What are your unfortunate dealbreakers?

[Juliacat]

I was watching dh put dd to bed last night and thought about how the Toddler-ease she wears are absorbent, durable, never leak, and are so easy for dh to use that he doesn't think twice about it. This would drive me to get a stash of nothing but Mother-ease Sandy's (except perhaps for daycare) EXCEPT that they take for freaking EVER to dry, and long drying time is, unfortunately, a dealbreaker for me. I know I'll say it doesn't matter, but it really, really, really, really does. To me. So, no Sandy's for the new baby. Sorry, Sandy.

What about you, are there diapers that are perfect except for that one awful thing that you just can't stand?

[alfabetsoup]

Le sigh. Sandys. I hate that they ONLY fit under motherease covers, because ME covers do not work for my kids.

Also, covers with slick PUL inside. Gives my kids rashes every time, so no blueberry coveralls for us. I'm forever looking at them because they're so cute but I know I'll hate them.

[Juliacat]

Actually, we use our Sandy's with Dappi nylon pull-on pants and they work great, but dh really dislikes them because he thinks they are too plasticky.

[octobermom]

Diapers made with any synthetic fibers are deal breakers, diapers that take more than one cycle to wash and dry deal breakers diapers than child wil out grow every 5lbs deal breakers diapers with out proper wash tabs if velcro(almost always a deal breaker) diapers that can't be washed and dried on hot = deal breaker..... See why I love prefolds?

Deanna

[lifeguard]

Originally Posted by octobermom

Diapers made with any synthetic fibers are deal breakers, diapers that take more than one cycle to wash and dry deal breakers diapers than child wil out grow every 5lbs deal breakers diapers with out proper wash tabs if velcro(almost always a deal breaker) diapers that can't be washed and dried on hot = deal breaker..... See why I love prefolds?

This!

[inky leeuhhh]

wing droop! i never had it with dd1, but with dd2 it is driving me crazy! we cant use front snapping pockets or aios at all because of it. grr! also diapers with a short rise. didn't matter to me till i had a kid with a long bumcrack.

[luckygreen713]

My biggest deal breaker is synthetic fiber. I would love to try so many AIO's and pockets, but after the rash issues we had with Fuzzi Bunz, I'll never use anything but cotton and hemp agains't dd's skin. I do use PUL covers though, and for those, my deal breaker is sandwiched laminate. I like a wipe-clean inner surface. A lot of times my deal breaker is price though, especially with wool covers.

[DocsNemesis]

Drying time is a HUGE deal breaker for me. I have to use a laundromat, so drying in one cycle is very important to me. I've had so many diapers I loved and couldn't keep because of this. Hanging them to dry for another day or two meant needing sooo many more and I couldn't afford that. That and it was annoying. It wouldn't matter to me nearly as much if I lived somewhere where line drying was a viable option but I don't (yay Seattle! Part of summer is pretty much the only time I have to line dry)

Anyway, I also don't like synthetics, but oddly I had the opposite problem-one of mine had horrid rashes with any diaper without a barrier layer. And it wasn't the detergent or the diaper, it was just..the moisture I guess? However, I really hate how synthetics tend to hold in smells. Bleh. Thats why this time I'm just using a stay dry liner if I have to (hoping I wont).

Oh wing droop annoys me too!

[Juliacat]

Isn't it funny how different babies' skin does so differently? I prefer cotton myself, but it's more for aesthetic reasons; dd's skin did equally fine in any kind of natural or synthetic fiber as long as I changed her often enough. I'm going to use both kinds with this baby, but more cotton, I think.

[jadekat]

If a diaper causes skin irritation that is a deal breaker for me. Right now I'm getting ready to do a major stash overhaul. DS2 reacts to suedecloth and fleece (I'm not totally sure about it yet.)