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SewMamaSew has one of the most comprehensive posts on making your own cloth diapers I’ve ever seen. You’ll definitely want to read and bookmark it for reference if this is a subject you’re interested in.
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Thank you! I love cloth diapers, it saves money and helps the environment. I actually don’t think that cleaning them is any worse than the blow outs you have to clean with disposable diapers.
Thanks for the link! I’ll have to check it out. And I’ll second what Kandi said–we have so many FEWER blowouts in cloth diapers!!! That alone makes it worth doing, in my opinion! (Just have to find the style that fit your baby best.)
I cloth diaper at home and send disposables to daycare. Cloth diapering can be a bit labor intensive, but it is so much better on baby’s sensitive skin. And they’re so much cuter than the disposables!
Thanks for the link! Not sure whether there will be a Baby #2 in the future, but the cloth diapers we bought for #1 have been great. Due to various factors, though, they’d probably require a fair amount of repair work to get them ready to go through another 2 years of use, so making a set might not be much more work than what would be required to update the current ones.
We’ve enjoyed our cloth diapers, but the diaper pail sure does get stinkier as the little guy gets older! Had I been playing the drugstore game while I was pregnant and shortly after he was born, I’m not sure the cloth diapers would’ve saved us much, if any, money (once water, detergent, and time are taken into consideration).
Still, I love cloth diapers!
Anyone happen to have a suggestion for a free pattern for a cd’ing cover, fitted and/or soaker? If not, I am thinking of getting the two darlingdiaper sets. Anyone happen to use either of them?
@Brittany, I have used the Sprout Snap pattern. It is a one size pocket diaper. But you could make it into a one size cover.or a fitted diaper. It does use snaps, but snap pliers are a economical way of adding snaps. You could also join diapersewingdivas message board. There are a number of free patterns available there. There is also a yahoo group called sewyourowndiapers that is free to join. They have lots of advice and also free patterns on the message board.
@Kim, I fogot to post the link to the Sprout Snap. She also has two patterns that you pay for. I love the Hippy Hippy Snap. The Sprout Snap does not have any directions
http://www.doddlebee.com/patterns.htm
Cute diapers! Sad my kids are too old for them… or am I (o; I purchased cloth pocket diapers and they were the best thing ever. Always thought they looked fairly simple to sew – would have been fun (and more cost effective) to sew my own.
Em
I have been considering cloth diapering for my first baby due in March. My biggest problem is we don’t own a washer/dryer, I do laundry at my in laws once a week. I’m not interested in a diaper service because of the cost. I was wondering if any other cloth diapering mamas don’t own a washer/dryer or if they think they could do it without those appliances and only doing laundry once a week. Any thoughts would be great!
@Chelsea Belsan, Well, I use disposables, but my mother cloth diapered 10 of us, and I am the oldest, so in a sense I did my fair share of cloth diapering. Which is why I don’t cloth diaper . . . !
But anyway, having stated my bias, I would NOT do it if I did not have a washer and dryer. When baby is older and on solids, there is going to be some serious stink. What happnes when he gets the runs, and you run out of diapers before it’s time to go do laundry? Of course, you could have back-up disposables for such occasions.
@Chelsea Belsan,
You can totally do it without a washer and dryer. I used a Wonderwash, hand crank washing machine for several months when we were between places and didn’t have a washing machine of our own. I then hung them to dry, they just took longer to dry as you can’t really spin them very will in the wonderwash. Just google or go to amazon and type in wonderwash to see the machine I’m talking about. It is a little pricey for a plastic bucket that spins, but worth it and you get to build some arm muscles up using it too!
@LeeAnne, Would a salad spinner work? Just a thought. I hang mine out to dry. Turning them wrong side out also helps them dry.
@Chelsea Belsan, If I were you, I’d consider doing cloth half-time. You could use them the 4 days prior to washing day or something. I’ve used cloth full-time with both my girls (almost 4 and 6 months), and for about 3 months we didn’t have a w/d, and I used my mom’s. It worked OK, but she is only 10 minutes from me.
I generally wash diapers twice a week; we live in a dry climate so that works fine. If you live in a very humid area you might find going four days doesn’t work so well.
it costs more money to make cloth diapers (for me anyway) then it does to purchase new at my store
but cloth diapers are def. the way to go! They have come a long way!