Cloth diaper update

While we we're in the states I took twelve cloth diapers out of my stock of twenty-four diapers. It was kind of hard with just twelve diapers. I was so used to the twenty-four that I had a hard time keeping up with the laundry load. It didn't help that my mom kept subtly reminding me in that motherly nudging way that, "water is very expensive in Florida and well doing laundry every other day is not helping honey," So I decided to curb doing my own laundry to make up for it. I decided I'd just wear the same tee-shirt and skirt for days on end. Hey after all it was vacation in Florida. I was allowed to grunge-out a little bit, right. In fact I enjoyed it.

I found with Baby S's turning practically overnight from a little garden gnome into The Jolly Green Giant, that nighttime diapers had begun to become very, very saturated by morning. The poor critter was drowning in his own pee. I tried double liners with the Motherease and fleece pads, but he's become a big night wetter and there was nothing much to do about it. I tried lots of different combinations but nothing really worked well. So while In Florida we started to use disposables at night. This helped with the laundry load and baby S was drier through the night.

Now that we're back home we've adopted the same routine. He wears cloth during the day and disposables at night. I don't regret this choice. I do regret that I have to buy disposables. I don't particularly like them. I don't like supporting the industry that manufactures this product. It does make me uncomfortable to invest any amount of money in them. I'm not sure if I'll keep using them.

I just want anyone who is thinking of giving cloth a try to feel free to not be locked in to using only that. You can certainly try half and half or less. If you feel comfortable you can use all cloth or try just using the disposable diapers at night.

Believe it or not I'm so comfortable with cloth that I always prefer using them on the baby on weekends away and when travelling. As long as by the end of three days I have access, and permission to use a washing machine. Three days is the maximum amount of time to let them sit on the bin!

If the pee situation gets better and we have less wetness I'll go back to the cloth at night but for now the disposables are in our rotation.

Update: In December we went back to using the cloth 100 percent of the time. I just didn't feel comfortable buying the disposables. Baby S seems fine and it all seems to work well with one liner ad two fleece doublers. Vive le CLOTH!