Cloth diapers for beginners

[kawaiichibi]

I’m no expert on this like some of the fellas who have commented here, but I’ll share my experience of using Rearz Omutsu cloth diapers exclusively for 4 months (I couldn’t do disposables where I lived at the time).

They were able to usually handle 2 floods. You absolutely need plastic pants and a changing pad. I never leaked once but the fabric becomes saturated. It’s all well contained in the plastic pants but once the plastic comes off everything gets wet. So you need to be on a changing pad or thick towel when you remove the plastic pants.

The Velcro is extremely weak, but that’s easily fixed with safety pins. Don’t bother buying the ones they sell in their site, large safety pins from Walmart or wherever do just fine and you get a lot more for less.

Depending on how hot your dryer can go it usually took an hour and a half in a good dryer and 2 hours in a dryer that ran lower heat. When the diaper first comes out of the dryer it might seem dry but after 10ish minutes the wetness in the core will saturate back to the top. So just be cautious of that.


Okay so after I’ve said all that why do I recommend this cloth diaper?
1, I like that it’s all in one. I don’t have to mess with pads or anything, I just throw the whole thing in the wash.

2, they’re very comfortable and are the most absorbent cloth diaper on the market (that I know of and so rearz claims) which is exactly what you want if you’re a bed wetter who’s needing this.
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If you use pins when the velcro goes bad, where do you pin them? Pin them into the velcro?

 

[kawaiichibi]

If you pin them when the velcro goes bad, where do you normally pin them? On the velcro section? Or non velcro.

 

[Jr2012]

I’m interested in trying out cloth diapers, but I have only ever used disposables. I mostly wear diapers to bed and I’m a side sleeper, so I need something that can handle night wetting without leaking too much (though I know leaks can happen no matter what).

With how pricey cloth diapers can be I am curious if anyone has any recommendations before I buy something that might not be good quality.

I think I’m more interested in a diaper/diaper cover combo as opposed to an all-in-one diaper for ease of cleanup as well as being able to use the cover over disposables.

I’m currently looking at the EcoAble day and night set as it comes with a diaper cover and a cloth diaper with an insert.

Any help is appreciated!

Cloth diapers are really awesome I was born incontinent and have always had to wear diapers back when I was growing up that was all that were available and still that is all I wear day and night and every where I go! I really love my diapers and plastic pants they are really awesome and not only work really well they are extremely comfortable wet and dirty and especially clean and dry and the best is putting your diapers on right out of the dryer, you’ll definitely have to try that they just feel so incredibly awesome like that! And you will get really good at pinning them on in short order I’m sure that you will love them too putting them on is really a piece of cake, for my daytime diapers I use 1 adult prefold cloth diaper and I use three toddler size prefold cloth diapers as liners and I only use two pins just like my parents pinned them on me growing up. You just lay out your adult prefold diaper flat on the bed and place one of the toddler prefold diapers in the back and then one in the front and one in the middle and then lay down on your diapers and just kind of fold them in around your legs as you are pulling the front up and over everything, then just get the center thick part in the center of your belly and pin them on each side pulling them tight and holding them with one hand then just push them up through the front and back of your diapers with the other hand there’s nothing to it, I’m sure that once you try it you’ll get the nack really quick and never look back, good luck!

 

[MetalDan86]

I’m interested in trying out cloth diapers, but I have only ever used disposables. I mostly wear diapers to bed and I’m a side sleeper, so I need something that can handle night wetting without leaking too much (though I know leaks can happen no matter what).

With how pricey cloth diapers can be I am curious if anyone has any recommendations before I buy something that might not be good quality.

I think I’m more interested in a diaper/diaper cover combo as opposed to an all-in-one diaper for ease of cleanup as well as being able to use the cover over disposables.

I’m currently looking at the EcoAble day and night set as it comes with a diaper cover and a cloth diaper with an insert.

Any help is appreciated!

I would consider either Babykins or Fetlife for some good options for diaper covers, in particular going for some Terry-lined plastic pants that add an extra layer of leak protection (BK). For inexpensive twill cloth diapers, try Changing Times Diaper company, Rearz, and even InControl (nice bamboo flat folds that you can layer up). Hope this helps!

 

[WarmAndSquishy]

If you pin them when the velcro goes bad, where do you normally pin them? On the velcro section? Or non velcro.

I only started pinning them after the Velcro had already went bad so there was nothing for me to worry about ruining. I just pin them wherever I need to in order to have a comfortable fit.

 

[KarmaBaby3]

Just don’t get super undies …. They stink soooooo bad and hold less than a goodnite with two inserts. And I have one from Amazon that is super uncomfortable, causes rashes and leaks. i find cloth press leaks faster than disposables Too so I have to change right after I wet. But I never tried any prefold ones.