Hello, AW, and a question

BdblZ · October 2014

Hi everyone,

Im a D14 mamma, and I kinda lurk around here sometimes too. This is baby #1, and DH and I are committed to cloth diapering.

So for my AW moment - today I picked up basically my entire stash of CD off CraigsList for a freakin' STEAL!! We ended up with 13 Bum Genius, 8 Grovia, 1 FuzziBuns, a thirsties cover, and plenty of inserts for all! I'm so freakin' excited I may need a few of the inserts for myself LOL. We basically have our whole diaper stash before LO is even here. On a random note, when we got to the sellers house, it turned out to be someone we knew from college! During our mail exchange we never put 2&2 together since we both go by our married names now.

And my question: Apparently the diapers were only used for 1 child, and she used them all less then a year. They are all in good shape, and she said she only ever used the BioKleen detergent for washing. A few of the inserts are a bit stained, but nothing outrageous. Would you bother going through a full "stripping" process? or just give everything a good regular wash? (links to any previous posts are appreciated, not much came up when I searched...)

Any other CD advice for a first-time mom?

TIA

TJ1979 · October 2014

I'd do a wash with 1/4 cup bleach. I bleach all used diapers before putting them on LO.
Side note, are these one size siapers? Bc those won't fir a newborn.

ElleBeeDub · October 2014

Yup, ^ wss

unaveragejane · October 2014

And after the bleach wash, rinse them several times to get it all out.

BdblZ · October 2014

Thanks! Yes, they are all OS. We decided to just use dispoables for the first few weeks until baby is big enough to fit.

countrycotton · October 2014

Everyone has given some good advice all I have to add is that even for os you will problaly want to get a few more diapers if you plan to wash every other day. One cover is will only make it one change if that change happens to soil the diaper. I would get a 2-3 more covers and some prefolds or flats to lay in them, just to make sure tour covered. You will also want probably two pail liner, and 2-3 wet bags for leaving the house. It's also a good idea to have a cd safe diaper cream on hand. There was a thread a few days ago with some good suggestions.

tjkdlhb · October 2014

AFwifelife said:

stringy813 said:

Someone else will pop in and tell you how many disposables you go thru in a newborn week.

I'll do this! So putting everything in consideration that Stringy has mentioned (going through multiple diapers during a change etc.), I would predict going through 12-15 diapers a day. So by the end of the week, that's already 84-105 diapers that you are throwing out a week. Over just one month (which the OS still might not fit after 4 weeks), you are looking at 336 to 420 diapers.

There's nothing wrong with disposables but NB cloth can be cheap, easy to clean, and really effective. I never had to go through the horror stories that I would hear on my BMB about trying to get poop out of a car seat, a favorite outfit, or the couch.

I started off with disposables and cloth to test out what I wanted to do. This is why I now only use CDs. "let's use disposables on our daytrip... that'll be easier"
no. no. it's not.

And then I became a crazy hippie lady. But that's a whole other story.

BdblZ · October 2014

Thanks all - I'll look into gathering some NB sizes CD as well; FX my friend still has some NB coverstibg around

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