Cloth Diapering

[msts1]

We use cloth diapers and we love the difference that it makes. It costs less and they don't smell like disposables do when wet. We started using flat diapers and by the third child now have some diapers that function just like disposables but you wash the whole thing. We are the only one among all of out friends and familly that use them. I was wondering how many other familys use them besides us.

[mommathea]

We've used them for all 4 of our kids. I like using disposable at night. The slept better without wet diapers, not matter what I tried there was not beating the disposable for night time.
My favorites are the regular prefolds with nylon pullover covers.
I like the flats for newborns.

[CarolynRenee]

I use cloth diapers on my 11 month old & have since we brought her home from the hosptial at 1 month old (born 2 months preemie). I do use the disposable diapers when we go out or go to grandma's house & during the night, so it's not exactly 100% cloth use for us.

I use FuzzyBuns diapers, they are expensive, but I have a friend who works for the company & I get the "seconds". Love them to death.

I find it very helpful that we've been potty training our little one for the past three+ months. She still has some wet diapers, but she's only had three or four poopy diapers in the past several months. Makes it much easier on the cleaning of those cloth diapers.

[farmerbrian]

We use Cloth diapers. Tried several brands, decided on BumGenious. FuzzyBuns leaked badly. We have friend that prefers Fuzzybuns over bumgenious though, guess its just depends on how a brand fits an individual kid....I hope hte BumGenious ones work out for on next kid because they are an expensive initial investment.

Carolyn you are potty training an 11 month old?! For three months!!? Im impressed!

[myheaven]

I have been c-d for 7 years and 5 kids. I have tried so many diapers. My mil gave me a2 g diapers with extra snap in liner. G diapers are a hybred and by far the best diapers I have ever came across hands down even better that the bumgenius. The even work over night without leaks. I use my infant size dsq prefold from 7 years ago inside my g diapers with antipill microfleece cloth on top baby is totaly dry no leaks and as easy as a disposable. go look on gdiapers.com . you can even get the flushable throw away inserts for the diapers. they work awesome. there is no plastic so they biodigrade in 1 year unlike normal diapers. Check it out.

[IndyGardenGal]

I had Fuzzibunz with my first daughter and prefolds and homemade cloth diapers with my youngest. I loved the homemade ones the best. They stayed dryer and fit perfectly, not to mention they cost A LOT less. I just bought some nice covers to go over them.

[Maura]

I used cloth diapers many years ago. What a cost savings! Now, my DD uses cloth on my grandson.

[Ann-NWIowa]

I used cloth diapers for my 3. I'm not sure when Pampers were invented but until #3 in 1971 I wasn't aware of them. By then I had an automatic washer and dryer so saw no need for spending money on throw aways. I later had 4 foster babies and also used cloth for them. I did use disposable for them when traveling or when they visited their mothers. With #1 I washed diapers by hand in a tub in the middle of the kitchen floor so cloth diapers with a washer were not problem at all!!

I deplore the waste of money and disposal issues which border on environmental disaster that disposal diapers represent. If parents would put the $'s spent on 2 to 3 years of disposal diapers into a savings account for their children by age 18 they'd have a good college fund.

[Peacock]

I used cloth diapers with my two. I started out just using tri-folds with the traditional vinyl pants. I did this because we were pretty much broke and it saved a lot of money, esp. when I line dried. Of course, lots of folks thought I was nuts. Oh well.

When I went back to work after maternity leave (with my first baby . . . with the second I never went back) I signed up with a diaper service. But it wasn't as convenient as I'd hoped and the chemicals they used gave my daughter a rash, so I just went back to doing it myself.

I used disposables when we went out someplace though, and whenever my parents babysat.

I think I'd do it again, even if money weren't so much of an issue. I just hated the idea of tossing out so many plastic diapers!

[NamasteMama]

I love cloth! I have used it for several of my children, its save money, less waste, just good all around. I even came up with my own design applied for a patent on it and am selling it i love them so much. ;0)

[CarolynRenee]

Originally Posted by farmerbrian

Carolyn you are potty training an 11 month old?! For three months!!? Im impressed!

Well, it's not like she can get up & go to the potty herself, but I look for signs that she has to go, take the diaper off & sit her on the training seat & make a "psssssssssssss" noise. Like I said, it's not 100% accurate, but it saves a lot of messy diapers. It takes some real "elimination communication" (look that up online for more info., I love that term! ), but well worth it I think if you have the time. I'm a stay at home mom, so that's helps alot.

[dancingfatcat]

Originally Posted by CarolynRenee

I use cloth diapers on my 11 month old & have since we brought her home from the hosptial at 1 month old (born 2 months preemie). I do use the disposable diapers when we go out or go to grandma's house & during the night, so it's not exactly 100% cloth use for us.

I use FuzzyBuns diapers, they are expensive, but I have a friend who works for the company & I get the "seconds". Love them to death.

I find it very helpful that we've been potty training our little one for the past three+ months. She still has some wet diapers, but she's only had three or four poopy diapers in the past several months. Makes it much easier on the cleaning of those cloth diapers.

Seriously, you can't potty train a baby at 8 mo. old! They don't have control over there little bodies yet.
Yes, I used cloth diapers on all of my children.
My oldest daughter was potty trained at 18mo., whereas my second daughter wasnt' till almost 3. Most children aren't anywhere near ready for traing that till almost 2. Just MO of course.

[mouso]

Originally Posted by CarolynRenee

Well, it's not like she can get up & go to the potty herself, but I look for signs that she has to go, take the diaper off & sit her on the training seat & make a "psssssssssssss" noise. Like I said, it's not 100% accurate, but it saves a lot of messy diapers. It takes some real "elimination communication" (look that up online for more info., I love that term! ), but well worth it I think if you have the time. I'm a stay at home mom, so that's helps alot.

Originally Posted by dancingfatcat

Seriously, you can't potty train a baby at 8 mo. old! They don't have control over there little bodies yet.
Yes, I used cloth diapers on all of my children.
My oldest daughter was potty trained at 18mo., whereas my second daughter wasnt' till almost 3. Most children aren't anywhere near ready for traing that till almost 2. Just MO of course.

Oh, yes, you can! One of my good friends did EC with her DD and she was out of diapers for good at 12 months! I played with it a bit but was too lazy to stick with it. It's what people in many other countries do (in China they even make clothes that are split open for easy pottying!)

We cloth diaper here too, except for night. I love cloth!

[TedH71]

I think one country...maybe Papua New Guinea..they don't use diapers. They let dogs and pigs lick their infants CLEAN! Not for me though.

[CarolynRenee]

Originally Posted by dancingfatcat

Seriously, you can't potty train a baby at 8 mo. old! They don't have control over there little bodies yet.
Yes, I used cloth diapers on all of my children.
My oldest daughter was potty trained at 18mo., whereas my second daughter wasnt' till almost 3. Most children aren't anywhere near ready for traing that till almost 2. Just MO of course.

Well, just woke up to the little one fussing a bit. Took her to the potty, made the "psssssss" noise, and wha'da'ya'know.....in less than a minute, she was poop'n! No mess in the diaper this morning. And I truly believe that if I had even waited a few more minutes that she would have held it until I got her to the potty. All babies are different, but it is true about the infants (younger than mine) in China. My BF went to China for a year on business & almost all the babies were "potty trained". It's not like they hold it & hold it until you let them go, it's about learning to see the signs that they are ready to go.

Sorry, didn't mean to hijack the cloth diaper thread.....but if you can potty train early, why not? Saves plastic diapers if you use them & saves water/chemiclas if you cloth diaper!

[luv2farm]

I used clothe on my 2 boys. But,supplemented with the others when we went to trips, etc.

By the way.........My sister is 1 year (12 months and 2 weeks) younger than I. I was completely potty trained, and had been for 2 months, when she was born. My mom was not gonna wash diapers for 2 kids.

[Kris in MI]

I cloth diapered all my kids (now 20, 16, 15 and 12). When they had to go to day care (two of them) I had to send disposables there, but at home we used cloth.

Two of them also had sensitive skin, so I could not bleach their diapers. Rinsing out immediately after taking off took care of any staining problems, and hanging out in the sun to dry kept them pretty white.

[reese]

We used cloth diapers for our youngest, and I so wished we had done so with the older two. What a difference all around. We even had great results with night time cloth diapering, but this was 6-7 years ago...when cloth diapering was really changing for easement and endurance.

Then again, I'm one of them parents that never minded changing diapers in middle of the night...did that even with disposables with my older two.

[bluefish]

I did cloth with my DD, now 8. Loved it! I also did the EC thing, had her pretty much trained at 6 mo. Then we moved and that screwed everything up, but she was dry during the day by 12 mo and completely off diapers by 18 mo. If we ever get to have another one, it'll be cloth all the way.

[BUDSMOM]

Originally Posted by ann-nwiowa

i used cloth diapers for my 3. I'm not sure when pampers were invented but until #3 in 1971 i wasn't aware of them. By then i had an automatic washer and dryer so saw no need for spending money on throw aways. I later had 4 foster babies and also used cloth for them. I did use disposable for them when traveling or when they visited their mothers. With #1 i washed diapers by hand in a tub in the middle of the kitchen floor so cloth diapers with a washer were not problem at all!!

I deplore the waste of money and disposal issues which border on environmental disaster that disposal diapers represent. If parents would put the $'s spent on 2 to 3 years of disposal diapers into a savings account for their children by age 18 they'd have a good college fund.

i can tell you exactly when pampers hit rockford, il. February 1967. I had a 6 week old son and was planning to travel to monticello, utah to meet my ex-husband who was in the army stationed in germany. He had, of course, not seen the baby. I took the train to denver, co, transferred to another train to grand junction, co and then a late night bus onto utah. Quite q trip for a young mom with a small baby and lots of baggage.

The day before we left, i went to the old spartan discount store in rockford, and they had a huge display of pampers piled right to the ceiling. Brand new. First time i had even seen them, and had not even seen them on tv yet. They had to be pinned with safety pins, which as the child got older, bigger and more active, became a real pain. The idea was to dip the soiled diaper in the toilet to remove the waste and paper insides(it make kind of a paper slurry) and then throw away the plastic outsides. Being a good mommy, i found myself doing this in strange restrooms on this trip. They were really a godsend for my trip tho. Along with the ready to use enfamil. I think they were around 3.00 a box.

My son is 43 now. Imagine what the world would be like if we had dipped these diapers in the world's plumbing all these years.

There were a few brands of disposable diapers before this, i think curity had one called chux, but they were expensive and not widely used. Pampers was the big one.