Gidget’s Ultimate Cloth Diapering Tips
We’ve been using cloth/hybrid diapers part-time for a few months now (I wish we’d started sooner!). Cloth diapers are in fact what started my whole green/eco-friendly/non-toxic kick that I’m gradually incorporating into our daily life. I thought I’d put together a little summary for my interested readers.
- We use cloth (Bum Genius and Fuzzi Bunz) or hybrid diapers (gDiapers) as much as possible during the day when at home. We use disposables at night and when we go out, most of the time.
- I love gDiapers best because they are easy (flushable insert) and less bulky than the cloth dipes. But due to the expense of the liners, I use them less frequently. What I do like to do though, is use 2 BumGenius diaper doublers (each pocket diaper always comes with one of these) or one homemade liner in them.
- If the Chiquita only peed in a cloth diaper, I often toss the liner in the pail and then re-use the diaper with 2 doublers or 1 homemade liner. The BumGeniuses are excellent at wicking away moisture & odor so they can easily be used again! (I do usually use the reused ones for naps just in case they smell a teensy bit peeish).
- I insist on using these awesome flushable liners in all cloth diapers (Chiquita is a very sporadic pooper- you never know when she’ll strike) for easier clean-up. I order them from diapers.com who has free shipping if you spend $49. Refer me on your first order for a discount! My referral code is: NIBE4523.
- For those times when a messy poop goes off the flushable liner, make and use an awesome diaper sprayer with our handy DIY tutorial.
- In our bathroom upstairs, we keep a simple rubbermaid trash can from Home Depot with a washable Swaddlebees waterproof liner bag (I have 2 of these to switch out).
- I do laundry about 2-3 times a week. Here’s my method: 1. dump in all diapers & liner bag; 2. short, cold rinse cycle with a scoop of Borax; 3. Hot/cold cycle: hot wash with Dreft + scoop of baby Oxi Clean, then cold rinse; 4. hang dry in sun (for natural stain-lightening). Never use fabric softener on diapers. The plastic liners that go in the gDiapers I hand wash and hang dry, unless they get poopy, then I throw them in with the rest of the diaper load.
- With poopy cloth/hybrid diapers I use these flushable wipes. I don’t use these with disposables because they’re just not that great. But it works good with cloth because then you don’t have to worry about baggin’ up poopy wipes to throw away.
- That’s all I can think of! Please let me know if you have any other questions, and good luck cloth diapering! If you’re interested in buying anything I mentioned here, please click my Shop link above and support this blog through my aStore, or use my referral code on diapers.com. Thank you!!
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Wow!! You are going blog crazy!!! So many posts to catch up on!! I like your new site!! And I love to read all your tips and things you are learning!
I love these helpful tips. I get my diapers Wed and I’m so excited. Who knew you could be excited about diapers? I ordered the Allen’s Naturally detergent that was recommended for the Fuzzi Bunz. I definitely have to pick up some Baby Oxi and I have to try those flushable liners. I’m going to use Seventh Generation disposables for when we’re out. I want to try Bumgenius and gDiapers if all goes well. I originally was going to go just straight gDiapers, but the thought the expense was too much as well. Diapers.com is a great site. It’s great that you can sew and make your own liners. I need to lean how to sew. I was going to get those flushable wipes. Right now I’m using cloth wipes and the California Baby Diaper Area Wash for pee clean up and Seventh Generation wipes for poop clean up. That also leads me to my response about your suggestion to use California Baby. I like their prodcuts. I can’t wait to use it for me. I developed postpartum eczema. Weird things happen to your body after having a child. I was using Aveeno baby products for Drayden and then I started using them for myself as well. I want to make the switch to California Baby for himand I. Kiss My Face is a good line and you can find it at Target. I like that you can get California Baby at Target. They just added Born Free to Target too. It’s too bad that Babiesrus can’t step it up on the organic and cloth diapering department. I noticed the other day that they carried doubler inserts, but not sure if it was a good brand. I’m going to try using the Fuzzi Bunz terry inserts and prefolds for now. I’ll let you know how it goes.
I look forward to hearing how it goes for you! I’ll have to check out Allen’s Naturally too.
I stumbled upon your blog by accident, and found the diaper sprayer. (Which I am VERY excited about) I been poking around now for a little while and I have to admit- I love it! As it happens, I am picking up my bumgenius 3.0 diapers tomorrow. My son will be 1 at the end of the month, dont ask me what took me so long to honker down and make the switch- I guess I was super overwhelmed by the cloth diapering experience. Where does one start ya know? Anywho… I just wanted to share a product called Charlies Soap with you, maybe you’ve heard about it or used it, I dont really know, but a friend of mine raves about it for her cloth diapers.
Congratulations on bringing home the precious new baby boy!