Cloth Diapers

We are an almost exclusively cloth diapering family. Sometimes when I leave her in the church nursery I will put a disposable diaper on her since she hates being wet and I don't know if the workers will change her often enough. They are busy and used to disposables which hold an insane amount of liquid. Also if I have a lot of errands to run and I don't know if there is a nice clean place to change her besides my car she will wear a disposable. Cloth diapering takes only a little more work, is better for the environment, and cheaper than disposables. The biggest negative I have found is that with some outfits her little rear end looks enormous, but the cute tush factor is not enough for me to stop using cloth. We primarily use prefolds and a cover which are the most economical option.



Every 3 days I do a load of diapers which involves a pre-rinse, a wash cycle, hang drying if it is not raining, followed by a short spin in the dryer to soften up the diapers. They get a little stiff in the sun. I thought hang drying diapers would be a pain, but it really isn't. It gets us out of the house and saves us money on our power bill.