August 2014 Moms
dobbysocks33
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CD. opinions, advice, tips, con's, pros???
dobbysocks33
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So I am really considering making the switch to cloth diapers. I really wanted to with dd but was talked out of it by some people who honestly didn't really know what they were talking about. I've researched and looked around. Just want advice from someone btdt, like tips l, best diapers, overnight etc. I'm pretty sure my mind is made up but just want an idea about what I'm getting into since I'll be a newbie.
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Re: CD. opinions, advice, tips, con's, pros???
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@SLMckinnon so I can get it at like home depot or lowes ? Something like that?
ETA: just looked it up, lowes sells one (in canada at least)
Strangely enough, I find pee and poop much less gross in cloth than disposable diapers. I guess it's the strange chemical smell that gets to me more than the actual pee.
Our favorite brands are GMD for WH, flats, and prefolds, Blueberry for covers and AIO (simplex), Thirsties for covers and sized Duo AIO, and BG for pockets.
I think I want to destash my RAR and Moraki, and I'm not sure how I feel about my nickis baio and kawaii diapers.
I work full-time, but I don't mind diaper laundry. We do a rinse on cold, hot wash with tide, and then throw half of it in the dryer and half we hang to dry. We wash every 2 or 3 days.
I could talk diapers all day. Feel free to pm me anytime.
(Edited bc of autocorrect)
BFP 2: 11/16/13 EDD: 8/3/14
Baby Brody born 8/1/14!!!
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The group I'm in is called Central Wisconsin Cloth Diapering Mamas, but obviously that wont work for you. Hopefully you have one in your area though!
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I love CDing! And my husband does too! We are now on baby #2 using our initial stash so he is absolutely LOVING the phenomenal savings now. I use gDiapers with my littles and I have two in diapers. E, my 22 month old, is in the Large size, and A, my Au14 baby, is in the smalls, but about to switch into mediums.
I can't use gDiapers overnight with DS, so we use pockets stuffed with an ozycozy flat and a Hemp babies little weeds hemp doubler. FTR, I hate the pockets and would gladly switch them all to just Flips covers. I'll never buy another pocket. But unfortunately for me, the damn things are built fantastic and I just can't justify replacing them when they still work. I just don't like stuffing them.
The thing about cloth diapering is knowing what you want out of it. You can get what you put in. With my (now 7 year old) DD1, I used the plain Gerber prefold diapers that you can buy at walmart, with pins and plastic cover pants. IT. WAS. HORRIBLE. But I also did no research, and no investigating in to why my diapers weren't absorbing. I did literally everything wrong.
The second time around, I decided to do more research and fell in love with the gDiaper brand. People either love or hate gDiapers, there is no middle ground. And people tend to have more success with gDiapers with girls rather than boys-- I of course, had a boy first. It took a few trails and errors, but 22 months later, I still love my gDiapers.
I'm with the PP who loves Velcro and hates snaps. You can get a much more customized fit with Velcro than with snaps. I also prefer the sized diapers to the One Size (BumGenius 4.0 are my pockets and they are One Size (OS) diapers). The OS are SUPER bulky on littles, and I've noticed that the rise snaps (the sizing ones) are pulling and poking holes in my BG covers. (Yippy! I might be able to replace them eventually!) But the trade off between sized and OS, are needing to invest in the next size diaper cover.
Something else to look at is the different fibers that you will use as inserts. I **dispise** microfiber. I actually use my BG 4.0 microfiber inserts on my floor mop. They don't absorb enough for my kids, and they can't touch your kiddo's skin, so its kind of a wasted effort to me. I LOVE hemp. My favorite Hemp is Little Weeds. They make two sizes, but I've found the Little Weeds (that's the name of the smaller size) is more than enough for just about everything I need. I also use regular cotton flats in my overnight diapers, and the Cotton Fleece/Hemp gCloth inserts in my day diapers.
Washing is kind of a pain for me. With two littles in diapers, I am washing daily. I also have terrible city water, so our washing routine is a bit more excessive than should be. But since doing daily diaper laundry, our expenses have only gone up pennies in water consumption, and maybe a couple of bucks for laundry detergent. So still tons of savings.
Wow, that turned into a novel! If you make it through all that, you deserve a cookie!
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She and I sound similar. I currently have GMD pre folds (selling those- don't like em), GMD workhorses white and organic and like organic more (much softer!), had blueberry newborn simplex AIO (LOVE) and now simplex one size, Thirsties covers (LOVE), blueberry Capri covers (love for prefolds), best bottoms AI2, Thirsties AIO (they're ok...), BG 4.0, Charlie banana AIO, tots bots 4 and have had BG elemental and freestyle.
Did I even answer any of your questions? Probably not. Feel free to message me too. My LO is a string bean (24th percentile weight and 98th length) so im real particular about finding diapers that fit her slender hips. I've done more research than i care to admit on CDing.
Sorry this was such a ramble. Hopefully it makes some sense. I've had mad thumbs going while texting and now LO is finally asleep so I want to eat dinner while I've got a shot