Pins, plastic pants and leaks???? Not with Real Nappies!

Why we started Real Nappies

“You are so lucky nowadays you don’t have to use those awful cloth diapers, pins and plastic overpants!”  That was the comment of my mom when I told her I was pregnant.  Then 7 years later here we are with the largest Cloth Diaper Company in New Zealand.  So why did we make this decision, and not only make the decision to use cloth but to start up a company and become so passionate about it that here we are today launching into the USA. 

Well actually I blame my husband….

…yes my husband was the one who once read a little article about the chemical content in disposables and simply dropped into conversation one day that he would not be using disposables on our baby.  Well news to me I thought!  OK, I said thinking back to the warnings of plastic pants from my mum!  Newborns are hard enough without worrying about leaky diapers!

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5 minutes a day is all it takes to use Real Nappies cloth diapers!

Using Real Nappies Cloth Diapers equates to an extra 5 minutes a day.  How do we work that one out?  Well based on our recommend quantity of diapers (as seen in our Birth to Potty Pack), we suggest the following:

Contents:

24 diapers (for Newborn, Infant stage) reducing to 18 crawler and 12 toddler

5/6 wraps for each of the 4 stages.

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