We are expecting our first child this year (yay!) and in all the bits and pieces that make a baby's life go round we are at an impasse about cloth or disposable diapers?
Were any of your children raised on cloth diapers? Did you try cloth and switch to disposable?
What are the pros and cons?
Do you have any recommended brands to fill out my numbers after I run out of home made pairs?
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[–] NoTrueScotsman 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Congratulations!
I use the prefold style ones, not the new fancy styles. I use a mix of plastic covers and wool longies. I also use a snappi closure, with the bottom foot cut off. The hand-me-down prefolds I got are OsoCozy brand, I think. The ones I bought are Green Mountain Diapers brand.
I find them easier to clean than I expected. I just wash once on cold without soap, then run it again on hot with soap, and dry. I throw dirties into a wet/dry bag I hang from the doorknob. The only thing that is work is poops now that my baby eats a little solid food. We got a bidet sprayer and a plastic shield with a clip to help with that, so it's quick and simple, so long as I can have the baby safe in another room for a minute. We also do elimination communication, so my 7 month old poops in the potty instead of his diaper (unless I'm too exhausted to put him on it in the early morning), which I much prefer.
The wool longies require more work than the diapers, but I like how fast they make diaper changes and how they let his skin breathe, plus they are cute, and I am proud that I can make them myself, so I keep using them.
Eucalan brand soap made hand washing much easier for me, too if you decide to go that route. You just squish it a bit, soak, then let dry, no need to rinse.
We didn't start cloth until the meconium was gone, though I've heard that isn't as big a deal as I was led to believe. We also will use disposables if we go away for like a weekend, but I really miss the cloth when we do. The disposables we've had stink even when clean, and I don't like the texture. I think they're Pampers.