cloth vs disposable diapers

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Hello! Does anyone here have experience with cloth diapers? Where do you get them, and is one brand known as the best?

Thanks!!

I cloth diaper my daughter. I started cloth diapering when she had a diaper rash that would not go away, months of nystatin, bactroban, diaper rash creams, baby powder, lots of air time, etc.

Here is a link to a lot of info on cloth diapers: http://babyslime.livejournal.com/151952.html I was able to verify most of her info, and after so much was correct, I quit trying to verify it.

I personally love Happy Heiny's, which are a pocket diaper as are Fuzzi Bunz (the other popular brand). These are wonderful for nighttime, but do not use the ones with the pretty prints over night -- they tend to wick when on for such a long period of time. The best thing about pocket diapers is they wick moisture away from your babies skin so they do not feel wet. I stuff most of my pocket diapers with microfiber towels from the auto section at Target. They are very absorbant.

If you go for prefolds and covers, if the cover is not pull on, you do not even have to use snappis (a wonderful invention) or pins to secure the diaper. The cover will take care of that for you (see http://www.diaperpages.com for folding and securing info)

I most definately would not buy diapers from Walmart, Target, etc. They just are not all that absorbant. Avoid Gerber products unless you want burp cloths.

My favorite online stores are:

http://www.clothdaddy.com

http://tinyheiny.com

http://www.naturalbabies.com

I have bought products from all three stores and have been impressed with their customer service.

The most important thing is DO NOT USE BLEACH on cloth diapers. If they have elastic (fitted, pocket, covers) it will break it down. And even without elastic it is very irritating to babies skin. My personal washing routine is run the wash cycle as a cold rinse. Restart washer, add 1/4 of a cap Sun Free and Clear liquid detergent and 1 capful Tea Tree Oil. Allow washer to run full cycle, rerun rinse cycle and throw everything in the dryer.

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I used mostly diaper service quality DSQ's prefolds and pro wrap covers from the tidy didy service. that's the cheapest.

I LOVED the motherease one size with doubler when they got to be bigger kids, big peers for nightime- never leaked andheld a ton!

with the second kid I did elimination communication ;) google it LOL

Part time and the cloth backups, by 3months she was staying dry on errands and thru the night/naps! that really cut down on the laundry :)

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