Cloth Diaper mama's

Following. I have a pile of them donated, and ready to wash

A friend of mine cloth diapered, and I was originally thinking about doing it too. My friend mentioned a good point which is that you don’t have to be 100% one or the other, just do what’s best for you. For her, she cloth diapered at home but used disposables when out of the house, for ease. I don’t know why but it never occurred to me that you could use both 😂😂

hi! I cloth did cloth with my first. still am! honestly, they are a bit of work laundry wise but if you're OK with that and can get a good system going, 100% worth it! I decided to go part-time with them. so I use cloth during the day and use disposables at night or when I'm out and about. I wasn't too confident with night cloth nappies. I was afraid of leaks and constant bed changes, so I just stuck with disposable overnight! I also didn't start them straight away. newborns are so small, and I struggled to get a good snug fit on them. I started around 4 months and took me a while to get the hang of it, but I got there! if you are interested, there's a fb group called 'mcn tips and tricks', which I found helpful! there's a lot of brands out there as well! do your research behind them!

Following... due in December and want to use them as well.

Hi - I use cloth with my first and I’m pregnant with my second and 100% plan to cloth with this one as well. My first is a year old almost and has never been in a disposable. I also use cloth wipes.

It is a bit of work laundry wise. If you EBF for the first 6 months or however long you don’t have to rinse them BF poop is water soluble. If not BF you do shave to rinse the poop off. I just throw them in, put a soak mode on, and ran it twice. Once without soap once with. Then I dry inserts on medium for and hour and hang the diapers themselves to dry. Once dry I take them upstairs and have a basket for inserts and a basket for diapers and tbh if I’m feeling extra lazy they stay there and I build diapers as needed. Otherwise for me, stuffing 60 diapers takes roughly an hour +.

You have to wash you inserts 6-8 times before they absorb as much as they can. So before my son was born I just ran all my inserts at once 8 times.

It took a bit of work, but you can absolutely use them overnight without leaks. I have a stack that can last him about 12 hours as a heavy wetter. Bamboo absorbs a lot but not very fast. Hemp absorbs not a lot but very fast, cotton and microfiber absorbs really fast but not a lot and has compression leaks. Find what works best in your house for your little. I personally use pocket diapers, I have to stuff them which is where my knowledge is. But there’s others all in on, all in 2, pocket, preflats and covers, all work wonderfully oh just have no experience in them.

You want a load to be like 1/2 - 3/4 full to get them clean because otherwise you’re just kinda flipping them around. I wash them with his clothes usually and they don’t stink or stain anything.

Every brand will fit differently just like disposables, find the ones that work best for you and yours.

In my opinion, it’s the best decision I ever made and I will never use a disposable.

If you have any questions feel free to ask I have struggled and fought to get where I am with these diapers and now it’s finally smooth sailing. With another I’ll have to learn all over again, but SO worth it!

My cloth journey was accidental. I had 10 boxes of gifted disposables, went through 2 Nb boxes and he had a red terrible bleeding rash that wouldn’t go away. My heart was in pain for him- I thought F it Ima get some cloth diapers and give that a trial and see how i go. A couple days in it completely disappeared w no creams so I bought more and stuck w them and everything on my IG page was cloth cloth cloth so it drew the attention of other cloth mamas and before I knew it the whole account was cloth diapers 😂

My advice is to get the osfm cloth wash it all but get maybe 1-2 boxes of NB disposables for those early weeks as we are recovering and healing and when life is a bit more settled and less sleep deprived then jump into the cloth- FT, PT, up to you. But give yourself some slack in the first few weeks plus if a small baby won’t fit into osfm immediate anyway. 1 box lasts about 2w. Breastfed poop is actually all water soluble so no rinsing needed you can throw that in as is.

And the cloth wipes are a life changer I’m glad I swapped that as well. I’m able to dip that in warm thermos water for night feeds he got warm wipes that cleaned up his bum quickly.

Wow! thank you for all this advice! I really appreciate it!