G diapers

KellyND04

I am on the fence about cloth diapers. Basically, while I'd love to do more for the environment, I know it won't stick for us unless it's not much harder than disposables in the long run and, most importantly, that it's cheaper. G diapers seem to be a good alternative...like that you can go fully reusable or use the biodegradable inserts when you want. I have a friend willing to loan me all her newborn kissaluvs and some prefolds with snappi for the early stages (so huge money savings = free), but I was thinking about going to g diapers for the medium and large size (and messier, post just breastmilk diapers). Any one have suggestions, recommendations, thoughts?  Similar products you like better? 

 (Also: G diapers compared to Flip?)

Christina617

I don't feel that cloth is any more difficult than disposables.  For me, it's easier to remember to wash vs. remembering to buy a new box of diapers.  We wash twice a week.  We have definitely saved money and we even use disposables at night.  We tried cloth at night but Ethan is a SUPER soaker and by the time we figured out what would work for him, he was sleeping better, and we didn't want to mess with anything when it came to night time.

Jill gave me a starter pack of gdiapers.  They were nice but I prefer cloth.  I think that has been the consensus of posts that I've read on the EFF board too.  I found that the poop leaked out from the insert and onto the plastic insert holder and even onto the cover.  A prefold and cover, a pocket diaper, or a fitted and cover were all less of a pain than the gdiapers.  Plus, I didn't want to have to keep buying the inserts (they only had the disposable ones when we tried gdiapers).

We loved kissaluvs for the newborn stage.  We loved prefolds and covers from newborn until Ethan started rolling/crawling away during diaper changes. Since that time we've used all pockets and all-in-ones.  I'm anxious to break out our prefolds and covers for the next baby. 

Once we figured out what worked for us and gradually built up our stash, it was smooth sailing.

The messier, post breastmilk poop was very short lived until he moved on to the ploppable poop.  We used our shower head to spray off any non-ploppable, non-just-breastmilk diapers, into the toilet.  Ploppable is super easy... our daycare even plops the poop off before putting the diaper into his wetbag.

Good luck with your decision!

LClaire

We've used gdiapers for a good amount of time two different times(when Mia was little and we first started and we were still in an apt with separate laundry, then again last summer for both kids before mia potty trained). You'll get a huge mix of reviews for sure. We like them and they definitely worked well for us, but I liked them better with cloth inserts than the disposable inserts. They make cloth inserts now, but I just used flats or infant prefolds and they were perfect.

A few thoughts:

-If you're thinking of the disposable inserts and you have a compost pile, you can compost the wet ones. That's always a plus to not contirbuting more trash. 

-The disposable inserts are basically as much as or more than buying disposable diapers, so they aren't really a money saver there, plus you'll still have a bit of work with washing the covers/pant things(I forget what they call them? little gs? little pants?

-If you're thinking of cloth, a lot of people do find it easier to just jump in with cloth or use the gdiapers as a transition - that's what we did and John liked that a lot to just get used to them. 

-We mostly use flats or mother-ease fitteds with a thirsties duo cover now because our water is super super hard and it makes it hard to keep any synthetic or super thick fabrics clean(microfiber or prefolds especially). What we're using is basically the same function as the gdiapers with a cloth insert or the concept of the flip or econobum.

 Feel free to email me if you have more questions - I can answer tons for you and I'm more than happy to answer 1,000 questions if you have them and need help sorting through everything:)  If you want to come over and look at anything we have, like me know - I'd be more than happy to show you if it would help!