cloth diaperers...

[justamama]

How's it going? What is working for you? Not working?

Our one size wraps (wonderwraps) don't fit right. The first night I tried one it left a huge red stripe on Lucy's thigh. It just looked like a scratch, but developed into a smooth, raised bright red wept that was there about a week. I'm hoping it was a fit issue, and will try them as she gets bigger.

The gdiapers we love! She's out of their tiny g's (newborn size) and in the smalls. We used either one infant or 2 preemie prefolds as stuffers...but Tue preemies fit better. We also have 6 g-flappers that are 6 layers of bamboo. They are great for longer periods like car trips. The only downside is how addictive the covers are! Too cute. I'm dying 3 of them black and adding iron on patches to 2 and a rhinestone skull and crossbones to the other. I told DH I need to get a sewing machine to make my own!

I haven't used our all in ones yet because they are too big. At night I reach for a snappi contour (and even though we have enough for overnights, I plan on buying all I find for sale since they are no longer made and I want them for future kids and loaner dipes). For a cover with them I like fpeece

[dogretro]

During the day we use a Snappi'd orange-edged newborn prefold underneath a Bummis Super Brite cover, size newborn. When she gets a little bigger we will trifold the prefold instead of Snappi'ing. This is a perfect newborn system, imo, as we have used it four times

At night we use a BumGenius bamboo fitted (discontinued, sadly) under a small Aristocrats wool soaker that has been felted down to newborn size. I change the fitted a couple times per night, when she wakes to eat.

[Oliver's Mama]

ds is spending most of the daytime nakey-bum.. he had a nasty rash from my antibiotics course that has yet to clear after 3 weeks (it's not really rash anymore.. I think it damaged the skin and will just take time, like popped blisters)
Anyways, we were using gdiaper covers- small and thirsties covers- xsmall over prefolds- either orange, or I found the larger yellow work if folded the opposite direction. I tried a snappi, but it kept snagging the fabric and I dont know if I'm doing something wrong, but I don't like the idea of all my diapers being snagged.

I haven't found a great diaper cream for use with cloth, so we're doing disposables for longer stretches of time so I can lather him up while we're waiting for him to heal

we've done a little cd'ing out of the house, and I LOVE the wetbag I got- has a pocket for dry stuff so all cd-ing stuff is contained in one bag! how cute are those owls..
http://www.lesliesboutique.com/new_wetdry_bag

[ivymae]

I sold most of our diapers after DD2 outgrew them, so our newborn/small diapers are a hodgepodge mix prefolds, mamamade diapers and a few tiny brandname fitteds. We're using wool covers as much as possible. She's outgrown almost all of our newborn stash, and I'm waiting for a ton of Goodmama diapers in the mail from a friend so we aren't washing every day/running out of diapers and using sposies.

Every time I do a wash I grumble about just wanting to use disposables, until I go buy a pack and realize how $$$$ they are. Say, averaged over a kid’s diapering years, they go through 10 diapers a day. If a kid potty-trains early, you are looking at 2 years of diapers (730 days) or, if they are more average, 3 years (1095 days). So, at 10 diapers a day, you are looking at about 7500 to 11000 diapers. According to amazon, the average price for a Huggies diaper is about a quarter. (eco friendly diapers are more expensive) Now.. what if you pay a quarter for every diaper for 2 years? You just shelled out $1935 for poop catchers that do not even always work. And what if your kid is average and goes closer to 3 years before they potty train? $2838 dollars thrown into the landfills. And THEN? You have another kid. I am wayyyyy too cheap to spend enough for a vacation to the coast on diapers.

[DoulaAlicia]

Originally Posted by Oliver's Mama

ds is spending most of the daytime nakey-bum.. he had a nasty rash from my antibiotics course that has yet to clear after 3 weeks (it's not really rash anymore.. I think it damaged the skin and will just take time, like popped blisters)
Anyways, we were using gdiaper covers- small and thirsties covers- xsmall over prefolds- either orange, or I found the larger yellow work if folded the opposite direction. I tried a snappi, but it kept snagging the fabric and I dont know if I'm doing something wrong, but I don't like the idea of all my diapers being snagged.

I haven't found a great diaper cream for use with cloth, so we're doing disposables for longer stretches of time so I can lather him up while we're waiting for him to heal

we've done a little cd'ing out of the house, and I LOVE the wetbag I got- has a pocket for dry stuff so all cd-ing stuff is contained in one bag! how cute are those owls..
http://www.lesliesboutique.com/new_wetdry_bag

Could your LO have a yeast rash? You might want to google it. But persistent rash that wont go away especially after a course of antibiotics might be yeast and could benefit from a round of nystatin or other product to help clear yeast.

[Carita]

ita w/alicia on yeast... you need to treat your cloth diapers w/a bit of bleach as well to rid the yeast.

day - love TFF w/thirsties covers or KL contours - fast easy. we are now in infant PF too. DD hates a wet butt, so we are constantly changing. We have plenty of fitteds, so the PF always get used last, but we still like them. we are using infant size now at 2.5 weeks. our small pockets are starting to fit, but still leak.

night - BSRB w/fleece liner or GAD stuffable fitted with a MF/hemp combo insert & either a WCW soaker or a Fishnoodles cover. typically I can get away w/only 1 nighttime diaper change.

DH threw my wool in the diaper laundry so now I have to wash & relanolize. grrr. good think my WCW was already felted LOL

[Pepper44]

We love cloth! I've never bought any disposable diapers, for DD1 or this babe. We're too poor to come up with money to spend on diapers weekly.

We use prefolds with snappis, kissaluvs, and Sandy's fitted diapers.

The Sandy's diapers are GREAT. Size small is 8-20 pounds (I think) and they are super absorbent. They are similar to the Kissaluvs, just better!

For covers this time we're using mainly wool. Loving it so far--some of my wool covers are totally poop proof. Nothing escapes!! We also have some Bumpy Day, Imse Vimse, and Prowrap covers left over from DD1 that I use when putting on a onesie occasionally or something similar.

With the wool Ada wears little dresses or t-shirts. I love the wool skirties and shorties paired with bright colored t-shirts. Simple, easy, no snaps, and super cute.

[nikirj]

We're using orange-edge (NB) prefolds from Green Mountain Diapers, and an assortment of NB size covers. The Flip covers have been working surprisingly well; I was skeptical about one-size anything since we've never had that work out well before. We also like the Bumpy wool covers. We have some wool soakers too; we use Snappis or pins when we do that. But DD can produce a rather astonishing volume of pee and we only use the soakers when we're at home.

We're about to move into size Small stuff. It will be essentially the same thing, only a size up .

[rhiOrion]

if i had a huge supply of bum genius sized all-in-ones I'd be using cloth exclusively. but the prefold/cover combo still looks SO huge on her. I need to get DH to wash all of the fitteds so I can try that and see if it's a bit less bulky looking.

But I just loved the all in ones... i wish they were waaay cheaper. one all-in-one costs as much as a whole pack of chlorine free sposies.

[dogretro]

Originally Posted by Oliver's Mama

I haven't found a great diaper cream for use with cloth, so we're doing disposables for longer stretches of time so I can lather him up while we're waiting for him to heal

Baby Badger Balm, Burt's Bees Baby Bee Skin Cream, and Butt Paste all work just fine w/ prefolds

[jsh7809]

This is great! We are still on disposables and I am already seeing the temptation to stick with em... however, all of the disposables we got were gifts from well meaning people or free from the hospital. Since we are totally new to all of this and still getting into the swing of things, it's been nice having these. She is finally growing out of the "preemie" size (she was 6 pounds at birth) so that makes me happy! But we were given a ton of newborn and even size 1 diapers too, so I might keep using those for nighttime or some day trips.
Now that her umbilical cord stump finally fell off, I'm hoping to try CDing in the next week or so. Her little bum is so teensy! But I think I have at least one Thirsty cover that will work.
I bought kind of haphazardly when I was figuring out the difference between an all in one, a cover, a prefold, etc etc. Not sure I understand all of that yet and I need to dig through my stash to see what we actually ended up with. But I have a feeling we're going to like a simple fitted diaper and cover best, we'll see.

[rhiOrion]

you guys inspired me. i just put all of my fitteds and covers in the wash so that I can start playing around with them.

[Peace+Hope]

the GMD orange prefolds worked as soon as we got charlie home from the NICU, even at under 5 lbs! i'm realizing i didn't need to order 6 snappies, duh. we've only used one, and the cats haven't gotten it yet!

all our covers are hand-knitted wool, picky pants and curly purlies, and work great. time is passing so quickly that i was surprised when it was time already to re-lanolize. til then i was starting to question the wool .

we have some imse vimse wool wraps that he won't fit into for awhile, so for now it's all the pants covers. they are really very flexible for size.

as he grows, i'll be knitting more picky pants for sure. super cute and knit up in just a few hrs.

anyone else using knitted wool for covers? the two i have that are peace fleece are HOT, and it's in the high 70s here. to be fair, they are also ones a friend made since i was not able to knit for awhile and came up short on covers once he was born. i had not gauged the peace fleece, and just had her use the gauge from a lighter wool i think... so they are a tighter fabric than the others.

have had a problem with my prefolds smelling, but not sure what of, when they come out of the dryer. i've only used weleda calendula cream on him 1-2 days here and there. a second wash seemed to take care of it. my detergent is GMD approved...

[bubbamummy]

Nothing fits Molly yet. When I was pregnant I got a whole stash of XS FuzziBunz and XS Swaddlebees knowing that the OS BG would be too big, well, the XS's are too big too she wasnt a 'tiny baby' - 7lbs 12oz but for some reason everything is HUGE on her. Newborn sized clothes look funny as she is so tiny. Im hoping within the next couple of weeks we'll be able to stop using 'sposies and get her into the XS stuff.

[LenaC]

I have a dozen of fitteds of different kinds, three small wool covers, two small thirsties duo, and 15 very baby aios. Before his cord stump fell off, which just happened three days ago, aios rubbed too much on it and irritated it, so I didn't like using those at all. Now they work pretty well, although I still like my fitteds better. The only truly newborn fitteds I had were a couple of Mutts, and then I ordered four more after figuring out that they were the only ones to snap under the umbilical cord. Even though he weighed 9 lbs at birth, he has skinny legs, so things tend to leak out if they are not tight enough. I'm really wishing that I skipped Thirsties Duos because I'd like to use more wool. I also wish I got some nb wool soakers and more fitteds. I'm debating ordering one still, hmm...Although, he is growing so fast...Anyhow, we were mostly using disposables before the cord fell off, and now using mostly cloth with some disposables at night. We got three or four packages for our shower and from the hospital, not planning on getting anymore.

Anyway, in the last three or so months of CDing (after getting inspired by one of the threads on here by the way ), I'm figuring out that I like to have a mix of fitteds and wool for a more breathable option as well as more trim, easy option, although I prefer pockets to AIOs for that.

[laughingfox]

We're using a combination of NB prefolds and contour diapers that I made out of old t-shirts.
The covers I made are way too big, so we wound up using Thirsties. We have a regular xsmall wrap with already-curling-up velcro, which annoys me, and a Thirsties Duo Wrap Snap cover, which I love.
It's all snaps and no velcro, but it fits my little 6lb 13ozer beautifully, and in theory, it'll fit until 18 pounds.
The velcro one will supposedly fit until 12 pounds, but I doubt the velcro will last that long.

I was worried about PUL diaper covers, since my last DD couldn't handle them (instant rash), but this little one seems to be doing just fine so far.

Now that we have these Thirsties, I might just stick with them until she fits the wool/fleece ones I've made. I'd really prefer to use wool, but pre-made wool covers are out of my price range, and I am not feeling up to sewing yet, especially since I'd have to go to thrift stores and scour for wool sweaters first, and those are a pain to find in the summer.

[dogretro]

P&H, I actually decided to give wool a try when dd1 was an infant b/c she sweated A LOT. I would take off the PUL cover and there would be giant sweat beads on it and on her hips. She has never sweated in wool as far as I could tell. DD2 wears wool to bed & sometimes during the day, and dd1 almost exclusively wears wool 24/7 year round. They wear Aristocrats soakers which are knitted to three layers in the crotch. Their wet diapers are cool to the touch when I change them, even in the heat.

Fox, Diaper Swappers is a great place to get cheap wool. My Crats cost half-price for dd1's and next to nothing for dd2's.

[LenaC]

I have to say, I love small fitteds without any cover over them! I change him often enough to where usually even his clothes doesn't get wet, when he pees. I splurged on four fitted bamboo diapers from babysteals today. Seriously, approximately $15/diaper is a lot for me. I usually keep it to $10 or less. Anyhow, I think I'll stick to what we have now and make it work. I think I will really love coverless in the summer!

[rhiOrion]

I posted this on the diapering forum, too, but I'll ask here.

Fuzzibunz or bumgenius? AIO sized or one-size? Or another brand?

I'm not loving prefolds. And I like the fitteds okay, but I just really like the AIO and pockets.

[Carita]

fb & bg both are bad fits on us (big thighs, little waist), we prefer blueberry diapers & happy heinys