Our little diaper model

Katya sporting her Fuzzi Bunz

Playing with dad in her Bumgenius


We are now in cloth diapers full time and it is going really well. I ended up getting more of the Bumgenius brand which are the ones that grow with baby. I liked both brands for different reasons but went with the 'one-size' diaper which should be super cost effective. They come with two inserts, a full size one that has a few snaps to shorten it when using the diaper at a medium size and a newborn insert for when you use the diaper at the smallest size. We are able to use the diapers for night time too by stuffing 2 regular inserts and 1 newborn insert in the diapers pocket. It is super thick but she is sleeping 12-13hrs and waking up dry. I am so impressed at how the lining of the diaper that is next to baby's skin wicks the moisture to the center were the insert is. Craig did not even realize that it was time to change a diaper because the lining feels dry to the touch. Yet when you pull out the insert you will find it soaked with urine (both brands do this equally well).

I am getting use to laundering the diapers after a little trouble shooting. I do a cycle on cold, a cycle on hot and then an extra rinse. I also have been rinsing the diapers really well before storing them in a diaper pail to decrease the smell. You don't have to do this but I have found that if I just throw the wet ones in the pail the bathroom smells like urine after a day. I wash every other day and don't want to deal with a smelly bathroom. The wet ones just need the insert rinsed and the poopy ones need the lining rinsed too. Rinsing poop is a bit time consuming but right now I only have to deal with that once a day. That will be very different when Reagan is born! I think I will put a contraption called a Mini Sprayer on my birthday wish list. It connects to your toilets water source and you can just spray off the diapers into the toilet which might be really handy with brestfed baby poop.

I am loving the style of cloth diaper, the pocket diapers, which are so easy to use. They are really cute too and Katya has a great assortment of colors. She is going through about 5-6 a day (as oppose to 4-5 disposable) and with washing every other day I am finding 18 diapers to be more than enough. Never in a million years did I think I would be a cloth diaper user! So far the switch has been great.