Terry cloth diapers?

[Halfasianmomma]

Anyone every make a diaper that looks something like this:

http://larbreabebes.free.fr/Pages/p_couches_pap_C6.htm
http://larbreabebes.free.fr/Pages/p_...20a%20pas1.htm

I found it on a French site that gives pretty thorough instructions, but I never thought of making diapers out of terry cloth material...I'm wondering about absorbency, b/c as soon as a towel is wet it gets heavy...

[Prairiemother]

I've never made this type of diaper, but it looks like the Motherease, except they use snaps. I used those diapers with my first two children, and really liked them. Except that after 2 kids they're worn out and I want to try to make my own.

With the absorbency, I thought that was about the same as other diapers - maybe better for the thickness. What really bothered me in a diaper, and that the Motherease didn't have, is hard, stiff material. I tried many kinds of diapers and found that the terry cloth did the best in our hard water. We used them without covers, btw, for ECing.

Hopefully you'll hear from someone who's made them...

[minsch1]

I use a stretch terry that I ordered from the One Stop Diaper Shop as the absorbent layers to all my homemade dipes. It's very soft and stretchy (more so than a terry towel). It comes in lots of colors, and I've been really happy with it. Another bonus is that it doesn't fray like flannel.

As for absorbency, I did a very non-scientific test where I poured water in 3 oz dixie cups and then cut 6x6 squares of all the fabrics I was considering using and measured from the cups how much water they could absorb. Of what I had, the only thing that performed better than the terry for me was some custom 100% cotton sherpa I got from a co-op (I've never tried hemp or bamboos so maybe they would be better). I think you'd have to have alot of terry to have a problem with it being too heavy.

[mehndi mama]

In the UK & Australia, terry cloth squares are still the standard nappies, much like prefolds are here.

Also, a while back, Snappi company started making terry cloth fitted diapers, so they could be used with a snappi. They looked just like MEOS's, but with loopy terry and no snaps.

[jaynemeyday]

They used terry squares in South Africa too!
My mom loved using them on my brother. Said they were super absorbent!

[ReneeC]

Another vote for terry here! I make contour diapers and fitteds from it, I think it works great

[iamawahm]

Those look very comfortable for the baby, I might have to try to make some for my son! Thanks for sharing.

[mehndi mama]

I forgot to add:
Yes, a towel gets heavy when it gets wet, but that's because it holds a lot of wetness. Think of it this way - a cotton t-shirt will be heavier when wet than a cotton sock. Why? Well, there is more cotton in the t-shirt than the sock. Same goes for diaper fabrics. Terry towelling has a lot more cotton in it per square inch than, say, flannel or t-shirt jersey, so a single layer of terry will be heavier when wet than the thinner options. However....that also means that you need less fabric to build up enough layers inside the diaper! So while you'd need a whole t-shirt to cut enough soaker layers for a diaper, you would only need about a square foot of terry towelling to make a terry soaker pad. When wet, the two would be equally heavy, given that the weight of the cotton is equal in each soaker pad.

People used to ask me the same thing about denim when I started making my Recycle Diapers with the denim outers. But they're not any heavier than any other heavy-wetter diaper out there, even when wet!