While I was pregnant with our first
child, we decided to cloth diaper. We were living on a small income (watch for
future posts on making it possible to be a SAHM on a tight budget) and
disposables were not an affordable option. But, neither was dropping hundreds
of dollars to buy a stash of expensive, brand new cloth diapers. In the long
run, cloth is very economical (especially if you plan on using them for more
than one child) but the initial payout can be difficult to work into the budget.
The top brands were appealing, but we just couldn’t spend $16+ per diaper and
have enough to make it through a whole day, so we planned on using the cheaper
prefolds. Near the end of my pregnancy, however, a dear friend blessed us with
her gently used Bumgenius 3.0 diapers and I was SO excited!
I think my friend had used the
diapers for 6 or 9 months, but her son kept getting rashes from them for
unknown reasons. She had taken good care of them and all 24 diapers were still
in like-new condition. The Bumgenius 3.0s are one-size, Velcro, pocket diapers.
We LOVED them. It was easy to get a good fit, they absorbed well, and the
colors were super cute. It was a little difficult for other people to learn how
to stuff them properly, but once stuffed they were easy to put on so if we were
having someone over to help with the kids I just pre-stuffed a bunch for them.
HOWEVER, partly due to my wash
routine and partly due to age, by the time my son was 11 months old
