Monday, March 15, 2010

Journeying into Cloth Diapers

I've been thinking of cloth diapering this next little one and have been doing lots of reading about it. We have a friend at church who cloth diapers and she's been very helpful with ideas. I decided to try it out on Grace. I got a sample pack of prefold diapers with covers and a few all in one diapers. These are like regular disposable diapers with the ease of putting them on.

The washing is a little more than regular but when you add up how much you can save over disposable AND not add to landfills it's a great idea!
Here is Grace in a prefold cloth diaper with a cute flower cover. I think I got them too big because they are really bulky and give her a huge booty!
She doesn't like to wait for me to figure out how to put them on her but then she's impatient for disposables too. But once I get it on her she's fine. We've had a few leaks but again, that's operator error as I'm still learning.

The All In One diapers (bumgenious) are great! they don't leak and she can wear them all night. I have enough to diaper her for two days but not really enough for long term. The great thing is that #2 can use these too! I'll slowly add to the stash and if we decide this is for us you'll see some new favorite blogs on the sidebar. :)

2 comments:

Rebekah Hubley said...

Shan-

How big do they make these? Micah would love to be in underwear, but his bladder is just not there yet. I would love it if they had boy ones that would fit. he wears a 4t/5t pullup and I know he would love not wearing a pull-up to school anymore and I need just a little more protection for him then just underwear. He never ever has poop accidents and I would LOVE to save the $ on buying pull=ups. Ryan and I joke that if we ever get everyone out of pull-ups and diapers, we could go on a cruise and pay cash for it... :-) Luca is potty trained except at nights and naps, so I almost have 2 out of 4 out... :-) Let me know...

Rebekah Hubley said...

Shan-

How big do they make these? Micah would love to be in underwear, but his bladder is just not there yet. I would love it if they had boy ones that would fit. he wears a 4t/5t pullup and I know he would love not wearing a pull-up to school anymore and I need just a little more protection for him then just underwear. He never ever has poop accidents and I would LOVE to save the $ on buying pull=ups. Ryan and I joke that if we ever get everyone out of pull-ups and diapers, we could go on a cruise and pay cash for it... :-) Luca is potty trained except at nights and naps, so I almost have 2 out of 4 out... :-) Let me know...