with dd she started crawling at 8months a week after we put her in reusables. shes been walking 2 weeks now and will be 1 on sat! ds didnt walk until 1yr 6days n he was in disposables so i dnt think it has anythign 2 do with it really hun

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All 3 of my kids have had real nappies, my 2 daughters walked when they were 12 months or so, my son only started walking at about 16 / 17 months. All LO's are different and will walk, crawl at different ages. The bulkyness between their legs helps their hips when they're little  (the advice with slightly clicky hips was to double the terry so it pushed their legs outwards into the correct position this was in the 70's). They are just as mobile in a reusable as a disposable as my middle one crawled at 5 months old and was as fast as others that were crawling.

spacebambi makes a very valid point - all the development charts were standardised when all babies were in terry nappies!!

DS wasn't in cloth till already a toddler but DD is actually ahead of him in physical development. she's been in disposables for a couple weeks (washing machine broke, got another now but went camping last weekend so catching up still lol) and not noticed any real difference in her attempts to move, she's getting there a bit more (6mths) but just put that down to she would be anyway.

my ds wasnt in real nappies when he was at crawling /walking age but my dd is and she has crawled and walked at the same time as my ds did .

My dd was a breech baby and had alot of hospital trips because of her hips and i read that real nappies are better for babies hips than disposables something to do with spacing there legs out wider .

i wouldnt worry before pampers and huggys came along every baby was in real nappies and they all developed fine with their walking etc

my LO's still too little to be mobile (3.5 months) but I'll relate a story from a friend who has 2 DDs... when DD2 was just starting to walk (and falling over a lot) her washing machine broke and she had to put the girls in disposables for a few days. The first time DD2 fell over on her bum she looked surprised and cried... the disposable wasn't as soft a landing as she was used to!!

On a more serious note, some reusables are definitely thinner than others: try some bamboo motherease or baby beehinds for great absorbancy in a thinner material.

It doesnt seem to make any difference whatsoever for my DD what nappies she's in, occasionally she's in disposables (for weekends away etc) and she does everything the same in the bulky nappies. She rolled over at 5 months, sat up at 6 months and now at 7 months is pretty much unstoppable, trying very hard to crawl and rolling EVERYWHERE.  I have even read somewhere that the bulky nappies can strengthen their hips coz their little legs are kind of forced apart a bit. If you think about walking they tend to walk a bit widelegged anyway to start so cant see what diff it will make xxx

hiya, i agree with other poster. Take out the extra pads (if removable) and only add bossters if u really need to.

Ive used a combination of little lambs which are similiar bulk to tots bots, all in ones and some slimmer hemp nappies. Ds is 11mths he rolled at 5mths, sat up at 6mths and has been cruising for a few mths now, and standing a few seconds unaided, so i wouldnt say its affected his development in anyway.

Only thing i will say is for a while at around 6/7mths i noticed it was hard for him to balance sitting up unaided if he had an especially bulky nappy on, but i put this down to hed jsut gone into size 2s at that time and nappies tend to be bulkier at the begging of the size range than when theyve been in them a while. I just tended to use all in ones on him for a while then when hed mastered sitting up i put him back in the bulky ones. So just keep an eye and if u see baby struggling with owt maybe get a few slimmer types just to cover that period of time. hth xx

Which tots bots are you using? If it's fluffles, then they're really only best for night time use, for one, you can never get any clothes to fit over the top of them! They do grow into the bamboozles and they get less bulky the more you use them, also, have you tried them without the extra pads? Mine has always been in washables and he took his first steps at 11 months and is now walking around all the time at 12 months. I don't think the nappy really makes a difference and even if it did, I don't think it's anything to worry about, they won't still be crawling around the floor at 15 because they wore bulky nappies as a baby!

I have started using tots bots with my new LO (11 weeks), and am finding them really bulky between her legs, especially compared to the disposables I have just finished with.  Has any one else found that this stops them moving aorund as much.  I used them with DD1, and she never really crawled or koved around much, and she walked really late.  I don't know if that was just her or the fact that we were using the bulky nappies.  Anyone else have any experience here.