Comments on: Cloth Diaper Sales You Don’t Want To Miss!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:44:46 +0000

I forgot to say thanks for mentioning Leslie’s sale. I picked up a few things

By: M@

M@ — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:19:50 +0000

Here’s me reason: I bought the colored version of Kissaluv 0′s fitteds diapers to ‘encourage’ my wife to use ‘em. Yes, they ended up covered by wool, but as is often the case in sales setting the initial hook was more important So I paid the buck or two extra per dipe for the colors. Never underestimate the cute factor! A lot of mama’s tie-dye their prefolds for fun.

Fitteds and Prefolds require a cover, All-in-Ones and pockets don’t. Fitteds and Prefolds are typically cheaper, around the $1-5 range and $6-22 range (and Prefolds have lots of other uses – burp cloths, etc).

AIO/Pockets have a waterproof non-breatheable PUL cover. You can also get PUL covers for Fitteds/Prefolds. Or you can choose wool, which is water resistant (not proof) and BREATHEABLE. My 1st diapered in ‘sposies we were always using Desitin. I can count on one hand how many times we’ve had to use Desitin on our second and she’s a year and a half, cloth diapered, wool covered. Most of the time these rashes can be attributed to when she was in a disposable from being with someone else (or teething), and the rashes cleared up -very- quickly once she was back in cloth/wool.

Wool is like prefolds: intimidating at first, but actually quite easy. Easier in my book — PUL requires washing after each use — you wash wool when it starts to smell after being air-dried. Depending on the size of your wool stash, this can be a week and a half to two weeks, or significantly longer if you’ve a large rotation. I like wool because I’m lazy/like to do things in bulk. It’s also darn cute, looks very boutique and gives you an ‘in’ to talk to strangers about CD’ing. Of course it is also addictive and -can be- expensive, but you can also buy it used and resell it when you’re done if you take good care of it.

By: Autumn Beck

Autumn Beck — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:22:10 +0000

Congratulations! Nicholette, you are light years ahead of most parents. Cloth is the healthiest choice for your baby! The difference in Pockets/AIOs and Fitteds is the presence of a waterproof barrier, usually PUL. I cover the differences in types in great detail in my book http://www.ultimateguidetoclothdiapers.com/ .

By: Nicholette Tilghman

Nicholette Tilghman — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:12:07 +0000

My husband and I are expecting our first child in just two months! We were wondering about all the pretty cloth diapers available–what’s the point if you need to cover them up with a diaper cover? What is the difference? it looks like (from what I’ve read from your site, which is GREAT by the way!) that there are fitteds that you use with covers, then pockets, then all-in-ones. How do we tell the difference?

Thanks so much!