Product Spotlight: All Things Diapering

tumbleweed-1 · March 2023

STM, what did you use for baby elimination? Disposable diapers, cloth diapers, no diapers- elimination communication, some combo?
Will you do the same or different this time?

Diaper changing location: changing table, floor, on top of dresser, etc?
Diaper storage- if this all isn’t too long.

FTM, what diapering system are you leaning towards and what questions do you have?

tumbleweed-1 · March 2023

We started with disposable diapers, usually the target brand. Some of the name brand ones were too heavily scented, and the more “earthy” ones were crunchy and seemed uncomfortable and not very absorbent. When DS was about 3 months old we cloth diapered during daytime. We had to wait because I didn’t have small enough cloth diapers for a newborn. We washed them at home and it wasn’t as gross as I’d worried. We used the dekor plus diaper pail, with a cloth wet bag instead of plastic bags. We also continued to use disposables at night, but honestly even those leaked so much that I’m inclined to cloth diaper 24/7 this time. I made some cotton wipes out of cute quilting cotton. A friend has all of my diaper supplies for her September baby. I’ll get my newborn sizes back (someone gave me newborn diapers after DS had outgrown that size), but I think instead of making more wipes I’ll use wash cloths. I also am not sure about the diaper pail. Our current bathroom is very small. I might simply hang wet bags on the door or something.

priyadoc · March 2023

The only thing I feel very strongly about is having one of those silicone spatulas to spread diaper cream on baby's butt

ki1244 · March 2023

Omg yes the spatula thing. Every time a friend has a first baby I always get that and they're like "...uh, really?" but within two weeks every single one is like THIS THING IS LIFE. I don't know why it's so necessary but it totally is.

We did disposables the whole time. Turned out for us last time that Costco worked out best -- it's the same manufacturer as Huggies, but generally cheaper per diaper (I checked -- with the Target sales that happen all the time it was close, but overall less for Costco). When we didn't do those, we used the Huggies Snug n Dry -- they're cheap, but unscented, which was big for us because scented = HOLY RED ASS. We also discovered that the Huggies Natural Care unscented wipes worked just as well for us as WaterWipes but cost a lot less. We *have* a wipe warmer, which was fine, but my daughter was pretty chill and didn't care if it was warmed or not.

For a changing table, we found a dresser my husband refinished after his staff was let go (that was where he channeled a lot of his energy and emotion) and it's a huge pain in the ass to open the drawers but I sentimentally love it anyway. It's the perfect height for changing, though. I didn't want to permanently screw up the top, so I used a couple Command Velcro strips (I think they're for hanging mirrors?) and used those to attach our changing pad. That way it comes off to change the cover (or when we're done with changing it still works as a dresser) but it doesn't slide around up there either.

tumbleweed-1 · March 2023

@ki1244 good to know about the Huggies wipes. Maybe we’ll try those. We also use water wipes (still do for face wiping and messed). SO liked to use disposable wipes still for diaper changes, but it was too confusing for me to remember to put one thing in trash and the other in laundry, so I made the cloth ones.

I have never tried the diaper cream spatula… Maybe I’ll get one this time? At work we’d use gloves for changes and to apply cream to infants. At home it seemed weird to use bare hands but also weird to put on gloves at home, so I’d usually use a cloth.

justyouraveragemama · March 2023

For DS I lived in an apartment where I had to pay for laundry so I did disposable even though I wanted to cloth diaper. This time around we’ll do disposables until meconium is done then go right to cloth. I’ve been thinking of doing a mix of cloth wipes and wipes from young living since im guessing this one will have the same tendency to severe reactions from who knows what, synthetics or something. Don’t want to end up in the ER constantly though so I’ll play it safe

cherrystorming · March 2023

FTM… I’ve definitely been interested in cloth diapering, but daycare is a hold up for me. Any of you cloth mommas also have your kids in daycare? Does that work well or is it a big hassle? We’ve debated just using cloth at home and sending disposables for daycare.

msjaay · March 2023

@cherrystorming I use disposables, but our daycare is cloth friendly. You leave a stash with them and they do the laundry there. It’s probably honestly easier for the parents than disposables!

msjaay · March 2023

We use disposables. I tried a bunch and landed on Huggies Special Delivery. They’re so soft and plant based. They are pricey though. Huggies fit my daughter best since she was on the small side. I tried some of the bougier brands too (Dyper, Coterie).

For wipes we use Hello Bello (also did a trial of like 7 wipes to land on those). We used to use water wipes before they changed the formula.

For a pail, we really like the Dekor plus pail. It held up well with my daughter so we’ll reuse.

We used a changing pad (keekaroo) on her dresser and that worked really well. It’s super easy to clean. In the messy newborn stage I would throw a liner over top and just wash them as needed (mainly to catch spit up before it rolled onto her head 🤢).

I also have like 3 butt spatulas that I only used once. I would give them away if someone was comfortable with a used butt spatula lol.

tumbleweed-1 · March 2023

@cherrystorming I’ve worked in different daycares for 10+ years. Usually the parents supply diapers they want. Most preschools I’ve been at my students had mostly disposable, but some had cloth too. Our cloth diapering parents usually send them in a wet bag and we stack them in their diaper cubby then put soiled diapers back into the bag to be sent home and washed at end of day.

At the school I’ve been working at for the past 5 years we have our own school cloth diapers. Babies/toddlers come to and from school in the school diaper and parents wash at home as needed to return to school next time. At the school, we launder pee diapers on site but send out poop diapers to a service to be washed. I think msjaay daycare is interesting that they wash a small amount of parents diapers at school (like what that looks like behind the scenes). It was a hassle for our school with licensing and the county health department to get approved to wash a peed on diaper- even though we’d always washed kids clothes or nap bedding if they have a pee accident. Once it’s a “diaper” some adults get weird about it.

tumbleweed-1 · March 2023

^my point being you can check daycares near you- maybe some have a school cloth diaper system too, or at the very least are probably open to you bringing them in and the staff can figure out how to change a cloth diaper, if they don’t already know.

ki1244 · March 2023

Oooh I forgot pail. We used an Ubbi. For the first year or so it was great but once she started pooping more actual food, the smell wasn't being held in quite so well -- so we just tossed those directly out (I used the Sassy bags for poop diapers) and pee went into the Ubbi. Worked great until we finished with diapers!

emeraldcity603 · March 2023

We used Huggies last time and our 18 month old kept getting a rash and it was destroying his skin. Turns out he was allergic to the Huggies diapers. They must have changed their formula because he used them since being a newborn. We use pampers pure now and his bottom never gets a rash.

I don’t typically use a diaper pale pst the newborn stage. I just can’t handle poop in my house. So poop goes straight to the trash outside.

I use a folding diaper changing table I got from Amazon. It’s great because it folds up when you don’t need it and I use it on the main floor. In my bedroom for the newborn stage, I use the changing table that attaches to the Pack n play. Works great and allows me to easily change diapers in the middle of the night. I keep a trash bag nearby and all those diapers go out to the outside trash can daily.

I tried using cloth once. It didn’t seem to save on anything. The amount of water we used was ridiculous and the time and energy wasn’t making it worth it. Something had to give. Plus DH kept buying disposable anyways to be used away from the house. So I finally gave up.

If you have a super soaker baby at night. The kind that wets through the night time diapers and nothing seems to work. I used night time diapers with an extra soaker pad (without the sticky strip) layers into the diaper with a cloth diaper cover. It worked amazingly and saved me so much on wet laundry and changing sheets. Not to mention the extra soaker pad kept him much dryer and comfortable.

msjaay · March 2023

@tumbleweed-1 our daycare is licensed by the state, but I'll be honest, I have no idea what the behind the scenes looks like. I do remember them saying they had to wash the diapers separately (which makes sense).

gingermama29 · March 2023

I preferred Pampers for diapers. I am so bad about keeping up with regular laundry, I can’t imagine trying to cloth diaper too. Disposables all the way here. We inherited a diaper genie from my SIL so we used it in the nursery, but otherwise I wouldn’t have bothered.

cherrystorming · March 2023

@justyouraveragemama @tumbleweed-1
Which cloth brands do you like?

tumbleweed-1 · March 2023

@cherrystorming off the top of my head; thirsties, best bottom, and alva baby, have cute covers that have held up well. For prefold cloths; osocozy, and grovia. I really liked econobum prefolds for my DS, but I can’t find them anymore (maybe out of business?), and humblebebe is hit or miss. The ones I had at home were great, but we bought some at work recently and we’ve washed them so many times, but can’t get them absorbent yet. Most of my diapers are second hand, sometimes you can find them at baby resale shops.

There are a lot of styles- diapers with the absorbent layers built in, pocket style (what I use at home mostly) where you add an insert or cloth yourself, old school flat diapers you fold around and put a cover over. Fluffloveuniversity . Com is a good resource for learning all the types and how to wash and troubleshoot at home. A lot of cities still have diaper cleaning services too, maybe you have one in your area.

pickle-chips · March 2023

We are 80/20 disposable/cloth. We typically cloth on weekends. But night, naps, travel and daycare we disposable. We also use cloth when we run out of disposables 😂

We really like our UBBI and I’ve found it holds the smell really well. We’ve been using the same one for 6 years now.

We just do a change pad on top of the Hemnes dresser. We had one of those basic change pads with covers and it was perfectly fine. A friend gave us their old Keekaroo Peanut, which is pretty pricey and ~*aEsThEtiC*~. Our kid absolutely hates it! It is too cold to lay him on directly. The inexpensive generic pillow and covers are definitely way better for us.

I also have a 3 or 4 of IKEA LEN change blankets stashed around the house for quick diaper changes. But I mostly head to the change table when it’s diaper change time.

tumbleweed-1 · March 2023

@pickle-chips that reminds me- I had two travel changing mats but it was too confusing to remember which side touched the public changing table and which side touched my baby, so we pretty quickly switched to using receiving blankets for changes. Much easier to remember which side had which germs and to fold it back down. We bought a changing table for DS, but I’m trying to not get new furniture now. Our bedrooms are much smaller than they were before. Unfortunately our dressers aren’t a good height either, so baby 2 is probably getting lots of floor changes 🤷🏻‍♀️

justyouraveragemama · March 2023

@cherrystorming so far I just have Alva baby diapers and they seem to work well on the baby I’m watching! When I worked in a center, a lot of families used bumgenius and I liked those but they are more spendy. I have some weegreeco diapers on my registry to try out too.

novelblessings · March 2023

With our first we found pampers worked best and didn't irritate her skin as much. This is what we stuck with with our second kiddo. Planning to do the same this time. We also used the sensitive wipes, the one from amazon work just fine.

With that, we did cloth diaper both girl and used disposable at night..just to make things easy. We tried several brands with our first and landed on Bum Genius and I would order from their seconds sale, so we have a stash now of many colors. We mainly used the Flip covers and had a few pocket diapers. Last time I used the pocket diapers a bit more.

I’m on the fence this time because we are at a different daycare and I’m not sure they use cloth there. Also we travel a lot now for sports and I’m not interested in carrying around stinky cloth diapers every weekend in the car. I think what lever is easier might win this time but I feel like it saved us buying a ton of diapers and once you get into a wash routine it’s no big deal.

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