@Sarah: (yes, this is a long-time after the question, but for future readers) I contacted gDiapers HQ about some worn-out aplix on my red gDiaper. They immediately sent-out (free!) a replacement kit (more aplix) for fixing it. The red had been our favorite, and used significantly more than the others. Looking back, having 2 red diapers may have been a wise option.

You are absolutly right, I bought the cheap target diapers because my son reacted less to those then spendy dipes and it cost me tons more then $1,000! Especially if you have a baby with rashes, you have to change EVERY TIME they pee or poo a tiny bit (which you should do anyway!) and even if they don’t have a rash, my babes generally ALWAYS hate(d) wet diapers, so we went through tons of disposable diapers! Unless you are one of those ppl who leave the diapers on till its drooping & hitting the ground How would you like that? Before anyone gets mad, I did that myself once they where toddling around ~ GUILTY ~ to get the most for my money out of the spendy throw away diapers. Wish I had known about cloth 10 years ago with my 1st baby! Would have saved me several THOUSANDS because I am on baby #4!

When I started cloth diapering, there was NO one in my family, community or circle of friends that cloth diapered. What I say is that cloth diapering isn’t what it used to be! I always have a diaper with so I can show them how much its “evolved” so to say in the last few years and demonstrate how easy it is. I guess its not quick but it works just about every time! Now more of my friends & their friends use cloth diapers then don’t, because they see its not bad at all, that its actually fun & a mommy can be excited about diapering their baby – what disposable diapering mama do you know who is as excited about diapering???!!!

My son also had bleeding diaper rash (as did my 3 babies prior to him, where I didn’t know about cloth) for the first 4 months of his life – after 3 days of using cloth it was GONE! No doctor or cream EVER did that! So that also helps in response of negative onlookers, when I tell them that!

A quick thing would to be to tell them that a diapers takes around 500 years to break down – if it ever does! That always shockes people & gets them thinking.

Do you know that they have outlawed the chemicals the US puts in diapers in every other country because it is toxic – causes rashes and serious reproductive harm? That always gets ppl thinking too!

Hope I have helped & been encouraging!