We Cloth Diaper

Not sure if you remember the post, but while I was pregnant I started looking into Cloth diapers.  It was a random question that I received from my father that got me interested in researching.  He simply asked me "So do you plan to use cloth or disposables?"  I had immediately answered "disposables" and he said "Oh good, because those cloth diapers sure can stink like ammonia."

Huh. Go figure.  I know that first hand now, but it has in no way discouraged me!

 Ok, truth be told diapers are diapers and they stink.  I am in no way going to disguise the grossness that is diapers.  This post will mainly focus on our "stash" of diapers.

When Liam was itty bitty he had a few things going on that made me want to use disposables (his umbilical cord and his healing circumcision).  Luckily, I had a bunch of sposies that were gifts from my baby showers.  So he was wearing sposies for the first week and a half and I HATED them.  Maybe it was inexperience but it seemed every time I put him in a diaper it would leak the minute he peed.  Out the leg, out the back, up the front.  Huggies leaked worse than the Pampers, but the Pampers left little globules of diaper jell on his body all the time.  I was not a fan of little chemicals filled with pee attached to his body, especially since they were really hard to wipe off of him.  So once I felt he was all healed I slapped his first cloth diaper on him.

Ok, I thought he kinda looked a bit funny those first few times.  With his big fluffy bum, and I got a few comments on facebook on how big the diaper looked on him.  But I had no leaks and Matt even mentioned how he seemed much happier in them, didn't cry the minute he peed to get his diaper changed.  Here is a picture of him wearing the diapers that I got him for his newborn stage.

Its a thirsties XS cover with a prefold trifolded inside.  These were Matt's favorite diaper because it has the velco and were super absorbent and had double gussets in the legs to catch his newborn poops if any escaped the first gusset.  Plus it had elastic in both the front and back of the diaper providing even more protection.  

Unfortunately, Liam has grown out of these covers (I only bought 3 of them because I knew they wouldn't last long but they were the only ones that fit him for the first few weeks) 

These are the newborn covers.  You can kind of see the double gussets on the one that is laying on top.  I paid $7 bucks a cover for these and made them my Christmas present from Santa (yeah... I'm that nerdy about my diapers that they were my Christmas present). 

Since the Thirsties are only covers inside I have what we call in the cloth diaper world "inserts." 

These are a whole bunch of the "inserts" we have 12 cotton prefolds and 10 flip stay dry inserts. Which makes 22 diapers total with the Cover/insert system. 

Surprisingly, this my Matt's favorite system.  I thought he would like the pocket diapers we got instead because they are just like disposables.  If he ever does a diaper change Liam ends up in the cover/insert.  Once he outgrew the thirsties covers we started using our One-Size Flip covers.  These covers should last until he is potty trained because they adjust as he grows.  

We have 5 of these covers, which is plenty with the 22 inserts and is probably all we really need (I shouldn't let my husband read that). 

Here Liam is in a Flip cover with Flip insert sleeping next to all of his diapers. 

And this is how the inserts look in both the Thirsties and the Flip covers. 

Flip cover with trifolded Prefold. 

Thirsties cover with a Flip staydry insert.

Man.  Am I boring you yet? 

Anyways... since Liam will be at daycare for almost 40 hours each week I wanted to have daycare friendly diapers as well.  So... I introduce our pocket diapers.  These work just like disposables.  You just slap it on the kid with either velcro or snaps.  We have 22 of these as well.  14 Bumgenius One-Size diapers (will last till potty training) and 8 sunbaby one-size diapers.  They are called pockets because they have a little pocket that you stuff absorbent inserts in.  For daycare I will have them all prestuffed so all they have to do is use them like they would a disposable.  

Here are the Sunbaby diapers.  They are my favorite because they come in such cute designs and I like the snaps (Matt doesn't). 

These are the bumgenius diapers.  They are velcro and have pastel colors.. and yes.. we have a pink one.  I bought these all used because I couldn't afford the $18 retail value per diaper brand new and one of the sellers included a pink diaper (oh well.. he's a baby he will get over it).  

All 22 of our pocket diapers.  

This is how the One-Size system works with the pockets.  Growing from fitting 8lbs to 36 pounds. 

Here is all of our different "kinds" of diapers on the inside.  Starting on the left we have the Flip, Thirsties, Sunbaby, and Bumgenius. 

Inside of the Sunbaby (it has a micro fleece lining that wicks away the moisture so Liam feels dry when he pees)

Inside of the Bumgenius.  This has a microsuede lining that keeps Liam dry the same way the sunbaby diaper does. 

Liam doing his "starfish" sleeping pose in his Flip diaper. 

That pretty much sums up all of our Cloth diapers... but that really isn't the end.  Thats just our "stash."