joyful0128
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Maybe I’m underestimating how challenging wool will be to take care of? I don’t see much about wool anywhere though! It just seems like it makes more sense to me from a health and environmental standpoint.
Why don’t more people use wool?
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nataliachristianforum
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@joyful0128 Wool is very variant depending on the temps where you live, my wife did just Nora’s after we figured out that wool was too hot for our first baby and the second one we just use her company diapers. Check them if interested. She just launched OS.
https://willowclothco.com
https://willowclothco.com
@joyful0128 Love wool! We use it. Not too hard to clean. Takes like 15 minutes.
repentanceorperish
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@joyful0128 I can’t afford them. Wool covers are expensive and I buy my PUL covers on sale for about $2-6 each.
@joyful0128 Wool is more work but it is lovely. I am actually trying to sell my wool as my 3 year old is potty training and my chunky 2 year old doesn’t fit in it.
@joyful0128 We're vegan so we don't use them.
@joyful0128 I just had my third baby this past week and decided to knit him wool covers, I didn't start trying wool until my first two were older and loved the covers I had made, I've been loving using wool from the start with this little guy. And knitting the covers myself I was able to customize the style I like and they were very inexpensive other than my time (but I enjoy working on projects and knit his covers while at the doctors office for my prenatal appointments almost exclusively)
@joyful0128 Expensive and easy to ruin. I had a wool cover and didn’t realize you couldn’t even put them in the washing machine and accidentally ruined one 
@jessica23 You can wash it in the washer on delicate with cold water only.
sleeplesswhite
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@joyful0128 I love wool, but when I gift cloth wool has to be asked for because it's easy to mess up. Like right now I'm buying diapers for my brother and his wife, they both have learning disabilities (baby was not planned) so we're going with the most simple and easy to wash diapering options. Different families have different needs.
annalerner
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@joyful0128 I just started getting back into it with my second child. It's great once they switch to ploppable poops that won't get on the cover with a good fitted
@joyful0128 It is not suitable for our sub-tropical weather. I wouldn't put on woolie pants myself, let alone my babies.
anglic9823
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@joyful0128 Big thing for me is how you dress them changes, I only do wool in summer when they wear a tshirt and only at home. I didn’t like it in winter even with really warm long Wool pants because you can’t use shirts with snaps on them and their tummy gets cold. Honestly I had way to much cute clothes that I wanted my babies to wear and wool just didn’t work well with them
@joyful0128 Skin irritation & usually expensive
@joyful0128 I have major wool allergies. I’ll get hives. My husband will also itch. Not worth it having any wool.
hugoeisenhour
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@joyful0128 I can definitely see why more people wouldn’t use wool, the cost and convenience of PUL is a lot more attractive. We use wool at night over our super bulky fitteds and love it! It took a long time to get into, though. Bub was 3 months before we tackled night nappies and 5 months before we invested in good wool covers.
My brain couldn’t comprehend how wool was meant to make a waterproof layer and I didn’t think I could justify the cost, at first. We’d already spent so much trying to make our night nappy situation work, but a friend really encouraged me to try so we bought two covers from BabyBeehinds for $50AUD each, figuring I could just sell them on if it didn’t work.
My brain couldn’t comprehend how wool was meant to make a waterproof layer and I didn’t think I could justify the cost, at first. We’d already spent so much trying to make our night nappy situation work, but a friend really encouraged me to try so we bought two covers from BabyBeehinds for $50AUD each, figuring I could just sell them on if it didn’t work.
@joyful0128 I love wool but quit because I was having to wash them too often from getting poop on them. They just take too long to dry in my damp PNW house.
For those complaining about the cost check out BST groups on FB. I got most of mine for about $20 each.
For those complaining about the cost check out BST groups on FB. I got most of mine for about $20 each.