Comments on: Do You Cloth Diaper Full Time?

By: Omeria's Mom

Omeria's Mom — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:06:09 +0000

Everyone I know is cloth diaper trained and I have not had any problems! At church I just bring the prefold/prorap combination all done. The sitter has a stash and I take home to wash every other day, etc. Biggest plus is that I had a wetbag custom made by blueberriest.com and she made it large enough to hold about 12 large size diapers and I take it everywhere. People are good to use the cloth when they know what to do with it. It is like I bring my own diaper pail. Keep your kids circle close and you won’t have to train so many people. If I meet someone new I just tell them to put “everything” in the bag; baby wipes and all. The washer takes care of the mess!

By: Omeria's Mom

Omeria's Mom — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:06:09 +0000

By: Sharon K.

Sharon K. — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:38:42 +0000

We CD full-time. I used cloth with my 1st daughter, and now with my 2nd daughter. I am just used to it and couldn’t imagine using a “disposable” diaper. They just aren’t dependable to me, b/c cloth is what I know. I even take cloth with me on weekend trips to grandma’s house. I do it for the environmental reasons, for health reasons, and b/c they’re so darn cute!

By: Gillian

Gillian — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:13:27 +0000

I have been using a disposable diaper at night lately because almost every morning after wearing a cloth diaper at night, my daughter hasn’t leaked, but her diaper smells like it has sat in the pail for a week. The ammonia smell about knocks me down. During the day this never happens. I have tried giving her time to pee after her go-to-bed feeding and changing her again before putting her down, but it doesn’t help much. Has anyone else experienced this? Any suggestions?

By: Autumn Beck

Autumn Beck — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:45:43 +0000

Mary, you are in my prayers during this hectic and difficult time.

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:08:29 +0000

I CD about 50% of the time. Unfortunately I am going through a divorce and it isn’t possible (if I want to have the diapers cared for properly/to even come back)to CD when I send the baby to daddy’s. I do realize how much better it is for her but life throw you curves sometimes and you just do the best you can.

By: Lucy

Lucy — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:47:20 +0000

We cloth diaper just about all the time. The one exception is when we are traveling, especially flying. Both mine and my husband’s family live very far away (half-way across the country), so driving isn’t really an option. And these days you have to pay for any bags over one per person, or on some airlines you have to pay for the first checked bag. In order to bring our diapers with us it would cost $50 ($25 each way) and I just can’t justify that. Plus then we have to worry about washing them in an unknown washer with different water and what that may do to our wash routine. At home we cloth diaper full-time and I do wish there was a way we could bring them with us, but alas there isn’t, so we just environmentally friendly disposables (Natural Care).

By: Shelby

Shelby — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:02:23 +0000

I am also still striving to CD full time, but haven’t got there yet. When my second son was born, the plan was to never have a sposie touch his bottome, and I was so disappointed when I had to use them when his cord was getting soggy from the cloth touching it.
We haven’t found a night time solution for us, though I admit we haven’t tried THAT hard. I’m in the process of getting some GAD Windpros and hoping those will work.
It’s very hard to cloth my oldest. He loves his cloth diapers (and my goodness do we have a TON to choose from each change) but he’s become a super soaker with the change in season drinking TONS and TONS of water a day. While I’m all about changing the minute they’re wet, sposies can contain it long enough for me to make it to a changing room or what have you, versus my cloth will hold one pee, and when he pees again (usually minutes after the first) we’re SOL. My couch has fallen victim to the leakies. I’m working on it but I don’t beat myself up over it. Even if everyone did just 1 cloth a day, that’s a HUGE difference in what’s filling our landfill.

By: monica

monica — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:23:01 +0000

Autumn, I enjoy your blog and subscribe by email. I am passionate about cloth diapering and agree that it is better for both baby and the environment. No one could know the facts and dispute that. However, as Mom to seven, and three in diapers…two full time and one night timer, I have to balance many things. I would prefer to cloth diaper full time all the time, cook everything from scratch, make all my own clothes, and grow all of our food. What is most important to me is balance and being a joyful mother full time, all the time. I am working toward cloth full time, but also knowing the limits of what I can do and having choices is very important to me.
Thank you for the links at the end of your post,I look forward to reading them.
Blessings, Monica

By: Melisa Carter

Melisa Carter — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:30:40 +0000

On the swim diaper thing, I just use one of my pocket dipes without a stuffer in it. My Happy Heinies are the ones I usually grab for because they are trim and seem to work well in the pool, but others are ok, as well.

Glad you had a refreshing weekend before Baby #4 comes along! I’m just flat jealous!