Diapers Q&A
Another question about cloth diapers?
I am planning on useing cloth diapers for my baby. I would like to start buying them now, while I'm still pregnant. My two other children weighed almost 9 pounds each whn they were born. I am leaning towards Fuzzi Bunz, but have bought a sample pack of others. How many smalls should I buy? I was going to get a starter set with 18, but it is quite expensive and I'm worried my child will grow out of them before I get my money's worth. Any Recommendations. I also bought some diapers off craigslist from a lady that decided not to cloth diaper after her daycare said she had to bring in disposables. Here's the diapers I have so far. 1 Small Fuzzi Bunz, 1 Bum Genius 2.0, 1 Small Knickernappie, 1small Happy Heinies, 1 Small drybees (these were all from the sampler. I also have 1med fuzzi bunz, 1med little lambs, 1 med bumkins, 5 med kushies, 2 large babykins, 4 large cottontails, 6 xl bumkins, 2 wahms (not sure what size yet) and 1 kushies diaper cover.
Public Comments
- What you did so far sounds perfect. Every baby has a different shape and so do the cloth diapers. The best thing is to try different ones at first and stick with the one that fits your baby's body the best. Personally I started with prefolds and fleece covers until my baby started moving around, then we switched to AIOs. I had Fuzzibunz for a while and found Swaddlebees to be MUCH nicer. Similar shape, but the legs were more giving and the elastic is covered better so no more red marks. And I love snaps over velcro. When they get wiggling a lot, the velcro could leave scratches.
- Go online to diaperswappers.com. You can buy gently used at a steal. I am using one size diapers. If you go with pockets or aio's you probably need about 24 for a newborn. This will allow you to wash every other day. If you want to use prefolds and covers, you should probably have about 2 dozen prefolds and 8-10 covers. I love my one size aio's. I actually got them from hyenacart. the site is hyenacart.com/bumwrappers. They are very well made and fit from nb-45lbs. Hope this helps!!! Email me anytime if you have more q's :)
- This is a fabulous essay about cloth diapering a newborn- http://www.sunshinediapers.com/cloth-diaper-university/diapering-a-newborn/ BumGenius diapers are one size- they will fit from 8 to 35lbs, your child will probably not grow out of them. Small Fuzzi Bunz fit from 7 to 18 lbs. That should at least get you a few months worth of use. Fuzzi Bunz have good resale value too. I just bought a used small for $12.00 and a used medium for $15.00. So I wouldn't worry about not getting your money's worth. For a newborn baby you will need 2 dozen diapers to go two days between washings. If you bought 2 dozen new BumGenius or Fuzzi Bunz it would cost you over $400.00. Considering you'd spend about $3000.00 on disposable diapers from birth to potty training (and that's just for one child, cloth diapers can be resued for subsequent children), $400.00 doesn't seem so bad. But if you are unable to come up with $400.00 all at once, try a combination of prefolds and pockets. One dozen each of perfolds and pockets, and four covers (for the prefolds) will run you about $250. Don't worry about prefolds being hard to use- they're not. You can just fold it into a rectangle and place it into a velcro closing cover. No pins needed. Kushies are the cheapest AIOs you'll find. They're not bad, but they're not great either. You can get 25 of them for about $200.00. Some Wal-Marts and BabiesRUs carry Kushies. If you went with strictly prefolds, you could buy a package that included 3 dozen infant size, 2 dozen premium size, 6 small, and 6 medium covers, and a snappi for $175.00. That would take you from birth to 25lbs. Once your baby grows out of them, then you could invest in a dozen large AIOs or pockets. 12 will be all you need by that time to get you through a day and a half to two days between washing. www.DiaperSwappers.com or www.DiaperTraders.com are both forums where you can not only find used cloth diapers for sale, but also answers and support. Check out my sources for affordable new and used diapers.
