s/o cloth diapering - how many sposies to get through meconium stage?

Huahine · December 2011

Both Mudlicious and I asked this in the cloth diapering thread this weekend. Since it has fallen off of the first page, I thought I would start a separate thread:

If we want to wait to start using our cloth diapers until after the sticky, staining meconium stage has passed, about how many disposable diapers would we need?

And related - has anyone tried the sposies they sell at Whole Foods? My local Babies R Us was out of the chlorine-free NB sposies, so I picked up a pack at wholepaycheck.

VABride2008 · December 2011

Our hospital gave us 2 packs of diapers when we were there (we took the remaining ones home). I believe they were 20 in a pack, so 40 total and that was plenty.

SoonToBeMsP · December 2011

No idea as I am a FTM, but according to the ladies on the CD board, meconium doesn't actually stain. It may be a bit harder to get out initially, but your CDs won't suffer.

I get why you want to wait to start, though, and I am tempted to do the same! So I will be stalking this thread for an answer

kcvasquez · December 2011

I didn't cloth diaper, but DS's mec diapers were done by the end of his first week. His BF poops started at about 8 days. We went through about 6-8 disposables a day those first few weeks!

Temp970088312507122 · December 2011

My first two DDs only had meconium for maybe the first day in the hospital. I think maybe 2-3 diapers worth.

Huahine · December 2011

SoonToBeMsP:
No idea as I am a FTM, but according to the ladies on the CD board, meconium doesn't actually stain. It may be a bit harder to get out initially, but your CDs won't suffer.
I get why you want to wait to start, though, and I am tempted to do the same! So I will be stalking this thread for an answer

Ya. If all goes well at the birth center they will be sending us home 6-12 hours after delivery (which just freaks my sht out). Anything I can do to make those first few days easier for all of us, you know?

julesjarvais65 · December 2011

Ok so are any of you girls using the OS and waiting to start CDing until they fit? Thats my plan, but idk how soon after she is born I will have to wait. Its w/e though, then my husband might actually SEE the financial benefit after having to buy a couple packs. Maybe I'll send him out at midnight for diapers to push my point a little further haha Stick out tongue

SoonToBeMsP · December 2011

Huahine:
SoonToBeMsP:
No idea as I am a FTM, but according to the ladies on the CD board, meconium doesn't actually stain. It may be a bit harder to get out initially, but your CDs won't suffer.
I get why you want to wait to start, though, and I am tempted to do the same! So I will be stalking this thread for an answer
Ya. If all goes well at the birth center they will be sending us home 6-12 hours after delivery (which just freaks my sht out). Anything I can do to make those first few days easier for all of us, you know?

Holy Mother, really?!?! Yeah, I get that totally.

lamphele · December 2011

julesdac65:
Ok so are any of you girls using the OS and waiting to start CDing until they fit? Thats my plan, but idk how soon after she is born I will have to wait. Its w/e though, then my husband might actually SEE the financial benefit after having to buy a couple packs. Maybe I'll send him out at midnight for diapers to push my point a little further haha

I'm going to just do the OS and wait for them to fit I think, but I'm expecting a pretty big baby so I hopefully won't have to wait too long to use them.

sweetky_06 · December 2011

julesdac65:
Ok so are any of you girls using the OS and waiting to start CDing until they fit? Thats my plan, but idk how soon after she is born I will have to wait. Its w/e though, then my husband might actually SEE the financial benefit after having to buy a couple packs. Maybe I'll send him out at midnight for diapers to push my point a little further haha

No - we're starting out with prefolds and covers, with some nb sized AIOs. I figured I can reuse the nb stash again or sell it off. And the nb prefolds can always be used for burp cloths, dust rags or diaper doublers down the line!

n&bcarlson · December 2011

I want to say we went through the pack from the hospital and one additional pack. Not just for the meconium, but she got a rash that needed special ointment and I needed a week or two to settle in to being a mom before starting the daily diaper laundry routine.

purpletulip · December 2011

I read that you can use olive oil on the baby to make cleaning the meconium off easier, and it's CD safe. I might give that a try this time, whether I use CD or disposables in the beginning.

Huahine · December 2011

SoonToBeMsP:
Huahine:
SoonToBeMsP:
No idea as I am a FTM, but according to the ladies on the CD board, meconium doesn't actually stain. It may be a bit harder to get out initially, but your CDs won't suffer.
I get why you want to wait to start, though, and I am tempted to do the same! So I will be stalking this thread for an answer
Ya. If all goes well at the birth center they will be sending us home 6-12 hours after delivery (which just freaks my sht out). Anything I can do to make those first few days easier for all of us, you know?
Holy Mother, really?!?! Yeah, I get that totally.

I know, right? They send a visiting nurse around the next day to check on us and make sure we haven't killed the kid, but still it is daunting.

Huahine · December 2011

julesdac65:
Ok so are any of you girls using the OS and waiting to start CDing until they fit? Thats my plan, but idk how soon after she is born I will have to wait. Its w/e though, then my husband might actually SEE the financial benefit after having to buy a couple packs. Maybe I'll send him out at midnight for diapers to push my point a little further haha

If your DH is hesitating on the CDing, this is a brilliant plan. Particularly the midnight run part. Evil genius.

My DH is a tight-fisted yankee, so he is fully on board with the cloth diapering. We're doing a mix of newborn prefolds for day and fitteds for overnight until LO outgrows them. Including the covers, my whole newborn stash cost around $200, but a friend gave me a dozen NB prefolds and I bought the fitteds from the gently-used section of my local diaper store, which cut down the cost a bit.

KatnisOnFire · December 2011

I have a pack of diaper liners that I am planning on using right through until LO starts eating solids and has solid poop. I think it would be something to look into, especially the flushable liners.

raeface · December 2011

Ditto what pp said about the meconium not actually staining. With DD we waited until OS would fit her and that was around 5-6 weeks. She was probably about 10 lbs around then. The smallest OS that fit earliest were Fuzzibunz and Rumparooz. We have a newborn stash of GM prefolds for this LO.

namara5532 · December 2011

julesdac65:
Ok so are any of you girls using the OS and waiting to start CDing until they fit? Thats my plan, but idk how soon after she is born I will have to wait. Its w/e though, then my husband might actually SEE the financial benefit after having to buy a couple packs. Maybe I'll send him out at midnight for diapers to push my point a little further haha

Personally, I bought some cheap newborn covers I'm going to use until DS fits into the one size diapers. I want to get the most use out of my cloth diapers. Plus even though we got a lot of disposables from the baby showers, I suspect it's not enough to hold us over until the flip covers fit.

VABride2008 · December 2011

julesdac65:
Ok so are any of you girls using the OS and waiting to start CDing until they fit? Thats my plan, but idk how soon after she is born I will have to wait. Its w/e though, then my husband might actually SEE the financial benefit after having to buy a couple packs. Maybe I'll send him out at midnight for diapers to push my point a little further haha

We used prefolds and covers with a few NB fitteds with LO #1. We plan to do the same with this one. I want to say our OS pocket diapers didn't fit until 2.5-3 months old.

bugsmami · December 2011

I can't remember how long DS had meconium, but we did disposables the first 2 weeks (we traveled for Thanksgiving when DS was 2 wks, so it was nice not to have to worry about diaper laundry while we were gone). We were given lots of disposables, so I donated some and took some back to the store to trade up a size. It was nice to have them on hand for traveling during those first few months. When DS was older traveling with CDs wasn't hard (since he didn't go through so many).

A tip for helping to get DH's on board (if you have extra disposables)... I let DH pick what he wanted to use (sposie or CD). The first few times he changed him, he would always take off the CD and put on a sposie. After a few times, I caught him changing him into a CD It didn't take long for him to decide that they were just as easy to use (and we were doing prefolds/covers). I, also told him he didn't ever have to do CD laundry (since I SAH). Although he eventually did ask how to do it

lamphele · December 2011

I knew that I wanted to do CD and it was really easy for my to get DH on board too. He has never changed a diaper before, so I figure if he learns on CD then he won't know the difference.

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