Baby Wipes

Oh beammeupscottie I've just had post sixties period trauma. I'd forgotten all about the small wrapped parcels shoved down the back of the fire. My French pen friend actually had towelling squares for periods which were soaked in a bucket in the cellar where the loo was. Need a strong gin. What we went through. And I just don't want to think about Nappy buckets and no washing machine. Need a double gin.

Very good point Allule
Mine were born in the 60s, memories of nappies hanging on the line freezing solid in winter.

There's been a negative correlation between ease of dealing with nappies and age of toilet training. I was born in 1940, and my mother was expected to have me trained by three months, by regular routine, and 'holding out' with water running in the background. I was horrified to learn this, but with no washing machine or drier, and no waterproof pants or bedding, it must have been worth the effort.
With my children in the seventies, I had a twin tub and plastic pants, and the accepted time for training was 'second summer', and it was so good to get rid of the nappy bucket and droopy drawers.
Nowadays disposable nappies are so neat and convenient that training is so long delayed, that I wonder if at some stage it will extend till its time for adult incontinence pads!

Why is the pass-time of choice for small kids, pulling al the wipes out of the packet? Doesn't matter what else we have to play with........our younger ones just love doing that.

I change my grandchildren in the bedroom on a mat there is no tap nearby so wet wipes are great.Wnen I trained as a Nursery Nurse in 1966 we used strips of old nappies then these were washed. No I do not want to go back to olden days!

When I was told that baby wipes (not necessarily these water only one) are good for removing marks from carpets I wondered are they really ideal, and even safe, for a baby's delicate skin. Stick to s clean flannel soaked in warm water.

Dispensing with disposables in the UK would stop almost six million nappies a day, or two billion nappies a year, ending up in landfill where they emit methane, a greenhouse gas. Nappies account for 2% of all household rubbish, and cost the council tax payer £67m a year

My daughter always used a bowl of warm water and a small towelling cloth to wipe her baby's bottom when indoors and another soft fabric one to dry her. When she was out I think she used wipes, but she may have taken cloths with her, I'm not sure. She used towelling nappies until her daughter got older when they didn't work as well and then she used pull-up nappies. It's the mountains of disposable nappies that people should be worrying about not the wipes.

I have not heard of these. I use Tesco baby wipes for the family my gd is 16 now. We use them for lots of things in the bathroom. We also used them for stains on clothes, removing makeup etc. Very useful.

I still have the top and tail bowl that i used with white flannels for their hands and face,cream ones for just wee and patterned flannels for pooh.

A posh version of the wet flannel in a plastic bag. Brilliant!

She only uses them for face and hands.

www.cheekywipes.com

My daughter has recently moved to reusable wipes. They are small squares of Terry towelling and they come with two boxes, one is for clean wipes which are kept damp and the other has a soaking solution for the wipes to go in as they are used. They are called Cheeky Wipes.

Water wipes are brilliant! You are not always near a supply of water and cottonwool (which compresses into nothing anyway) when changing a baby. They don't contain the chemicals which the old wipes had and are a boon for mums and grandmums on the move. I like them so much that I keep a packet in my car now for my own sticky fingers or other purposes.

I use wet flannel and cloth nappies on my GC, just as their mums do. The machine washes, not me.

Love the Cheekywipes link Karen. The logical next step!

If mums are set on using wipes for their babies midwives recommend these water wipes as they are chemical free and less drying on baby's sensitive skin. I also use them as hygiene wipes as I have a skin condition called lichen sclerosis and these are much gentler on damaged skin. I buy 4 packets at a time and they last for ages although admittedly I'm not needing my nappy changed 5 or 6 times a day! I suppose I could faff about with water and cloths but life is too short. Have noticed a lot less irritation since swapping these for regular wipes.

Also useful if you're at music festivals or on "basic" campsites where showers are unavailable/inadequate

Direne3 , I still have a pair of wooden tongs hanging in the garage. Why I saved them, heavens only knows, thought might come in handy, but they haven't been used since we got rid of the boiler type washer 50 odd years ago. Anyone got a handy hint for using them?

In these days of closing public loos & therefore no access to taps, wipes are invaluable on days out for all ages!

Having had 3 children under 5 I would have loved disposable nappies,don't blame mums of today using them and baby wipes. Draw the line at "water only wipes" though. I always carried the damp flannel, nowadays I carry a packet of baby wipes in my bag as I find them useful for all sorts of things

I used Milton to sterilize the bottles and next day the same Milton was used in the nappy bucket.

Beammeupscottie YUK! not very hygienic to re-use st as they could set up an infection.

I remember napisan and also the stuff we used to put in the steriliser. We thought we were doing the best for our children (I tried breast feeding but it was not enough for my 9lb 5oz baby) but all those chemicals we used make me shudder now.

Don't know what went wrong with the strikethroughs there but trust you get my meaning.