Twins and cloth diapering

alindt

For those of you who CD, how many cloth diapers would I buy to start out? I think I will follow advice given and use disposables through the newborn stage, so does 10 per baby per day sound about right? Less? More? I can't remember how many diapers DS went through a day when he was in size 1s, 2s and 3s.

everam01

For the first month or so we used prefolds and covers.  I had 3 dozen prefolds and 12 covers.

Now we use pockets and AIO's. I think we have about 30 total and I do CD laundry every other day.  We probably could get by with a few less, honestly.

floridakat

We have 48 pockets/AIOs, and at most ever did laundry every other day. Now we can go about three days between loads.

JackandGrace

everam01:

For the first month or so we used prefolds and covers.  I had 3 dozen prefolds and 12 covers.

Now we use pockets and AIO's. I think we have about 30 total and I do CD laundry every other day.  We probably could get by with a few less, honestly.

 

This exactly.  

4510heather

We had 48 prefolds and 12 covers for the newborn stage.  We now have about 50 bumgenius pockets.  Our very part time nanny (10 hours a week) helps to do our diapers for us, so 50 helps to get us through between her twice weekly visits.  We do diapers every 3 days or so.

Waiting4Fred

We went to a cloth diapering class yesterday, and we plan to start from when they are newborn.  We are going to do fitted/cover and AIOs for newborn, then we plan on selling them.  They recommend that we have between 40-48 if we want to do laundry every third day, less if we want to do it every other day.  It will cost us about $400 for this, which I'm okay with.  I know a lot of people do prefolds/covers for newborns for the cost, but I just don't think I will be patient enough to do. :-)

prynsesjen

For the first several months, we used fitteds and covers.  I had a stash of 24 diapers and 8 covers, so I could easily go a day, sometimes a day and a half.

Now we use some all-in-ones and mostly one-size.  Since I prefer to line dry the AIOs and OS shells, I have 30 of those, as line drying takes half a day to a day, depending on the diaper.  We fill in with prefolds when we need to.

 I'd recommend starting with fewer and covering the gap with prefolds.  Then see how it goes and buy more as you determine you need them.  Also, the diaper trial from Jillian's Drawers was great for us, since there were several diapers I thought I'd love that I ended up hardly using.  They also offer a small multiples discount.  And their customer service is amazing.

WhiteysWifey

everam01:

For the first month or so we used prefolds and covers.  I had 3 dozen prefolds and 12 covers.

Now we use pockets and AIO's. I think we have about 30 total and I do CD laundry every other day.  We probably could get by with a few less, honestly.

This is us. We have about 25-30 CDs for DD (she's 21 months now). We plan on getting 3 doz prefolds, as well as 35-40 CDs for the triplets.