Why purchase multiple brands or trial packs?

A question many people have when they first decide to use cloth is should they be purchasing multiple brands or styles. A popular answer is yes especially if you aren’t sure what you are after or if you are still yet to have baby. 

These days there is an abundance of cloth nappy brands and styles, it feels like just about every week or so a new one is popping up so it’s hard to know where to start. We are also privileged to have the technology and access to social media to have a whole host of answers to what nappies people like most personally but we have to remember what someone else swears by may not suit our baby or be what we are after ourselves. I’ve always said if you can’t have a demo or don’t have someone you know who uses cloth to show you a variety of brands and styles then you are best off purchasing or hiring a mixture to see what best suits you and your baby. 

Purchasing a variety or a trial pack will allow you to have access to a mixture of brands and you may or may not continue to use a mixture or you may be swayed in to using just one brand. If you purchase a trial pack or mixture of styles you may decide that you prefer one over the other e.g. you might prefer an All in One over an All in Two or a pocket over a snap in, the thing is if you are completely new to cloth you might not know this until you do try them. Just like people have preference over the style of underwear they wear we can develop preferences over the type of nappy we use. 

A variety of nappies will also mean you have access to different styles as you baby grows and develops. Babies are never always going to be the same shape and size and throughout personal experience I have found this to be very true. Even babies from the same family with the same parents can be very different shapes and sizes, something that happened here. I made the mistake of purchasing a bulk lot of the same brand of mcn’s after trying one and while they worked for a while and I still made them work as needed there were times they weren’t the best fit or the most absorbent and if I wasn’t committed to just using cloth I would have probably given up. However it took me getting a couple of different brands to realise that I could get a better fit and some worked better at different times then others due to fit and absorbency. 

Using cloth nappies is not hard but it can sometimes be a lot of trial and error and having a variety of brands will make this easier. This also means possibly having a mixture of front snaps, side snaps, OSFM, sized, fitteds, prefolds etc. You may also like to try out a few different features like double leg gussets, tummy elastics, back elastics, rise snap OSFM, OSFM without rise snaps, Velcro closure or snap closure and having a variety of brands or purchasing a trial pack will allow you to do this. 

Finally if your just completely stuck on where to start on your journey or what you want a trial pack is definitely the way to go. We can make one up for you, you can purchase a ready made one or make your own by choosing 3 or more nappies from our range for a discount. Probably the easiest thing to do is choose your favourite colour or print if your completely undecided and start from there as if something is aesthetically pleasing we are more likely to use it.