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Well I made 6 double sided fleece/towelling ones (new fleece, old towel!) sewing machine was not playing the game so they are not perfect, but I'm sure her bottom doesn't mind! Am considering just cutting up another load from plain fleece as that will be fine for wees (and saves annoying the sewing machine again!), then the towelling/fleece ones can do for poos.

Thanks for the solution ideas. Just used water so far but she is already well impressed by her new wipes and asks for them instead of baby wipes

I love my fleecey washable baby wipes far more than I love terry flannels as they dry so quickly after washing but also because they are super soft on the tiniest bottom and pretty too and get lots of nice comments when used out and about.

The ones we have are from an eBayer. I wrote a piece about why washable baby wipes are so much nicer than disposable shop bought ones.

http://www.becomingdomestic.co.uk/2008/ ... aby-wipes/

We always had old T-shirts, holey boxer shorts and stuff lying about, and we had convivial evenings together tearing them into squares and putting them in a jar. When the aromas made themselves felt, we put a little warm water in a special dish and dipped the squares of material in them. We threw the squares away after use.

This was a very effective system, and I'd recommend it to anyone. No need for complicating things with anything other than tap water.

hmm was going to ask about this so glad the thread is already here! so when you say 'fleece', are we talking you know like the brushed polyester fleece they use for blankets and stuff? sooo soft! was thinking could use an old ice-cream box to store them in too!

Technical point: Softness is not an especially useful characteristic when it comes to cleaning dirt off things, advertising to the contrary notwithstanding. Since the things used for wiping babies are not in prolonged contact with their skin, softness is not a requirement.

Yes we were talking about the soft fleece used for blankets etc, its lovely and soft but the reason I used towelling on the reverse is because it is more absorbant and much better at removing sticky poo......

Rod in Japan wrote:softness is not a requirement.

Why do I feel a newborn bum might disagree with that?!

I had to buy some disposable wipes, on the packed it says cloth wipes, so i put them in the machine and they come out perfectly fine I have reused them several times now and they still seem to be OK.

I did that when I had a brief phase of buying disposable make-up remover wipes - it know it sounds unforgivable but I had my reasons at the time! The stuff they're made from seems absolutely indestructible so I'll be using them as wipes for Brian until they fall apart - eventually.

MrsD'ville mkII wrote:

Rod in Japan wrote:softness is not a requirement.

Why do I feel a newborn bum might disagree with that?!

Advertising, I should think.

Nobody's recommending you use sandpaper, but for most of human history, newborn bums haven't been 'pampered', and yet they've managed to stay softly bum-like into people's 80's.

And, as a metrafect, abrasion within reason is frequently used as a means of keeping skin soft.

Anybody who actually tries getting sticky poo off with something fluffy will soon find themselves applying the extra force required to counteract the fluffiness...

(This is all making me feel quite nostalgic. I'm now tutoring on squeezing spots.)