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My husband wants to create his own demo of how much money cloth diapering can save, but we want it to be as accurate as possible, and now we can't remember how many diapers we went through each day for our first munchkin (who's been PT'd for over a year....that's why I've been gone from the forum). Our next babe isn't coming until spring, and all kids are different anyway, so I figured the best way to get some numbers is to ask you!
Can you tell me 1) your baby's age and approximate weight 2) how many diapers you use in 24h (total, even if they're not all cloth)
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| My 16.5 month old daughter, 22 pounds, uses only 5-6 diapers a day. She is dry most of the time...I often check her diaper, thinking she'll be wet, but she's not. |
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| My daughter is almost a year, weighs 20 pounds, and goes through 6-7 diapers a day. 7 if she poops, 6 if she doesn't. |
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| 28-lb 3-yr-old is down to night diapers, one per night. That's probably a hard one to figure, as all kids are different for night dryness, but kids can need diapers at night for quite some time, and often people switch to pull-ups--boy do those get pricey pretty fast! |
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My DD is 6.5 months (about 15 lbs) and uses about 8 diapers a day. My DS is 2.5 yrs and still uses a diaper at night and nap time. We've actually switched to disposable because he floods his diaper and I can't get enough absorbancy in cloth. (If we give him a drink too late, he actually needs two at night!)  Good luck on your project! |
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| Our daughter just turned 1, approx. 18 lbs. and goes through 7-8 diapers per day. Good luck!! |
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During the newborn period we'd go through about 10-11 diapers a day. This gradually diminished and levelled off at about 18-20 months till potty training. My girls are 4 and still using a diaper at night. The nighttime thing can vary tremendously (anything from a couple weeks after daytime dryness, all the way to several years later) so that would be hard to calculate but I'd say 6-12 months after daytime dryness is probably a fairly safe average.
Andretam, you could always use two diapers at night if you had to. We did that for a while with my son and it worked fine. Obviously the diaper is huge but most couldn't care less... Also might help to go one size larger for the diaper (like using a large Sandy's if you're using smalls during the day, that kind of thing). More absorbancy because the diaper is bigger and more room for liners. Maybe consider a more absorbant fabric like bamboo as well, you'd get the same absorbancy with a trimmer diaper/liner so you could add more without adding too much bulk.
Karen. |
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| DS is 10 months old and almost 20lbs and I use 8-12 diapers a day. |
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| DS is 20 months, 30-31 lbs and using about 8-9 diapers/day. And he can really soak them! |
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| DS is 27months, 30 lbs, 5-6 diapers a day. |
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Interesting idea! Can't wait to see the result...
We used 12-14 diapers when our little one was first born (at 7 pounds). Now, at just over 2 years, we use 7-8 a day. Not sure of his exact weight, but probably around 30 pounds.
Granted, when we use disposables (on Holidays), we tend to use less because we know we can get away with it. Probably not the best thing to do, but we do. And most moms I know who use disposables go through less than the cloth-using ones, probably because they want to save money whereas we figure it doesn't cost any more to change more often. So that might be something to consider if you want your application to be truly accurate - you might have to survey disposable diaper users the same way you survey us.
One mom I know even said to me that at a year old, she was using only 2-3 diapers a day. That seems soooo gross to me, but that was her counter-argument when I said how much money I was saving... |
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| 2 month old---9 diapers a day |
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I agree with franfreluche's comment that plastic users change diapers less frequently. In talking with my non-CD friends, I get the impression that most babies go through a box of diapers at about a constant speed. That's because the boxes with larger sizes have fewer diapers. To find out the cost of plastic diaps, I'd find out how much a person spends on a box and how often they have to buy a new box. If I remember correctly, my friend and I figured that my cloth stash cost as much as 10 months of her plastic diaps (I have a relatively small stash and bought a lot of it second-hand here and through diaperswappers.com). Of course, I never have to buy another diaper for LO#2, or I can sell them off!
As a side note, I found a reasonable cost-comparison at http://jilliansdrawers.com/newtocloth, point #6, except they assume too many diapers per day. |
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