![]() I only hoped to provide a quick overview to get you thinking about your own diapering choices. Now, this isn’t meant to be an all-inclusive look into cloth diapers there are many other pros/cons I could discuss. One extra load every few days that does not need to be folded (my least favorite - alright, most hated - part of laundry) truly doesn’t occupy that much extra time. Aren’t You Doing Laundry All the Time?!Īgain, let’s be real… With a family that includes a toddler and an infant, I’m doing laundry all the time anyway. We invested in a diaper sprayer - which attaches to the toilet and is very similar to a shower sprayer it allows you to spray the poop down the potty. Once Sweet Baby Girl(s) was big enough and eating foods, the #2 could be dropped into the toilet and flushed away. By the time it was wash time, we were able to dump the water, and all the grossness with it, down our toilet (And, hey: back into the sewage system is where poop is supposed to go - not into land fills soaking into our clean water source. We put the liners in a bucket of water and nightly, or every other night, did a load of diapers. That said, here’s the routine we acquired through our learning process:īreastfed baby poop is water-soluble and doesn’t need to be rinsed/soaked before washing. Let’s be real… Whether you’re using disposable or reusable diapers, changing poopy diapers is gross. NAEYC is very strict on this - but since they can throw away the inserts, they’re happy.) Our disposable liners are biodegradable and flushable too! Woo-hoo!Īnd now to the last two big questions… Isn’t it Gross to Touch All That Poop?! Win-win! (Most daycares will not allow reusable diapers because of sanitary issues. *This is the one we chose- and we LOVE it! Our NAEYC daycare allows the disposable liners, and we use the reusable liners while we’re at home. The beauty of hybrid diapers is that they can be used with reusable liners (absorbent pad) OR disposable liners. I like to think of these as “hammock” diapers, because the absorbent pad is against the baby’s skin, sitting in a waterproof hammock. ![]() The pocket is usually fleece, which allows moisture to wick away from the baby’s skin into the absorbent pad. Similar to the all-in-one, but the cover has a pocket to stuff a removable absorbent pad into. The absorbent part is either permanent or snapped into the cover. The absorbent part and the cover are together in one product. They can be broken down into three sub-categories: These are shaped more like disposable diapers, with the absorbing material and the cover together. (There are newer styles of closers, so you don’t need to use pins anymore.) This kind does require a waterproof outside/cover. Flat piece of fabric, thicker int he middle, fold onto baby and clip into place. This is a fancy name for your grandmother’s cloth diapers. Let’s start easy and break them down into two categories: PREFOLDS There are a few types of cloth diapers out there and a multitude of brands. For the sake of this article, I’ll keep it simple!Īlright, now to the burning question… How to Cloth Diaper? If you’d like to know the breakdown, I’m sure he has a spread sheet somewhere and would be more than happy to share it with you. (Part of our cost is also because the type of diaper we have chosen, but I’ll get to that in a minute.) We’re able to cloth-diaper baby #2 essentially for free. ![]() But the big savings come with the following child(ren), because then there are no “start-up” costs. For us, for our first child, we’re saving a few hundred dollars over the course of the expected 2 years in diapers. With some help from my number crunching hubby, we broke it down diaper-for-diaper. In a household with one child in diapers, disposable diapers account for up to 50% of the household waste! And, though no one knows for sure, estimates say disposable diapers will take anywhere from 250-500 years to decompose! Because I was having a hard time imagining all that waste just hanging out in a landfill somewhere. Because I’m cheap (okay, maybe thrifty is a better word!)Ģ. I originally started looking into cloth diapers for two reasons:ġ. To begin, let’s discuss the “why”… Why Cloth Diapers? I by no means consider myself an expert, but I encourage you to keep reading, and maybe you’ll think I’m not so crazy anymore. I spent hours reading and researching all the different kinds of diapers before my sweet little baby girl was born. But cloth diapering isn’t what it used to be! Doctors’ Notes Back Cloth Diapers When we decided - really I decided, then got Hubby onboard - to cloth diaper, our friends and family thought we were crazy.
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