That’s not going to be his real name. But Caleb has decided that we’re calling our baby Chuck, so who am I to deny him a nickname for his baby sibling?

So anyway, I thought I’d list my nappy stash and tell you a bit about what I’m planning to do for this baby. I’ve made everything on this list myself.

Flat terry squares – about 16 of them. I just went to count them and was sure I was missing a couple, but there are one or two in the wash from cleaning up messes around the house.
Prefolds – six newborn sized ones made from bamboo fleece/flannelette. The nice thing about these is when Chuck outgrows them, I can use them as boosters in other nappies. I’ve never used prefolds before so this will be new for me!
Fitteds – I have three one-size which should fit from a young age all the way up to a three year old. Or at least they still fit Caleb when he was three.
Pockets – Oh, I have a heap of these! They’re my favourite. I dug out two of the first pockets I ever made for Caleb – they look a bit dodgy but they’ll work as backups when we run out of everything else. I also have three medium pocket nappies that I made for Caleb when he was about four months old. They’ll come in handy later down the track. And I have about six other small pocket nappies to use fairly straight away, and a larger pocket that was my first experience with a side-snapping nappy. Plus one ‘patchwork’ pocket that I just made last week out of PUL scraps. We’ll have to wait & see how it works with all the seams through the PUL.
All-in-ones – at the moment I just have one, a small one with a butterfly print.
Wipes – about 20 cloth wipes, some hemp/flannelette and some bamboo/flannelette.
Woolies – I’ve knitted two small wool soakers (shorties) and a pair of larger longies. These will be to use over the prefolds, fitteds, and terry squares.
Wet bags – Just today I made two enormous wet bags with loops to hang on a door handle. They should hold about two days worth of nappies, and then we can dump the whole lot in the washing machine. No smelly bucket to maintain! I still need to make a couple of ‘going out’ wet bags for the nappy bag, though I do still have the ones we used for Caleb. They’re just delaminated.

We also have three Snappis and two pairs of traditional nappy pins.

So that’s the stash. And our change table is an old wooden table that Darrin’s mum gave us a few months before Caleb was born, and what do you know, it was the perfect size for a change table. So we’re using it again. We only ever folded up a giant beach towel to put down on it for padding. I always meant to get a ‘proper’ change table pad, but never got around to it. The towel works fine anyway.

Our nappy storage area is just a spare shelf from a secondhand wooden bookcase on top of a portable folding bed, wedged up against the bathroom wall by the change table. The terry squares are folded and stored in a hanging nappy stacker, which at the moment is in the bedroom, but I may move it into the bathroom later.

This is by no means the end of the stash. I know I’ll add to it as the months pass. But I think we’re off to a good start.