Cloth Diaper Check -In 1/26

[gahorseygal]

Hey ladies! How is everyone in cloth doing?? 

-Any struggles you are having with cloth?
-Favorite brand/print?
-Are you 100% cloth?

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{Spoiler}LO is a heavy wetter and I've found I like using fleece receiving blankets as flats with a hemp insert in it and a cover. So I'm starting to destash some pockets of mine. Any suggestions for a good flat?Favorite brand - Thirsties. Love their pockets, covers, and Hemp inserts.I am probably 80% cloth. I use an occasional disposable on laundry day, if she gets a bad rash, or when we go out of town for more than two days.

[FunniBunni]

PSA: Go to the dollar store and buy a small wastebasket, bucket, something! It's great for transporting poopy dipes and wipes to the sprayer and back!

-Any struggles you are having with cloth? Getting used to spraying now that we're on solids. It bugs me that they don't look "clean" after spraying. I use pockets, and especially the little lines where the material folded bug me. But, I'm getting used to it. They look/smell clean from the machine, so I guess that's what's important. I also added another hot wash sans soap before the soap cycle. They were coming out obviously unclean- and I think that made all the difference.

-Favorite brand/print? Loooooooove BumGenius 4.0s- it makes up 98% of my stash. (The rest is prefolds and Thirsties Duo Wraps. I use them for nighttime.)
Anyways, my favorite print is "Lovelace". I only have one... But I wish I had 10.

-Are you 100% cloth? Yup! Diapers and wipes. We used sposies when we went camping in September- NIGHTMARE. Stink and constant blowouts. Horrid.

[gahorseygal]

FunniBunni Do you use any soap in your pre rinse? I use soap and oxy clean and that seems to make a big difference with mine so no extra rinses needed.

ETA: I still use soap in the regular wash too.

[FunniBunni]

Jan 26, 2015 16:15:05 GMT -5 gahorseygal said:

FunniBunni Do you use any soap in your pre rinse? I use soap and oxy clean and that seems to make a big difference with mine so no extra rinses needed.

ETA: I still use soap in the regular wash too.

Nope. Me and soap- we are not the best of friends, lol. It takes FOREVER to get the soap out of my diapers. I need to do two rinses after the wash is done. I tried using less soap... But then we had stink issues. So I don't want to compound the issue by adding more.

I have a HEFL washer:
1. Rinse & Spin Cycle (cold) 15 min
2. Wash care with soak (hot) 1hr 15min
3. White cycle (hot w/soap) w/extra rinse 1hr 30min
4. Rinse & Spin Cycle w/extra rinse 24min

Long and lengthy- but it works!

[mrsnorris]

-Any struggles you are having with cloth? We're struggling with the overnights. LO still eats several times per night but we co-sleep so she doesn't fully wake and we don't get up, so she's spending 11-12 hours in one diaper. We have her in Kawaii overnights with a BG 4.0 underneath and the other night she peed completely through both diapers, her sleeper and her sleep sack and our sheets. I'm not sure what do do. We could get her up and change her at her one big wake when she's more fully awake but that's at about1:00 when she's been sleeping for 3-4 hours and she's generally still dry then, or mostly dry so it doesn't help. We also have a problem because LO is teeny and most of the diaper brands are huge around her legs. We do well with our BG 4.0s but most nighttime solutions are too loose for her.

-Favorite brand/print? BG 4.0s are our favorites. My favorite print is the Albert, I think.


-Are you 100% cloth? Almost. Sometimes with a bad rash (hasn't happened in weeks) we do disposable for the butt paste. Also on longer trips we do disposable because lugging around her dirty cloth diapers for days just isn't feasible.

[shevacc]

Back to loving what worked best for us with DD...trifolded GMD prefolds and BG 4.0s as covers. We're 100% cloth dipes though use disposable wipes for poop. But then DH leaves the used wipes lying around, gross! It's easier to throw the cloth wipes into the wetbag.

I do love that diapering is pretty much free for us from here on, though still hope DS can be PTed early. Occasional accidents >> regular diapering.

[bkroxfan003]

Not really having any issues here. We are 100% cloth except if her ON diapers aren't dry when it's time for bed. My favorites are Best Bottoms with a stay dry insert or GMD prefolds with a Blueberry coverall.