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Jennifer wins
Jennifer won a diaper giveaway from Nicki’s Diapers. How cool is that?
More on Cloth Diapering
Jennifer was recently asked to give some more details to a friend of a friend who is considering cloth diapers. I thought her response was really comprehensive and would serve as a good update to my initial post on this from March.
We use cloth diapers on our 6 month old and have since she was 1 week old. We do like them a lot. There are a lot of options – everything from traditional cotton prefold diapers with covers to fancy/expensive all-in-one systems. I’ll tell you what we do and what I know about a few other options, but I know some people who use other systems as well, so just let me know what you’re thinking or curious about.
We went fairly simple/old-school mostly due to budget constraints:
How to Get Started with Cloth Diapers
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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