy has 2 inserts so all in all there is 44 inserts and the green and white pile is my homemade fleece liners and there is 36 of those ...

Cloth nappies!!!

Heres a picture of all my cloth nappies, outers, inserts and wraps!! I will make them all up and then take a photo of my stash. I will also add the newborn prefolds to it so I take a picture of my whole stash!!! Then they can be put away til November!!!

Scan pictures!!

Here are our scan pictures to date .. the first picture is our very first scan at 13 weeks. The second and third pictures are our 20 week scan pictures :)

Another update!

Well yet again I have failed at keeping this updated!!!! I really must attempt to at least get a entry in every few nights!!!

Anyway, back with news .. am currently 22 weeks pregnant with our third baby. Baby is due 15th November but will make its appearance between 31st october and 7th November as I'm being induced at 38 weeks due to loosing our first baby at 39 weeks.

So yes, currently 22 weeks. We don't know the gender of baby due to a stubborn husband not wanting to know!!! So we are having a surprise. Pregnancy so far has been good, although the first few months I kept feeling dizzy/lightheaded but that seemed to have subsided at about 14/15 weeks. But if its hot I do still feel a bit off from time to time. Tired is a normal thing for me now .. I seem to be tired all day long but then that comes with being pregnant and running around after a 2 year old all day!

Both other kiddies are fine. Chloe is now potty trained in the day .. she has been for about 3 weeks now. Shes doing really well .. although we do have the odd accidant every now and then if shes too envolved in playing and forgets she needs the loo.

Ryan is ok ... hes been diagnosed as asthmatic so hes got inhalers to do. He has 2 puffs of one morning and night and a nasal spray (1 spray each nostil) every morning. He has another inhaler that he can take up to 4 times a day if he has a bad day with it. But luckily he hasn't had a bad day yet! He has a school trip on Monday coming (18th), they are going to Farmer Palmers.

Other than that its been pretty normal days, housework, school runs, shopping etc!!! So thats it for now!!