cloth diapers

[hamletsjadedlover]

was the transition easy or hard for anyone going from disposable to cloth? Just curious b/c im waiting on my cloth to be delivered via mail and am getting nervous. did anyone have reluctant family members (mine already thinks im nuts as it is for breast feeding and non vaxing), if so how did you deal with them?

[kalynnsmom]

I switched my twins when they were 6 months. The only problem I had is wishing I would've switched sooner.

Oh yeah, most of my family thought I was nuts. They thought of Gerber prefolds with pins and plastic pants. But when I showed them what they're like now, they think it's pretty neat.

[CheapPearls]

I agree with the pp. I wish I would have gone to CDs sooner! I switched when ds#2 was 9 months old. I use prefolds so there's more of a learning curve then with pockets/AIOs but the transition was so smooth.

I had to talk DH into it a little bit but after showing him how much money we would save he was all for it. Since both my mom and Dh's mom used cloth for a short period of time with us, it wasn't anything strange with them. And honestly, so what if they had a problem? Unless they want to pay for disposable diapers for us and change every single one they shouldn't have any say in what we put on our baby's butt.

[Ubelle]

We used disposables in the hospital and for the first week home, so I could recover without doing laundry, then switched over to cloth at home, disposable out and about.

I found using the cloth easy and making the switch easy, but we did it early on. after about 1 month I started using the cloth for day trips around town and trips to my parents house, where we are welcome to use their laundry facilities.

We still use sposies for longer trips and at daycare, and sometime I think I the cloth is easier - maybe I'm wierd.

Before DD the last time I used cloth diapers on a baby was close to 20 years ago : and it was prefold, pins and vinyl pants.

My family, even my MIL who had used cloth w/ a service, thoght I was weird for making this desision, but they were all used to sposies, DH had even said he wasn't going near a cloth diaper. My mother, sister and DH have all changed DD cloth diapers, and commented on the ease of it now. Sis is even thinking of cloth for the next baby.

It is more work with all the washing, but I find I am always finting to get the sposie unfolded and fitted right, plus I have had many more blowouts with sposies than I have with cloth.