Warning: This post may be very boring to non-mothers, and to mothers as well. In fact everyone might find this rather boring but me!
One of the biggest problems we have been having is that Lil' Squirt is such a heavy wetter at night that we have to fill his pocket diapers with a terry cloth prefold and a terry cloth insert (made by my mother-in-law). Filling his diaper with so much fabric isn't such a big problem if you have a good cover. A friend from church gave us these two really nice Flip covers which work great for folding a prefold into thirds and tucking them into the cover but that only worked for our Lil' Squirt for a few months until he started soaking his diapers in two minutes flat (a bit of an exaggeration)! We had to start using both covers at night to make sure they had good coverage around both legs but even that started to not work.
All this said so that I can tell you about our new Thirsties Duo Wraps in mango and ocean blue colors we bought using an Amazon gift card. I started using them today and they are fantastic! Not only do they have great coverage around the legs, but we don't even have to try to stretch them out to cover his pocket diapers. They are so simple and quick to just slap on and go! I ordered them with velcro because that was all they had, so we'll see how that goes. I've always heard that snaps are better. We'll see!
I also ordered two Kawaii diaper covers from Ebay. I had a hard time finding reviews for them and they were fairly cheap so I don't know if they were a good investment or not. I plan on those just being backups for now and using the Thirsties as our main covers.
We have learned the hard way that buying the cheapest is not always the answer. If you buy cheap cloth diapers, you will just have to buy more sooner. It may be more expensive up front to buy good diapers but in the long run it comes out cheaper because they last long. Now we know for our future 7 children (or however many God chooses to bless us with)!
I find all these diaper covers very interesting! Growing up, we had rectangular cloth diapers that were 8 layers thick & 12 down the middle. You folded them to fit the child so they fit from newborn to toddler. And you could add a 2nd one for at night for an older child. Then you pinned them & topped 'em with Gerber rubber pants.
ReplyDeleteThough, I have to admit some of these diaper covers are pretty sweet! And so much more convenient especially for taking kids out/nursery. It's awesome to hear your diaper covers are working out!
Oh, btw, I find the "normal, everyday life" posts the most interesting. :)