So glad we did cloth diapers - r/all had a room full of disposable diapers

[mikentexas]

@fishsack twin mom here! Yeah. We (okay, I, and my husband just got in line) decided to go cloth diaper before even finding out we were having twins, but when I see pictures of people's disposable stashes, it just reinforces that we made the right choice.

 

[heathercc7774]

@mikentexas I cloth diapered my twins from the day we got home from the hospital until they toilet trained. My friends talking about going to the store just for diapers was enough for me to feel secure in my choice. Running a load of laundry will always be easier than loading two babies up to go to the store.

 

[caleb23]

@heathercc7774 Absolutely! Don't have twins but I do have 2 kids in diapers. Constantly being ontop of that inventory sounds like a PITA

 

[flda_grl]

@fishsack I have twins. They're 10 weeks. I'm really only getting them in to cloth now. I initially started at 6 weeks, but 1 ended up in hospital with RSV, and I was with him. Then we went away for Christmas and didn't have space in the car for nappies. My mother in law had disposables waiting there for us. After we got back, I got sick with covid. That brings us to the end of last week. I didn't get a double newborn stash so I'm doing a mix of cloth and disposables. Once they fit into onesize, no more disposables. I can't wait! The waste right now is awful. I think I'd pass out if anyobought us that many disposables.

 

[sammylove]

@flda_grl Congratulations! We didn't start cloth until 4 months. I didn't want to add that to our plate early on.

 

[jonahjr]

@fishsack here I am feeling guilty about buying one pack of disposables to try at night.

 

[sarahdosher]

@jonahjr My plan was to combo, but the combo ended up way more in favor of cloth than disposables than I thought it would.

 

[caleb23]

@sarahdosher My original plan was to use disposables for traveling. Never happened. We started cloth day 5, took our first kid on his first overnight trip at 13/14 days old and just went for it with the cloth and never looked back.
I have taken cloth diapers on camping trips, backpacking trips, a 9-day, road trip and recently did a 4 day trip with my baby and toddler in cloth.

 

[kinghenzy]

@caleb23 Oh, can you tell me how you do washing while traveling? Any time we've been away for more than two days we do disposables because I'm uncertain about a wash routine either on an unknown machine as a guest or a public machine if we're camping. We also backpack and have discussed the logistics of cloth for that as well but haven't tried that yet either (she's only 10 wks old, so still fresh!)

 

[caleb23]

@kinghenzy We have a lot of diapers, so that helps! Usually, the dirty diapers just come home for the wash, but I've done laundry at my Sil's and my aunt and uncle's. I bring my own detergent and Google water hardness before I go, but I figure as long as I use an appropriate amount of detergen, one wash isn't going to totally derail everything. I've only done single night backpacking trips and I took flats and covers since they're the smallest/lightest option, and a paper bag or two for getting poop into the outhouse. He usually doesn't poo the first day we go on a trip so never had to deal with catholes or anything. Once he started solids, I have a.sprayer at home but use disposable liners and/or a spatula and dunk and flush methods when traveling.

 

[kinghenzy]

@caleb23 Good to know, thanks for the info!

 

[caleb23]

@kinghenzy just realized you asked about adapting to an unknown machine. I just go for whatever is closest to a heavy soil, cold wash, extra rinse, then heavy soil, hot water and extra rinse.

 

[heart4deaf]

@jonahjr Even if you only use one cloth nappy a day, that's 365 disposables you're saving from landfill a year. Don't feel guilty! Any difference is a good difference, you gotta do what works best for you

 

[urieltenken]

@heart4deaf Yes! I don't know who started the rumor you can only cloth diaper if you exclusively cloth diaper but it's just as false as exclusive breast feeding. Every tiny bit is awesome.

 

[stan123]

@jonahjr Don’t feel guilty! We go through literally 1 diaper a day because we disposable at night. A costco box lasts us MONTHS. Using cloth all day is such a win. That makes way more of an environmental difference!

 

[toysernis]

@stan123 Same here — in some sizes, we literally only ever needed 1 box before baby grew into the next size because we only did 1 diaper at night.

 

[cees]

@fishsack Having that many supplies in the house/garage would be so irritating. I love to see the grandpa’s excitement but i wish he didn’t express it with buying three years worth of one brand of trash diapers

 

[jasmin0791]

@cees most of the comments said the same. apparently grandpa will store them at his house at least

 

[ladywind7]

@cees My in-laws did this but only once got multiple boxes at a time (in newborn, which my kid outgrew at 9 days old). We donated and they finally gave it up around 4-5 months

 

[sleeplesswhite]

@ladywind7 My kid went directly into size 1s, her cousin (born a month later) was so big the nurse had to call pedes to get a pack of size 2s! Some familes just have huge babies.