Bambino Mio - Reuseable Nappies (Bambino Mio Pure Cotton Nappies)

Member Name: Biffa

Product:	Bambino Mio Pure Cotton Nappies
Date:	27/08/01 (2929 review reads)
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Advantages: Save environment, Possibly save money, Reuseable

Disadvantages: Expensive to buy at first, Not practical, Need frequent changing

When we were expecting our first child (now aged 2 1/2 yrs), I convinced my husband that reuseable nappies were the way to go. I didn't like the idea of dispoables - too expensive; use too many resources (a cup and a half of oil per nappy apparently) and spent years decaying in land fill sites.

So £180 later I had a complete set of Bambino Nappies. How excellent I thought. With the added benefit of being able to use them for future children as well. Marvellous idea.

And they were for the first 12 weeks of her life. I didn't mind having buckets of nappie soloution around the house, I was saving the environment and money as well. I didn't mind having to change them every hour to keep her nice and dry.

At night times, because she slept through the night at an early age, I used disposables. Then, when we went out for the day, I found myself using disposables as well.

The final death-knoll sounded for the reuseables when I went back to work when my daughter was 12 weeks old. As she went to a nursery 3 days a week, we had to use more disposables. Then, when she went to my sister-in-laws for the other 2 days, we had to use dispoables.

Eventually they ended up in a storage box, more than half of them never used.

So what do you get for the money? We bought a complete pack - 18 small prefold inners, 24 large prefold inners and a variety of outer covers in varying sizes from newborn to large (35lbs). The inserts simply fold inhalf to create the inside of the nappy which you then put into the outer cover - waterproof and with elasticated legs. They fasten by velcro and poppers.

It's a brilliant idea that I would have loved to have gone on with for longer, but circumstances were against us. They are now the most expensive nursery cloths I've ever bought - the inserts that we had used and washed (!) became good burping cloths.

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