Cloth Diapers or Disposable?

We used disposable....I didn't have the energy to wash my kid's "make" out of cloth diapers...

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[Malpka]

I have done both. I like cloth, but with #4 we spend so much time at school pickups, lessons, practices , etc for older kids that I almost always use disposable. It is just no fun traveling all over town around with soiled diapers.

Princess underwear. Go ahead - feel jealous.

[fluffhead]

Depends.
Oh - you mean my kids?

[Deebs]

Tried cloth with DD - she couldn't handle them (she's ridiculously sensitive), and then kind of got lazy with DS, so just used disposable from the get-go.

[spotty_dog]

We're pretty much a cloth family. Natalie's in prefolds about 95% of the time. I love the soft and fluffy cushion for her bum and I love that I don't have to rush to the store to buy more when we run out! It's just one load of laundry (and an extra rinse) every 2-3 days. I think we've spent about $1000-1200 on diapers for two kids, birth through potty training. And they say that cloth diapers encourage earlier training -- Eddy was down to maybe 1 diaper a day when his sister was born a few months after he turned 2, and was fully trained by 30 months.

[SuzySunshine]

We're all cloth and will continue to be so once #2's cord falls off. I'm hoping to try to potty train A in the spring/summer so we'll only have 2 in diapers for 6 months or so. We use them when we go out around town too but we do use disposables when we travel.

[Urowife]

Disposable all the time. Here's another question: Huggies or Pampers? (Or other brand?) We just switched from Pampers to Huggies due to the nice elastic waist at the back of the Huggies.

[HouseofWool]

Disposable all the time. Here's another question: Huggies or Pampers? (Or other brand?) We just switched from Pampers to Huggies due to the nice elastic waist at the back of the Huggies.

We do cloth 98% of the time here. But when she is in disposibles, I always use Luvs. They are cheap and don't leak nearly as much as Huggies.

[mommax3]

nothing at all to add (thank God, since my youngest is 8) except to say that once again, fluff, you crack me up!

[BonBon]

Sally! How did THAT happen?! In my time warp, your son is 5,

In my ideal life, I would have used cloth 100%. Considering that I had four in diapers for the better part of a year...uh, no. Disposables.

And I am jealous of princess underwear!!

[Urowife]

We do cloth 98% of the time here. But when she is in disposibles, I always use Luvs. They are cheap and don't leak nearly as much as Huggies.

that's funny - I tried Luvs last week on vacation and it's the only time she's ever leaked pee... actually, one of my favorite brands of diapers is the CVS supreme - loved them on vacation a few months ago. Too bad the only CVS around is on the other side of town. /hijack

one vote for disposables here... Can't imagine where I'd get the time and energy to put into cloth ones, though several friends of mine are quite happy.

I almost always use Huggies, since they're the only ones I found that consistently didn't leak, AND they don't have that funny perfumey smell that Pampers and a lot of others have. Target generics work well too during the day, but almost always leaked at night. I've finally got 2 out of 3 girls in underwear, so it's slowly getting to be less, but when they considered changing our local garbage pickup to bi-weekly last year when I still had a 1 and 3 year old in diapers, I freaked.

Also, cloth makes their diaper-butt bigger- my sister-in-law complained that certain clothes couldn't fit her son because of his disproportionate rear!