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[–] varialus 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I once heard of some company that does like a sampler pack or something so you can see how thy work for ya.

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[–] jimibulgin ago 

Not worth it, imho.

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[–] beece ago  (edited ago)

We started with cloth and wanted to go all natural etc etc. The first time you lil one wears disposables to bed and sleeps all night instead of waking you up at least twice due to being damned uncomfortable and needing to be changed at 1am and 4 am, you will never use another cloth diaper. Furthermore, once you see the horrific diaper rash that cloth can cause, you won't use them again. So try the cloth, try the disposable. You can figure that one out. Congrats on the lil one coming, may health follow all of his/her life.

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[–] by2inthemorning 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Wanna hear a funny story? My mom told me with (first kid now so I didnt know anything) that you have to change the diaper (diposables) every 1/2 hour so that she wouldnt get diaper rashes. So I did. It wasnt until I met other moms lke a year into it that I was told that was I crazy for doing that. This one I had reusables and you still have to change at least once during the night. The pads you use really do make a difference.

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[–] Thats_not_my_dog 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Tried em. Lasted about 3 months.

Best of luck to you if you can pull it off.

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[–] TheAntiZealot ago 

I'm loving the responses to this disposable/cloth diaper topic. Thanks, OP!

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[–] by2inthemorning 0 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Congratulations on the baby!!!!!! Just jump into it. They save so much money and since this is your first kid you'll have plenty of time to learn. I used lbb( cheap) ones as a daytime , charlie banana at night. Save your homemades which are probably better as a nighttime. ( if you choose to overnight cloth diapers) . Sometimes I cheated and used disposable overnight.

They have ones that allow the children to grow into them now so you dont have to keep buying the next size up. They lasted me 2 years now but he's now outgrown them.

The cons are of course going out ..., ugh its a pain in the butt but there are wet bags to hold the dirty diaper in until you get home. If I had any and we were going somewhere I just used disposable,why make life harder than it has to be?

Oh and dont be an idiot like I was omg they make reusable swimmers!!!!!! I didnt know until I had been through like 3 packs of swimmers (right at the end of summer...of course) and then it hit me like a ton of bricks how much of an idiot I was that if they make reusable diapers there must be swimmers too.

Wait had to add an edit if the baby is a boy make sure the pee pee is pointed down. No one told me that .I read the comment from somewhere on voat a while ago and it worked .

Adding more I hand washed them most of the time because it seemed to get the pee smell out more and the best soap I found for that (imo) is the white zote bar.

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[–] beefartist 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Anyone who doesn't use cloth diapers to some extent is a sucker, or very rich. Disposables are pretty good for early on poops (meconium and stuff can stain) and over nights, travel while cheap, cloth diapers aren't much hassle and are WAY nicer on baby bums. We had very few rash/redness issues using this combo (nothing a tiny bot of coconut oil didn't solve). Also modern ones all have snaps and inserts and it takes almost NO time to throw in a load of laundry

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[–] Alreadygone 1 point 2 points (+3|-1) ago  (edited ago)

I had my heart set on using cloth but then my baby had a rather difficult temperament. I simply couldn’t put him down without him crying and I’m a big believer in responding to all crying until at least 6 months to help baby form a secure attachment. You’ll probably be up to your eyeballs taking care of your baby, trying to manage a house (using one hand because your baby will be in the other), keeping laundry clean, making meals and getting a bit of exercise here and there without adding another thing. After around 6 weeks your baby will probably only want you...especially if you’re breastfeeding. This means your husband is helping you with some basic house duties while you’re in survival mode or you’re husband is holding a fussy, crying baby who wants mom while you try to housewife. By the way, your husband will probably struggle with this much more than you do. Im grateful I listened to my husband and started with disposable because cloth diapers on top of everything else would have been a nightmare.

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[–] TradRight14 ago 

I do AP and I found that cloth diapers took me less time (but we did use a service because no w/d for the first 3 months) also I am big in to baby wearing which is huge when they are tiny and tasks need to be done but baby needs to be held.

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[–] Alreadygone ago 

I think a diaper service would make it doable. I was super excited to wear my baby but that didn’t last long. He wanted to be in my arms...and squirming...and me walking. He’s very very busy as a toddler too. The wraps were all to constricting for him. I think most moms do get to wear their babies quite a while though and that’s wonderful.

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