Most likely management will insist on a swim diaper, they just can't take any chances and usually there are even laws for public pools. ME sells cute swim diapers and I liked them a lot. You can also usually get some type of reusable swim diaper in many 'regular' stores, even places like Wal-Mart will usually carry a brand or two.

You could even use a regular cloth diaper cover provided it's snug enough (all any swim diaper can ever do is hold poop inside, no diaper can absorb anything once in the water as it's automatically saturated). Regular covers aren't the best because they can also hold a significant amount of water inside but they can work in a pinch.

Another interesting option is to use disposable swim diapers and just reuse them. They're tough enough that you can actually rinse them out/wash them (by hand of course) after each use and reuse them several times. Now, obviously I wouldn't recomend doing this with a poopy swim diaper, not only would that be pretty yucky but I'm not sure you could get it clean enough. But it can be cheaper in the long run especially if you only use them occasionally or if your little is between sizes.

Cloth wipes are great, they actually work much much better than disposable ones and they're less trouble because you don't have to figure out how to handle them while you're getting the little one dressed again and have a chance to throw them out. They just go straight in the pail with the diaper, no rinsing even necessary!

As for where to get them, well you can get really nice ones from ME again (or many cloth diapering stores/companies, many sell their own). Personally though I only ever used regular washcloths for the job. Much cheaper than buying actual cloth diapering wipes and work pretty much just as well. What kind people like varies but personally I just got some cheap washcloths at the dollar store, I didn't want the really thick fancy ones that come in good sets.

As for smell and warmth, yup you absolutly can. There are lots of cloth wipes recipes floating around the net for solutions that smell nice and are soothing on the skin. You can even buy spray bottles already made or even small little squares that you can melt and add to water! Or many just use plain water, either straight from the tap or from a water bottle they keep in their change area. Wipes warmers should work well too, just sometimes you have to fold the wipes a specific way to get them to fit. Only thing to watch out for is that most of these recipes don't have preservatives so you they may get musty smelling if left out for too long.

Karen.

I wouldn't even bother with the diaper at all except maybe to use to get him from the changeroom to the pool. Once in the water the dipaer will be instantly saturated and all it will do is weigh him down. Be prepared though that management may have an issue with this in terms that it's not an 'official' swim diaper. They might not but it's hard to say, some even make trouble if you use a reusable swim diaper instead of the disposable ones. Not everyone is educated aobut this stuff and all they know are the disposable ones so they question anything else.

Karen.