are there m/any die-hard CPF/cover users here?

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RunnerDuck

Discussion Starter · Sep 30, 2003

Wondering if anyone here goes JUST this route, exclusively... even if just for the first 15 months or so. That's what I originally planned to do, buy prefolds and try lots of covers, but I keep adding a little of this and a little of that to the stash I am planning to buy and... it's getting ridiculous. I am just wondering if anyone else has been able to stick to JUST prefolds and covers for the early days at least, and how well it works?

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teachinmaof3

· #2 · Sep 30, 2003

Yep..that's what I use. I don't have the $$ to afford cd'ing w/ the fancy diapers. We use ubpf and Proraps during the day. I use 'sposies at night.

I do have two Cuddlebuns but I rarely use them b/c they are so cute. LOL I usually save them for a time I know I'll be out so I can show them off. I'd like more of them eventually.

RunnerDuck

Discussion Starter · #3 · Sep 30, 2003

Why the disposables at night? Have you have bad success with prefolds at night?

teachinmaof3

· #4 · Sep 30, 2003

Yes. My dd sleeps from 6:30pm-6:30 or 7:00am. I got tired of the soaked/leaking pf (premiums) in the morning. We tried HHs but they leaked too (b/c they didn't fit her skinny legs). I'm MUCH happier w/ 'sposies at night. I don't have to worry about it leaking or smelling nasty in the morning.

RunnerDuck

Discussion Starter · #5 · Sep 30, 2003

Were these leaks occurring with or without a change (or two) during the night? Just trying to figure out if this is a problem with the diaper or the method...

cortsmommy

· #6 · Sep 30, 2003

I use CPF's and wool covers 75% of the time. The other 25% I use Fuzzi Bunz.

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teachinmaof3

· #7 · Sep 30, 2003

She sleeps all night long.

Not sure your motive here...but I'm not really looking to do cd at night. I'm perfectly happy with 'sposies at night.

TiredX2

· #8 · Sep 30, 2003

Until the last month, that is *all* I ever used (other than sposies on vacations). Prowraps seconds sizes newborn, small, medium, large, x-large and infant and premium CPF. I think I paid around $200 total (2 dozen infant, 3 dozen premium, 9-10 covers of each size except x-large:3 for night for my oldest). They definately did fine and only recently have I decided I *CANT TAKE IT ANY MORE* (just because I am sick of it) and am spending some of the money saved in the past two years to buy some cute stuff I like (so far: three patterned HH, three fuzzi-bunz, three HH trainers, and now I'm slowly trying some different AIOs).

Definately can be done. No problems.

Kay

RunnerDuck

Discussion Starter · #9 · Sep 30, 2003

My motive? I feel like a criminal!

I don't mind doing a diaper change during the night. I figured I would either change after a feeding, or change when I get up to pee at night myself. I just wanted to know if prefolds weren't lasting you through the night despite being changed partway through.

Maybe once the baby is older, I won't want to do night time changes... guess we'll have to wait and see.

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Originally posted by teachinmaof3
She sleeps all night long.

Not sure your motive here...but I'm not really looking to do cd at night. I'm perfectly happy with 'sposies at night.

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teachinmaof3

· #10 · Sep 30, 2003

Well..you never know around here sometimes. A lot of ladies here seem to have it out for people who use 'sposies.

Kerlowyn

· #11 · Sep 30, 2003

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That's me

We use CPF 100% of the time. I just got another 24 UBCPFs from Punkin-Butt the other day, premium sized. We started with infant, moved to regular size, now we need premiums! Where did the time go!

My baby is almost a year old. We have tried a few other things, a Cuddlebun, a Little Lamb AIO, some Kissaluvs, and other various stuff, but nothing worked for us as well as a Prowrap and a CPF.

I have made some fleece covers, and at night we use one of them, a CPF and a fleece/hemp doubler. He is in the night time dipe for 12 hours, we have never had a leak.

I so

my CPFs!!! I love the simplicity and the affordability!

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chellemarie

· #12 · Sep 30, 2003

I snappi prefolds and use a variety of covers during the day. We use Fuzzi Bunz at night.

I have a few other things, too, but ubcpfs are my favorite. They're easy to care for and put on, and I could never see buying cute diapers that I'd just put a cover over, anyway.

engineer_mama

· #13 · Sep 30, 2003

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Me me me!

We've tried a few fitteds here and there but they seemed sooo bulky. Plus, it seems like double the trouble to fasten a fitted, and then fasten a cover. I love laying my prefolds into a wrap, and then just fastening them up. I have had fun trying all sorts of different covers, though. Proraps and Bummis both do the job nicely for us, but I've been branching out into WAHM fleece covers and they are awesome! Especially FMBG Windrpo covers. They rock! Ahem, that's for another post, though. I'm going to give them a thorough month of testing before I post my rave and edit my "Search for the perfect cover" page.

Anyway, I've diapered Julia since she was 10 months old, and Isaac since birth with prefolds, almost exclusively, and they work wonderfully. We've been using disposables at night too, but only because both kids have sensitive skin that gets all red after a night in cloth (even with a fleece lining), not because of leaks (we never had any leaks). I might try some bleach, or tea tree oil on our overnight diapers and see if that helps. I like using hemp prefolds at night because they are so absorbent, so you need less diaper (and less bulk), but Chinese prefolds would work too -- you would just need to double up. Check out these nighttime diapering options:

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/kfegelman/nighttime.html

HTH!

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RunnerDuck

Discussion Starter · #14 · Oct 1, 2003

Thanks for all your responses, ladies! I think I am going to give the prefolds and covers alone a try and see how it goes. If it doesn't work, then I'll venture into fitteds/AIOs/something else if needed.

I have finally ordered my stash, heh... I will be trying prowraps, bummis, bumpys, aristocrats, and polar babies covers (found the last on a clearance sale, otherwise I probably wouldn't have bothered with these...). Hopefully something in this mixutre will work for me!

Quindin

· #15 · Oct 1, 2003

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I

my UBCPFs!! I actually bought some cute fitted and AIOs to give them a try and NOTHING compares to CPFS! They are trim, absorbent and so versatile!!
Mu night system is almost perfect (my baby is dry after 8 hours, but I am looking for something for longer than that). I am sure adding wool liner will do it!!

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kasumi

· #16 · Oct 1, 2003

Do I count? I used exclusively flats and bummis whisper pants for the first 2 years of CDing my first child. Then just before the second was born I ventured into fitteds and AIO land. Then back to strictly hemp prefolds and wool soakers for another year and now that my second is approaching training I've picked up a few fitteds and am leaning more towards wool covers with snap-ins instead of the prefolds.

I get bored of same-old same-old and like to have some new goodies now and again. Heck it's only been approx. 15000 diaper changes!

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RunnerDuck

Discussion Starter · #17 · Oct 1, 2003

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Care to share your night time system?

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Originally posted by polihaupt
I

my UBCPFs!! I actually bought some cute fitted and AIOs to give them a try and NOTHING compares to CPFS! They are trim, absorbent and so versatile!!
Mu night system is almost perfect (my baby is dry after 8 hours, but I am looking for something for longer than that). I am sure adding wool liner will do it!!

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boobykinmamma

· #18 · Oct 1, 2003

That's all I've ever used! I tried fitteds, found them to be a pita to snap and not as absorbent as prefolds, and too bulky. With ds, I used prefolds and proraps, with dd we're doing snappi'd prefolds and bummis pull-on covers, which I love, although we usually go coverless at home. I'm also having fun crocheting soakers. I tried a pocket diaper from a wahm, but it was way too small to stuff with anything but the insert it came with, and dd soaked it through in a couple hours, so now I just use fleece liners, which I cut in an hourglass shape, and they work just as well as a pocket dipe for way less money.

Quindin

· #19 · Oct 1, 2003

Here it goes:

Premium UBCPF on a bikini fold (pinned or snappied)
+
Hemp/fleece fabric cut into the size of a premium CPF, folded in 1/2 and then trifolded (totalling 6 layers of hemp)
+
Fleece liner topping it all
+
Dappi Pull on cover

BULKY, yet VERY functional for my heavy wetter 5 month old who nurses all night long and sleeps 8 hours.
As I said before, he feels dry in the morning, though the front part of the diaper is wet. I wonder if my baby would feel dry if he stayed longer in this combo, but I am sure the Dappi would definetely NOT leak.

RunnerDuck

Discussion Starter · #20 · Oct 1, 2003

All right, I dread looking stupid here but... by hemp/fleece do you mean hemp or fleece, or something that is hemp on one side and fleece on the other?

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Originally posted by polihaupt
Here it goes:

Premium UBCPF on a bikini fold (pinned or snappied)
+
Hemp/fleece fabric cut into the size of a premium CPF, folded in 1/2 and then trifolded (totalling 6 layers of hemp)
+
Fleece liner topping it all
+
Dappi Pull on cover

BULKY, yet VERY functional for my heavy wetter 5 month old who nurses all night long and sleeps 8 hours.
As I said before, he feels dry in the morning, though the front part of the diaper is wet. I wonder if my baby would feel dry if he stayed longer in this combo, but I am sure the Dappi would definetely NOT leak.

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