Maybe it’s that way because I’m still relatively new to all of this but I can’t get over how much I just… LOVE doing cloth and everything adjacent to it.

For me it started very spontaneous when I was pregnant, when I saw someone selling a used starter pack consisting of 25 pockets with inserts and wet bags, and impulsively bought it after doing a quick read on reddit and seeing people praising cloth diaps and saying that it isn’t as hard as one might think. It took me about 8 weeks after giving birth to start using them as it seemed sooo hard and overwhelming and I couldn’t quite wrap my head around a wash routine. But then some random day I stuffed the diapers and tried them out and oh man!!! The rush I got after a full first day was so great!

It almost felt like I wanted to scream about this from the rooftops and wondered why more people didn’t try this. Then, after getting quite used to pockets, I started branching out and reading about other types that seemed wayy too complicated for me before. I slowly started buying more and more different types and experimenting. And omg I can’t get over how many ways one can cloth diaper? All the different materials, all the different ways of folding flats and prefolds, all the different types of diapers and covers!

As someone who loves knitting and who loves natural fibers, I have become especially interested in the combination of fitted diapers and wool covers. My mind is blown over how one can use 100% natural materials to keep out all the pee and poop and keep my baby dry. Discovering how lanolin works blew my mind! And the added bonus of it all is that I now can lanolise mittens and hats for outdoor use to make them more water resistant! Plus, it makes me feel so connected to the past and to my ancestors and to the women who have done it all before me. It’s just so.. idk heartwarming to talk with older women and hear how they were doing the exact same thing like 50 years ago haha.

I’m also so thankful for cloth diaps because they finally made me realize how to do laundry. This probably sounds dumb, but no one ever really taught me that. Like I obviously know how to wash clothes, but I feel like now I actually know how to do it the right way/most efficient way?

Haha I feel so silly writing this but this has been such a fun journey! And I’m not even mentioning the environmental aspect and how damn good it makes me feel to only use 1 disposable per day (we have not transitioned ti using cloth during the night yet). We also transitioned to cloth wipes at around the same time as cloth diaps and the change in how much waste we produce is enormous!

Just really felt like sharing all this! And maybe someone else who lurks here and feels uncertain about cloth diaps might be influenced to give it a try!

Sooooo my little girl is nearing 6 months and I have started cloth diapering as I wanted to save money, be more eco, you know it!

Safe to say she has made be think twice lol
First night- soaked through the whole wool diaper and booster into her clothes and sleeping bag. I knew she was a heavy wetter but don’t know to what extent
So I decided to add 2 big thick bamboo boosters to the wool diaper. This made it bulky that the wrap wouldn’t fit so I thought YOLO

2am I thought I’d check.. no leaks, great back to sleep

5am… whole front is soaked to her clothes and sleeping bag again. The back not so much. My nugget is a tummy sleeper so makes sense. I made the decision to wake her up to change nappy cause I couldn’t sleep thinking of her sleeping in a soaked diaper

Well she then couldn’t nurse back to sleep so I thought alright I’ll play with her for a bit.

Lo and behold, she starts pooping and well… it was a blowout
Changed nappy again, some of the poo got into her clothes so I changed that!
Then I realised there was poo on the bed. (We co sleep) 🫠🫠🫠
I couldn’t have the heart to wake up my partner to change the sheets so I placed a muslin cloth over it and internally cried 😂

Safe to say I will go back to disposables for night time for the time being until things change. Will still cloth diaper during the day but whew!!!
Any advice? We are exclusively breastfeeding so I know that can contribute to the heavy wetness during the night. We have already started weaning also.
I don’t really want to spend more money as it is, maternity pay is not so nice now lol
I have primarily bamboo boosters and only 2 charcoal boosters but idk how good they are?
Would it be better to use the pockets with snaps during the night?
Would love your suggestions!!

We are thinking of switching to cloth diapers (and wipes) for our 10 month old but don’t know if we can justify the extra time it will require to save money. Especially for solid poops.

I also have some additional questions because I can’t wrap my head around how it would fit into our life. For context, we are in a two story house and change our baby either upstairs in the nursing room or downstairs in the living room. The laundry room and powder room are downstairs. There’s a master bath upstairs that already has a bidet sprayer. So that leaves me with some questions:

Diaper pails:
1. Do you have diaper pails in every changing place around your house?
2. Do you have separate pails/bags for the pee diapers, poo diapers and wipes?
3. Do you clean the pails every so often or do they get that dirty?
4. Which ones are the best in your opinion?

Wipes:
1. Do you have to treat cloth wipes like poo diapers and spray or swish them before washing?

Frequency:
1. Solid poops - do you spray/ scrape/plop the solid poops as they happen? Once a day? Can someone get away with doing it once a week or 2-3 times a week?
2. Can you wash the diapers once a week? Or does it need to be more frequent than that?

They honestly don’t seem worth the hassle once baby is eating solids, but we still want to consider it. Thank you in advance for the help

Baby is due in January, and we plan to cloth diaper full time (after the umbilical cord falls off, and with the exception of traveling). I'm a FTM and therefore new to cloth diapering.

At 29 weeks, the baby is measuring a bit small. I don't know how predictive this measurement is of actual birth weight, but it doesn't seem to be a particularly large baby. I have lots of Kinder pockets, but I'm worried they might be too big at first, and the yellow inserts don't fit well at the smallest rise setting.

I'm wondering if I should buy more prefolds for the newborn stage, wait and see, or plan to use disposables until baby grows into one-size diapers. I read that the Kinder wipes can be used as inserts during the newborn phase, but they seem really small and thin (they are the 8in x 8in version).

My current stash includes:

• 4 Elskbar newborn covers
• 3 used Bambino Mio covers (not sure how they will hold up)
• 12 Cloth-eez newborn prefolds
• 18 Cloth-eez one-size muslin flats
• 20 Kinder 8in x 8in wipes
• 6 Kinder one-size covers
• 18 Kinder one-size AWJ pockets
• 5 Charlie Banana one-size pockets with fleece inserts
• 20 yellow Kinder inserts
• 20 green Kinder inserts

I want to try elimination communication, and will experiment with wool covers at night once the baby isn't pooping at night.

Started solids with my 6 month old and I am wondering how best to deal with the poops with cloth?

I have disposable liners if need be!

But how do those work cause I assume I cannot flush them!

Do I need to get an attachment to spray the diapers off into the toilet?

I'm overwhelmed and sleep deprived please help!

(If it matters I have a mix of lil helpers, blueberry, AMP AIO, and LPO pockets)