Huggies Lounge

The Huggies Lounge is a place you can take a break from shopping and relax while the kids are entertained with story time along with lots of fun games and activities. While the kids are having fun, for you there are guest speakers talking about topics associated with child development, baby food, sleeping and more. There are giveaways and free gifts.
If you register at the event you go into the running to win a 3 month supply of Huggies products.
Each lounge session runs for approximately 40 minutes, there are generally 3 sessions per day and below are the dates and places.

  Eastland Shopping Centre VIC: February 16, 17, 18
  Westfield Fountain Gate, VIC: February 23, 24, 25
  Northland Shopping Centre VIC: March 16, 17, 18
  Werribee Plaza VIC: March 23, 24, 25
  Chadstone Shopping Centre VIC: April 4, 5, 6

I went to an Eastland session. The kids had story time and could play with toys. While the guest speaker was in the kids got given colouring in books and crayons. The information I got out of the session was quite good but fairly general. Once the guest speaker was finished they stayed back to answer any questions or conserns you might have had.
One peice of information I learnt was:
 - You shouldn't let your baby fall asleep with a bottle as there is sugar in formular it is bad if it just sits in your babies mouth for their teeth even if they havnt come through yet.
I dont do that but I do know a few fellow mums who do, so I thought I would pass on that tip.
A giveaway the Huggies Lounge also had was if you brought Huggies nappies and brought them a reciept you recived a free kids single sheet set, I'm not sure if they are doing that everywhere but if you purchase nappies the week of when the Huggies Lounge near you take it in and see if they have anything free for you.

For more info click here.

Disposable Nappies

Huggies? DriBots? Pampers? Babylove? Snugglers? Homebrand? Aldi? Woolworths?

There are so many nappies brands out there, it can be a little overwhelming. I started off using huggies and brought the boxes when on special (For newborns apparently they are the best).

I have tried about 5 different brands and from what I have noticed, there isnt much difference between nappies they all pretty much do the same thing. I found Aldi nappies were small so if you do want to try them get the next weight size up. I think I used the 4-9kg nappies and they were too small around the legs for E who was only about 6kg at the time.

My motivator is price. I work it out per nappy as there are different amounts in different packs. At the moment I buy the Woolworths unisex nappies. They work out to be around 27c (for 4-9kg) as apposed to 30-40c each for other brands and find the sizing great. Have a look around when buying nappies, try different ones and go with what works for you and what motivates you and your lifestyle. And don't forget to look out for the specials!