cloth diapers

I’m currently expecting, 22 weeks now, and I’ve been starting to build a stash for when baby arrives. I do have some cloth experience with my older son, but we didn’t start until he was almost a year old. We (really, I) used prefolds/boosters and OS or size 2 Thirsties covers. Because he was...

hello friends - i’m sure many of you have seen this question before but i dug through some old posts regarding detergent and couldn’t really find what i was looking for!! i’m due in may 2024 FTM, so brand spankin new to cloth diapering!! if you’re still here, see below info and q’s. we...

Okay this will probably be a long post because I want to include all the details so hopefully someone can help. We started using Nora’s nursery pocket diapers and I was using dreft detergent but I think the fragrance really irritated babies skin so I switched to All Free and Clear. Well I...

Hello everyone. FTM getting into CDing. Thanks for all your help so far (especially with Fluff Love U...seriously it's a life saver). Hee is what I have so far. Suggestions on what to add? CD desires: Want to do AI2/Hybrids. Not really into pockets/AIOs. Ok with prefolds, but not all by...

Can’t cross post but figured this would be a good reminder of the benefits of cloth diapers!

I am going to try my hand at fixing the elastics in some BumGenius diapers and would love to hear from people who have done it before. I am wondering if I should first do the no-sew way and get the last of the life out of the current elastic before doing a full replacement. For those who have...

Hey y'all, I have what's probably a silly question about birdseye cloths and pocket covers. My mom bought us a pack of birdseye cloth diapers from Gerber and I registered for an extra two packs, plus she gave me her stash she used as burp cloths. So I now have an overabundance of these and no...

I’ve posted here before when I was thinking of starting overnight cloth diapering, but it didn’t work out so I’m back for more advice. We cloth diaper in daytime only right now. We tried over night cloth diapering for a few nights, and I don’t know if it was a coincidence or not, but we had a...

Yesterday, I noticed that baby's diapers (prefolds) smelled a little barnyard-y when wet (uh oh). This morning, they smell like barnyard AND ammonia (double uh oh!). Obviously, I will strip and bleach ASAP. But I need help tweaking my wash routine (HE washer). Typical wash routine: 1) Prewash...

An update in case! Made it to a day four main wash with daily prewashes. We also changed to have in cloth a bit longer. Disposable for the big long sleep then switch to cloth, the little wakes up every 1-3 hours following until up for the day. Loaded to close 2/3 wet. I think I can add a bit...

Ok, so we've been cloth diapering our 18 month-old pretty much from birth: first with prefolds/covers and then with BumGenius Freetimes (LOVE these!). We're expecting baby girl #2 in July, so when I ran across a box full of cloth diaper stuff at a garage sale for $5, I quickly scooped it up...

Still patiently waiting for babes to grow a little bits in order to fit into the cloth diapers finally. So excited to use them & afraid at the same time, since I have been using regular diapers for the past two weeks due to baby being tiny tiny tiny :/ I hope she and us can make the switch...

My baby is fast growing out of her size 1 Thirsties covers. She’s 96% for weight and has rolls on top of leg rolls haha! I’m loving covers with prefolds/fitteds so was looking to get the next size up in covers. Wondering if I should stay with Thirsties or save some money and buy either Nora’s...

I'm interested to hear everyone's overnight approach. My son is 7 months and weighs almost 20 pounds and we've been cloth diapering since 10 weeks. I have always used disposables at night. During the day, we mainly use pockets, since that's what my husband likes. I stuff with mostly prefolds and...

Hi all, I know this has been asked a million times but I'm asking again because I'm a little stumped with my particular situation. I've been clothering my 8 week old EBF son for about 6 weeks and we've started getting stains on the diapers. We're using a mix of AIOs (mostly bum genius) and...

My 4 month old has been in cloth pretty much since we got home from the hospital and it's generally been going great. Usually we wake him up for one feed in the middle of the night, and at that time we change his diaper. Last night for various reasons we decided not to wake him up, and to let...

Help! I’ve been exclusively cloth diaping or one and a half-year-old since birth. We have a crappy cheap HE machine that I’ve never liked. I am constantly changing our wash routine lately. The elastics never seem to get clean. No amount of bleach, bac out, oxi, or soaking, even 3 to 4 full wash...

Just my thoughts after using all three brands. My stash started with Alvababy using their bamboo inserts plus OsoCozy prefolds as doublers. Then I ordered some Nicki's once the elastic started to give out on the Alvababy diaps (after 18 months, not terrible tbh), then I bought a stash of Lalabye...

Hi! I’m brand new to this and will be a FTM this spring. I never thought I’d cloth diaper and thought about it at the very beginning of my pregnancy but wrote it off since we live in a rental with a very very small space. Here I am halfway through and I’m really thinking I want to do this! I...

Baby is 9 months old and husband and I have begun TTC #2. We'll most likely start with disposables until baby can fit the OS cloth diapers we have (estimating maybe at 1-2 months old?), so we're looking at potentially diapering a newborn and an 19-20+ month old toddler at the same time. I...