5 months of cloth diapering!

Go me!

I am in a routine these days. I usually cloth diaper during the week and take a break on the weekends. That gives me time to prep all the clean diapers for the next week.

Weekends tend to be our time to get out and about. That means I don't have to pack bulky cloth diapers for three little ones for a whole day.

When I use disposables I prefer The Honest Company diapers. It is amazing how many packages of diapers we can go through when we aren't using cloth. A few days in disposables motivates me to keep up the cloth diapering.

Another month of cloth diapering 3 little ones

As you can see it takes a lot of diapers to cover all these baby buns. I think there were around 48 diapers on the line in this picture. That is two days worth for Miss Ruthie, Baby D and Baby E. I am enjoying having the summer sunshine so I can dry the diapers on the line.

I did an update last month and shared which diapers I was using. Then I got fed up with some of them and switched to others. I feel like when I am cloth diapering there is a lot of trial and error. What works for one child does not work for another. Their body types determine how good the diaper style fits.  

We are cloth diapering day and night for all of them now. I do use disposables from time to time if we are out and about. If we get out of routine and use disposables for a few days over the weekend I am amazed at how many packages of diapers we fly through.

Cloth Diaper Update

This is 24 hours worth of diapers in our house.

I told you about a month ago that I was going to cloth diaper again. With two babies and one toddler in diapers we were using a TON. It feels so nice not to have to open all those packages of disposable diapers.

At this point, Lil' Ruthie and baby D are in cloth all day and all night. Baby E is wearing cloth during the day but I put him in a disposable at night. I will transition him to cloth overnight eventually.

I used "Antsy Pants" when I potty trained W years ago. They are a pull up style cloth diaper.  I pulled them back out to use for Q overnight. He won't need them much longer but I am glad I don't have to buy pull ups any more. Those bad boys are expensive.

Lil' Ruthie and Baby D are currently using BumGenius Elemental diapers. They are an organic cotton diaper.  I am still trying to find my way with them. I much prefer organic cotton over microfiber. At night they are wearing BumGenius pocket diapers stuffed with a flip organic cotton overnight insert and two hemp doublers. 

Baby E is using BumGenius all-in-one size small diapers with an added hemp doubler stuffed inside. I am also using some pocket diapers with him snapped down to the smallest size. They are stuffed with a small microfiber insert and a hemp doubler.

I got rid of my diaper sprayer so I am using disposable liners this time. It is working well for us. I appreciate the ease of clean up when we are out and about.  

I am washing diapers every night. I have enough diapers that I could wait and wash every other day. However, I have enough dirty diapers per day to make a nice sized load. I wash between 20 to 25 diapers per night. I like the idea that they are being cleaned each night and not sitting around dirty. Diaper laundry is my favorite laundry to do. It just makes me happy to see all those diapers clean and ready to use again. I know that sounds weird but cloth diapering moms will understand.

So there it is.  My cloth diaper update after a little over one month. I am sure there will be more to come.

It's happening...again

I finally pulled back out the 'ol cloth diapers.

I cloth diapered Q for over a year.

When life got crazy with a move to our new house in 2011 I stopped.

I have occasionally put lil' Ruthie in cloth hoping I would get back into it.

These days I have three in diapers and one who uses a pull up at night.

That is A LOT of diapers.

So I am giving it a whirl again.

I haven't decided if we are just going to do cloth at home or if we are going to jump in with both feet and do it all the time.

I shouldn't say all the time...we are using disposable diapers at night.

I have tried a few of my diapers on baby E but he is too small just yet.

I have some on order to try with him and he will be bigger before we know it.

So here we go again.

Wish me luck!