March 2024 Moms

Product spotlight: diapering

Hi all! It may seem early to start making particular plans about how to deal with baby diapering, but we have a lot of baby topics to cover in the next 7ish months and we want to give each topic its space so... DIAPERING!

Those of you who went the disposable path, do you have any favorite brands? Those of you who went the cloth diapering path, do you have any favorite brands, methods, techniques? Tips on diaper washing if using cloth?

What are people's favorite wipes? How do you store wipes, and do you use a wipe-warmer? What do you stock in case of diaper rash? 

How do you dispose of dirty diapers: do you have a favorite diaper pail? A service that comes to pick up cloth diapers?

And how about your diapering set-up at home: do you have cute diaper caddies you want to recommend or are you comfortable throwing a towel on any surface? Diapering set-up on the road: what do you stash in your diaper bag specifically for diapering purposes?

Or does all of this give you a headache and you prefer to go back to our roots and let your children run naked in the woods and practice free elimination?

Please share!

Re: Product spotlight: diapering

  • We have always done disposables. Pampers are great to help avoid diaper rash in that early stage when they are pooping and peeing constantly. When their bowels calm down a bit I like to switch to diapers from Aldi because they are some of the cheapest I have found that my kids do well with. They have an elastic back which has been great for my skinny bubs. 

    Diaper cream I prefer lil’ goats which I get on Amazon. My favorite wipes are Huggies naturals. 

    We have never used a wipes warmer

    Our old house was a small 1 story and we put a changing pad on top of the dresser and it wasn’t a big deal to always go there for changes. We moved to a two story house so we’ll probably turn into and surface works lol. 
    TW: MMC
    BFP1 12/24/14 - EDD 09/07/15 (D/C 8w1d)
    BFP2 6/12/15 - EDD 2/22/16 (D/C 10w3d)
    ———
    Diagnoses and Treatments
    PCOS (myo-inositol, excercize)
    Indeterminant levels of APS IgM antibodies (baby aspirin)
    Sub-septate uterus (hysteroscopic septoplasty 12/18/15)
    ———
    BFP3 05/02/16 EDD 01/09/17 DS born 01/05/17
    BFP4 01/28/19 EDD 10/?/19 🤞🙏

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  • mrosek91 said:
    Hi all! It may seem early to start making particular plans about how to deal with baby diapering, but we have a lot of baby topics to cover in the next 7ish months and we want to give each topic its space so... DIAPERING!

    Those of you who went the disposable path, do you have any favorite brands? Those of you who went the cloth diapering path, do you have any favorite brands, methods, techniques? Tips on diaper washing if using cloth?

    What are people's favorite wipes? How do you store wipes, and do you use a wipe-warmer? What do you stock in case of diaper rash? 

    How do you dispose of dirty diapers: do you have a favorite diaper pail? A service that comes to pick up cloth diapers?

    And how about your diapering set-up at home: do you have cute diaper caddies you want to recommend or are you comfortable throwing a towel on any surface? Diapering set-up on the road: what do you stash in your diaper bag specifically for diapering purposes?

    Or does all of this give you a headache and you prefer to go back to our roots and let your children run naked in the woods and practice free elimination?

    Please share!
    @mrosek91, you might be sorry you asked! Lol

    Disposable-
    I like hello bello. I love that they come right to my door, I like the fun patterns, I've had great experience as far as blow outs, etc.

    Cloth-
    Of my three I've use cloth at least part of the time with all of them. DD1 almost exclusively, DD2 and DS at home, but not on the go or traveling. I am a huge fan of all in one diapers, especially bum genius all in one elementals. I find them just as easy to use as disposable other than the washing. You do have to stay on top of the washing. I plan to cloth this babe the majority of the time.

    Pails-
    For both disposable and cloth I like a basic trash can with a plastic liner for disposable and a washable liner for cloth. It seems counterintuitive, but just leaving them in a regular pail really isn't that stinky. Lid up on cloth and down on disposable. If you breastfeed and if you hold off on solids until 6 months it isn't even real stinky poop. After that I just rinse the poops right then and keep another small pail in the bathroom. With my first I had a real diaper sprayer, but the others I just dunked and didn't worry too much about it.

    Washing-
    You absolutely positively do have to use a residue free detergent, as much water as your washer will use and a rinse cycle before. I have a lot of diapers so I can stretch the washing a few days.

    Wipes-
    I like the hello bello wipes + some cloth wipes. I've never used a warmer.

    Setup-
    I like a specific changing area so the poo is largely contained to one area! I've always just had a pad on a dresser although the specific dresser has changed. I use the top drawer for diapers another for clothes, and the bottom for blankets, etc. DS (and this babe) never had a nursery, just a simple corner in my room.

    Creams etc.-
    You want to largely avoid creams if you use cloth. The only thing I really use is a calendula olive oil cream that works better than anything else I've ever used.

    On the go-
    I keep it super simple. A wet bag for dirty diapers. A receiving blanket to lay baby on. A diaper or two and a package of wipes. That's basically it. I carry a large purse or tote and don't really use a traditional diaper bag much.
  • I forgot about on the go. I don’t use a traditional separate diaper bag after the first few months either. I love using a Kavu sling bag. I put all the baby stuff (change of clothes, diapers, wipes, travel changing pad) in the big side and my wallet, phone keys etc in the other side. 
    TW: MMC
    BFP1 12/24/14 - EDD 09/07/15 (D/C 8w1d)
    BFP2 6/12/15 - EDD 2/22/16 (D/C 10w3d)
    ———
    Diagnoses and Treatments
    PCOS (myo-inositol, excercize)
    Indeterminant levels of APS IgM antibodies (baby aspirin)
    Sub-septate uterus (hysteroscopic septoplasty 12/18/15)
    ———
    BFP3 05/02/16 EDD 01/09/17 DS born 01/05/17
    BFP4 01/28/19 EDD 10/?/19 🤞🙏

  • I 100% cloth diapering my older two, and plan to CD the twins as much as possible, so while I have no input on the disposable question, I will be paying attention to what works for others 😁

    I won't go too deep on this, but if anyone is interested in cloth, feel free to ask questions!

    Cloth-
    I've tried a number of brands and my favorites are Thirsties pockets, but I like the All in Ones too. I also like the Green Mountain Diapers clotheez fitteds, and got into flats with my last kiddo. I also used some wool covers, which I liked especially for winter.

    Pails-
    I use a small trash can with a PUL liner in the bathroom. We have a diaper sprayer and spray off poop diapers and just toss them in the open pail - never had a problem with smell. On the changing table I have a hanging wet bag for pee diapers too.

    Washing-
    I use Tide unscented, and use surprisingly little detergent. I do a rinse, then wash twice with detergent (hot), with extra rinses, and sometimes an extra wash cycle with no detergent if I feel like I'm not getting the detergent out.

    Wipes-
    Cloth Wipes, and I make a spray that I spray on butts or on the wipe as needed.

    Setup-
    I like a changing table, because with cloth it really helps to have everything in one place and I like standing when changing. Out house is small, so one is fine. I have a shelf above the changing table with diapers on it and whatever else I need on the shelves below the table.

    Creams etc.-
    I like the Weleda calendula diaper cream.

    On the go-
    I have a cross body bag/purse that I keep a change of clothes, a few diapers, a pouch with wipes, spray, cream, hand sanitizer, and a wet bag for dirty diapers. Simple.
    TW
    Me: 33 DH: 32
    Started Dating: 2003 Married: 2013
    Started TTC August 2016
    BFP: 2/1/17 MC: 2/8/17
    BFP: 3/8/17 MMC: 5/1/17
    BFP: 7/23/17 EDD: 4/5/18
    BFP: 2/27/20





  • Diapers- I cloth diapers my boys and tried quite a few styles with DS1 but found I liked blueberry the best. Unfortunately they’ve gone out of business but I have a ton from the boys packed away. DS1 had the skinniest legs for a 9.9 babe and the other brands I tried didn’t fit him well for a while vs the blueberries that worked great for me from the start. I prefer an all in one for the easier laundry. 

    My neighbor baby that I Nannied for 18 months used disposables and they typically got the Kirkland brand at Costco. They were fine but I did notice a lot more blowouts with them so maybe they aren’t the greatest disposable option. They got pampers one time and they smelled very strongly. Idk what variety or pampers or if they were perfumed or what but I’m sensitive to scents and it was very strong but not unpleasant. 

    For a pail I keep a larger hanging wet bag clipped to the changing table for pee diapers and a wicker basket with a pul liner for the poop diapers once they’ve been sprayed. I love the spray pal shield to keep that backsplash contained. 

    Washing- I do a quick wash with detergent and then a full wash on hot with detergent. I have a lot of diapers and can spread this out to 1-2 times a week which is really nice. 

    Wipes- I’ve used both cloth and disposable, I like the Huggies natural care ones. I never bothered with a wipe warmer you can hold the wipe between your hands for a minute and warm it up just as easily but my boys never cared if it was cold. We keep a little trash can for poopy wipes by the sprayer. 

    Setup- I have a changing table from DS1 that I used almost exclusively when he was little and I had moved in with my parents but when DH and I bought our first house (one story) it wasn’t used much. By the time we had DS2 it became a catchall for anything that needed putting away on the boys room and we just changed DS2 whereever we were at. When we bought out current house (2 stories) I changed DS2 on the changing table if we were upstairs but if we were downstairs I just plopped him wherever. 

    Creams- I like the green Bordeaux’s butt paste

    On the go- I started using a regular backpack with DS2 with a couple diapers, a wet bag, a wipe wallet and a change of clothes. Eventually knocking that down to diaper stuff just left in the car and bringing one diaper small wet bag and wipes in my tote if we were running errands. I’d only bring the full kit in if we would be somewhere several hours and expected multiple changes. 


    Wow sorry, that feels like so much information
  • I wish there was a service in my area that came and picked up cloth diapers! My partner is 100% against the mess of cloth diapering, but was willing to compromise if there was a service that did the laundry part for us, but there is nothing like that where I live. At least when I had my last baby, this is a good reminder to check again!

    I don't have a lot of cool advice for FTMs but I use Kirkland brand diapers. I have only had like 2-3 blowouts her whole life, but she has always been very petite which maybe helps and she also has been on thickened liquids which made her poops more like adult poops so less chance of blowing out, I guess. We got some pampers at our baby shower and I think they fit her petite frame the best but I agree with @kmw611 about the scent to them. We also tried Huggies and they didn't fit her very well, but they seemed like they would fit chunkier babies better. Someone gave us some target brand diapers I think the Up& brand or something like that and I hated them, they seemed super rough and stiff and not very absorbant.

    Wipes are also Kirkland brand, they're cheaper and seem to work fine. When my daughter was very tiny we used water wipes because that's what the used in the NICU, but they're more expensive and after she got bigger we stopped worrying about her skin sensitivity as much.

    For diaper cream we use Desitin Extra Strength because that's what the NICU recommended so we never tried anything else.

    Writing this all out makes me realize we didn't try very hard to explore our options. haha.
  • This is so useful for a FTM attempting to go the 100% cloth diaper route. We've already started prepping our stash, so I can comment on what we have, but not on how well it all works! I do have a few questions though...

    Diapers: we've managed to scrounge a variety of CDs (36 pockets, mostly Kawaii Baby - I think it's Canadian; 17 covers, a few Blueberries, Bummis, and Best Bottoms), and associated bamboo inserts and cotton prefolds. I also just received a stash of BumGenium pockets, but I think some of the elastic is shot (and not a huge fan of the microfibre inserts), so have to sort through those. My MIL wants to send us her vintage 1980's clothies, which might be fun, haha.
    QUESTIONS - for those focusing on cloth, did you have some backup disposables, just in case? Has anyone tried an "eco" brand of disposables? For those who said you have "a lot" of CDs, how many is a lot? Just trying to gauge our laundry frequency.

    Pail/Set Up: hoping to set up a sprayer system. I found something that could suit on marketplace :) We don't have much space at the moment, so the plan is to just use a changing mat on a dresser/surface.
    QUESTON - how many wet bags is advisable? We have one so far.

    Wipes/Creams: there is a lovely Canadian brand called Attitude, so I was planning to try their wipes and diaper cream (main ingredients are zinc and olive oil). But it sounds like Calendula might be better for CDs. 
    QUESTIONS - Where do you find caledula cream? Those who have used cloth wipes, any particular brand/material you particularly like?

    On-the-go: got a SkipHop backpack with a little change mat off buy nothing :)  It was useful to know what you all bring along on an outing!


  • hedgepighedgepig member
    edited September 2023
    @cioccolata16 I order my diaper cream on Amazon, but I don't think the calendula is particularly important, it's just a nice soothing herb that they use to infuse oil. You should try your local brand - just be careful, some diaper creams don't wash out of diapers very well. I would think you'd be fine with plant oils and a bit of zinc though.
    Eta: we never had backup disposables - once we got into our system we never needed anything else. We did collect some non-preferred diapers or extra prefolds that we could use if something came up and we couldn't wash soon enough.

    @kmw611 We love Blueberrys too! We didn't buy a lot because they were a little too expensive and Thirsties worked well for us, but I did love the ones we had. I was sad to see them go out of business too 😭
    TW
    Me: 33 DH: 32
    Started Dating: 2003 Married: 2013
    Started TTC August 2016
    BFP: 2/1/17 MC: 2/8/17
    BFP: 3/8/17 MMC: 5/1/17
    BFP: 7/23/17 EDD: 4/5/18
    BFP: 2/27/20





  • @cioccolata16 for rash cream you just want to make sure it isn’t something petroleum based as it’ll cause repelling issues, pee may roll right off vs being absorbed if the rash cream doesn’t get completely washed out. As for big stashes I probably have 50-60 OS diapers maybe more and 30ish newborns. @hedgepig blueberry is so pricey but I bought a lot used at the local consignment sale and was handed down some from friends and then sale prices/mystery bags helped too. Some of my oldest ones are really showing the wear of 6 years use and probably need to be replaced so I was hoping for a better going out of business type sale but never saw anything. 
  • I dabbled in cloth diapering with my first, but just couldn't stick with it. 

    I really like Amazon brand Mama Bear diapers. Nothing beat Huggies at the newborn stage, though. I always try to find the brands that have the scrunch in the back. It helped my kids not blowout as often.

    This is sort of diaper related and advice I always try to pass on to new moms. Slather baby's bottom with coconut oil at the end of every diaper change until the meconium is out of their system, the oil being on there makes the poop wipe off so much easier. That stuff will stick like tar! 😆 Someone told me that before my third was born and it was a game changer. 
  • We are in disposables 100% of the time. Favorite brand is Millie Moon. That diaper could be saturated but still feel dry to the touch. Best diapers out there. Reasonable price too. We buy them at target and they regularly have sales where you get $20 if you spend $100 on diapers. 

    For FTMs, I would not buy a ton of sizes in a single brand. Your baby could end up being sensitive to an ingredient. Unopened boxes of diapers can be exchanged though!
  • I did sposies with my girls and then cloth diapered my twins and it was super easy. 
    It’s not a mess or anything wild like people usually think when they hear of it. My husband was not on board but i figured he wouldn’t be home anyways, so why worry about his opinion. It was a big way to save tons of money, esp while having twins 

    when they went to daycare they did cloth there and all the teachers were able to change them without issues. I would bring a wet bag to their daycare and take home everyday. We do all in one. I started with Alva baby while new and unsure for the expense but there were tons of other brands i loved! 

    There’s lots of resell Facebook groups to start you on a good stash. Cloth diapering actually helped me with regular laundry and getting stains out of regular clothes, from all the info i learned. 

    Fluff love university had some good info for me while i was a beginner and also little YouTube videos. 
    Washing was way different than i had anticipated and i never really had to deal with “scrubbing poop”, touching poop, etc. its all very simple and great on finances, esp, again… while i had multiples 🤣

    Their cloth diapers worked great as swim diapers as well and i loved all the fun patterns. It’s definitely come such a long way since cloth diapering when our grandparents were doing it. I feel like that’s how most people look to it when they think of it.
    when friends saw how easy their changes were they were like ok wow that’s not at all what i had thought, when you told me you were CDing. 🤣

    disposables are easy, but expensive and gave one of my twins chemical rash burns. EVERY. Diaper. I used. 
    (I had tried to go through the stash people had bought us before pulling out the cloth, but again it did more damage than good, so we just donated them!) 
  • So I haven’t ever cloth diapered myself but I love supporting people who want to. Something I wanted to throw out here for any FTMs who are really interested in cloth diapers but are worried about the smell or their husbands are worried about it is that breastfed baby poop doesn’t really smell, and it is actually SO easy to get out of clothes. Something husbands might not be considering (because why would they know? lol) is that even if you use disposables you will still be washing poopy clothes anyway. I have never met a baby that didn’t have at least occasional blowouts. By the time the babies are eating real food and have smelly poop, they don’t poop nearly as often as a younger baby does so it’s not as much of a concern then. 
    TW: MMC
    BFP1 12/24/14 - EDD 09/07/15 (D/C 8w1d)
    BFP2 6/12/15 - EDD 2/22/16 (D/C 10w3d)
    ———
    Diagnoses and Treatments
    PCOS (myo-inositol, excercize)
    Indeterminant levels of APS IgM antibodies (baby aspirin)
    Sub-septate uterus (hysteroscopic septoplasty 12/18/15)
    ———
    BFP3 05/02/16 EDD 01/09/17 DS born 01/05/17
    BFP4 01/28/19 EDD 10/?/19 🤞🙏

  • To add onto @ceclarlinetlo 's points - maybe it was just my kids, but we hardly ever had poop leak, let alone blowouts with our cloth diapers. Waaaay fewer than the number that I'm under the impression babies get with disposables.
    TW
    Me: 33 DH: 32
    Started Dating: 2003 Married: 2013
    Started TTC August 2016
    BFP: 2/1/17 MC: 2/8/17
    BFP: 3/8/17 MMC: 5/1/17
    BFP: 7/23/17 EDD: 4/5/18
    BFP: 2/27/20





  • @k_sims I'm so happy to hear you did so well with cloth on your twins! People keep acting like I'm crazy for planning to use cloth on the twins. I always found cloth to be just as easy as disposables, just with a bit more laundry.
    TW
    Me: 33 DH: 32
    Started Dating: 2003 Married: 2013
    Started TTC August 2016
    BFP: 2/1/17 MC: 2/8/17
    BFP: 3/8/17 MMC: 5/1/17
    BFP: 7/23/17 EDD: 4/5/18
    BFP: 2/27/20





  • Moms that cloth- do you guys have a sink in your laundry room or a special sprayer attachment? Our laundry is in a bedroom and we only have 1 bathroom. What is the work around for this??
  • I just bought a huge wet bag. Basically a water resistant laundry bag. And i put it in a wicker laundry basket, like a trash bag would sit. I kept it in our restroom and did our cloth diapers every 2-4 days. In the beginning when i was super eager / excited I’d wash every 2, even though i had a ton of diapers. 
    I had a stash of 70 diapers.

    rule of thumb was like 10-12 diapers per day as a new born and so i wanted to have a good stash to avoid having to wash so frequently so i didn’t get burnt out. 
    The longer i went the more I’d push how far i could go and honestly there was never some horrible stench. As i mentioned, my husband was so against it at first, until he saw the savings it made, that my son wasn’t getting burns on his booty, and that we never had those nights of late night runs due to thinking we had diapers and then didn’t…. So he DEF would have said something if he smelt it. 

    I never bought a sprayer or used one and i never used a sink to clean them. Breast milk poop is 100% completely water soluble and so you actually don’t have to clean them off at all. You can toss directly into your laundry. Some people are like EW you wash your clothes with poop?!? But that’s just not the case. For one, i always washed our diapers separately and 2, poop doesn’t just sit in there after, lol!  If it makes you feel better you can rinse prior, sometimes I’d hold the outside of the diaper in the toilet and flush while the water hits the inside and rinses it. 

    I used the diapers that basically had a shell (the diaper that covers everything, on the inside has a small a slot, and you stuff them with the diaper inserts. This is what catches the pee and what not. Poop will sit on the diaper shell but the pee and everything will absorb into the insert. (The insert is basically the equivalent of the gel stuff that disposable diapers have inside them, but they’re microfiber or bamboo, etc. instead of those little gel beadlets). I hope I’m making sense lol! 
    So again, with bigger / harder poop I’d just wear some like dish gloves, hold the diaper, and let the poop plop into the toilet and if there was ever residue still I’d hold it against the inside of the toilet and flush to let the water hit it. That was usually enough. They also make some cloth liners. They remind me of a dryer sheet (different material) but it basically sits on your diaper like a pad would, and so when your baby poops you can throw that entire thing away and that also helps lessen stains, etc. 
    some people are against using these bc what’s the point in doing cloth, but i don’t feel either way. I never used them, but i could see how they’d be helpful if traveling and not having something available to wash properly, if you didn’t get disposables for the trip. 

    I did see some Pinterest DIY sprayers, you get a clipboard and dollar tree trash can and you clip the diaper to the clipboard, let it hang and spray it while it’s inside the trash can to prevent a mess. Whether you use an outside hose sprayer or buy one to attach to your toilet. If you buy an attachment they’re Apparently super easy to attach to your toilet, and it can just sit on a hook on the side of your toilet.
    Before i started i watched a ton of YouTube videos and there’s a lot of super creative people that made their spaces, tiny and huge, work and be a perfect CDing environment! 😊

    @hedgepig i received such negative comments when i told people i was cloth diapering. 🙄 i registered for some on my baby registry as well to help some of the initial costs and did get quite a bit, along with comments like — i would never do that but i mean if you want to try it… 
    or i think you’re gonna give up really quickly. Etc. 

    then again, once they saw the cute patterns and how all you had to do was snap it on, they changed their song pretty quickly. And were so shocked with how far cloth diapering has come. 
    We rarely had blow outs with cloth, but anytime my daughter, who we did disposables with, had gas we’d wind up with blowouts that came all the way up to her neck 🤣🤣 i think part of it, is that cinch thing on the diapers that kind of helps keep everything in. 
    The only negative thing i had with CD was that they’re thicker and so packing a bunch for a day on the go for twins made our diaper bag so full. But again, such a minute thing! 

    To me, cloth diapering and nursing the twins was a huge way i could help us financially. To not add any new bills to our budget / finances. We were ok if need be, but i knew it was saving us so much. I stayed home majority of the time with the twins, so sometimes they’d just roam in a shirt and their diapers. 😆 

    it was a fun “job” for me, while home. I really enjoyed it. 
  • I would like to add that while i had every intention of using cloth wipes as well, i just couldn’t get fully on board with those. I used them a ton while newborn, but it was harder to keep them how i liked while out, and wipes are so cheap, (at Sam’s club they have a box of over 1,000 wipes for $19.)  that i ended up just using wipes with cloth. Lol! 

  • Moms that cloth- do you guys have a sink in your laundry room or a special sprayer attachment? Our laundry is in a bedroom and we only have 1 bathroom. What is the work around for this??
    I has a sprayer with #1, but #2 and #3 I had nothing fancy and no extra sink and it was NBD.
  • @night_nurse We have a sprayer that attaches to the toilet (SprayPal is the brand) and I just spray the poop off into the toilet. Then I have a small trash can with a wet bag liner to toss them into. Like @k_sims said, you don't even have to rinse the poop if they're breastfed.

     For wipes I have a little spray bottle with water, witch hazel, a but of soap, a bit of oil a day a few drops of lavender essential oil. I'd spray the wipe or the butt, and found it worked great. I used to keep disposable wipes around too, but never used them.
    TW
    Me: 33 DH: 32
    Started Dating: 2003 Married: 2013
    Started TTC August 2016
    BFP: 2/1/17 MC: 2/8/17
    BFP: 3/8/17 MMC: 5/1/17
    BFP: 7/23/17 EDD: 4/5/18
    BFP: 2/27/20





  • We took a pretty casual cloth diapering approach with both kiddos. Will likely do the same again. Basically we do cloth during the day, disposable for overnights and on trips. Tried cloth for overnights, but both of mine were pretty non-tolerant of sleeping with a wet booty, and I valued my sleep over nighttime diaper changes! 

    Echoing the wet bag, sprayer, and 2-3 days between washes above. Also fluff love university has some good info for wash routines and troubleshooting. 

    For disposables, we’ve used the honest brand diapers. They have a pretty solid Black Friday deal if you sign up for their subscription service, and you can delay delivery for months! 

    Side note - any other CD folks notice kids potty training earlier? Both of mine were out of diapers before age 2, and my working theory is it’s related to CD, but 🤷‍♀️
  • @hedgepig that was my experience as well. I don’t thing I ever had a blowout with my boys and very rarely a little leak at their legs but when I started watching my neighbors son last year in disposables blowouts we’re constant. I definitely think it depends on the brand of disposables and size because some weeks were worse than others depending on what kinds of diapers and sizes they brought me. 

    @night_nurse all of the options at different points. With DS1 I just plopped his poo into the toilet and held me the diaper under the running water when flushed to get anything left off because I wasn’t in my own home. With DS2 in our first home my husband added a sprayer to our bathroom toilet, a spray guard was super handy for keeping backsplash down. We bought our current house when DS2 was still in diapers and had a utility sink next to the water so we put the sprayer on that sink so I could spray and toss straight into the was so leave in the sink to dry until wash day. 

    @halfanewt My boys took forever to potty train but showed interest very early, like 18months. I just think I did a poor job helping them along because of life stuff at that time for them both. They ended up being 3 before they were fully out of diapers. 
  • @halfanewt Mine both potty trained before 2 also! Maybe it was the cloth 🤷🏻‍♀️ Sure made my life easier in terms of laundry.
    TW
    Me: 33 DH: 32
    Started Dating: 2003 Married: 2013
    Started TTC August 2016
    BFP: 2/1/17 MC: 2/8/17
    BFP: 3/8/17 MMC: 5/1/17
    BFP: 7/23/17 EDD: 4/5/18
    BFP: 2/27/20





  • My two boys were very different with potty training. My oldest was 4 before he would poop on the potty but he was completely night trained well before that. My second was totally trained in the day time by 2.5 but he will be 4 in two weeks and still needs pull ups at night. Because of that I tend to think potty training habits are luck of the draw. 
    TW: MMC
    BFP1 12/24/14 - EDD 09/07/15 (D/C 8w1d)
    BFP2 6/12/15 - EDD 2/22/16 (D/C 10w3d)
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    Diagnoses and Treatments
    PCOS (myo-inositol, excercize)
    Indeterminant levels of APS IgM antibodies (baby aspirin)
    Sub-septate uterus (hysteroscopic septoplasty 12/18/15)
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    BFP3 05/02/16 EDD 01/09/17 DS born 01/05/17
    BFP4 01/28/19 EDD 10/?/19 🤞🙏

  • Hey! Pregnant with my fourth and I've used both disposable and cloth with all of my kiddos. One pack of newborn disposable is nice as my babies tend to be too small even for cloth newborn diapers. Plus you have less laundry immediately postpartum that way. I usually go for Pampers Pure or Honest if I use disposable. For cloth, I've tried pockets, flats, prefolds, fitted, and all in one's. A Buttons cover with an organic 100% cotton prefold secured with a Snappi is by far my favorite combination.  The newborn Buttons cover and the Big cover are the best. The One Size is actually kind of small and has a different snap configuration. I feel like the Big cover fits better long term and gives more room for absorbency.  Green Mountain Diapers has wonderful organic prefold diapers and Osocozy is great too. 
  • @hedgepig how would you store while out, bc that’s exactly what i made for our wipes - a tiny bit of soap, witch hazel, a small bit of water, and EO but keeping enough in a container for two was so hard for me, to keep how i liked them. If they were dry that would have been easy, but again, storing enough for two was so hard for me that i mainly kept disposable wipes in the diaper bag or on trips. At home I’d use cloth when i could, but again. Just storing enough at a time was a small feat in itself. 
  • @k_sims I didn't  keep the wipes wet - I just kept a pouch full of dry wipes, plus a spray bottle of solution. I'd spray a wipe a few times then use it. That's what I did at home too - I was always worried that they'd get moldy or something if I stored them wet 🤷🏻‍♀️
    TW
    Me: 33 DH: 32
    Started Dating: 2003 Married: 2013
    Started TTC August 2016
    BFP: 2/1/17 MC: 2/8/17
    BFP: 3/8/17 MMC: 5/1/17
    BFP: 7/23/17 EDD: 4/5/18
    BFP: 2/27/20





  • Oh ok, that makes perfect sense! At first i kept them in the solution, in a wipe warmer… worried about the same thing, but I’d have to remake them every few hours that the probability of them becoming gross was so slim. 
    I also once tried keeping a few in one of those small wipey carriers for disposables and that worked perfectly, but the issue i had was it just not carrying enough! 

    That’s a great idea though!! I may try that 
  • We have always done disposables. Pampers are great to help avoid diaper rash in that early stage when they are pooping and peeing constantly. When their bowels calm down a bit I like to switch to diapers from Aldi because they are some of the cheapest I have found that my kids do well with. They have an elastic back which has been great for my skinny bubs. 

    Diaper cream I prefer lil’ goats which I get on Amazon. My favorite wipes are Huggies naturals. 

    We have never used a wipes warmer

    Our old house was a small 1 story and we put a changing pad on top of the dresser and it wasn’t a big deal to always go there for changes. We moved to a two story house so we’ll probably turn into and surface works lol. 
    We actually switched from pampers to Huggies from the diaper rashes and a nasty yeast infection. Babies are all so different!
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