WeeEssentials: Menstrual & Nursing Pads #Review #NewbornCloth

WeeEssentials is owned and operated by an American work-at-home mom of three based in Tennessee. WeeEssentials sells CUSTOM handmade cloth diapers, cloth menstrual pads (mama cloth), nursing pads, soap bits, wet bags, snack bags, sinus relief balms, lip balms and lanolin.

At least 10% of the purchase price of every item I sell goes to charity - your purchases will help feed hungry children around the world through Compassion International through their Global Hunger Crisis Fund. WeeEssentials and my family also sponsor a young woman named Viergenie from northern Haiti. Through Compassion and your 10% Viergenie is attending school and has had the support her family needed through some very tough times!  From WeeEssentials Etsy site.

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{Product Information}

Overnight Flow Cloth Menstrual Pad

• Can be custom made
• 12 inches long
• 3 inches wide when snapped
• Top made of quilter's cotton print
• Bottom made of white flannel to reduce sliding inside the underwear
• Inner core made of 50% bamboo and 35% cotton
• Entire pad including wings lined with waterproof PUL to prevent leaking
• Stitched with 100% polyester thread to prevent leaks
• Stitching in the top center to direct flow into the absorbent core
• $13.50 per pad, tax included

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Nursing Pad Set

• Can be custom made
• Top made of flannel or woven cotton print
• Bottom made of white flannel to reduce shifting
• 5 inches in diameter
• 48% rayon from bamboo and organic cotton core
• Waterproof layer of PUL
• $4.50 per set, tax included 
• Wear print side IN

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{My Review}

Overnight Flow Cloth Pad

The first thing I noticed when wearing the WeeEssentials overnight pad was the rigidity. The pad is quite stiff. I believe this is caused by the bamboo and PUL inner layers. It was not super comfortable to wear for long periods of time because of this stiffness. This is the first cloth pad that I have tried with a waterproof PUL interior and bamboo core so maybe I am just not used to it. I find many bamboo inserts in cloth diapers to be stiff also.

This pad did not leak! The bamboo/PUL combo may make it stiff but it does work very well. It absorbed well and did not go through to my underwear. Even the wings have a waterproof lining to prevent transfer. The overnight pad worked very well postpartum.

I love the ingenious idea to sew a groove in the middle of the pad to direct flow to the center absorbancy. It worked great and kept the flow away from the edges.

I think these pads are great for wearing while you are away from home because you can rely on them not to soak through. I wouldn't wear them for lazing comfortably around the house, however.

I think it is so fun to be able to custom design your cloth pads. You could go all out with funky prints and colors because there is nothing more personal in my opinion then cloth menstrual pads. You could make them entirely your own.WeeEssentials has a large number of fabric choices on its Facebook page.

Nursing Pads

I found the nursing pads great from WeeEssentials. They are nice and big and absorb a lot of milk. I wore these often at night and occasionally I would soak the pad and the excess milk would run down my non-nursing breast. I leak like crazy when feeding my baby at night because he sleeps for long periods before waking to eat.

I also just discovered that I was wearing the pads wrong at times. The print is supposed to go in against your breast and the white side out. All of the absorbancy is on the printed side, then PUL, then white cotton. I knew this, I had read it on the tag but I kept forgetting. I now realize this was causing the leaking as the milk would go through the white cotton, hit the PUL and then have nowhere to go but out of the pad. Candice from WeeEssentials was very helpful in helping me discover the reason for the leaking.

The outline of the pads showed through my shirt if I was not wearing a padded nursing bra. The pads are 5 inches in diameter so they are noticeable. Most of my bras have some padding so this wasn't a big deal for me but it is something to keep in mind if you don't have any padded bras.

The edges of the pads are not serged, they are cut with pinking shears so after much washing and drying the edges unravel to the stitches. The sewing is still very strong, the edges have just frayed so they no longer have the even look from the above picture. The colored print faded but not too much.

After 2 months of continuous use.

I really liked these nursing pads and would definitely buy more. They are great for overnight and absorb much more than other cloth pads I have. These pads are very comfortable to wear for long periods of time. I love that you can choose the prints for the nursing pads also. It would be fun to get a matching set of menstrual and nursing pads!

I love the loyalty program offered by WeeEssentials (details below). It is a fantastic way to reward customers. It is great when the money you spend at a shop gets you even more products. It is one of the highest yielding programs I've seen. It would not take many purchases to earn free stuff!

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WeeEssentials: Overnight Flow Cloth Pad ---- $14.50 tax included

WeeEssentials: Cloth Nursing Pad Set ---- $4.50 tax included

Loyalty Program: Get 10% back in redeemable points from every purchase on the www.weeessentials.com website.(Not Etsy)
EX. Spend $20 get 2 points which equals $2.00 towards future purchases.


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I was sent this menstrual pad and nursing pads free of charge from WeeEssentials to facilitate this review. All opinions expressed are my own and 100% honest. Your experience with the product may not be the same as mine. I will NOT be compensated for sales of this or any other WeeEssentials products.