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| hi all. my son has chunky legs. he weighs approximately 16 lbs or so. i am using M air flow covers on him right now. my question is, which settings should i have the dipes and covers? i put the dipes on the inside snaps on that row of 4 snaps and i put the m af covers on the second snap both on the leg and waist. should i go ahead and make the dipe and the cover a setting bigger? or are they fine at a tight setting? |
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It's so hard to tell at a distance! Weight is only a guideline, as the build of the baby can vary so much. And it has to be hard for you since you can't see it. But I would assume you or your husband would notice if your son was getting chafing or a rash on his legs. If his skin is fine and there's nothing leaking, I wouldn't worry too much about it. But personally, I found that the cover doesn't need to be tight at all. I can usually put at least one finger between the leg and the cover (probably quite a bit more, I have never actually measured it that way), and it still holds everything in. The most important thing for performance is not that the cover be tight, but that no part of the diaper creeps out or no piece of clothing creeps in. You can try a setting bigger and see how it goes.
By the way, it looks like you are getting addicted to this forum, Fire Dancer... Of course, there is nothing wrong with that, you are not alone in this situation! :-) |
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| thanks very much. i just do not want my son's circulation being cut off due to a tight cover. oh and speaking of the covers, i found out a way to tell the diff between the m and the ml if u cannot see the label. where the cover snaps around the waist, there are 3 snaps on each side, whereas with the ml, there are only 2 on each side of the waist. and my father marked the washer for me so now i can wash the dipes on my own and follow the washing instructions correctly. by the way, can i wash as little as 8 dipes? or is that really not enough for a load.? i have the PT package of 12 dipes. |
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You should be able to easily slide a finger inside the diaper and cover openings. If you can't do that easily, go up a snap. Although it can be a little weird, sometimes I've ditched symmetry with the waist snaps and gone one looser on one side or the other to get things just a little looser. The boys never seemed to mind.
Aside of playing around to get a good fit, something that you will probably want to do is to feel around the waist and legs to make sure that nothing is sticking past the cover. The first OS that I put on leaked--it turned out that I hadn't thought about the tag, which had stuck up outside of the cover and caused the moisture to wick (I eventually cut the back tags off my diapers because I figured it was one fewer thing to worry about!). Although I'm sighted, that's actually a check that I usually did by feel, as well, as it's easier around the back and I found I could tell better that way, esp. around the legs.
You can wash as few diapers as you need to, but obviously within reason the larger the load the more efficient. Since you're working with what you have right now, just choose the smallest load setting that you can. |
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| oh yeah, i already tuck all of the tags in because that is what i automatically do with regular clothing anyway. thanks for the tip. i do have another question to ask if it is not too much trouble. i have a MEOS in front of me right now with the back of the dipe facing away from me and the inside facing up like it would when putting it on a baby. i am feeling the dipe and notice that on the left wing of the dipe, there are 3 snaps, 2 that face up and the one between the 2 faces down. on the right wing of the dipe, there are simply 2 snaps that face up. moving to the waist part of the dipe, there are 6 snaps that face down. Below that row of snaps are the 4 snaps that face up. what are all of these extra snaps for? and why did they not make the back wings of the dipe have the same number of snaps. what is that extra one on the left wing that faces down for? also i have devised a plan on how to put in the snap in liner. what i did was i snapped it to the 2 inside snaps on that row of 4 snaps. am i doing it wrong? it does not look as if there are 2 corresponding snaps on the dipe that would correspond with the ones on the snap in liner. if i am being confusing, by all means, please let me know. thanks. |
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| also what about clothing? the first night i put a regular onesy over the cd and it was extremely tight compared to how it fit over sposies so he has been in just a cd ever since the first day that i put one on him. should i go up a size bigger? not really sure on that. my father is taking us to walmart tonight and i need to know which size to go with. he should be moving into 6-9 month clothing very shortly, but i realize that most baby clothing is not generously cut for cd using babies. sigh... i wish i could send a letter to walmart to ask them to carry real cds instead of those crappy gerber pfs. and also one to the companies that make the clothes to tell them that not all babies are in the mainstream disposable wearing crowd. also i know that this might seem a bit irrelevant, but he cannot put both feet totally flat on the platform of his toy like he could in sposies. are these exercising toys made for babies in sposies? |
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The extra up facing snap on one side of the wing is for newborns so you could actually overlap the wings for a tight fit. My newborn was never that skinny though. The extra row of snaps in the inside of the diaper is for when baby is smaller and you fold-over the front flap to make a shorter rise and they're also for snapping in your liners like you're currently doing.
As for the clothing, yes I would up-size your onesies at least one more size. Some brands are more generous than others. Carter's brand is nice and long and usually work well but I don't know what brands Wal-Mart carries. Good luck and happy shopping!
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I don't have a diaper in front of me right now, so I'm having trouble following your description of the snaps, but I can tell you that the extra snap on the left wing of the diaper, as opposed to the right, is so that with a tiny newborn, you can actually snap the right wing on the left wing in the smallest setting. So if you can imagine that (you can try on a Teddy Bear if you want to understand better), the OS is folded over, and the left wing can be snapped all the way to the last snap on the right, and you snap the right wing on top of the left wing.
In the middle, some snaps face up and some face down so you can snap the wings both in the folded-over setting or with the diaper unfolded. The liner is made to snap on two of the row of four snaps. There are four because they are used to snap the wings when folded over in the smaller setting, but when you don't fold the diaper over anymore, they are not used except for the liner. Not sure if I am less confusing than you are, but hope that helps.
As for clothing, I was never really able to use onesies with cloth diapers successfully because of the build of my son. He's long and skinny, so in order for him to have onesies that would be long enough at the crotch, I would have had to use things that would be way too wide at the neck and shoulders. I used mostly one-piece pajamas or outfits, and now larger pants with the cuff folded over. I know that some brands are cut more generously and some people find onesies that work, but my husband hates them anyway (they make it harder to detect smelly bums), so we rarely use them. Overalls can work great for some, but for us, the crotch buttons kept popping open because of the extra bulk of the diaper, so we gave up on those as well. I would definitely suggest pants with an elastic waist, so you can get them a bit bigger and put them on/take them off easily, and you can roll the cuffs if they are too long. |
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I loved one-piece outfits for my first son, as he was so big around the middle even in disposables that waists just cut into him. Shortalls, overalls, but especially just one-piece romper-type clothes. Strangely, we didn't have to go up onesie sizes; the Carter's brands (can't remember, but they do a brand for Walmart) are pretty stretchy, and sized a bit more generously than the Gerber ones, I found. With my second son, who's much smaller, pants were fine. Just ones with gentle elastic on the waist were great. Really, though, we used onesies for warmth in the winter and for belly coverage during early crawling, but they just aren't crucial for holding up the diaper the way they sometimes seem to be with disposables!
Walmart sells a two-pack of pants by either Gerber or Carter's (sorry can't remember), that's hanging up near the onesies. Think they're blue and green? I haven't used them, but have noticed them and thought that they looked like they'd be pretty flexible (and they're pretty inexpensive). |
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| I just saw your question about the exercise toy. I find that a little strange, but it's possible that the diaper gives him just a smidge more height or makes him fit just a bit differently in the seat. Both of my boys used an exersaucer (assuming that's the kind of toy you mean) just fine. What's so important with those is neck strength; I really can't see that it's crucial that his feet are flat on the bottom of it (they probably will be again by next week, anyway). Many babies like to bounce off their toes--mine did, anyway. |
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| ok i did some online research and found out that carter's does make a store brand. the target brand is child of mine and i think the walmart brand is called just one year. can anyone take a look at these store brand clothes online and tell me if they will fit over his diapers? thanks very much. also i found an article on how to find clothes that will fit over cds on ehow and the person suggested to buy stretchy fabric, buy 2-piece outfits, etc. and as far as sizing up, how would i go about that? i tried a 6-9 month onesie on him last night and it is still too tight. when i was getting it off of him, he was literally crying like a very demanding 2-yo, you know the sound, the "i do not like this" kind of cry. it really makes me mad that the clothing market does not offer 2 kinds of cuts in their clothing lines. a cut for disposable as well as one for cloth. that way, us cding parents do not have to buy different sizes of clothes to make them fit. sorry if i am ranting. just saying that the minority that does not dd their babies need to be taken into account as well. |
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