Thought I’d let you know about our super special Cyber Monday Deal on our Birth to Potty Pack runs out today!

This is a great chance to get your hands on New Zealand’s favorite cloth diaper - Real Nappies, at a fantastic price.

Our Birth to Potty Pack is only $389 at the moment – that’s all the cloth diapers you’ll ever need guaranteed for 2 kids.  This is by far the best value pack of cloth diapers on the market!

Our 6 packs of Diaper Covers are only $39.99 and our Diaper Liners 6 packs are only 34.99.

Check out our Specials right here.

All the best!

Just a quick post to let you all know how Real Nappies has been doing over the last 12 months or so.

The US is proving to be an amazing place for our humble cloth diaper!  We are growing by the month.  Each month over the last 12 has been better than the last.

You guys are awesome when it comes to your choice of diaper.  Well, we think so anyway!

Please check out our latest review.

Take care and happy diapering!

We’d already made our minds up that we wanted to use cotton, as this is the friendliest fabric next to your baby’s skin.  So now we only had to decide on what we would use to hold this cotton nappy in place.

We found the material that we wanted to use for the cover – PUL which is waterproof and breathable but we were unsure of how to fasten this cover together.

The pins seemed too risky, didn’t want to puncture any precious skin!  The poppers were too fiddley – when a wriggling baby is in front of you, you just need something that sticks quickly.

We came to the conclusion Velcro worked the best – it was easy to stick and unstuck, but stayed stuck when needed.  This is one of the reasons we chose Real Nappies.  So now we had the best material next to our baby’s skin and a very convenient cover to hold that diaper in place.

This was someone who has a busy schedule and is certainly not a mom that is tied to the washing machine washing diapers.  She’s a perfect candidate for disposable diapers, but she gave cloth a go and was pleasantly surprised at just how easy she found them.

What were her findings?

Link through here and watch Natali’s experiences with cloth diapers.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7131550n

So which diapers are Real Nappies?

Real Nappies cloth diapers are a wrap and prefold system similar to the first diaper shown on CNET. They have a 100% cotton diaper, which is separate to the cover.  This makes life SOOOOO much easier, as come diaper change time you simply take out the wet diaper and pop in a dry one.

You keep the same diaper cover on bubs until it gets wet or smelly!

This means less washing, less drying and less cost!

Help I’m so confused!

Natali mentioned that the cloth diaper choices available to new parents are so overwhelming, that many parents just don’t even go there.  I understand that and can totally relate to it!  I know pretty much every cloth diaper out there and when I go online I still get totally confused, Arrrggghhh!

Our solution?

Well this is where the Real Nappies Birth to Potty Pack really comes into it’s own, no more confusing questions like:

What do I need? How many cloth diapers shall I buy?  Which is the best system for me?

Our Birth to Potty Pack is your one-stop solution in a box – everything you will ever need to diaper your baby from Birth up until Potty Trained, all in one box!

How do you know it’s the best system for you?

Put simply, because you, the customer tell us we are the best!  You love our customer service, the quality of our products, the price, the simplicity and that Real Nappies actually work!

PLUS, We are a New Zealand company and are:

• NZ’s #1 cloth diaper system,
• The hospital’s choice of diaper to use in Maternity,
• Used in Daycare Centres

By the way did I also mention we are the ONLY cloth diaper company that gives a 2-child guarantee on our diapers??  We must truly trust in the quality of our products to do that!

Need I say more?  Check us out and discover why Real Nappies cloth diapers will soon become your favourite cloth diaper too.

As a new Mum I was keen to provide my baby with the healthiest most natural start in life but found that often this idealist ‘green’ approach was hard to maintain as our lives are much busier than that of our grandmothers who never had to take baby out in the car etc   so when a friend lent me the ‘snug wrap’ to try I was sceptical that I could keep it up as I had failed with the pins and diaper pants before.  However after two days I was on line and purchased my first set.

The system is as easy to use as disposable diaper and I found I didn’t have to change any more than I did before, I have subsequently had three more children and apart from a couple of new wraps for my forth have used the same ones.

The things I like so much are:

1)     Not having to buy disposable diapers! (apart from the odd pair if we go away as it’s a bit of a pain to take cloth diapers away)

2)     Far more natural to surround babies sensitive skin with cotton than plastic which contains phthalates

3)     Better for the very generation that we are nurturing, they will not thank us when they have to deal with the contamination of our ground and water when they are in their 20’s because we were too lazy to wash a few diapers

4)     Don’t have to feel bad if you change them and they do another poo straight away!  How many times do you throw a barely used diaper in the trash?

6)     No tricky folding, pins, washing instructions, soaking……………………………you just put them in a bucket and do a load of whites every couple of days.  They dry so fast that you can almost use the wraps straight out of the machine.

Sonia E.

Thanks so much for that great review Sonia!!

Well it’s simple really:

1.     Second to none Customer Service. Our Customer Service Team are AWESOME!  They truly are amazing.  Best of all they believe in the product.  All the people on our team use Real Nappies cloth diapers, whether on their own kids, friend’s kids or their grandchildren.  So yes, we know what we are talking about when you ask us a question, and yes, we do use them ourselves!

2.     2-Child Guarantee. That’s right we guarantee our products through 2 of your children*.  So if your Velcro no longer sticks, or your stitching on your diaper cover is coming undone, we replace it (Terms and Conditions do apply).  Do you know of any other reusable diaper that offers this fantastic guarantee?

3.  Real Nappies Work. Well put simply, Real Nappies do what they say they do!  Real Nappies Cloth Diapers do not leak when used properly, Real Nappies prevent diaper rash, save the environment and save you a whole heap of money to boot: so why wouldn’t you use them and stick with them?

3.     Excellent Quality. Well for starters there is no way we could offer such a fantastic 2-child guarantee if our products weren’t top notch quality.  We have scouered the globe for the best quality products we can buy.  Our cotton cloth diapers have the ‘Okeo-tex certification’ and are made of the best Indian Cotton money can buy, our diaper wraps and cotton cloth diapers are used in Day Care Centers and Hospitals in New Zealand, and our flushable, biodegradable diaper bioliners are sold by the truck load to customers around the globe.  We’ve been in the cloth diaper market for over 7 years now and we pass on these years of experience to you, we’ve saved you the hassle of searching for the best cloth diaper system on the market:

Congratulations: you’ve found them…. Welcome to REAL NAPPIES.

One of our happy customers wrote a great review on Amazon, so good we thought you may like to read some of it, so we’ve put it into a list of reasons to use Real Nappies, for the full review check it out at Amazon!

1.  Other uses for Real Nappies:

‘I ordered the birth to potty pack because this system had the best reviews.  I went to pack away the newborn diapers, when I realized I can use the smaller diapers as a “catch pad”/bib for breastfeeding. I’m currently on the Infant size and I’m using the Crawlers and Toddler sizes as tummy-time drool mats, drool mats for naptime, lap pads, and as changing pad liners. The use as changing pad liner was an epiphany after reading so many bad reviews for changing pad systems that required special liners that ultimately end up rolling and bunching in the wash. I received some name-brand washable lap pads as a gift, and they were really small and only lasted two washes before falling apart because they’re just two pieces of felt glued together; what a waste! These Real Nappies have turned into so much more than just diapers, and this set really is everything you need to diaper your baby!’

2.  Easy to clean:

‘I use Charlie’s Soap and Haven’t had any staining or odor issues yet.’

3.  Know when your baby needs changing:

‘When you feel the diaper, there’s never any question if it’s wet, versus with disposables we’re always poking the diaper over and over again to figure out if that’s the reason baby’s crying.’

4. Nappy Rash?  What’s that!

‘When my baby was sick and having diarrhea, we went 48 hours in disposables, and in that short amount of time he got diaper rash. When we switched back to the nappies, the rash went away. We’ve never had to use diaper cream (why add more chemicals to your baby’s life?).’

5. Excellent Quality.

‘These cloth diapers have far better workmanship than other prefolds out there.  The sewing is tidier and doesn’t unravel. For the diaper covers, I love that the fabric is soft and there’s no exposed PUL (other companies have an exposed polyurethane liner, almost like pizza parlor tablecloth, and it tends to get sweatier).’

and another reviewer:
‘I have had the whole gamut of issues with previous diapers that I have tried, and these are far superior in function, at a fraction of the cost. Add to that a two child use guarantee out of your diapers and you really can’t go wrong.’

6. Slim Fit diapers.

‘I wanted a few extra inserts so I bought some prefolds and covers from other companies for comparison. I found that the Real Nappies are a little narrower in the crotch so baby’s legs can be closer together (how is baby supposed to crawl with a huge diaper in the way?) so I joke that they are European cut.’

7. Quicker Potty Training

‘People have told me the cloth diapers will make potty training easier because baby will know when the diaper is wet, versus with super absorbent diapers, babies tend to sit around in them for longer periods of time.’

8. Who needs Gussets?

‘I was initially concerned at the lack of leg gussets, but have been pleased and relieved to find that they function perfectly without them. I think perhaps with some of the thinner inserts out there, the leg gussets become more necessary. But, as these are meant to fit firmly against baby, that doesn’t pose a problem with these and I have not had leaking issues’

9. Save money too!

‘I never planned to “go green” but after trying these diapers, I can see how easy it is to make my household healthier by reducing the amount of chemicals and trying to choose greener products. While the initial investment is upfront, in the long run, I will spend less on diapering my baby.’

And the conclusion: ‘I love these diapers.’

Well what more can we say, other than there are many many other reasons to use Real Nappies but this is from just one of our happy purchasers!

There’s many more reviews on Amazon and on the Real Nappies USA site, so check us out and don’t forget to give us a thumbs up if you like what you read!

It’s the same these days with poppers – when your baby isn’t being the perfect model for you at diaper change time it’s a very fiddly job to find the right hole to pop, believe me I’ve been there!  Although let’s face it poppers are far less dangerous than pins! 

Moving on to Velcro – this has to be the simplest and most practical way to go.  There is no danger of puncturing your baby, you don’t have to search for the right hole to pop and Velcro is far more adjustable – with our Velcro tabs you can even fasten one on top of the other if you need to make that fit extra snug, plus don’t forget the Real Nappies two child guarantee – so they last and last!

So there you have it, this is why we use Velcro fasteners.  So from that question to another – Why would you use anything else?

Velcro Fastener - Easy to stick and adjust!

1) I am a dad and

2) I certainly “did diapers”.  In fact not only did I do diapers but I did Real Nappies re-usable diapers!

By using Real Nappies I can feel proud I gave my kids the best start in life when it came to diapers.  The reason we (my wife and I) chose re-usable diapers was because of health.  My wife read an article relating to heat build up in what we could call not so natural diapers, so from that moment on we decided that cotton was the way to go.  Cotton is the least likeliest fabric to irritate baby’s skin plus as we know is also breathable, I guess this is why the majority of underwear is made from cotton.

We all have our own agenda, for us it was health, for some it’s saving money and for some it’s saving the planet.  Whichever yours is you won’t find a better diaper to suit than Real Nappies!

New Zealand parents will be amongst the first in the world to have mainstream supermarket access to modern reusable cloth diapers, thanks to New Zealand company Real Nappies and major national supermarket operator Progressive Enterprises.

From next week consumers will be able to use their wallet power to reduce landfill waste by buying reusable cotton diaper packs from major supermarket chains Foodtown, Woolworths and Countdown throughout New Zealand.

This is in response to a groundswell of consumer demand as parents recognize that modern cloth diapers are a mainstream, cost-effective choice which are easier and more convenient than ever to use, as well as having other benefits.

All over the world parents recognise that cloth diapers offer economic and environmental advantages over disposable diapers, which have come to symbolise landfill waste. But until now parents needed to buy cloth diapers from specialist baby care and eco-friendly stores.

Around 10 million disposable diapers are used in New Zealand every week. In households with a baby disposable diapers make up to 50 percent of the household’s total waste – and disposable diapers take up to 500 years to break down. Parents typically change a baby’s diaper at least 4,000 times by the child’s second birthday, which means about a ton of disposable diapers in landfills for every child. And disposable diapers cost around $3,000 more than reusable cloth diapers per child. (Source: Zero Waste New Zealand Trust.)

Gone are the days where using cloth diapers meant laborious washing, complicated folds and pins. Real Nappies new generation cloth diapers have velcro-like fasteners, prefolded cotton diapers and flushable biodegradable diaper liners that make them very easy to use. These innovations are all based on feedback from parents.

“Customers say that we’ve understood what matters to parents,” says Liz Mole, Managing Director, Real Nappies.

“It’s significant and commendable that New Zealand parents can now buy cloth diapers as part of the weekly shop,” says Kath Dewar, sustainability marketing expert, KD Consulting. “The easier manufacturers and retailers of sustainable products make it for consumers to buy their products, the more likely they are to succeed. Reusable products, like these cloth diaper packs, need to become as mainstream and available as disposable products are today. In time, throw-away products will become as socially unacceptable as littering.”

“Now that cloth diapers will be available at supermarkets it’s really simple for parents to purchase exactly what they need, with the Real Nappies Cloth Diaper Essentials Pack and the Real Nappies Cloth Diaper Birth To Potty Pack,” says Liz. “Each Cloth Diaper Essentials Pack contains all the diaper covers and cloth diapers you need at each age, and the Birth To Potty Pack contains over 100 items, all you need for cloth diapering your child from newborn baby to potty-trained toddler.”

“We’d like to think we are a natural choice when supermarkets are looking for a cloth diaper brand,” says Liz. “We’re the leading supplier of cloth diapers, our cloth diapers come in convenient kits and are endorsed by hospitals, and our company offers strong internet and telephone support to customers.”

“Parents often want to make the move to cloth diapers but aren’t sure how, or if it will mean inconvenience or mess,” say Liz. “But it’s not the case, there are considerable advantages for your baby and your lifestyle as well as the planet.”

Real Nappies cloth diapers are considerably cheaper than disposable diapers. The cloth diaper itself is made of 100 percent natural cotton, so is better for a baby’s skin, and many customers have told the company that rashes and irritations reduce when they switch to Real Nappies cloth diapers. The cloth diapers come in a variety of sizes to grow with a baby. Real Nappies guarantees that its cloth diapers and diaper covers will last at least two children.

According to the Zero Waste New Zealand Trust, it takes as much energy to produce one disposable diaper as it does to wash a reusable cloth diaper 200 times – and producing a disposable diaper uses eight times more non-renewable materials. If washed in full loads, line-dried and used for a second child, cloth diapers produce 40 percent less carbon dioxide than disposables. Consumer Magazine also confirms that reusable diapers cost less than disposable diapers (Consumer Magazine, August 2009).

Real Nappies cloth diaper products have been available in babycare and eco-friendly stores across New Zealand for some time, as well as on-line, and they are used by Waitakere Hospital’s Maternity Services. All babies born at Waitakere hospital go home wearing a reusable cloth diaper from Real Nappies, with two extra cloth diapers in a take home pack. Real Nappies cloth diapers are also available on-line in the United States at www.realnappiesusa.com.

Liz says that Real Nappies is delighted that Progressive has taken this step to help encourage less consumption and reduce waste. “We’d like to raise a toast to them,” she says. “Bottoms up!”

ENDS

About Real Nappies

Real Nappies was born in 2001 from a vision of a reusable cloth diaper system that would become the preferred alternative, as easy and convenient as any other choice. The company estimates that it has already saved about 8 million disposable diapers from landfill, as well as saving parents a small fortune. Real Nappies cloth diaper products are widely available online at www.realnappiesusa.com.

For more information please contact:
Sally Raudon,
Botica Butler Raudon Partners, +64-9-3033862 or email sallyr@botica.co.nz