Wool breast pads

[thixle]

Y'all know your wool
I'm still leaking like crazy at night, I wake up wet and cold : I'm ready to make some wool breast pads. Do I lanolize at all? If I did, would I need an absorbent cotton pad still?

[mum06]

I'm a soaker. I sew my own cloth pads from flannel (between 4 and 8 layers). When I'm having an especially wet day (or night), I use my knit/crochet wool pads as a liner. Really, it is the same idea as cloth diapering. Something to absorb the wet, and something to prevent the wet from getting through. I do not lanolize (I don't lanolize my wool pants either). I just change my pads more often.

[Michigan Mama]

The ones I've seen have a couple layers of hemp or bamboo with a wool backing, all sewn together. So you wouldn't lanolize in that case...

But if you do your soaker pad and wool pad separately, you could lanolize the wool and that might help with absorption...

Great question!

[iowaorganic]

I bought some Lana pads and made 2 pairs to suppliment with for during wash or heavy leaking days. I felted a sweater and then cut 2 6' circles and a 4' circle. I sewed the 4" in between the 6" ones and zigzaged around the outside. They would have been better serged- but I don't have a serger. The first time I wore them I used lansinoh on myself and that seems to work well on the pads. I haven't treated them with lanolin anyother time. GL- personally I don't know how I survived without wool pads with 2 kids!

[mother culture]

Hi,
I would use a felted fool backing and a few layers of absorbent fabric on top. You can purchase a spray on lanolin but I think you will find that the wool does a great job on its own because milk comes out slower allowing for the fibers to absorb.