10 weeks of cloth diapering!

My little boy is almost 11 weeks old and he wore his first cloth diaper at 8 days old when his cord stump finally fell off.  I am loving the cloth diapers! We started out with mostly prefolds and covers because it is the most economical way to cloth diaper and that is one of the big reasons for us deciding to do it.  I have been able to buy some pocket and all-in-one diapers now very cheaply so I am still not spending a lot of money.

One of the things that I have noticed for sure is that the first week he wore disposables, and then a few other days around Thanksgiving, was the only time we have dealt with any diaper rash!  There was a certain brand especially that would start a rash after only wearing one!  Now that we are exclusively using cloth we have not seen any rash and if he seems to be looking red, we just let his little bum air out for a few minutes at every diaper change.

Another thing my husband and I have determined is that disposable diapers smell awful! They smell even before you put them on the baby and we did not like that at all.  I hated feeling like I was putting so many chemicals next to his sensitive skin so I was completely in love with the cloth diapers.  The disposables have all the gel chemicals in them to absorb the liquid and there was a few times that when we would change him he would have these little gel like beads on his skin where they had escaped from the disposable diaper.

Small gDiaper

Finally, I just felt awful every time I changed a disposable diaper and knew it was going straight into the trash to a landfill.  With cloth it is nice to throw it in our wet bag and know that I will be reusing it again, and again, and again.  We have even already talked to friends who may want to borrow or buy the cloth diapers he does not fit in anymore for their babies.  Talk about saving money and keeping our planet clean!

I also can't help but love how cute my little guy is in all of his different diapers and decided I needed to share some pictures for all of you!

Small Fuzzibunz

One Size AlvaBaby

Prefold and Thirsties cover