For the umbilical cord/meconium days?

avalei

What do you recommend? Aside from NB disposables for a few days til meconium is done, or weeks til the cord falls off (how long does that take, anyway?), are there other good cloth options? Do the disposable liners work? Disposable inserts in small covers?

I have Flip covers and fitted dipes now, and was thinking about getting a few smaller covers for the first few months, but undecided. Recommendations?

RouensDream

The one sized diapers didn't fit right away for us. We had some newborn and small sized fitteds and covers that we used. Some had a fold down snap for the umbilical cord. You could use fleece liners for the meconium. Its good to make some of those for rashes and stuff anyways.

aLsMay24

We use prefolds and covers for our newborn phase.  He still has his cord and we haven't had any issues.  We cd in the hospital and had to use fleece liners because of his circ. but it was also good because if he had a really bad meconium poo we just tossed the liner.  We did have some meconium get on the prefold but it washed out just fine.

tokenhoser

Meconium doesn't stain. It's not an issue. Don't even worry about that.

We had no problem using a cover that went over the stump, so we started with Thirsties Duos covers over GMD Infant fitteds as soon as we got home. Those worked for 7 weeks and then we moved to his one-size stuff.

barnwife

We CD'ed from day 1. The meconium came right out in the wash. Actually, it stained less than EBF poo. I definitely recommend PFs and covers for the NB stage.

PhotoCat82

Ditto PPs-meconium doesn't stain.  If you are worried about it, just use fleece liners until it is gone.  We liked prefolds and KL0s w/ a bummis super brite or a size 1 Thirsites Duo until the cord fell off.

kacelle

We used cloth from day 1 and never used disposable liners.  The meconium washed out of the diapers and didn't stain at all.  

I had a huge NB stash of all different kinds of diapers.  I was really intimidated to use prefolds at first, but the orange-edge GMD prefolds ended up being my go-to diapers during the NB stage.  I also loved the GMD Workhorse fitteds (which are so affordable), although I wish I'd gotten the snap-less ones and just used a Snappi.  

I highly recommend Thirsties XS covers!  The Flips didn't fit DD until she was over 10 pounds.  You can get the Thirsties covers in their outlet (thirstiesoutlet.com) right now for $7 each. 

njh514

We cloth diapered in the hospital from day 1. The mec was not an issue. The best fitting diaper for us were monkey snuggles newborns with thirsties duo size 1 covers. They were awesome. We also did the bumgenius xs and folded the front down just a tiny bit if i felt like it was rubbing on the cord.

The cord was on for about a week. 

 

stardust317

We had newborn size prefolds with covers and some lil Joey rumparooz. Her newborn size covers swallowed her at first, but she's slowly growing into them.