We began using cloth diapers about a month after Mars came home from the hospital. My parents bought us 6 months of diaper service as a shower gift. Diaper service is awesome! If it weren't outrageously expensive we would have continued it until Marley was potty trained. However, at the end of August we had a choice to make: do we try cloth diapering on our own, or do we go the disposable route?
Now, we are not completely anti-disposable. We use them at night, when we travel, and when we're going to be out all day. After all, who wants to have to rinse a poopy diaper at a restaurant? But, when our diaper service ran out, we decided to go for the cloth. I bought a set of unbleached Chinese prefolds (pictured above), borrowed and bought several diaper covers, and after a few initial hitches (mostly having to do with figuring out how to wash them), it's actually been surprisingly easy.
However, now that Mars is pushing 25 lbs, and rapidly growing out of the diapers that have cushioned his behind for the last seven months, we come to another fork in the road. And...we have decided to continue down this path of cloth diapering. I'm searching online this week to try and find a good deal. Toddler size diapers appear to be a bit more expensive than infant size, so if anyone has any hints on where to look, I'd love to hear them! Wish me luck!
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This is the person I was telling you about. She's a couple of blocks from Seattle Center.
http://babysbottomline.com/index.php
She has a sale going on prefolds (you have to email her for info) and she offers a discount if you pay with cash and pick up in Seattle.
One note: stay AWAY from the Green Earth (or something like that) diaper covers--we had TERRIBLE luck with them falling apart. We LOVE the Stacinator So Simple covers--they're a little more pricey, but you can snap them on and off or use them as a pull-on/off cover (which is apparently helpful in the potty training stage of things!)
what about this place?
http://nickisdiapers.com/catalog.php?category=214
#7 unbleached prefold $32.50
I would love to order Marley some diapers are they the right ones?
Thanks for the tip, Kristie! I'll check them out.
Mom, those look great, but that's way too expensive! I found some on clearance on another website. I'll send you the link.
Wow, I have been looking at diaper sites ever since you posted Marley has a bigger bottom now. haha Just wanted to say I have learned a lot about diapers, did you know never use fabric softner? Also, new diapers need to be washed several times before use, so they will be more absorbent, and softer? I always knew *Older was better*! But I never knew they ment in the diaper department.
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