How many times have you googled a question on how to prepare, fold, wash, travel with, or otherwise manage your cloth diapers? As cloth-diapering mamas ourselves, we have waded many times into the existing mess of the diapersphere, finding lots of great information scattered across many websites and forums—available for the price of a substantial amount of time. It seems to us that cloth diapering is a growing movement that deserves a more organized resource, and we’re here to help. So whatever your reason for using cloth diapers, and whatever your practical question, TheClothDiaperGuide.com is here to offer tips, answer questions, and centralize information on what happens when modern parenting meets traditional diapering. Welcome, explore, and contact us with your questions and comments!
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When you start researching cloth diapering systems, you begin to learn about the many and varied options available. There is the straightforward all-in-one (AIO) diaper, or you could use flats, prefolds, pocket diapers, or even environmentally friendly hybrids like gDiapers. There are pluses and minuses to any of these choices, and you will come across rave reviews as well as negative remarks for each. Here on the Cloth Diaper Guide, we have shared some practical tips when it comes to choosing diapers for your baby. However, there is another important part of this decision to consider: not choosing the right system, but discovering your system. Diapering, like so many things in our lives, is not an exact science, and there is not a distinct setup that works perfectly for everyone. When I first became a mother, I poured over books, and researched child development and parenting methods. Throughout my daughter’s infancy, I would strive to perfect my approach, and liked to consider myself a mindful, attachment parenting mama. Feeling guilty, of course, when I failed to live up to my label. By the time my son came along, I feel I was able to achieve the ideal parenting method, at
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Stars: **** (4 out of 5) Best Feature: Incredible price Biggest Drawback: Not the highest quality Cost: $8.95 Let’s face it, cloth diapering can be pricey. Disposable diapers are more expensive in the long run, but the up-front cost of reusable diapers often scares people away. $20.00 (or more) for a single item of clothing your child is just going to poop on can be a little hard to fathom. From the creator of bumGenius, Cotton Babies has recognized this problem, and offers a shockingly inexpensive cloth diapering system: Econobum. Most of us know an easy way to save money is to avoid AIO (all-in-one) diapers, use prefolds or flats, and spring for one-size diaper covers. However, it is those one-size covers that make for such a daunting start-up fee, and we all cringe when one needs to be replaced. Recently, I gave the Econobum one-size diaper cover a try. At approximately $9.00  a pop, I doubted the quality, but I was intrigued, and figured it was worth the risk. When it comes to quality, I could feel the difference when I received my Econobum covers. Mommy’s Touch, my current favorite one-size covers, are made with a double layer of
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Our oldest had a really hard time potty-training at night — through her preschool years, in fact, she could be dry all day and sleep right through peeing in bed every evening. Being the problem-solving maniac of the house, I zeroed in one what I was sure was the problem: those blasted paper pull-ups we bought by the pack every week.
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