Anyone use cloth diapers?

[Oceana]

They still have them, at least they did 11 years ago. (services)

Im telling you, theyre a mess. Theyre super inconvenient, and not as absorbant as disposables. I hated them, and I think I used them 2 weeks?

Oh goodness, compairing cloth diapers 11 years ago is like compairing polyester fibers from 11 years ago... they have come a long way!

Here is my cloth diaper experience.

I decided to cloth diaper before my 1st child was born just over 3 1/2 years ago. My choice was because I wanted to save money. I also had concerns about fertility... we dont know why but fertility issues in both men and woman are at an all time high... what leads to this I dont know be it the food we eat or the chemicals in our babies diapers... I dont want my children to have these issues so my parenting choice was to get rid of as many chemicals coming into contact with my children as I could control. I also happen to be one of those environmental hippy types so creating less garbage is a good thing.

The newborn diapers I use are kissaluvs newborns size 0 they fit like a dream have a snap down for the umbilical chord and are cute as the dickens. I used a wool cover with these and was very happy. I breast fed my babys so as long as the baby is 100% breast fed the poop is totally water soluble just toss in the wash and you need not worry again. I never even had stains from meconium

once my babies are a little larger I use Fuzzibuns... they are PUL outers with a fleece inside which creates a pocket. you fill the pocket with whatever you want... hemp prefold or a microfiber or cotton or whatever. Once baby is on solid poops the poop rolls right off the fleece... no swishing in the toilet just open over the toilet and it falls in. I stuff mine with hemp trifolds and they do great over night and all day

I have been cloth diapering for 3 1/2 years non stop. I spent $1000 on diapers total... My diapers have been used on 3 children to date... thats $333 per kid for the entire diaper years! sure I pay to wash them but that amount is very insigificant compaired to what other people pay monthly for disposables

I use cloth wipes and make my own wipes solution. Washing diapers takes very little time. Dump them in the wash, run a cold wash with no detergent, make dinner, when dinner is ready I pop the diapers on for a hot wash and a double rinse with the tiniest amount of detergent as I can muster. When we have eaten and cleaned up I toss them in the dryer and they are ready by morning. Wipes wash right along with the diapers.

I have wetbags that I put dirty diapers in while out and about. drop the poop off in a toilet and put teh diaper in the wetbag.

Breast fed baby poop does NOT smell like formula baby poop... so in a day care or school situation you have a very differrent pail situation than a breast fed cloth diaper pail. If smell is an issue you can drop a little ball called a diaper buddy or a little arm and hammer baking soda and the smell is almost nill

On many packages of disposable diapers it will say in the instructions that poop should be removed from the diaper and diaper bombs should not be made... wrapping the diaper into the sealed diaper bomb puts years on the diaper to break down and decompose.

Cloth kids do potty train earlier on average. My eldest was potty learned at 22 months old and did not regress when his brother was born 3 months later. He would occationally have accidents but is 100% at 3 years

My youngest is totally nonverbal but will ask to use the potty using baby sign at 16 months... I am a busy mom of 2 so he only is currently only using the potty at night after dinner till bedtime... 8p-10p because life is too busy to see the signs before daddy is home

Fuzzibuns are snap diapers so you know what fit you get every single time unlike tabs on disposables

and cloth is cute as the dickens! you can get fancy soakers with pictures sewn on or hot pink or black or an adorable print for the holiday

we even cloth diapered while at Walt Disney World!

Here are some photos
1 year old in Fuzzibun note the snaps

Newborn in kissaluv and wool cover

6 month old in adorable cloth diaper with plaid cover and baby legs

 

[Oceana]

I used cloth diapers 21 years ago and washed them myself. I think I soaked them in borax in the diaper pail and then used Dreft. I didn't have time to read all the replies hre, so maybe this was mentioned already, but I used something called diaper liners. They were kind of a tightly woven disposable cloth, like a "Handi-wipe" type thing, to line the diaper and then the....how do I put this delicately.....messiest part of the diaper was contained in that and thrown away. So only liquids made it to the diaper itself. Made it easier for me. I really liked how soft they were on the baby.

Borax is not used now adays, washers are better now

you can get rice paper liners for poop, rice paper and falls off the diaper along with the poop =)

 

[Jen_in_NH]

Thanks everybody! There's so much info around that it's hard to sort through. Thanks for all your help!

Jen

 

[luvsmickeymouse]

I used them for my kids, now 16 and 19. When we vacationed or went out, it was disposables. No diaper service, did it all myself, had no dryer, hung them out to dry. I used disposables at night also. It saved alot of money. My kids never had a rash or anything. I also made all my own baby food. The only thing that I bought was baby cereal. And formula, of course. My kids are adopted and were almost a year old when they came home so I didn't have a newborn.