Arabella

Nighttime Washable Nursing Pads - Breast-Feeding

• cotton

Product Description

100% White cotton flannel, 6 layers thick. Heavy weight. 3 pairs (6 total) in a package.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• ASIN: B0002UE3Q0
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #235,325 in Clothing (See Top 100 in Clothing)

Customer Reviews

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent investment!, September 15, 2007

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PHXL8DY "reviewer of sorts" (Arizona, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nighttime Washable Nursing Pads - Breast-Feeding (Apparel)

Bought these because I cloth diaper my kids and figured that I'd like to use cloth for myself too. BEST thing I ever did. When I wore disposable pads, they would absorb fine, but they SMELLED! Ew! And that smell was on my breast and then I put my child's mouth on that??! NO WAY! Besides the fact that if you keep too much moisture close to your body, you risk infection in one way or another, I seemed to change the disposables a lot at first and I thought that was a waste!

I purchased 12 of these washable cloth pads. I figured that way I'd have plenty to go through if I leaked a lot and then I could have plenty to wash and cycle through. I wear these pads all the time, day or night. 12 seems like plenty for me. When I was still new to my breast feeding cycle with my son, I seemed to leak in them a lot. I would need to replace them every feeding about or else I would leak through and my shirt would become wet. All breast feeding mothers know that this can be embarrassing in public. And now that I've been breast feeding 4 months, I rarely leak at all, and I replace them every other day. (Immediately if they become too wet from an early "let down" which occasionally happens.)

I wash them in my regular whites cycle, I use NO softener, I dry them in the dryer. They aren't as soft as I expect them to be at this point, but I also have very hard water so I figure that plays a factor. I haven't used clothing softener because I know that with cloth diapering if you use it, it builds up in the cloth and can cause smells and I don't want my breast pads to stink. I like them and I don't want to dislike them because of smells.

The pads are not uncomfortable at all, even if they aren't really soft after 4 months of use. They absorb very well for me. If I leak in them though, I change them so it isn't a big deal when you have 12 of them. You'll have to decide how many are reasonable for you, 12 where great in the beginning but maybe more than I need now.

As for cost, If you leak a lot, you'll go through a ton of disposables. It is as easy to change and wash these pads as it is to change and wash your cotton underwear everyday. But environmentally speaking, disposable breast pads are just like disposable diapers they don't decompose as fast as they say they do, and they end up in landfills. Land is not a renewable resource but water IS. And health wise, the chemicals that they use in MOST disposable breast pads to help with moisture absorption are the same in disposable diapers and menstruation pads as well. I personally would like to eliminate as much chemical interaction with my body as I can reasonably avoid. Especially since science can't provide us with the long term effects these chemicals have on our bodies after prolonged use. I have not had any problems with sanitation, infection, or smell with these pads. The ease of these pads is a no brainer.

I have not had a problem with them moving around while I'm sleeping. Maybe that has something to do with my cotton bra. Seems that there is enough friction to keep them in place. I'm also not very large breasted either, so maybe I'm just lucky that they stay in place for me. And the only time I really notice that my pads imprint through my regular shirt is 1. when I first put the cloth pad on, they gradually mold to my breast as the day goes on, 2. my shirt is incredibly tight and everything shows, or 3. the shirt is made out of that material that shows everything underneath it.

I wish I had looked into cloth pads with my first son, because cloth is the BETTER investment!!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ultra absorbent but tend to shrink a little, January 3, 2007

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Christian Pacheco Lizama "3.14159265359" (Guatemala, Guatemala) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nighttime Washable Nursing Pads - Breast-Feeding (Apparel)

Bought this for my wife, and we tried them against some disposable ones that came with the Avent Pump.

By far this pads are better than the disposable ones because they where more absorbent than the others.

We had to buy 3 paks to be able to have 9 pairs and not have to recycle them every 3 days. With 9 pairs she can go an entire week with those pads.

The only CON my wife found is that they tend to shrink a little when you wash them for the first time.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars the only absorbent washable nursing pads I could find!, July 30, 2007

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Amy Smith (South Bend, IN) - See all my reviews
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These pads work great! They are very absorbent. I wear them during the day and night and usually just need a fresh pair in the morning. I tried some washable pads I found at the store, and they are thinner, but they don't hold any leaks. These are thicker than disposable pads, but any standard bra lining hides it enough to not show through a shirt. They also are not contoured like some other pads, but after I wear them for a minute, they seem to conform well to my breast without wrinkles. I would like them to be a little larger (they do shrink a bit in the wash) for at night since they shift a little in my sleeping bra. I haven't had a problem with their size or shifting during the day. Mine have been washed many times and are between 4 and 4 1/2 inches in diameter. I didn't try the daytime ones, but I would recommend just skipping those and wearing these 6-layer "nighttime" ones all the time. I hope this review gives someone the confidence in the product to buy several sets right away and save on shipping (I started with one set of 3 pairs and now I am going to buy 2 more sets).