How to Get Started with Cloth Diapers

A Family article with View Comments posted 22 March 2009.
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Anneliese wearing a cloth diaper

Anneliese wearing a cloth diaper

Jennifer and I decided that we wanted to use cloth diapers for Anneliese, but if you look it up online, there is a huge variety of information. Some of it is contradictory, and all of it is confusing. So after having waded through the morass of hype, spin, misinformation, and genuinely useful stuff, I decided to put together a “how to get started” guide for cloth diapers that would skip the crud and just tell people what to buy. I’m not getting any money from the companies involved.

Our primary concerns were, in order, cost, re-usability, and environmental impact. What we’ve purchased is mostly the bare minimum: we’re home all the time, have easy access to our own laundry facilities, we don’t use daycare, etc. If your circumstances don’t match, you might need to buy more, less, or different stuff than what is listed here. This isn’t necessarily the best, cheapest, or most appropriate list – it’s just the list of stuff we did. I hope it’s helpful. Your Mileage May Vary, Offer Not Valid In Nebraska, etc.

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