Basically, awesome.
We are blessed with the choice of two different cloth diapering services here in Chicago and so far I am really happy with the one we picked. The woman came out to my house to do a little demonstration on how to put on the cloth diapers, to show me a few of the different organic products (like shampoo, lotion, and butt cream), and to drop off the first batch of diapers.
We have changed what we are doing slightly, but I can talk about the two different ways to cloth diaper. The first week we used the cloth diapers on the bottom right in the picture- the beige rectangular cloth. This is how most people cloth diaper. You can search You Tube for how to fold these into diapers but you use that piece of cloth and the snappies (the package on the upper left) to hold the diaper together (instead of pins). You then put a diaper cover (any of the five shown on the upper right) over the cloth diaper. My service had a bit of a discount for us to buy either Thirsties (pictured) or wool diaper covers. The woman recommended the Thirsties while Izzy was in the beginning sizes of diapers. Later on, she recommends the wool covers because they wick better (especially overnight) and keep the kids cool in the summer and warm in the winter. However, they are more expensive and you have to take care of them.
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| Sorry for the sideways view, but stupid Blogger is being annoying and I can't fix it. And what do we do when we are out and about? Well, I bought a small wet bag at Buy Buy Baby and just stick the dirty diaper in there until we get home and can drop them in the bin. Easy peasy. So would I recommend cloth diapering? Absolutely. Obviously it helps that we have a service instead of laundering them ourselves, but I am already doing laundry every 2-3 days for Izzy's clothes/burp clothes/etc. so if we were to go that route we would just need to buy enough diapers to last a few days. So far no issues with blow-outs or diaper rash either. And I get the satisfaction of not filling up trash bags every week with disposable diapers. Win-win-win!
Did you cloth diaper or do you plan on cloth diapering?
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11 comments:
Awesome! I plan to cloth diaper and I've noticed a lot of other bloggers either plan to or are using cloth diapers. Unfortunately the diaper laundering service in my city closed down a couple years ago so we will have to do the laundry ourselves, but as you said what's a few more loads of laundry? We plan to do the pocket diapers and I've already started purchasing them.
We did! and we loved it. I went a bit crazy buying cute diapers all over the place. We just washed them in the machine. It added one more load every week and I'd stuff them while watching TV at night.
Thanks for this post...we definitely want to look into cloth diapering. I am feeling guilty about how many diapers I am throwing away every day.
Do you get your own diapers delivered back? Just wondered if you buy all your own or could they have been on some other childs butt? Apart from that lol sounds great. Cloth diapers are not that readily available in the UK though.
I do cloth diaper but we don't use a service--we clean them ourselves at home. Actually, I clean them at home--MV would have no idea how to do it.
Washing them yourself obviously requires a bit more work but I still think it's worth it. The cost benefits alone are worth my while. It's interesting to hear about a service; it sounds awesome. Thanks for sharing your experience.
I was cloth diapered and plan to do the same, so much better than cluttering the landfill!
I'm glad it's going well for you! We plan to cloth diaper, except that the daycare we're using won't use them. So-- it will be disposables for daycare and cloth at home.
Luckily, my sister gave me a bunch of diapers that my niece has outgrown, and I bought the rest at a consignment sale. I'll probably need some more eventually. We have a few kinds, since I'm not sure what I'll like best. All-in-ones, pockets, and fitteds/prefolds with covers.
I'll be washing them myself too.
I thought about cloth diapering, my MIL even bought me a few different types. IN the end I was just too lazy to bother. I feel a bit guilty, but not enough to really bother. The main diapers I do buy are a Finnish brand and quite friendly, as far as disposable diapers go. (Plus, their packaging can be used as a bio-bag once empty.)
Those diapers are so darn cute! I think I might go the cloth diaper route. ;) Thanks for the rec.
We had plans to cloth diaper and even bought a set, but for a variety of reasons ended up not cloth diapering. That said, I have been using the big wet bags for dirty clothes hamper liners and the smaller wet bags were life savers in our diaper bag (for holding blowouts and other dirty clothes).
Remind me again - does the daycare you chose allow for cloth diapers? Ours didn't and that's part of the reason we bagged the idea.
I had the best intentions of trying cloth diapers, but then we had preemies in the NICU so I didn't get beyond the thinking about it part. Now that we've been home, I simply haven't had time to look into it and disposables are just so convenient. I hate the thought of filling the landfills though, so this post is a good thought to look into it. I wish a diaper service were an option.
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