Which is more breathable?

gonna rant here... hopefully you'll take it with a grain of salt.
please folks, lay off the 'wool is hypoallergenic' stuff. Honestly. I know you are trying to be helpful, but stop.
Just because most people aren't allergic to it, doesn't mean that no one is or can be. I personally HAVE noticed a difference since we scrapped the wool. Maybe it's cyclical. Maybe the news meds are doing it. Whatever. But if he is allergic to wool, he's allergic to wool. People can be allergic to anything. If he is allergic to wool, what difference would another brand of wool make?
This rant comes from MONTHS of having people make dumb suggestions (have you switched your detergent?), strange suggestions (maybe you should see a doctor!), and being told by many people (most often by someone on MDC) that I can't trust his doctors and that they are trying to kill him.
So, here is a place I feel safe and I am gonna rant. I hope you guys can accept that. But for the first time in my child's LIFE, he has skin. Everywhere. Even his legs only have a few little broken spots. But he has SKIN. And it's the first time in his life he's been out of wool. Any wool. Organic or not. Maybe it's a coincidence, maybe it's not.
But if one more person tells me it cannot be the wool, I'm gonna scream.
And there aren't even any damn smilies!! Just when I need them!! Ahhh!!!

/rant

Splash,
Why do you wanna try a crat or Disnana wool if your babe is doing better without?
sorry, I dont know your babes story but i'm glad to hear he is better.

sorry, i gotta say here - you're right splash, so I'm gonna back you up...

we use wool, love wool but...

wool is NOT not not not hypoallergenic.

really nothing is truly 'hypoallergenic'. there will always be someone who is allergic anything you can name.

not only the fact that the wool can be an allergen, but think about this - the wool came off of an animal. A grazing animal. An animal who lives outside. An animal who wanders thru all kinds of stuff. And I don't care how processed the wool is, it will have some residue of it's previous life, latent on the fibers.

okay, sorry to go off-topic, but I just had to say that. it irks me when people make absolute statements about anything.

back on-topic, yeah the wool would be more breathable, but I've read your stories and ordeal with poor charlie and I'd be hesitant to go back just yet, he's only been well for a short while. I'd find a cover with air-flow or something and have him wear a fitted. or I'd bundle him up huge with an organic cotton fitted, 2 even, and no cover, and change him at night. Of course that means a lack of sleep... anyway, just my thinking.

You've really been thru it all, i'm so happy to read that he's doing better...

We change him at night. Oh boy do we! At least twice, sometimes more. Thanks for understanding though.

We've used-
Aristocrats
Disana
Skoon
7th Heaven
WAHM non organic
WAHM organic
Staccinator felted
Sugar peas

I think that's it.

As far as fleece, we have on staccinator and one polar bummi and neither can come close to working at night. I'd buy a bear bottoms soaker or something to that effect, but I don't want to spend the money on something that might not even work when money is so tight right now to begin with. And we have PLENTY of pockets. So we can make it overnight fine. I just wondered if every other night or so would be better to be in wool or something more breathable.

Hey, I have a bear bottoms soaker. It really works well, I wish I could part with it and send it your way. Maybe you could sell some things that didn't work for you on the trading post and get funds. I like that the bear bottoms has untreated fleece, meaning that there is no extra stuff to deal with. I think I paid $21 for mine at www.greenmountaindiapers.com - I think you know the place.

I have followed Charlie's saga through your blog and I can only imagine your frustration. People are only trying to help, and they probably don't understand what it's like to have a child with a serious medical issue.

I remember when Nitara had her NG tube in her nose and people would ask me, "Did you ever try breastfeeding? Did you try goat's milk?" I wanted to say, "No I didn't. Now why didn't I try breastfeeding or goat's milk first, before I took her to the hospital and allowed them to shove this feeding tube down her nose because she won't eat at all?" But I just smiled and tried to explain how sick she really was.

BTW I'm allergic to wool. Even washed wool. My grandma gave me a blanket years ago that she made. It has wool on the inside. I washed that thing so many times in free and clear type detergents, I washed it on super hot and dried it on hot to kill possible dust mites. Nothing worked. I can't sleep under that particular blanket.