I’ve been wanting to try cloth diapers since this guy was born, but with two others kids and work it’s just been hard for me to commit. Thanks Mama gave me a Thirsties Duo All-in-One cloth diaper to test out, and I loved it! So easy to use (no inserts or anything). I used it like a disposable diaper, but it’s so much more stylish.
I’m planning to use cloth diapers more – starting with 1-2 diapers a day and then work our way up to full time.
Do you cloth diaper? If so, tell me your favorite type and brand.
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Totally … for 11 years! Motherease, but I fell into them, they aren’t necessarily my fave … I was just too lazy and cheap to try others and now my 5th might be my last and he’s been in disposables for quite a while since the Motherease won’t hold his night pees … good luck! Yours are so cute!
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What a cutie!
My favorite diapers are my Bitti Tuttos because they are incredibly absorbent. I also LOVE Sunbaby diapers (which are pocket diapers) because of how reasonably priced they are.
Welcome to the world of CDing =)
Little cute baby!
I timidly began trying cloth diapering when my second child was 4 months old. There’s a learning curve to it, and a lot of information to pick up, but now I love it! I didn’t know what I wanted and I didn’t have a local store or other resource, I was buying totally online, so I bought one of this brand, one of that, whatever I found on sale. I also bought gently used or factory irregulars/seconds whenever I could. I mostly went with pocket diapers, and some covers with prefolds and a collection of random assorted inserts. I also have a few fitteds for overnight. Now, 5 months in, I’m liking the prefold/cover combination best, partly because I can currently use the prefolds for all kinds of alternative jobs (like a makeshift bib or wipe), and when I’m done diapering I can reuse them for cleaning cloths or whatever. The pockets are best for other caregivers who aren’t as practiced with cloth diapering, though. I also learned that I much prefer snaps — hate velcro in the laundry! — but Go Green Diapers makes a snap-to-velcro converter set that works on some other brands , too (I don’t actually own any Go Green diapers — I use the converter strips on my Rumparooz and my Flip covers).
I did cloth diaper…all 4 of my babies! But I used a cloth diaper service that picked up my dirties once a week and left me a stack of clean ones. I loved using cloth and sorta, kinda, strangely miss those days.
Wow, that’s amazing, Christine. Since I’m only doing it part time, I’m washing it myself but it’s not too bad.