I can has help? (re: diapers)

manda_mullins · March 2009

I'm trying to break it down financially for DH about how cloth diapers are cheaper. It looks like our upfront cost will be $400ish and he seems kind of freaked out about that price, so I'm trying to show him how soon $400 can go with disposables.?

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Ladies, how many diapers do you use a day? How many for a newborn?

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Thank you so much for your help!!?

craziestgirlnlove · March 2009

we have broken it down to about $10 a week in disposables. 12-14 in the beginning and about 8-10 a day now at 4 months.

hope that helps.

scarlet86 · March 2009

4 to 7 a day right now more when he was younger.

ridesbuttons · March 2009

A diaper a day until they are a week or so old. Then count on 8-12 diapers a day for a while. Then it will go down. My toddler uses 4-5 diapers a day at this point.

What happens with cloth when they go up a size? There is no diaper service where I live.

oliviasprettymommy · March 2009

we use 10 to 12

LucyGoosey81 · March 2009

We use about 8-10/day, but we also CD. At the beginning it was more like 10-12.

Belle15 · March 2009

You can always start with green mountain prefolds and thirsties covers as a newborn and gradually add the AIOs and pockets.

funmaker · March 2009

ridesbuttons:

A diaper a day until they are a week or so old. Then count on 8-12 diapers a day for a while. Then it will go down. My toddler uses 4-5 diapers a day at this point.

What happens with cloth when they go up a size? There is no diaper service where I live.

A diaper a day until one week? We used 8-10 right off the bat. The baby should definitely be having both wet and poop diaper almost right away.

manda_mullins · March 2009

ridesbuttons:
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What happens with cloth when they go up a size?? There is no diaper service where I live.

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There's no service here either. We're using the BumGenus 3.0 which supposedly grows with the baby and fits 5-35 lbs. It seems like a good deal since this is our first and we can reuse them for the next baby as well, god willing.

babygirl809 · March 2009

We use cloth. We used cloth for our oldest as well.

I actually went with bumgenius one size this time around and they are awesome! Youngest ds has been in since about 2 months old. I tried them on my oldest ds (he is four and not in diapers, but I wanted to see if they fit) and they fit him great as well!

We have all of our oldest ds diapers from when he was cded, so other than the diapers we bought this time around, there was no need to buy them again.

ridesbuttons · March 2009

Yeah, typically you can count on one poop for every day they are out until they are are week old or so. That means day 1 = 1 poopy diaper, day 2 = 2 poopy diapers and so on. You do not need to change a diaper just because it is a bit wet. Let it fill up a bit, then change it. But that is with disposables, not cloth.

MarlaDossett · March 2009

Be forewarned that BG OS won't fit baby until they weigh between closer to 10 or 13 lbs. They'll most likely be too big for a brand new baby. You might want to start out with prefolds or fitteds. We're going to have to with the second baby since all we have are OS.

LucyGoosey81 · March 2009

ridesbuttons:
A diaper a day until they are a week or so old. Then count on 8-12 diapers a day for a while. Then it will go down. My toddler uses 4-5 diapers a day at this point.

What happens with cloth when they go up a size? There is no diaper service where I live.

I have to respectfully disagree with this- we changed 10-12 from the start and changed often when he wet. You buy the minimum number of diapers and covers in each size, as you would sposies.

userdeleted · March 2009

funmaker:
ridesbuttons:

A diaper a day until they are a week or so old. Then count on 8-12 diapers a day for a while. Then it will go down. My toddler uses 4-5 diapers a day at this point.

What happens with cloth when they go up a size? There is no diaper service where I live.

A diaper a day until one week? We used 8-10 right off the bat. The baby should definitely be having both wet and poop diaper almost right away.

I think she might have meant "a diaper an hour"

ETA: I guess I was wrong...yeah...you definitely will need more than one diaper a day Indifferent

jenerally · March 2009

www.jilliandrawers.com has a program where you pay them um ... $150? ... and they'll send you a starter sample set. Keep what you like and send back the rest. If you don't like them at all, send them all back and they'll refund your money minus $10.

As for disposibles ... the box of pampers baby dry has 252 (size 1) and cost $40 at BRU or $36 at BJ's. We go through around 8 or so a day.

My older son is in size 6 pampers baby dry ... there are 128 in a big box and cost $40/$36 ... and one box lasts us one month.

pivey · March 2009

I have a heavy wetter - in the beginning we went through 12+ diapers a day, now she does maybe 6. DiaperPin has a cost calculator for you to use as well...

Go here for other cloth info: https://crunchyluxe.blogspot.com/

pivey · March 2009

ridesbuttons:
Yeah, typically you can count on one poop for every day they are out until they are are week old or so. That means day 1 = 1 poopy diaper, day 2 = 2 poopy diapers and so on. You do not need to change a diaper just because it is a bit wet. Let it fill up a bit, then change it. But that is with disposables, not cloth.

Um this is SO wrong! You still have to change it even if it is just wet and with disposables or cloth! Please do not listen to this person!

meganet22 · March 2009

I don't know about formula, but with bfing you will have way more than one poopy diaper a day from the start.

JARbaby · March 2009

ridesbuttons:
Yeah, typically you can count on one poop for every day they are out until they are are week old or so. That means day 1 = 1 poopy diaper, day 2 = 2 poopy diapers and so on. You do not need to change a diaper just because it is a bit wet. Let it fill up a bit, then change it. But that is with disposables, not cloth.

I disagree as well. Fast track to rash and yeast infection. You were lucky.

We went through one every feeding with both girls. Never in my life have I heard of anyone letting diapers fill up a bit.

Do you stretch formula too?

brookieandphil · March 2009

ridesbuttons:
Yeah, typically you can count on one poop for every day they are out until they are are week old or so. That means day 1 = 1 poopy diaper, day 2 = 2 poopy diapers and so on. You do not need to change a diaper just because it is a bit wet. Let it fill up a bit, then change it. But that is with disposables, not cloth.

Sometimes when Im on my period I let my tampon or pad fill up a bit and only change it once Indifferent

ridesbuttons · March 2009

JARbaby:

ridesbuttons:
Yeah, typically you can count on one poop for every day they are out until they are are week old or so. That means day 1 = 1 poopy diaper, day 2 = 2 poopy diapers and so on. You do not need to change a diaper just because it is a bit wet. Let it fill up a bit, then change it. But that is with disposables, not cloth.

I disagree as well. Fast track to rash and yeast infection. You were lucky.

We went through one every feeding with both girls. Never in my life have I heard of anyone letting diapers fill up a bit.

Do you stretch formula too?

Oh yeah, I stretch everything. My boys are breastsfed.

If you read the original post, it says that the first week you will go through fewer diapers. Then, 8-12 a day for a while. The main reason you go through so few diapers in the first week is that the infant is not getting any volume of food. If your milk doesn't come in for a couple of days (typical) then the baby is usually passing only the meconium and very little urine. When the meconium is passed, you change the diaper. As for the urine, you will likely not even know that your child has peed as the volume is so low and the diapers are so absorbant.

Reading comprehension on this board can be very sad sometimes. People read only what they want to and ignore the rest.

Like I said, 8-12 a day for a while with the exception of the first week.

No diaper rashes in my house. Ever. But I do not wake my kids up in the night to change their diapers either (unless they are poopy).

pivey · March 2009

I'm sorry but that is JUST NOT TRUE! First week maybe for your kids. My milk came in right away and we were changing diapers like mad right away. I strongly disagree with letting a child stew in their own urine to "fill up" a diaper.

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