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Hi ladies,
I am new to this site and being 7 months pregnant with our first child I am looking into cloth dipers. I've decided to try the Sandy's Bamboo dipes.
Can anyone tell me where I can get flushable liners for these? And will flushable liners even work?
I was thinking about getting 25 small and 25 large bamboo diapers with 4 covers. Would 4 covers be enough? What are the best covers to use?
And so this whole process would just be putting a flushable liner into the sandy bamboo diaper and then covering it with a cover, correct? Flushing the liner once it is soiled & rinsing the bamboo diaper if there is a spill and leaving it to launder?
Ha ha, I am so new to all this and my brain is in baby overload researching diapers, strollers, car seats, etc, etc, etc... the list never ends! 
Thanks for all your help. Any other tips would be much appreciated to this new-to-be mom!! |
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Basically that's about right yup. One thing though, if you plan on breastfeeding your baby you don't even have to do anything at all with the poop. Just put the diaper in the pail as is and then run a pre-rinse in your washer. Breastfed baby poop is water soluble so it'll all just rinse away in that pre-rinse. Plus it hardly smells so it won't stink up the pail.
Once your baby is on solids or a significant amount of formula that's when you need to do something about the poop. Flushable liners work well for a lot of people but I do want to warn you that sometimes, for some babies, the poop runs off the liner and onto the diaper so that you then have to dunk the diaper anyway. This is why this time around I chose to get a diaper sprayer since I had limited success with the flushable liners. But they do work very well for a lot of people so it's really just about trying it and seeing what works for you. A lot of cloth diaper online stores sell flushable liners of some kind, sorry I don't have any specific place to recommend.
As for the number of diapers I think that's good. One bit of advice though, look at the packages. The full-time packages come with 24 diapers, 12 liners and 4 covers. You save quite a bit of money over buying everything individually. 4 covers should be good, most people have about 4-6 covers...
As for which cover is 'best' that's really an individual choice. I personally love the Airflows. I seriously dislike velcro so the Rikkys just aren't for me. Others prefer the fact that velcro is a little faster to use and the Rikkys are also a little less 'pouffy' than the Airflows.
Karen.
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Congrats on deciding to use cloth diapers. I use ME OS and just love them!!! Babies look so cute in cloth and it sure does help your pocketbook and the environment.
In response to your questions, I would suggest just buying the small size to start. Make sure you like them and that Cloth diapering works for you. Then, when your little one is ready for the next size you can decide if you want to order again. I know so many women who have good intentions to use cloth, but find out it just doesn't work for them.
I have used flushable liners in the past when I was just starting out in Cloth diapers, but find them not too effective and take up too much time to put in. It also adds to the cost of diapering; the ones I used were like 10 cents each. I think that once you get used to cloth diapers, you tend not too mind just rinsing the poop away in the toilet. Hey, even my husband will do it!
As for covers, I like to have at least four for each size. Then you aren't scrambling to do wash all the time. And I love the snaps on my covers... velcro is a bit faster but I love how the air flows fit.
All the best!
Julie |
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Thanks so much for your replies! I'll look at starting small, and then buying the next size up when we get to that point.
I read somewhere on this board about the spatula trick too, I may just have to try that as well.
What do you ladies do with you cd's when you are out & about? ie: At the mall or say for instance, a theme park or something? I was thinking I could put it in a large plastic sealable bag, but I'm not sure about the smell (thinking this would obviously be when babe is a little older & having solid poops). Or maybe just doing the disposables when we are out running the roads?
Thanks again for all your feedback. It is very much appreciated! |
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| Originally I had planned to just use disposibles when out and about with my twins... but once I got into cloth, I never wanted to use disposibles again. Its not difficult to CD while on the go... I have a WAHMies wetbag to throw in my diaper bag. Its basically a bag that liquid will not seep through, with a zippered closure. When we return home, I just empty the diapers into the diaper pail, and then wash the wetbag when I wash the diapers. Easy peasy! |
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I pretty much always use cloth when I'm outside the home. I've used cloth at a waterpark (well they were in a swim diaper most of the day), camping, amusement park, at the mall, at friend's houses, on picnics, roadtrips, at the cottage, doctor's appointments etc etc etc. I trust my cloth diapers way way more than I do disposables (no blowouts and no leaks! EVER!).
I just use a Bummis wet bag to store the wet/dirty diapers. Some people use camping wet bags though, others just use grocery store plastic bags or even bread bags. I've never had a smell problem, even in the car or a small hotel room (and my big bag is a drawstring so it doesn't even totally seal). For poops it depends. If it's breastfed baby poop then just put it in the bag and then throw in the pail at home. Otherwise if it's formed and solid enough I'll just flip what I can in the public toilet. But I've never dunked in a public toilet. If it's too smooshed or soft to just flip in the toilet (or if there's no toilet nearby) then I just close it carefully (to try and minimize any smearing), put it in the bag and deal with it when I get home. Sometimes I've had plastic grocery bags and have put really yucky poopy diapers in there so it's not with all the other diapers. Honestly though I think it's not an issue nearly as much as one would think, unless you're constantly outside the house every day, most of the day...
I think the only time that disposables have any kind of any advantage over cloth (and even that's debatable, especially if you get lots of blowouts or leaks with disposables) is when you'll be gone for more than 2-3 days. Then you have to deal with washing the diapers and depending where you are, that can be inconvenient. It's still doable and I've done it, but it does require a little more creativity and planning.
All that said, I know that using cloth in such situations can seem very intimidating (I know I was very intimidated by it at first). It's certainly not unusual for moms to go the disposable route when on the go, especially as they're still getting used to cloth. If doing cloth on the go is really scary for you, then there's nothing wrong with a few disposables here and there and you can just kind of ease yourself into it slowly as you get more comfortable.
Karen.
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You ladies are wonderful! I really appriciate the feedback. I'll try my best to do cloth all the way, even on the go, unless maybe like Karen said we will be away for a few days with no place to launder the dirties.
As for these wetbags, I'm intrigued! Where would I find such a thing? |
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| Lol. Congrads on the pregnancy. I am 11 weeks myself and my brain is on baby overload as well. Cloth dipes are alot bigger than disposables I have heard. But if they are alot more reliable, I say go for it! |
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Most online cloth diaper companies sell wet bags. Bummis makes several sizes, Jamtots has a neat zippered wet bag. I just bought one from thegoodmama.com -- they sell all kinds of neat fabrics and I just found out my daycare will accept zippered wet bags instead of a sealed container (way easier for me).
The great thing about the wetbags is they are so handy beyond the diapering years. We've used them for swimming lessons and I can see them coming in very handy for camping as well. |
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Hi, Congrats on your first baby-to-be! I have 10-week old twins and am CDing using the ME one-size. I use disposable liners from Diaperaps.com. They cost 6 cents each, but when they are just wet, you can throw everything in the pail and wash the liners as well, reusing them a couple times to save money. We have a shared community septic and I was nervous at first about flushing the poopy liners, but once the pee and poop hits them they soften a little and flushing them is fine! With young babies, the poop is fairly runny and sometimes doesn't get caught by the liner, but most of it does.
I don't dunk because the thick terry cloth makes a big sloppy mess when dunking, and the seedy poop sticks to the terry anyway. I have a BumGenius diaper sprayer that works GREAT!
My diaper pail is a 6 gallon bucket, lined with a Swaddlebees wet bag. I used a dry pail, and as I throw used diapers in, I sprinkle them with a little baking soda. I tried a wet pail, but that was just a heavy, sloppy mess. I wash once a day or every other day, depending. Sometimes the little darlings only have one poop a day!
For laundering, I do a cold rinse first, then use Dreft (less detergent than actually called for normally to reduce risk of buildup) and hot water followed by a cold rinse. I have not had to increase the water temp on my water heater. For 18 diapers, I use the second to highest water level, and it works great. The Swaddlebees wet bag gets tossed in with the load, as do the air flow covers. So far, I find no need for vinegar rinses. Sometimes, in the past, I've found that it's hard to get rid of the vinegar smell. |
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