More second-time-around notes

[Juliacat]

1. I still like prefolds the best, hands down. What I don't like is being the only one who is willing to change diapers, or who can do it correctly. Accordingly, dh and my mom are using Velcro-closing fitteds, and SIL and SMIL were raving about Fuzzi Bunz over the weekend. Still don't have my uniform stash dream since there are always some folks who can't deal with a separate cover, but my mom and I can't deal with not having a separate cover.

2. I like Sportwash. It seems to be getting everything clean with minimal fuss.

3. I just finished a three-day weekend and transferred 40 (forty) diapers from washer to dryer. Granted, some of those were prefolds that had been used other ways, but still, I don't know who thinks 24 is a good number. I'm sure there will be another 5 in there before the ones in the dryer are dried and put away. I'm glad I have a ridiculous number of the things.

[ExuberantDaffodil]

I like your musings!

I don't understand what the big deal is about a separate cover. My hubby hates it. He has come around to cloth diapering, but it has to be the AIOs. When I have a fitted and cover on the baby, he's all huffing and puffing about it. I like it, prefer it even.

I remember using sportwash the first time around cd'ing my son as a toddler, and I battled stinkies a lot. How much are you using?

[Juliacat]

I use a capful or so. No problems so far, but of course since I've succumbed to using synthetics some of the time, I expect there will be problems at some point. I will cross that bridge when I come to it. I hope sunning works. I confess to really liking Fuzzi Bunz even though I am well aware of all the disadvantages. I just love how fast they dry!

Dh doesn't like fastening prefolds, and he tends to fasten snaps wrong. But he doesn't mind separate covers or trifolding prefolds, although I think if it were up to him we'd have all AIO's, but he's not the one doing the laundry or treating the diaper rash!

[AlishaLukesMom]

I have never had anyone offer to change my baby! LOL inlaws or my parents. DH will rarely change a diaper as well. I left out a snap diaper the other day and asked him to change Luke, and oh boy he was having a mild breakdown, lol.
I don't mind changing him.

As for the number of diapers, I just washed today after 3 full days (we were away all weekend) and I must have washed around 36 diapers in total and I still had 35 on the shelf, lol. My stash got a little out of control.

[Lineymom]

I totally agree on the stash thing. How do people get by on 24 dipes???

I think I have the happy medium of using unfastened pfs and having plenty of covers incase poop gets on them. I don't have any AIOs, but I think I would find them wasteful because I couldn't reuse the cover at all.

As far as others changing her. DH changes her less than he did our sposie using boys... but because she is a girl... he says. He is paranoid about getting her clean. I often leave her in her crib bare bottomed and ask him to get her when she fusses. He will dipe her then.... but it is usually on a little funny... but whatever. My mom just raved about how neat it is. She used flats and plastic pants on us.

[Pinoikoi]

Well, I feel lucky.. dp has no problems changing a cd'd baby.. he often will put an aio in a cover or one time he put a fitted that required a snap in without a snap in on in wool pants.. which didn't work out..

he tries though.. and it is so cute when he whips a cloth diaper out of his pocket.

My mom cloth diapered my sister with flats and pins, and my nephew with indisposables so cd's are no big deal to her at all.. although I can't recall her changing any of my babes I am sure she did as she babysat for me a few times.

I heard about sportswash with my last kiddo quite a bit but could never FIND it. I was told to look in walmart near the sporting gear area, but I avoid the store so I just don't know its layout very well..

[Erinjvrn]

I have a dozen bumgenius pockets prestuffed for dh and MIL lol. I have had them converted to snaps though.

I perfer one size snap fitteds and longies......dh wouldnt know where to start!!!!

My 11 yo changed my son when he was 6 mo old.....and put just a cover on him lol.

[AKislandgirl]

We went out to dinner recently and I couldn't figure out why dd was soaking wet. DH had changed her before we left but didn't put a cover on her! We don't use AIO's so I don't know what he was thinking. I said it was a sign that he didn't change diapers nearly enough!

And yes... 24 is NOT enough diapers for a NB!

[judybean]

I'm on cd'd babe #3 (poor dd1.. I didn't know better then)... and I'm still after a perfect stash as well.

1. I greatly prefer fitteds for newborns.. but like the idea/simplicity of prefolds... I'm torn on this one and use both.

2. 24 diapers would make me have to wash every day I'm sure. Newborns are UNREAL with how often they poop and pee! I have a load in the dryer right now and already have at least five prefolds in the diaper bucket...

3. I'm lucky to be able to sew... but.. that means I can experiment with the bazillion patterns I have (and probably have that many different styles.. AIOs, AI2s, fitteds, velour prefolds, contours, semi-fitteds, then wool or PUL covers, etc). Yet.. I still love my simple prefolds the best.

4. I say I like prefolds best, but my favorites are always changing... daily or even hourly... (I just always come back to prefolds ). Weird thing though, I've kind of fallen out of love with flats right now... dd4 can pee through them so quickly -- and she's just two weeks old today!

It's such a fun journey.. and I love seeing where I've been and where I am now in terms of what I love/don't love with using cloth diapers It's been more than SIX YEARS now! wow!

[Juliacat]

Aww, Judybean, I was just thinking of you and wondering how you've been! I was the one who sent you the orange Fuzzi Bunz and duz-it-all years ago. How wonderful that you have a new baby!

[judybean]

I admit... I mostly posted on this thread just because of you!!! I actually smile every time I put on a ME AF cover because I think of you

[Katie T]

Originally Posted by AKislandgirl

And yes... 24 is NOT enough diapers for a NB!

When I had dd 21 months after ds I had 18 bum genius for both of them for about 2 months. I washed diapers 2 times a day. lol Now I wonder how I ever go away with only 18 for him (and him and her together lol) I have 36 for dd and that is perfect. Of course they are pfs but still.

What we will go threw to cd.

[Adsullata]

I'm so glad to see others for whom 24 dipes is not enough. I love having plenty. My mom cloth diapered me & my sibs w/ prefolds and plastic pants and the first thing out of her mouth when I told her I intended to cd was, "be sure you get enough, I never had enough, 4 dozen just wasn't enough, I always wished I had 5 or 6." DOZEN she says. So, I got 4 dozen and she's nearly panicing, "that's not enough!" But mom, I've got a mix of 20 pockets and AIO's too. "you've got what? What are those?" In spite of the prefolds tho, mom has not changed a dipe, altho I use snappis and not pins (another "what is that?" conversation). But I think it has more to do w/ having done her time- my dad was not a diaper changer. at all.

I love my prefolds too, but I've given up on them when out of the house because, as fast as I am, I still can't change a prefold as quickly as a AIO or pocket.

I feel exceptionally lucky when it comes to DH- he actually prefers the prefolds at home too. In fact, I'm prone to grabbing an "easy" dipe before he will. I think he liked the challenge it presented or something.

OP, it's sorta funny how you're looking for the uniform stash nirvana. I find myself looking for the perfect combination stash nirvana- the perfect prefold, perfect cover, perfect pocket, perfect AIO- that all work together in harmony. *Sigh*

[Juliacat]

Ironically, I don't have any MEAF's this time around! But I am thinking of getting some, because we are having nighttime leaking.

[justmama]

my cat is fascinated by the emoticon for your older daughter in your sig line. he's sitting next to me purring and getting ready to pounce on it watching it like a hawk. I think he thinks it's a bug. he even walked across the keyboard to sniff it after batting at it didn't work. :

[aikigypsy]

We used to go through 24 in a day, and had to dry on racks in our apartment. 48 was a bare minimum, because it took a full day and night for them to dry. I have no idea how many I have now, but it's well over 50, probably less than 100, a mix of flats, prefolds, and some pocket diapers I made, which are about all we use now.

I will have a dryer (and be living in a drier climate) this time around, so I'm hoping to get or make a bunch of fitteds for the NB-Small stage, and used mostly fitteds and wool, except maybe in summer. We EC'd DD, but it wasn't super successful, so I don't know what we'll do with EC and baby 2 -- probably some, but I'm not sure yet.

[luckygreen713]

Originally Posted by justmama

my cat is fascinated by the emoticon for your older daughter in your sig line. he's sitting next to me purring and getting ready to pounce on it watching it like a hawk. I think he thinks it's a bug. he even walked across the keyboard to sniff it after batting at it didn't work. :

LOL!! I love kitties! That's something our cat would do, he loves the computer!

Anyway, I agree with the OP, 24 is NOT enough for a newborn. Unless you wash morning and night. I had 24 pf's for DD2 when she tiny, but I also had 3 dozen flats to use when the pf's ran out. And I washed every day. I even put one of DD1's large Fuzzi Bunz on DD2 once when all her small pf's were dirty/in the washing process. DD2 is now 2yo and I still feel like 24 isn't enough (but only because I prefer to wash every other day at this point). I end up washing every 1.5 days

[judybean]

Originally Posted by Juliacat

Ironically, I don't have any MEAF's this time around! But I am thinking of getting some, because we are having nighttime leaking.

I've been using some size small MEAFs on Hazel, but the legs are still too gappy, so I make sure to have a good fitted underneath if I use them! Just looked down (nak) and she has one on right now

Stash nirvana is something that has always eluded me.

If I had, had, HAD to go with just one style of diaper, it would be prefolds. They're easy to wash, easy to 'fold' when dry (I just fold mine in half to stack neatly under the changing table) and they work.

BUT... I like pockets and AIOs when out and about. They're quicker, easier and -- I'll admit -- cuter. *IF* somebody checks out your diaper-changing, you're more likely to score a convert (or at least get them thinking) with a 'fancy' diaper...

[ShwarmaQueen]

Originally Posted by Juliacat

1. I still like prefolds the best, hands down. What I don't like is being the only one who is willing to change diapers, or who can do it correctly. Accordingly, dh and my mom are using Velcro-closing fitteds, and SIL and SMIL were raving about Fuzzi Bunz over the weekend. Still don't have my uniform stash dream since there are always some folks who can't deal with a separate cover, but my mom and I can't deal with not having a separate cover.

2. I like Sportwash. It seems to be getting everything clean with minimal fuss.

3. I just finished a three-day weekend and transferred 40 (forty) diapers from washer to dryer. Granted, some of those were prefolds that had been used other ways, but still, I don't know who thinks 24 is a good number. I'm sure there will be another 5 in there before the ones in the dryer are dried and put away. I'm glad I have a ridiculous number of the things.

I also love the simplicity of prefolds. And I also have like 4 dozen pf's (2 dozen infant and 2 dozen capri's) in rotation right now and love it. Mainly because I'm lazy.