We started cloth diapering last weekend! Vera hit the 10 lb. mark at her one month appointment, so we thought it was time to try her cute cloth diapers! (Plus, we were getting a little tired of shelling out so much $$ for disposables.) We started with prefolds, a snappy, and covers, and after a day successfully using those we thought we’d see if her BumGenius one-size diapers would fit. They did! I thought they might still be a little too big around the leg holes, but they weren’t! They are slightly more bulky than disposables, but her clothes still fit just fine.
We think she’s stinkin’ cute in them, too! (Pictured below, newborn size prefold with a Thirsties cover.)
I’m still getting the hang of doing the diaper laundry, but between the prefolds and the Bums, I have enough diapers to last about 2 days. The trick is drying them. Our dryer is not very efficient (it’d probably take 2 hours to dry our diapers), plus I’ve heard BumGenius diapers last longer when NOT dried in the dryer, so we dry all our diapers on a drying rack in our kitchen (where our laundry is). It takes a pretty long time for inserts and prefolds to dry that way! So we’re doing diaper laundry every day at this point so that everything is dry and ready when we need it.
Oh, and we’re still using disposables at night and when we travel.
That’s our little cloth diaper update! We love using them and are excited about saving money this way!
