Cloth Diapers

I had always heard how awful they are, how babies get more diaper rashes, how awful they are to clean... therefore, I never used them with my first two kids.  Living in Colorado, I know a LOT of people who use them.  I decided I wanted to try.  Even after months of researching and watching YouTube videos, never did I think this would be coming out of my mouth, but I LOVE cloth diapers!

I changed a diaper on my bed... of course he peed all over and I had to wash the sheets.
(Luckily, we do have a mattress protector on our bed for that very reason.)
Brandon changed him on the bed... it was a blowout. Little poop and pee all over our comforter.
To the laundry with it all again.
Not five minutes after telling Brandon we absolutely cannot change him on our bed anymore, I lay him on our sheets (with a diaper on).  He pees and it comes squirting out the top (someone did not make sure he was pointed downward when the diaper was put on).  Honestly, a tiny bit of pee on my sheets doesn't bother me.  It's infant pee and doesn't smell, and is actually sterile.  But, needless to say, every time it was a lot of pee, so the third set of sheets to the washer!
And this doesn't even include the few blowouts we've had on multiple pairs of pajamas and his church clothes, which I am then pre-soaking and washing.

Now... not even one blowout or accident! And he woke up twice with extremely full diapers that would not have been contained in a tiny Huggies one.  Cloth diapers are slightly bulkier, but have absorbed absolutely everything! (Even when he peed as I was changing him, I still managed to have it all end up in the diaper.)  Only one load of laundry for diapers, which I don't mind being stained vs. five loads of linens and clothes I hate being stained.

I tell Brandon I am becoming more and more green.  I have a hard time using so many plastic bags.  I am getting better and remembering to take my own re-usable bags to the store.  And not buying and throwing away 10 diapers a day makes me feel wonderful!

I will admit, I like the new ones better.  I bought a few used ones (which are still too big, anyway), but a friend gave me some new Target Charlie Banana diapers that are One Size fits All, so they actually fit my newborn.  I am going to say, that even when he gets bigger, I already know I like the new ones better than the used ones I bought.  They are FABULOUS!!