The Born Ready Rally was a crowdfunded crowd picture, created as part of our entry in Richard Branson’s voom competition, 2016.
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People arriving! Watch the field fill up 
Pan across the rally and wave to everyone.
I know, I know, the word ‘wrap’ begins with a ‘w’.
Flaparaps are drop-flap nappy wraps, so why aren’t they Flapawraps? Or Flapperwraps? Or Flappawraps? Flapper Wraps?
No good reason 😉 I just think the word looks nicer without that ‘w’ in the middle of it.
Born Ready Flaparaps. ‘W’-free nappies for nappy-free babies.
In case you haven’t guessed, this blog post is to help google to help you to find Flaparaps – no matter how you spell your search query.
Having slept with four ec’d babies, I’ve done my share of being wee’d on, and it taught me some basic truths about wet beds and night time potty training.
This is the biggie:
Night time nappy free is not like daytime nappy free.
During the day, wet pants mean something. They’re cold and uncomfortable. And if you have a child commando in fleece trousers they must feel horrible when they’re wet! With no pants at all, your toddler can look down and see the wee forming a puddle around their feet. Cause and effect. Perfect conditions for learning.
I’d been using cloth nappies for three and a half children before I tried my first wool wrap. It was a Flaparap (of course).
I’d been listening to whisperings about the wonder of wool wraps/soakers for a long long time and decided I’d better give them a go before I ran out of babies!
So I did my research, chose a fabric and made myself some boiled wool Flaparaps. To my surprise, they quickly became the favourites in my stash.
Shortly afterwards, we camped in France for four weeks and my 14 month old spent every night in her wool Flaparaps. They were brilliant! More brilliant than I was expecting, actually…
Here you can find out how to do ec / blpt / baby-led pottying at night. I’m a big fan! I learned on the job with my four babies and I’ve hit every scenario out there. From cots and baby sleeping bags to co-sleeping with a naked baby in my armpit. What I discovered was it got a whole lot easier with the right approach and the right equipment.
Keeping up with Baby-led pottying / ec / blpt at night is entirely possible, totally worth it and not as hard as you might think. Read on for some ideas to get you started.
Today I’m opening The Born Ready Shop – an online store shipping Flaparaps Worldwide!
I love Amazon – and if they delivered outside the EU from their UK warehouse I’d use them for everything. But they don’t. And stocking their international warehouses is complicated for small sales volumes. So let’s see how The Shop turns out
As part of the Shop setup, I wanted to introduce myself to potential customers. People who might not know me from the born ready website, my facebook pages or my facebook group. As well as saying “Hello!” I decided to explain the principles behind Flaparaps packaging and pricing – to give folks an idea of where I’m coming from.
I’ve had a lot of recent requests to ship Flaparaps to the USA and Canada, and I would love to oblige!
So let’s see if we can make this happen…
If you live in North America, you can pre-order Flaparaps until Sunday 18th October 2015.
If, by midnight PST on Sunday 18th October I have enough orders to make a go of it, I’ll jump through the legal hoops and start shipping!
Please read the rest of this blog post to understand what that entails.
If you live anywhere else in the world you can already buy Flaparaps (but if you’re not in the EU, please look up your country’s import duties before making a purchase.)
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