Comments on: Cloth Diaper Questions: liners, daycare, rashes

By: Bethany

Bethany — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:03:28 +0000

Thanks for the help everyone!

By: Virginia

Virginia — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:39:36 +0000

Just a quick comment about the liners. I use the ImseVimse flushable liners and love them. Something they don’t tell you is that you can wash them multiple times with your diapers if your child has not had a BM with that diaper change. I normally get 3 washes out of them before they start falling apart. To me these are the most economical.

By: Christina

Christina — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:36:00 +0000

Thanks Autumn! And thanks for the tip about yeast and corn starch! I didn’t know that and haven’t had that problem, but I will definately keep that in mind! ;P

By: Autumn Beck

Autumn Beck — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:15:49 +0000

Christina, do a search for “diaper rash creams” on my blog and you’ll get a list of cloth diaper safe brands. If you ever suspect that her rash is yeast related don’t use corn starch! It will feed the yeasties.

By: Sharon K.

Sharon K. — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:08:41 +0000

I just wanted to add that I did have some liners (still do) I forget the brand, but I would cut them in half if too big. I never stuck with them though, as I was nervous flushing them b/c we have a septic system. I did use them when they were older almost a year, when the poop was a bit more formed. As for newborn dipes, I always liked fitteds b/c they held in poop better so the covers stayed a little neater, but lots of covers for a newborn is a great idea! I can see how daycare centers would prefer velcro and AIO diaper as opposed to lots of confusing snaps!

By: mrs spock

mrs spock — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:34:31 +0000

I had an easier time convincing a day care to use my cloth diapers, when I told them I use diapers that have velcro tabs. I use Bumgenius 3.0 and have several wet bags with zippered tops. As long as we take the full wet bag home every night, they have no issues. We generally use more economical prefold/Thirsties covers/wool at home.

By: Christina

Christina — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:34:14 +0000

Hi Autumn. I have a “rash related” question for you. I use fuzzi bunz exclusively on my 5 month old daughter and very rarely experience rashes. But occasionally if her poo has been sitting close to her skin for the duration of a nap, she gets a little red. Usually, airing her out a while clears it up, but on some occasion it takes a day or two to clear up. I’ve been using just plain ordinary corn starch to absorb excess moisture after a change. Is there a diaper cream/ointment that you recommect for use with fuzzi bunz that won’t wreck the diapers?

By: Candace Robinson

Candace Robinson — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:38:25 +0000

Liners:
My baby is just a couple weeks older then Sterling but eats more solid food then Sterling (it sounds like) and his poo is becoming peanut buttery and nasty. I bought Imse Vimse liners cause they were the cheapest. They are too wide so I fold in half, which almost makes them too skinny. They hold his poo pretty good, but he’ll still get like ‘skidmarks’ on his diaper, like the moisture still goes through so that’s what it leaves behind.
I find it’s kind of a pain to take the time to put it in his diaper, but I’ve been pretty happy with how it works when he does poo and its in. As soon as his poo is more solid I’ll prefer to just drop it in the toilet, I think.
And it would not work for ebf poo imo, really at all. I never had an issue with just tossing them in the pail either without any rinse.
I’ll add that I like my econobums, and I think they would work on a newborn but I would want to pin the prefold and would buy infant sized for sure. The cover is pretty great though! Oh, another option would be to buy preemie prefolds and trifold it, but I’m not sure how it would work. I think it would be pretty trim, but maybe not enough absorbancy. Infant sized would be too bulky trifolded, imo.
Thanks for another great blog post! I’m off to share on facebook!
(Trying my hardest to convince everyone to cd!)

By: Melissa

Melissa — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:35:02 +0000

I posted most of this on the yeast rash post, but I think it’s worth reposting here because rashes are so doggone infuriating!
When we started CDing my daughter got a yeast rash, and I was so distraught, thinking CDing might not work for us. But, we solved the problem, so we didn’t have to give up!
I think it flared up because I used too much detergent (even using Allen’s Naturally, if you use too much it can still irritate! You only need 1/4 to 1/2 the regular amount) on my first few washes and it wasn’t thoroughly washed out since we use pay per cycle machines without an extra rinse. Here’s what I did that got rid of the rash:
-Washed my prefolds two times without detergent until there were no bubbles visible in the wash/rinse cycle, letting me know all the detergent residue was out
-After every diaper change, sprayed my baby’s bottom with a solution of 10-15 drops of Grapefruit Seed Extract mixed with 2 oz. distilled water and fanned it dry before putting a new diaper on. (Annoying, and took a couple of weeks for it to be totally gone, but it worked!)
-I also started making recycled wool longies and use those at least at night and often during the day as well for more air circulation than the PUL covers I was using exclusively. I think this really helped too. See Autumn’s post on recycled wool or google “recycled wool longies” or “recycled wool diaper cover pattern” for ready made ones from WAHMs or to make your own.

These three things in combination solved the problem and we’ve had no recurrence.

Lisa, also, one thing that I like about prefolds is that they leave no red marks or irritation since there is no elastic, etc. I often use a fleece liner (just a cut rectangle of fleece) to wick wetness away from the bum. It might be worth it to get a dozen prefolds (right now clothdiaper.com is having an AMAZING deal on factory seconds prefolds, i love mine, they were like a dollar each) and see if you like how they work, and if the natural cotton makes a difference in his reaction. If you trifold a prefold and stick it in a wrap cover, it’s just like an AI2! You might even be able to use the covers from the AI2s you have. Then you could work up to snappi-ing/pinning under recycled wool stuff. Prefolds are easy to get clean too.

whoa, that was long. sorry if i am over-evangelizing prefolds and wool, but i have found them to be really effective, cheap, and versatile. love them! my email is melissadotmerrilldotleeatgmaildotcom if anyone wants to discuss this more!

By: Angie

Angie — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:02:09 +0000

I wanted to add another thing about my ammonia comments. Because the pee from the toddler converts from urea to ammonia, you aren’t going to get rid of the smell because the smell is coming from the toddler! However, soaking the diapers in hot water will prevent the diapers from clinging onto the ammonia smell. Since I have started soaking my diapers in hot water, I haven’t had the head snapping, nose hair burning ammonia smell that burns baby butts that many of us CD mothers have reported!