Monday, July 16, 2012

Cloth Diapering


I am new to cloth Diapering. I have a 2 children. One is 2years old and the other is 6months old. I have a friend who has 2 kids the same age and has been cloth diapering since the beginning. I will not lie I was hesitant to do it. But times are rough and I can't afford to be diapering 2 children. So my eldest wears pullups and I have been converting my 2year old underwear into training pants. Now my 6months old has been doing cloth now for 2months. I have tried prefolds with a cover, I don't care for it. I also tried pocket diapers which so far I like a little, I love the inner fleece and how you can put as much inserts as you want to keep dry and you just switch inserts endless diaper is soil then you have to clean all that mess. Down below is a picture of a pocket diaper. Their cute right.



 Now what I really like Are flip diapers and Weehugger which are All in two. The pocket and the Flip diapers are one size fits all which I like Now Weehuggers come in 2 sizes. Which I use size 2 cause my 6 month old weighs 20lbs. you can put a prefold or and insert liner or you can use it as a cover. What great you can use it over and over, just remove the insert or whatever you use and wipe the pull fabric. Also if they soil their line or prefold you can just remove it and wipe as well. Along-est the soil didn't get on the cover of course. Now I personally have ventured on making my own liners. I use the prefold some times, I also have cut up the prefolds in 3 and sew fleece on it to keep the wetness from touching my baby. Other ones I have made is I bought sweat pants xxxxl from wal-mart for $2 and cut that up and got old flannel blankets and fleece blankets as well as tee-shirts and bought some microfiber from the auto part of wal-mart and I have sewed them together. i put microfiber in the middle of each layer and make sure the top layer is fleece and the bottom is flannel. it has been working out wonderful. I also made inserts for my pocket diapers. the first image below is a weehugger. the 2nd is flip and how they work and then I added some more of my weehuggers ddiaper images.







I love all of these. Now If your interested in flip Diapers you can buy them on cottonbabies.com and they do free shipping. 
I have been inlove with www.etsy.com there is a seller named count your blessing and she makes flip style diapers for $10 and also for $14 and $15 Weehugger look alike with out being bamboo like weehugger and with pretty patterns. the $14 and $15 ones have gussets which I love they keep everythingin and they all come with liners mad of crush panne and flannel and she adds gussets to those lines for $2 more or you can buy the lines for $5.50 ea. Check it out I love them. Well I will keep you guys up dated if I see any more cloth diapers. So far I love these and I am starting to make my own. I will add pictures when I make them hopefully they turn out well and I can save money that way. I am also going to start to sell my liners and breast pads and hopefully soon AI2 diaper covers. But first I must make enough for my munchkin.
Please let me know if your new to it or old to this and which ones you love and cool insight making liners or inserts or cover.

sincerely
MammaMC