240 nappies too many?

Stevegeraghty

Excuse my ignorance as I'm not sure how fast a baby grows, are 240 #2 pampers per month too many or am I kidding myself to think I'll get more than the weekend of them !!
Cheers
New dad with shallow pockets:(

jlm29

Stevegeraghty wrote: »

Excuse my ignorance as I'm not sure how fast a baby grows, are 240 #2 pampers per month too many or am I kidding myself to think I'll get more than the weekend of them !!
Cheers
New dad with shallow pockets:(

I wouldn't buy that many small nappies unless it's a very small baby. They grow at an awful rate!

mfceiling

That's plenty OP. Don't go mad with "stuff". Newborns basically need food and sleep and that's it. Tesco nappies are cheaper and do the exact same job... (my experience at the time).

Armchair Andy

6 to 8 nappies a day gives you 30 to 40 days worth. Might be feasible if your baby is at the smaller scale on that time frame. I'd buy them if he or she was..

ted1

Stevegeraghty wrote: »

Excuse my ignorance as I'm not sure how fast a baby grows, are 240 #2 pampers per month too many or am I kidding myself to think I'll get more than the weekend of them !!
Cheers
New dad with shallow pockets:(

For the first year it's about 6 or 7 a day.
Newborns maybe a bit more, shouldn't need size 2 for the first month or three

Stevegeraghty

I was looking at Amazon suscribe and save, works out at 8p a nappy

ted1

Stevegeraghty wrote: »

I was looking at Amazon suscribe and save, works out at 8p a nappy

Aldi nappies are great, highly recommend them. Tesco own brand are good too.

jlm29

I second Aldi. I found every single pampers nappy leaked for the first little while, so I switched. That's the other reason I wouldn't over buy. Different shapes suit different bums. Pampers aren't necessarily the best!

colm_mcm

I found the Aldi and Lidl ones great. Tesco or Dunnes not so much.

implausible

If wait until I knew what brand suited baby best. Sizes can be different for different brands and a nappy that leaks on one baby could be perfect on another.

Same if you're using formula, wait until you see what suits the baby.

pwurple

New dad with shallow pockets, consider the cloth nappy library. We used cloth on our second little lady for hippy reasons, but it's way cheaper as well as less landfill. The modern cloth nappies are nothing like the oldfashioned ones. Very high tech... loads of types.

http://www.clothnappylibrary.ie/

mirrorwall14

I'm a bargain hunter. Don't stockpile too many of any one size particularly size 1/2. 240 is probably enough of any one size. If its a boy/full term baby they could be out of them very fast. Our lad got into 4's by 5 months and things slowed down then.

I buy 1 or 2 months supply if its a great deal but buy it in his current and the next size up too. 99% of the time if you get caught on the hop the next size will fit anyways so you are covered. Currently I have size 5 aldi, size 6 pampers pull ups and size 6+ pampers baby dry. All of them fit him currently.

Stevegeraghty

Thanks folks

Moonbeam

We always found size 3 the safest size if you want to buy alot .
The only nappies that we found consistently good were Boots own brand .(4 kids)
One of them was allergic to something in Aldi and Lidl nappies and was left with extreme nappy rash but #4 could use them no bother .

jester77

Stevegeraghty wrote: »

I was looking at Amazon suscribe and save, works out at 8p a nappy

Yip, this and if you become a prime member and join amazon family you can get even bigger savings. Plus you can stop a delivery for a month if you have too many nappies and can change size at any time.

rainbow kirby

I wouldn't get 240 size 2 - my little lad was in size 3 by 8 weeks. I'd probably stock up more on size 3 or 4 if the deal was right.