Nubunz diaper review

First off I want to say I LOVE my Nubunz pocket diapers! They are the first ones I grab for and I am sad I only have 6 with one out of commission because of a broken snap. But it is getting fixed for free! I just mail it back and get reimbursed for my shipping they fix it and send it back free of charge! Great customer service!

Nubunz diapers are a compliment to the company's Sweet Doll Baby diapers which have been revised three times now. I have the first design and it is a bit bulky but I love the premium Nubunz!

Nubunz are a premium one size pocket diaper. Each diaper comes with two microfiber inserts for $9.50! That alone makes Nubunz rock! You can choose between snaps or round tab hook and loop closures. The snaps have a 3rd snap to help keep the wings up and not droop. The Nubunz are a narrower through the crotch which I LOVE because my little girl is skinny and they make the one size diaper not so bulky as so many one size diapers are.

So Pros:

GREAT price!
Narrow crotch
Lots of color options
Snaps and velcro available
Made in the USA
Has a 3rd snap to help with wing drooping!

Cons:

I like this diaper so much I don't really have anything bad to say about it!

Here is Ellie in her Nubunz with snaps on the smallest rise setting. She is about 10 lbs here. Also only one insert is inside, but two looks just as trim.

Want to start Cloth diapering?

Ok so like the last post there is another HUGE cloth diaper give away going on for the next NINE days only. The owner of Kelly's Closet is celebrating her 9th Anniversary of her store. In this celebration she is giving away NINE ONE SIZE diapers! How exciting! There are several different types of diapers in this give away so it would be a good one to win if you were going to start out cloth diapering. It would provide you with a sample of several different brands. For those veteran cloth diaper users it would give you some fun new diapers and maybe some you have wanted to try but just haven't done so or been able to justify new diapers yet. I love give aways! I just wish I would win. So please head over and check out her blog The Cloth Diaper Whisperer and you can enter to win too!

Ah, Cloth diapering Give aways!

Ok so as I have made my review on the Flip diaper system and I have pictures to do my review on the other two systems I use I have also now found myself entering giveaways on other peoples' blogs! The last can be found here. This is a give away for cloth diaper wipes! I have intentions on making a bunch from flannel recieving blankets we no longer use but with 5 kids I have yet to make it to the sewing room. One day I will get to it...maybe during nap time. I will get my reviews up on the Econobum and Nubunz diapers here this week. Maybe one day I will host my own give away!

Flip Diapers

Ok so the first cloth diapering system I have pictures of is Ellie in her Flip diaper she is about 9 lbs in this picture and 22-22.5 inches long at 3.5 months. Now I use them just with prefolds. I fold my prefolds into thirds and just lay them in the cover. I do not pin or use a snappi. I do not have the stay dry inserts. I do have the disposable inserts but have yet to use them. I don't know why I haven't used they I guess I just haven't had the desire to try them out. I got the inserts free because I ordered over $50 of stuff from Cotton Babies.

So here is what I think of the Flip covers.
What I love:
I love the stretchy tabs. The snaps are strong. The covers hold everything in, I have not had a leak yet.

What I wish was different:
I wish the legs had a bit more elastic gathering.

Now the only real complain I have is that it never fails that a messy diaper gets on the cover as well. Maybe that is the case with all diaper covers but it is a bit of a pain because you can't just wipe it out and reuse because the elastic legs are covered in cloth so you can't just wipe it off of there you have to wash the cover. Overall it is a great cover and recommend it as a one size cover to anyone looking for covers to last over a wide size range.

 

 

 

4 Month Update

 

(March 4, 2010)

Has it really been 4 months since these two were born? Somedays I have no idea where the time has gone. They have grown and changed so much! At birth Eli was 5 lbs 1.7 ounces and 17.5 inches long. He is currently 11 lbs 13 ounces and 23.5 inches long. So in 4 months he has grown 6 inches and gained 6 lbs 11 ounces! Ellie was 4 lbs 3.2 ounces and 16.5 inches at birth and is now 9 lbs 9 ounces and 22.5 inches long. So she has grown 6 inches also and gained 5 lbs 6 ounces! As you can see Eli likes to eat a bit more than Ellie, but they are both perfect and you can see they are pretty happy babies. Both of the babies coo and babble back at you when you engage them in conversation and they are reaching for and grabbing toys on their bouncy seats. Their doctor was surprised they had not been sick at all. Because being preemies they are at a much higher risk for infections especially RSV, which in the past 2 weeks he said he had sent 2 or 3 kids to Fargo for ICU care because of RSV. So even though it is warming up we still need to remember to wash our hands a lot! Overall the babies are both doing great and even sleeping through the night 95% of the time. I am once again enjoying my nights! I am also very happy to say that I have exclusively breastfed both babies and continue to nurse them, they are not ready for solids yet.

3 months old

Feb. 13, 2009 almost 3 months old!

WOW does time fly! Eli and Ellie are now 3 months old. Eli weighed 10 lbs 14.6 oz and was 23 inches long. Ellie is at 8 lbs 9.4 ounces and 21.5 inches long. Eli is a big boy and Ellie still hasn't learned the joys of eating so she grows a bit slower. Ellie is able to nurse 1-2 times a day now but still needs her milk fortified with a little formula to increase the calories. So she gets 1 tsp Enfacare formula to 6 ounces of breastmilk. She still only takes 2 ounces at a feedingn occasionally she will take 2.5-3 ounces but that is sporadic at best. I really wish she would start to eat more! Both babies are starting to sleep all night. Eli more often then Ellie but I will take what I can get at this point. Both babies are smiling a lot and have good head control. Neither of them really likes their bellies and therefore don't pick their heads up off the floor very well when placed on their bellies. Eli loves the Sleepy Wrap I have and Ellie not so much but it certainly comes in handy! We are also now a cloth diapering family! So excited about that. I wish I had more money to buy some of every kind I come across because cloth diapering is so easy these days and there are so many options out there! We were going through close to 100 diapers a week so that is about $100 dollars in 5 weeks so cloth is the way to go for us and yeah for less diapers in the landfill! They take like 100-500 years to degrade in the landfill and it is the #1 thing people put in the landfill. I do use disposables when we leave the house but at home it is cloth. It really is not that hard and I like it! I will post later about the kinds I have and pictures of the babies in them. I have more coming in the mail so I want to wait until I can review all of the different kinds before I post about the diapers.

7 weeks old and counting

Well since my last post things have calmed down considerably. I had great intenstions on using the blog to keep everyone updated on Ellie's NICU progress. But with recoverying from the c-section and running back and forth from Grand Forks and home which is about an hour and 15 min one way I was too exhausted to do anything more than had to be done.

I am pleased to say that Ellie is home. She came home Dec.6. She spent 20 days in the NICU and 2 days in a transitional room with Eli and I to see how she did in a more normal setting. During her stay she need a blood platelet transfusion, bili lights for jaundice, an isolete, and lots of dextrouse. We have trouble with her feedings to some degree. She is still not like a normal full term baby when it comes to eating. She does take about 2 ounces every 3 hours with 2 longer stretches during the night. She only wakes up once. But she is slow to eat and does not have a strong suck. Because she still tires easily and does not suck very hard she is not nursing but gets breastmilk in the bottle. This makes me a little sad as I would like both Eli and Ellie to nurse but at least she is getting the good stuff until such time as she gets stronger and decides she likes to eat like her brother. Eli was a trooper through it all as were the other three kids. It is good to be getting back into a more normal routine. Both babies will be weighed and measured tomorrow. I believe Eli will be close to 8 pounds and Ellie over 7 pounds