Surviving Cloth

I made a decision before Jude arrived to use cloth diapers this time around. I attempted cloth with Jack, but failed miserably because I was uneducated on how to successfully cloth diaper. With James, I quasi cloth diapered using gDiapers. The insert of the gDiaper was either disposable, flushable, or compostable. These were great, but I really wanted to go full force this time. And with the Internet and YouTube, the information was vast. Not to mention, some help from people I know who have cloth diapered.

Jude is almost 7 weeks and I have not used a single disposable diaper on him since coming home from the hospital! It is going VERY well! We hardly have leaks and they are so cute!



Not only am I cloth diapering, but I'm using cloth wipes too! Surprisingly, cloth wipes are easy peasy! They work so much better than disposables too. I just cut a couple of receiving blankets into several rectangles, placed them into a Huggies wipes dispenser, and added a homemade wipe solution to moisten the wipes. After use, they go right in the diaper pail with the diaper. So easy!




The only extra effort made to use cloth versus disposable is the extra laundry. I have been doing a diaper load every other day. I could actually go every three days and will probably start doing so soon.



Good for the environment. Good for Jude's tooshy. And good for the pocket book! I'm sold! :)