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"if you chose the plain unexciting models and launder them yourself"

that's me.  well, the laundering falls to my husband - in one of our prenatal discussions, nursing and diapers came up.  "you handle the input" he said.  "i'll take care of the output."

well, here we are on the eve of potty training, and while she wears disposables when we're travelling and one at night, she's been in cloth diapers for 2 1/2 years now.  no problems with diaper rash, no real issues with leaking, and a total investment of less than $500.  i'd have loved the all in ones, but just couldn't justify the expense, and that's just too much washing.  best tip - we bought our diaper pail at a local kitchen supply store, food grade 5 gallon plastic bucket with a lid and handle for less than $20.  the odor inside of this bucket is bad enough to peel paint, but dang that sucker is airtight!  no smell at all, can't say the same for the diaper genies i've encountered.  

I would and did use cloth.  My youngest just potty-trained a couple of months ago, so we're done (woohoo!) but when I first started using cloth, I found myself getting really INTO it -- developing strong opinions on which brands were best, and coveting certain colors and designs.  We used pockets -- mostly FuzziBunz.  And when I was ready to resell, I made my money back (I'd bought them used in a consignment store; they fetched a higher price on eBay).

Washed 'em at home.  They worked great.  And no, I'm not a hippie.

Now that I'm past the early exhaustion stage of parenting and into the "oh shit, she's crawling" stage, I'm thinking about making the swtich from disposables to cloth.  There is no way on earth I would have been able to cope with them in the first six months, but now that I'm getting the hang of it all, there's really no reason for me not to use cloth, except for the fact that the disposables I used (Target brand) are cheap and they never, ever leak unless they are REALLY overloaded.

I'll have to think about this for a bit.

While they may be cheaper and more friendly to the environment I grew up in a home with siblings that were eight and ten years younger than me.  My mother used cloth diapers for both of them.  It often fell to me to change them.  I have had enough of cloth diapers to last me a life time.  

I'm considering switching from regular disposables to the 90% biodegradable ones.  I don't want to clog landfills or expose my kids to chemicals, but I'm not all that excited about more laundry.  And the notion of cleaning the poop off the cloth ones just grosses me out.

I'm considering switching from regular disposables to the 90% biodegradable ones.  I don't want to clog landfills or expose my kids to chemicals, but I'm not all that excited about more laundry.  And the notion of cleaning the poop off the cloth ones just grosses me out.

I thought long and hard about using cloth diapers for the twins.

The problem with cloth diapering is when they go to the babysitters. I can surely imagine that she wants us to send cloth diapers for her to use. I haven't asked yet, but I'm sure I know the answer.

OK.  Disposible diapers were just beginning when I had my kids.  They both had bad reactions to them.  I used cloth.  I rinsed, flushed and washed those things.  I would NEVER condemn anyone for using the throw-aways.  I washed more diapers than I could count.  We did not have prefolded diapers and I used to fold and fold and fold.  I tried different shapes.  There was a thing out about making kids bow legged if they had too much cloth between their legs.  I had leaks, poop everywhere and so many bad smells that I quit counting.  Diaper pails are another problem.  Open one and it knocks you out.  Rinsing out poopy diapers was not a problem because we had disposible diaper liners for flushing.  However, nothing on earth smells as wonderful as fresh laundered and hung on the line diapers.  The sun is wonderful for killing bacteria in diapers instead of bleach.  At least that is what my doctor told me.

I am pregant with my first child.  I have cloth diapers waiting and I have to buy a few more.  I will be home with the baby for her first year and so, I can't find a single reason to use disposables. (Except for long trips  maybe).  I just got done reading a blurb somewhere, saying that before disposables were invented, less than ten percent of babies had diap[er rash.  Now over some ninety percent of babies are in disposables and 74% have diaper rashes.  ( I can lookup that figure if you need me to)  I have every intention of keeping chemicals away from my babies bottom and out of landfills.   My s/o and I don't really have a horrible amount of laundry, so a couple more loads a week is definately not gonna kill us.  And the hot desert like air here from June through September is perfect for line drying diapers!

Wish me luck!

Our son is 5 1/2 months old and we've been using cloth diapers for almost 3 months.  They are so much easier than I thought they'd be when we talked about using them when I was pregnant.

I thought using cloth meant using a diaper service and we have one here in town so I didn't look into it at all until after he was born.  Then the first couple of months were hard and we wanted to get settled a little before taking on a new challenge.

That was when I started to hear about all these new types of cloth diapers.  When I heard about pocket diapers they sounded perfect for us - as easy to put on and use as a disposable and all the benefits of cloth.

These are cloth diapers no baby sitter should object too, ours (bumGenius 2.0) fasten with velcro and once they are stuffed (which we do when we finish washing/drying them and it only takes a few minutes) there just isn't anything hard about using them.

I just love them and would recommend anyone who is even slightly curious to give them a try.

I use gdiapers. They are awesome, a perfect balance between cloth & disposable. You don't have to use loads of hot water to wash the outer pants, they go in with the cold wash, with your clothes. Flush, composte or decompse the inner liner.

http://www.gdiapers.com/