diapers, diapers, diapers.....ahhhh!

ello everyone! haven't been on here in about 2 months or so....wow
anywho, i'm getting big and fat now and babes is gunna be here soon, but there's one thing that is really bugging me: How many times a day do these little guys go the bathroom in a 24-hour period?
I read in my one book from my doc that we can expect to change about 18 diapers a day!!! If that's true, how long are we looking at that many for?

I want to use the cloth diapers. My mom used 'em on me and my sister, and I would like to use them as well. My man, however, hates the thought and insists on disposibales (sp?). He thinks that it's going to be cheaper somehow and nicer to the baby......this just doesn't make sence to me. Especially if we're changing 18/day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We're also renting from my mom for the time being, and she's a little concerned about the laundry costs....is it really that bad?

But yeah, I've heard some people saying that they just eventually get into a routine and change every few hours or so like before feedings, before naps, stuff like that...........I'm just clueless about this stuff, and I'm starting to freak!!!lol I can just see it now....I'm going to be elbow-deep in poop with a screaming baby and not be able to do anything.......*sigh........

 

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Im a cloth diapering mama and congrats to you for choosing cloth! What a wise decision.


Look here www.mothering.com LOTS of cloth diapering info, price chart ect.

 

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Hey Yellow....I go to mothering.com too.

Do you have the same name there?

 

I NEVER post there~ Im 3rdtimemomma over there. I just read. Love the mag and the articles but some of the girls get too snooty for me in the forums

 

gee, that sure makes me feel great........
how can any sane person afford to change so many diapers......when we were talking about just the price of the disposables, we came out to about $500/month.......ouch!
i still want to use the cloth.

 

~~~That is the funniest thing I have ever heard! ~~~ lol

In the begining they will have 2-3 poopy diapers a day.

My dd is now 17 months and has a poopy diaper once every day or every other day.

 

Cloth really is the way to go...it's going to be more expensive in the beginning, yes, because buying them in bulk is going to be pricey...HOWEVER, you have that one time cost rather than a midling cost EVERY MONTH until the baby is pottytrained (in anywhere from one year to 3 years old) That adds up quickly. Your best bet is to go cloth. Have someone float you the money or make them yourself. Hell you can even diaper a baby in hand-towels (for emergencies)....But it is just better in the long run...

 

RE: I want to use the cloth diapers. My mom used 'em on me and my sister, and I would like to use them as well. My man, however, hates the thought and insists on disposibales (sp?). He thinks that it's going to be cheaper somehow and nicer to the baby......this just doesn't make sence to me. Especially if we're changing 18/day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cloth has come a long way. You can get ones with inserts that close with snaps that are more like the fitted disposables than the ones you fold around a kid and secure with pins.

We used disposables on the first. We regret it. The diaper pail STANK, we were constantly throwing out garbage, and rashes were common. The second, we used cloth on (the first was almost out of diapers when we converted). No rashes, no diaper pail reek, fixed costs, heck the resale value on em is almost as much as new.

As for laundry costs, wash em and peg em out to dry - saving on drying costs which is the real cost. Sun bleaches out any stains anyway.

Cloth is the way to go. In actual fact I'd say there's less mess and smell with the cloth.

 

i totally agree with everything that you guys are saying!!!
everyone keeps telling me that i'm going to do it for about a week and then hate it so much that i'll stop......kinda bothers me.
doing laundry doesn't bother me at all....
the inital cost is kinda disturbing, but it's way better than buying so many disposables.
2-3 poopy diapers a day sounds soooooooooooooo much better than the 10 that I was hearing. and then yeah, 18 times a day that they pee. I guess it's all just a wait and see thing,.....i just wanna be as prepared for this as i can.

 

ok, i'm looking on a couple websites right now like walmart and stuff to see what they have for daipers, and there's three different kinds so far....

pre-folded cloth diapers, flat fold birdseye cloth diapers (????), premium heavy weight gauze cloth diapers, and prefolded gauze diapers.......
can someone explain these to me...?
i don't want to sound like an idiot, but i'm clueless.

 

First off, get off walmart.

Look up fuzzibuns, Lucy's Hope Chest, etc. and get fitted diapers. Pref. with inserts. Also, consider organic velour. That stuff is beautiful.

Those diapers are of the "flat square of cloth - do origami with it and then pin" variety. The modern ones are like diapers you're used to - fitted to the approx. shape of a baby's hind end.

 

If you TRULY want to get informed, mothering.com has forums on it. Go to their parenting and diapering section and be prepared for a group of organic, hemp food hippie types to give you the low down. There will be granola pouring from your monitor and bean sprouts out of your speakers. But they know the score.

 

LMAOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

Yes, cloth diapers ROCK nowadays. In addition to the "fitted" type (wayyyyy better than the squares) you can also by waterpoof covers for them. You just put the cloth diaper on, then slide the plastic or nylon cover over it, kinda like bloomers. It helps keep stuff from bleeding through and getting on other stuff if you can't get to changing the diaper right off the bat. But there is also the concern for ventilation. Babies butts need air!!! I'd only use the covers when in public or when there will be lots of people holding the baby.

 

definatly look at some forums and get some info. when i first started we used chinese prefolds. i only had small ones to start so i would put those inside the regular store bought prefolds which are large,but just don't work well. so the store brand would wrap around the outside and the chinese prefolds would do the absorbing. and put rubber pants on the outside. the cloth in stores just arn't cut out for diapering. i received a lot of these as gifts and learned by doing. and i have talked to several moms who started out cloth diapering with these and just didn't stay with it because of inefficientcy.

 

Yup, what I mentioned earlier... And also because Im a hemp,food,hippie, organic, granola mama myself

 

I'd say you'll spend @ $200-$300 at most for cloth diapers for the entire time your child is in diapers. Unless you want to buy used, then look on eBay-mine are currently $12.99 for a lot of @20 diapers!


A package of disposables is @ 15-20 dollars for 50 to 60 diapers. If the child on average uses 10 diapers a day, that's about 10-11 THOUSAND diapers in three years. That means between 2 and three THOUSAND dollars in three years.

Plus, cloth babies potty train earlier (usually) because they FEEL the wetness. Disposables whisk it away. Plus, the babe will prolly get less rashes because you are changing him more often.

I honestly didn't use the wash more often while I was using cloth diapers. Just rinse the poo out in the toilet and flush it down, rinse it out in hot water. Throw it in the washing machine and throw some white vinegar on it-to disinfect. Use a gentle detergent-I always use arm & hammer free-just baking soda and washing soda pretty much. Put some more vinegar in the rinse cycle as a fabric softener and viola! Hang them out to dry!

The reall agruement FOR disposies would simply be convenience. It's more expensive, not great for baby's heiny, and awful for the environment.

Oh, if you have a diapering service in your area, you don't even have to worry about washing them! They bring you clean ones, and take the dirty ones!

 

i was a cloth-diapered baby. i have uber-sensitive skin and my body couldn't handle the disposables...and my folks said that it cost them a lot less to diaper me in cloth anyway don't listen to your boyfriend. he is a man and is clueless about these things. sorry to sound harsh, but it seems like he really just wants the convenience of just being able to throw away the diapers. sorry, but raising a kid is not going to be convenient anyway. might as well do it right, right? do what YOU feel is right. you're the one carrying your little one, you're the one who's going to labor to bring him/her out, and if you want to cloth-diaper your baby, then do it tell your man that he'll just have to deal! hahaha...

 

umm, I don't really agree with the "you're giving birth and he's a man what does he know" thing, but the rest of what everyone else has said is so true. Disposable diapers will be one of your biggest costs, cloth is most DEFINATLY the way to go.

I mostly just want to say that you shoudn't feel silly or stupid for asking these questions, they're SO important, and I think it's wonderful that you're being concious and wieging the options so well. you're gonna be a great mama :0)

 

Very true
This is your first child, of course it's going to be nerve wracking and take a lot of thought. Just hang in there, you'll be fine.


Totally agree about cloth diapers, they are awesome. Speaking as a cloth diapered baby, and one who plans to keep it up.

Also consider with the costs, that you can use them for any subsequent children. My parents didn't have to shell out much if anything to keep my younger brother in nappies.
In fact we still have a few lurking of them around being used as rags, not bad after twenty years.
So definetly a good investment.