Ok, so after I mocked the Cloth Bum Mums for being a bit cultish and hardcore, I have of course drunk the Kool-Aid and become one of them.

The night time nappies, after a bit of trial and error are working well and we don’t have any more leaks which is great! However I then went a bit further down the rabbit hole and discovered wool wraps, instead of waterproof ones. It’s really quite fascinating and the way that they work is that if the wool is well-lanolised it will absorb liquid slowly, at the same rate that it will evaporate. Meaning that it’s never wet and much more breathable for your kid.

It sounds like witchcraft, but I bought a wool wrap, lanolised it, and sure enough it works! However the wrap I bought is basically just woolly underpants, and it’s not very effective under a onesie, so I decided to knit some “longies” that would work as pyjama bottoms as well as a wool wrap over the nappy.

I told you I had drunk the Kool Aid!

Here they are as I went along:

And voila! Of course in spite of my careful measurements and re-measurements and tension squares they have ended up being massive, but it doesn’t matter much if they are pyjamas and at least she can grown into them!

*Edit – apparently it does matter as they are basically falling off her! May have to try and shrink them in the wash…