I’ve mentioned before that I use cloth diapers, right?
I love using cloth diapers. We bought one brand, lots of them, and never looked back. I love how easy they are to use and how cost saving they are. Most of all I love how there are never poop leaks. I can remember two or three poop leaks he’s had in 2 years. Seriously! I love them.
There are two things though, that I don’t love about them.
1. The brand I chose only came in solid colors. No cute prints. I love seeing all the cute prints available in cloth diapers on my message boards. They’re amazing! So many cute designs!! I could go broke getting all the ones I love.
2. The Velcro on these diapers is starting to go bad. I’ve caught a diaper falling off more than once in the past month, and the closures catch on his pants all the time. I’m getting kind of annoyed with my choice of Velcro over snaps. (Hindsight is 20/20)
Here is what my Velcro tabs look like after two years of use and no maintenance -
They’re full of lint, strings, and fuzz. They just don’t work anymore. I was thinking about buying some new diapers with snaps and building up a new set. BUT…that costs money, and if I can help it, I don’t want to spend any. So, I figured out that I could probably clean out the tabs and they might work like new again.
Here’s what I did. One afternoon, after a load of diapers came out of the dryer, I sat and pulled out every last string, fuzz and lint from each tab. My fingers HURT at the end of that afternoon! I accumulated quite a lot of lint.
After I cleaned out the tabs, they worked like new!!!!! Go figure! Anyone else would probably already be cleaning out the Velcro tabs after every few washes, but not me! I like don’t think of things like that. Here’s a look at the same tabs from above after I cleaned them out.
Much better, eh? I love it! I have to clean them out every so often, but it surely beats buying new diapers!
My advice to anyone considering cloth diapers -
Go with snaps. I thought it was going to be hard to get a good ‘seal’, and that the baby would be too wiggly to do snaps, but I see in the end that they probably would last longer than Velcro tabs and I’ve been told they fit just as well as Velcro diapers.
Or clean out your Velcro tabs more often than I do. Whatever.
I feel so bad because when I was considering cloth diapers, you gave me such wonderful information and....we are still using the disposables. I still have it in the back of my mind, but I have never "made the plunge". I really should start thinking of it again because my son doesn't really go through a lot of diapers as it is so it probably wouldn't be too bad.
ReplyDeleteIts not so bad that the diapers are getting a little worn...it won't be that much longer until he doesn't need them anymore...Potty Training!
If you want to get really crafty, I've seen people modify BumGenius diapers to add their own snaps. We actually haven't had too much problem with the velcro yet, but we didn't start using ours until after C turned 1, so even though Jack is younger, his diapers are older!
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