diaper update

much to my chagrin we are still not 100% into cloth diapers. we're getting a little closer every day though. i have a couple cloth diapers that my mother sewed that are a little big still, and a couple that need the elastic adjusted as they leak at the legs otherwise. and then i have my gdiapers. i mentioned before that i would report back on how i liked them once we started using them, so here you are.

i don't work for gdiapers and i'm not affiliated with them in any way. and i'm actually not using the ones i bought from them last month, either. the kiddo is only 12 pounds so doesn't fit the medium size i purchased. however i did find some in the small size on craigslist, which is what we have been using. and i love them.

LOVE. them. L.O.V.E. love them.

they do not leak. they are so cute and look like they are pretty comfy on tk. very easy to use and quite a clever system, with the polyester snap-in liner and the flushable pad. and those flushies? FABULOUS. i love flushing her poop away just like mine. no smelly diaper pail anymore! our diaper pail now holds only cloth stuff (wipes, changing pad liners, dirty diaper covers), which is how we intended it to be in the first place anyways. GREAT.

on the downside, those CUTE covers are not cheap. (SO lusting after these ones for tk, how ADORABLE are those?) i know cloth diapers in and of themselves are not cheap to begin with, but still. neither are those flushies. they work out to about 40c each, which is more than regular disposables, even the pennies-pricier nature babycare sposies that i prefer. so while i like the flushies and they are quite convenient, i think i'll save them for "special occasions," like when we go on vacation this winter and i won't have access to a washing machine when the diaper stash gets low. it's nice to be green and all, but i just can't afford to use gdiapers at that price, even with coupons.

fortunately i came up with a solution: cloth inserts instead of flushable ones. other cloth diaper brands do it all the time, so why couldn't i with these? i cut out three layers of terrycloth the same size as a flushie and stitched them all together. the terrycloth fits into the snap-in liner just the same as a flushie does, but i can wash and re-use these. three layers is nicely absorbent without becoming overly bulky.

then i discovered that gdiapers had just come out with washable cloth liners, just like me.

so that's where we are on the diapering issue. i don't have a ton of cloth liners, so we can only use them for about a day and a half before we have to switch to flushies or sposies. the cloth liners work great and i think are really the only way gdiapers could be cost effective as a cloth diaper. the flushies are great to use and all, a fabulous idea (the hybrid diaper - love it), but just don't fit into our budget on a regular basis.