Want to give me a cloth diapering pep talk? :) - Page 2

[skycheattraffic]

Oh I feel you with the saturation leaks. Dd is almost 15 months and pees a ton. Very forcefully. The other day I had on a mother ease fitted with a crochet wool cover and she peed straight throught it. She was standing and made a puddle in the kitchen. I guess the rate she peed at was too quick to get a chance to distribute through the diaper and with no PUL to hold it agains her, it just poured through. Now I'm making a wool doubler for the crotch :-/. I have to remind myself that the sposies don't hold up much better either. They inflate like a balloon and the leg gusset isn't snug anymore so any additional pee pours out. This kid needs a change/potty every hour or she floods us. I'm washing her diaps daily but saving a ton anyway.

[MakingHome]

Originally Posted by skycheattraffic 

Oh I feel you with the saturation leaks. Dd is almost 15 months and pees a ton. Very forcefully. The other day I had on a mother ease fitted with a crochet wool cover and she peed straight throught it. She was standing and made a puddle in the kitchen. I guess the rate she peed at was too quick to get a chance to distribute through the diaper and with no PUL to hold it agains her, it just poured through. Now I'm making a wool doubler for the crotch :-/. I have to remind myself that the sposies don't hold up much better either. They inflate like a balloon and the leg gusset isn't snug anymore so any additional pee pours out. This kid needs a change/potty every hour or she floods us. I'm washing her diaps daily but saving a ton anyway.

Yeah the problem is I've never, over 10 years, had this happen with a disposable.  :(  So disposables do hold up a lot better, at least in my experience.  I am really trying to keep going with the cloth though.  We'll see.

[skycheattraffic]

Lol I guess I have a super pee-er. Last week by 10:30 pm (so 2 and a half hours in) she saturated her size 4 overnight pampers. Yes, overnight. They are huge on her and the minute she pees they sag and get lumpy but the size threes don't hold a fair pee. Ugh. Lately I discovered kissaluv marvels snap covers over my fitteds and those are bulletproof so far. It's really only been lately that sposies have given us problems though. They worked fine for the first twelve months.

[MakingHome]

Originally Posted by skycheattraffic 

Lol I guess I have a super pee-er. Last week by 10:30 pm (so 2 and a half hours in) she saturated her size 4 overnight pampers. Yes, overnight. They are huge on her and the minute she pees they sag and get lumpy but the size threes don't hold a fair pee. Ugh. Lately I discovered kissaluv marvels snap covers over my fitteds and those are bulletproof so far. It's really only been lately that sposies have given us problems though. They worked fine for the first twelve months.

Oh I don't mean I've never had them leak... they definitely leak, but I've never had just a solid faucet-like trinkle of pee coming out like I did in the store the other day.  Totally embarrassing!

[terraka]

I have not read everything posted so far, but here are my 5 cents:

- hide all disposables and forget they exist (I did that from 0 to 6 months of age);

- pat yourself on the back- it is incredibly awesome to CD. Period. And incredibly gross to pollute nature with these chunky "plastic" gifts.

- you will belong to the 1%!

- make some super cute cloth diapers!

- Have a special home lesson with your older kids on CD-ing, have them help you hands on- folding them, washing them, maybe decorating them, etc... 

You rock!

[rainface]

Wow Momma! I shouldn't even be posting...I've got one 8 month old and I want to jump out the window most days But!
Cloth diapers are so cute. I adore my Goodmama stash. (don't look it up, it negates any savings)
Folding/stuffing diapers is my zen time.
Every time I walk past the disposable aisle at the commissary and peek at the prices, I'm glad I'm not picking up a box. Or two.
Now that Little is pulling to stand, she has a nice cushion to crash on

[MakingHome]

Well, gals, thanks for all the kind words... just wanted to report back that after talking with dh and looking, realistically, at our lives, I just am confident it isn't going to work for us this go-round.  We are both lower-commitment than before about CD-ing (even though I DO think it's great in some ways, the negatives are glaring for us right now), AND we have less time and are both super busy (he used to always wash out the poopies, especially when I still had that hormonal bionic-nose and couldn't bear to deal with it up in my face for such a long time, but now he's so so legitimately busy with good stuff that he really doesn't also need to add in 20 minutes/night scrubbing poopy dipes in addition to putting the kids down, helping some with dishes or dinner clean-up, etc.).  It's just too much.

So anyway, I really really do thank all of you, though, for giving me your best effort pep-talks.  It DID help us talk through things and come to this decision.  I'm actually taking pics of the dipes this week and going to list them on diaperswappers.com, I guess, to go ahead and put them to use in someone else's home.

God bless you all, and thanks for your help as we tried to think these things through carefully!  :)