flannel liners

scvaldez

Can you use old flannel to make a stay dry liner? I need to use rash cream and I dont want to ruin my diapers. I have a few fleece liners, but I need a lot more! Can you cut up a flannel shirt for liners? Have any of yall used them before?

hispenguin

Flannel isn't used for a stay dry layer. Flannel feels wet once it's been peed on. It does work great as a liner though. When DD has a rash I use flannel liners I made in her diapers since I find the zinc oxide washes out of them well. For a stay dry layer at night I use fleece liners.

I made my flannel liners from flannel scraps and old receiving blankets, and then surged the edges.

scvaldez

Thanks! I may have confused the two - to clarify - so you can use fleece as a diaper rash liner during the day when you change diapers more regularly? It's more of a cloth diaper protector than a booty wetness protector - right?

lenabug

Fleece would be the booty wetness protector, while flannel will work well to protect your diapers from the ointment. Really, you just need a barrier between the ointment and the diaper, so either would work, fleece just wicks moisture away from the skin, sand flannel absorbs the moisture . I would say use what you have, whether fleece or flannel. If you have both, the fleece is probably better for nighttime just because the moisture is there longer. 

lenabug

Also, old flannel would work great to make into extra liners- serge the edges if yiu have a sertger but if not you could do two layers, sew around the edges, turn and seal, or just cut out single layers with pinking shears.