G Diapers?

Re: G Diapers?

• mrs.a.butler

  September 2009

  I used them for months with DS and liked them.  They have a learning curve to them.  It took a while before I was able to figure out how to fit them on him right, so he didn't leak. I liked for the first month or so.  It was a good transition for me to go from disposables to gdiapers to cloth. 
  

  You will almost always get poo on the liner, at least while DC has BF poo or runny poo.  So you will be dealing with washing poo.  It will normally catch it before it gets on the cover, but not always.  I did not find them to work that well through the night.  I had to double up the inserts and then it got bulky and gaped at the leg, so it leaked.  I had to change him through the night so he didn't leak.  The inserts are Really expensive.  They cost approximatly $0.20 more, per diaper, than disposable diapers (I calculated the difference to pampers/huggies).  The insert bunches up between the legs.  Sometimes a squirmy baby will make for a more difficult diaper change because you have to get it on right.
  

  I started using cloth because of cost/looked easier.  And they are TONS easier.  DS has not once leaked out of the cloth.  I figured if I was having to wash poo anyways why not try cloth?  DS has never had a diaper rash in the cloth.  We also used the gdiaper with cloth inserts, on diaper wash day, and I think the cloth works better than the disposable inserts.
  

  And, about it being more eco friendly, nothing biodegrades in a land fill, no matter what it says.  The only way for them to be more eco friendly is for you to compost the pee ones yourself and flush the poop ones.  AND, they still have chemicals and stuff in the inserts, just like disposables, to make them more absorbant.

  
  

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• A8194 member

  September 2009

  Wow thank you! It's great to get feed back from someone who has been there done that :-)

  We were wondering just how great they were or if cloth was the way to go.....
  

  

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• mrs.a.butler

  September 2009

  glad I could help

  I did like them when I used them.  BUT I certainly didn't love them.  I got frustrated with them a lot.

  I like cloth soooo much better.  In my opinion it is so much more absorbant and fit better and cuter  

  There are some ladies on here though that use them when they go out of town or something though because they say it's easier for them to use them.  
  

  
  

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