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Cloth Diapers
Did anyone out there use cloth diapers?
What about those semi-disposible diapers (like Gdiapers that I saw at BabysRUs)?
I was considering going the non-disposible route the first three months while I'm home with baby, but would like to hear some honest feedback on the difficultly level.
Also, if you know of a related post, please let me know. I hate always saying that, but I have a hard time believing that this hasn't been talked about on the Houston Board before. I couldn't find anything from my search.
Thanks!
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Re: Cloth Diapers
Yes, the search function sucks! You can however, put this into Google - and hopefully get what you are looking for:
cloth diapers Houston site:community.thebump.com
or
CD Houston site:community.thebump.com
But I am sure the CD girls will post some options, as well! GL!
I cloth diaper my LO and I love it. It's pretty easy to do. I will say that you will have to do some research and I personally wouldn't buy theose diapers to use for only a couple of months. They can be expensive, but you will make money back if you decide to sell them.
Depending on where you live there are some stores in Houston that you can go to find more information. The Nurtured Family is out 290, Y&L is out 610/Ella area and The Children's Carousel is out I10/Katy area. I, personally, prefer the Children's Carousel. You can buy new and used cloth diapers there. You can, also, shop online when you find out what style you'd prefer. This website has some good resources:
Overall, I would recommend it. We have between 20-24 diapers; 10-12 that we keep in heavy rotation and I do an extra load of laundry every other day.
The website didn't stick.
https://www.kellyscloset.com/Cloth-Diaper-Information_ep_34-1.html
we are doing cloth for our LO on the way. Here is a good link to start.
https://community.thebump.com/cs/ks/forums/ShowThread.aspx?PostID=48640290#48640290
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I've done cloth with both of mine. It's not that much trouble and it saves a lot of money - if you can resist the temptation of the crazy cute diapers and not buy more than you need! We do prefolds mostly at home and pockets or AIOs at daycare and overnight.
My BFF tried the G diapers and had plumbing problems with them, but she had an older home. So just take your plumbing into consideration. Also, I don't really see the benefit of them because to me the biggest benefit is $ and the semi-disposables don't save $.
You girls brought up a good point that I didn't think about when I first posted...I assumed that cloth/semi-cloth were OUT for daycares - hence the idea to only do it for the frist three months while I'm not working.
Those of you using cloth/semi-cloth; do you daycare at a facility? Did you encounter problems with thier using your cloth/semi-cloth?
In general, I like the idea of being a little greener and avoiding diaper rashes. I'm starting to explore if cloth diaper service would be good (I'm trying to be realistic in my laundry-laziness) or if something like gdiapers would be good (disposable, but they don't stick around the landfills too long).
And thanks for the links and information!!!
I'm (obviously) having a little trouble finding information and I don' t know anyone personally that cloth-diapered.
We use cloth, and have since DD was 2 weeks old. I'm glad to answer any questions. We used prefolds and fitteds with covers until she was big enough for the one-size diapers, then switched over.
You might also want to check out the Cloth Diapering board on the Bump, everyone there is very nice! DiaperSwappers is also a great site.
I second Children's Carousel and Nurtured Family, they're very knowledgeable at both.
We use cloth in daycare -- the trick is, you need diapers that are easy to use. We use one-size velcro pockets for daycare (and at home for DH, too). I brought a diaper with me while daycare hunting and showed it to them; do NOT just call and ask if they take cloth, they'll tell you no because they'll probably think of prefolds and pins.
I did find I had better luck with privately owned (read: non-national chain) daycares being open to cloth. Our daycare had never used them, but were willing to try, and they have no problem with it.
ETA: I used gdiapers some when she was little, but only the cloth inserts. The disposable ones seem like a waste of money to me. They were just ok.
DD goes to a home daycare. Her provider doesn't like to use them so we've purchased disposables there. I don't want to buy anything else so I am going to send her in cloth. I'll just pack all of her user friendly diapers (pockets and all-in-ones). The all in ones are the most like disposables.
Typically, diaper services only provide prefolds so if you do other types, they won't be able to assist. The washing really isn't bad. It just takes getting into a routine on your part. The hardest thing, for me, has been figuring out soap and stripping.
We've been CDing since we brought DS home. We went to Nurtured Family (like listed in a pp) and bought 30 prefolds. We have 6 diaper covers. It's enough to have us do laundry about every other day. Easiest laundry ever, IMO. We love it. Our system is that we throw the dirty diapers in a bucket that is put by where we change him the most. Once we're low on diapers, DH will take the bucket and rinse them in the bathroom where he installed the toilet sprayer, takes about 5 minutes. Then he throws them in the washer on hot.
My mom will be watching DS until he can get into the daycare at DH's work. She'll just put the dirty diapers in the wetbag and send them home with us. Same thing at DH's work. Easy.
This and this. I only send velcro diapers to daycare so there is no learning curve for them, it's as simple as using a wetbag instead of the trashcan. It's a church based daycare. They did not CD previously, but seeing the diapers, the director agreed to try it out. The teacher was less than thrilled. 2 weeks later she was coverted and her only issue was that it was hard to know when DD was wet.
I've CD'd two now and love it. My baby goes to MDO and they take cloth there with no issues. I send side snap dipes and they haven't had any issues using them, although velcro would be easiest of course (I just hate my velcro dipes.)
Once you get a good washing routine down, cloth is so ridiculously easy to use.
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