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A busy week, nappy plans

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Since the last market and subsequent pocket nappy stocking, the Bean Sprout girls and I have been busy taking long car trips. One day trip was to Perth for passport-y admin things on Tuesday, the other was to Busselton for church camp on Saturday.

The younger of the two usually does not travel very well, but she did quite alright.

Suffice to say we are quite tired out, hence Bubba J-wise not much has been done around here.

Next week though I intend to cut out some Bubba J Hemp size 1 fitted nappies.
I might make 1-2 special ones with quilters cotton outers if I can bear to cut into my fabric stash.

I really loved the fit of these nappies on BSBubba when she was in between small/medium sizes (when I got the nappy), when she was a few months old.
She needed the fold down front for about a week before not requiring the fold down.

Now, at 11 months and 8kg, the nappy still fits like a glove on larger snap settings, albeit a little more low cut.
The size 2 seems a little looser for her but gives ample coverage over her hips.

I have some funky printed fabrics coming in the next month or so, so stay tuned for more news.

I’ll also be testing my email newsletter system, if you see some strange test messages please don’t mind me!
Hopefully it’ll all be up and running by the end of the week.

EDITTED TO ADD: Looks like another busy night last night. Had a little baby health scare at 4.30am involving unknown pain, bouts of screaming, and high temps, so I had to rush my little one to the emergency dept. She’s fine now, but I’m dead tired.

Pocket nappies now in stock

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Anatomy of a pocket nappy

Anatomy of a Bubba J pocket nappy

Last night’s pocket nappy stocking is finished.

Features (see photo above):

- Hip snaps instead of front snaps: 2 rows / 3 settings allows the adjustment of waistband and leg openings independent of each other.

- Sized S, M, L: gives a snug and trim fit for a growing baby, fits from approximately 3kg to 16kg.

- Size S pockets can fit up to 8 layers of absorbancy (bamboo) with no gaping around the legs to cause leaks.

- M & L sizes have a pocket that can fit up to 12-14 layers of absorbancy (bamboo trifolds and boosters), while still maintaining a trim fit around the crotch, and leave no gapes around the legs.

Bamboo inserts and boosters are going at low prices too ($6 & $3), until the designs are finalised.

I also have plenty of hemp fleece and microfibre terry to make more inserts in the coming month.
If you wish to use hemp or microfibre instead of bamboo, contact me and we can work something out.

Cheers

Rebecca

Next stocking: today

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Bean Sprout Toddla checking out the new prints

Bean Sprout Toddla checking out the new prints

I will be stocking 14 print PUL pocket nappies today.

They are distributed rather evenly between small, medium and large sizes, with a number of gender neutral patterns as seen on my last blog post.

woven cotton laminated with PUL makes for some fun nappies too!

Bubba J pocket nappies hanging on the line

I will be listing the inserts separately, there is a choice of a trifold or a booster.

The bamboo insert is a double layer

bamboo fleece square that can be folded into third to make 6 layers of bamboo absorbancy, while the bamboo booster is a double layer bamboo fleece strip that is added on to increase absorbancy by another 2 layers of bamboo.

Bamboo fleece trifold, to be used in Bubba J pocket nappies

Bamboo fleece insert, to be trifolded and used to stuff Bubba J pocket nappies

Bamboo booster to give an extra 2 layers of bamboo absorbancy

Bamboo booster to give an extra 2 layers of bamboo absorbancy

An average baby would probably need 7-8 layers of bamboo fleece for day time and 8-12 layers for night time, depending on how long the baby will be changed.

Newborns could get away with less absorbancy with 4-6 layers of bamboo fleece, as they tend to poo more frequently and hence be changed frequently.

If heavy gauge bamboo is too bulky for your newborn, choose hemp for trimness, or microfibre for super trimness and softness. Please note that microfibre should not touch babies skin directly as it is so absorbent, it has been said to dry out babies skin.
I will be overlocking hemp and microfibre inserts and boosters in the coming days for those who prefer these to bamboo.

Anyhow, do check out the new stock which should land in the shop by tonight (girlies are out of whack today, BSToddla not having her usual nap, and BSBubba’s nap rhythm is a bit disrupted). viagra

Market Progress – in point form

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Time has flown past, I can’t believe it will be market day in about a week! I love Bubba J and I hope others would love the nappies too. It not only fits my babies well, it is also quick to sew up and not a burden to make.

So far:
- cut out cuddlefleece outers to be made into small and medium fleece covers.
- (halfway) cut out microfleece inners to be made into small and medium fleece covers.
- figured out label & elastic placement on sewing test samples, looking really good so far.

Need to do:
- unpick old labels if using pre-cut fabric.
- cut out new fabric for pockets.

I am still waiting on some material to arrive for the pockets and fitteds. If they don’t arrive on time, I may have to launch at the market with lots of cuddlefleece & minky covers and pocket shells with limited inserts. No fitteds this market round unless I get the fabric tomorrow.

I will do my best to start posting more regularly into this blog, as the shop setup has paused: I need more content written up to continue. What better motivation to blog, ay? :)

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