I'm finding it surprisingly difficult to find daycares that allow cloth diapering in the greater Seattle area! Do you know of any daycares in the Seattle area that allow cloth diapers? I'd like to gather a list to help others!

If you'd prefer to be anonymous, I have a google form here, that I'll report back with the findings from.

Note: Washington State does have guidance on how to accommodate reusable and cloth diapers at daycares, so it doesn't invalidate their licensing.

Thanks in advance!!

We fill up half a bucket every to every other day with flats, bibs, training pants, and cloth wipes (all 100% cotton). Typically just pee, with some poop on the wipes. We are in an apartment we rent.

We've been following the bucket-mobile washer Fluff University hand washing routine (with spinner and dryer) and it works well to clean them. I don't mind and actually LIKE the physicality of it: it's like prehab for my shoulder/upper back.

What we don't appreciate is the need to be home and stick around for about an hour to get through it. You have to wait 5-15 minutes between 4 loads. Doing that so frequently sucks. We looked into portable machines, but aside from it not fitting any of our dumb faucets (we bought, tried, tried with converters and customer support, then returned), we're also disheartened to see that they don't really even solve our main pain point. It'd still require two loads on hot, and a prewash (also a rinse?). So at least 3 loads to start... ie babysit... Ie no improvement on the things we care about.

A traditional machine by comparison was a simple daily prewash + 2-3x weekly main with rinse turned on. Very forgiving if we forgot it in the washer for hours or even overnight. A lot less babysitting.

Is there an easier way to make this work? Or a portable effective enough or programmable enough to eliminate this, if we pay to replace a faucet?

Shoutout to the lady who sold me like 60 cloth diapers plus inserts and wet bags for $90! I’ll need to replace the elastics but I’m so happy!

I haven’t had my baby yet, I am a FTM. We’re due 3/20. But I have been all over the place over these pocket diapers. I just would like to know if what I have is adequate amount(to wash every other day)? How do I stuff these exactly, do I use two inserts per diaper or just one? I have a toilet sprayer for solids. How do I clean these exactly(BF newborn/solid food babies)? Please share your washing methods, which detergent, is oxiclean safe? How do you store dirty diapers without them molding, how do you store dirties in general before washing? How do you prevent leaks, making sure the correct fit on the baby right?

12 newborn pocket diapers (6-8 pounds) 30 one size pocket diapers (8pounds +)

There are so much info out there on YT and Google and they all seem biased or that they are for another cloth diapering method. (I’d like to stay away from chemicals and disposable inserts as much as I can)

I am not expecting another baby, but I've been very curious on the logistics of having two kids in different size diapers. Like many people, I use a one size adjustable fit diaper (thirsties pockets in my case).

I'm curious how people handle having them at different sizes? It seems like it would be so annoying to be doing laundry and trying to pay attention to which way the rise is snapped. The best I could come up with would be to separate kid A gets all prints and kid B gets all solids, or somehow mark the diaper. But not sharing has downsides too (like when one of them decides to have a day or two of explosions).

Have you mastered your wash routine? Do your clean diapers smell? Did you recently buy a new washer/dryer? Chat all things laundry!

I'm expecting twins to come in the next two months! I was gifted a bunch of cloth diapers, and I ordered more to try to have enough. I still have no idea what I need and if what I have should cover us. So far, I have:

26 pocket diapers 6 all in one diapers 14 polyester/nylon blend inserts 14 bamboo inserts 5 hemp boosters 5 night time cotton boosters 8 prefolds that I'm not sure what they're made of. I'm pretty sure they were used as boosters by the previous family because they're all the same small size

Is this enough for two babies? Ideally, I'd like to wash every other day. These are all one size diapers that won't fit the babies until they're 8-10 pounds. How long do newborn cloth diapers usually fit? We're expecting them to be somewhere in the 5-7 pound range since they're twins. I'm not sure if we want to pick up some of the newborn ones or just use disposables until they're big enough for the ones we have. I'm definitely open to second hand, but I can't find newborn size specifically on my local Facebook marketplace. The main goal of cloth diapering is saving money on diapers for two babies, so if buying newborn size cloths would be just as expensive as disposables for whatever amount of time they'd be in them, it's probably not worth it for us.

Disclaimer: I have used CDFB worksheet and have my wash routine now! But they aren’t passing the swish test no matter how many times I rinse them.

Washer is on a self-clean right now. Hoping that solves it.

Using a Maytag HE front loader, 4.5cu, 9lb (medium load).

Water is 150ppm. When I prepped everything, I used way too much detergent. This was months ago now. I had given up on CD and wanted to try again.

I did my first swish test 3 days ago, ran countless hot rinses and heavy duty cycles, they’re still sudsing. And it’s not just foggy water, it’s clearly soap coming off of them. The worst offenders are my Thirsties Hemp inserts, but the cotton profolds are failing too.

They don’t smell, but after 5 days of use, my baby has a rash. Do I just keep washing them properly and hope it fixes them?

Trying to reset my diapers, including a bleach soak. The bleach I have is the 7th Gen kind without chlorine. Ingredients listed are water and hydrogen peroxide.

Has anyone has success with that? I’m desperate to effectively reset these diapers. We’ve been on a cloth diaper pause for months because of smell issues.

Edit: okay thanks folks. I’m now using REAL bleach in my soak. But could use help tweaking my washing routine. Listed below in a comment and WOULD LOVE FEEDBACK :)

Hi friends, I am a cloth diapering mama with a baby who's about eight months old and just started crawling a month or so ago. It seems like since he's begun to crawl. He's had a diaper rash. I spent a few weeks with him in disposables getting rid of it and it was all cleared up. This morning I tried to go back to our all in one cloth diapers, and after about an hour of the all in one diaper he had gotten a little bit of a rash on the inside of his legs and his front lower abdomen. He didn't even soil the diaper at all! Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Or had issues with fabric choices Causing immediate rashes with their baby? It seems like the extra motion is just irritating the heck out of his skin maybe? I love cloth diapering and don't want to quit but I can't subject my boy to rashes I can't resolve. The all in ones have a 100% polyester shell and the tongues are 70% bamboo with 30% cotton. He never gets rashes on his but or where the tongues fully cover so I'm pretty sure it's not from changing him too late. It's always limited to the lower front of his abdomen and the inside of his legs.

We cloth diapered our first kiddo all the way until she leaked everytime she peed and decided to potty train her. We currently have a 4 mo and he did fine in the newborn Alva diapers but now that we're in the toddler sizes he pees through them almost every time. I've already transititioned out of the liners that the diapers came with, switched him to charcoal liners cause they're more absorbent. He's also being double lined. My at my whits end here. I love cloth diapering but I hate having to do an outfit change every diaper change. Is there something we can do or do we actually need to get new diapers?

Edit: I’ve got some liners here at home that I’m going to try and pair with his charcoal liners. I’ve also made a purchase from green mountain diapers for their cloth liners. I’ll keep you posted on how it turns out!

I love using cloth diapers. I think they're great. But a big sticking point for me has always been the poop. I'm just not that excited about spraying poop off the diapers all the time, dealing with the stains, and the extra smell. It was preventing me from using my cloths all together. So I caved an bought the disposable cotton liners. This probably isn't the most revolutionary idea but if my baby only pees in them, I throw them in the wash with the rest of the diapers and just throw away the ones she poops in. Sure they get a little disfigured in the dryer but I can reshape them into something resembling a rectangle and keep reusing those. This method has really encouraged me to keep using my cloth diapers, cut down the smell and mess in my laundry, and I feel pretty good about the fact that I'm only throwing away two little dryer sheets worth of material a day. Anywho... hope this inspires someone to try! (For reference i use birdseed flats and wool covers)

I'll have two under two soon. I'm wondering how many diapers y'all would recommend having in my stash. Right now I have around 25. I only use pockets.

I was gifted a bunch of AlvaBaby diapers, and I'm having trouble getting the inserts into the smaller diapers (yes, I'm using the smaller insterts! Haven't had this problem with the bigger diapers/inserts).

We're having a boy (any day now!) and I know we're gonna want the coverage up in the front- but I can't seem to get the inserts up that far! Does anyone have tips?

Conversely, would using the inserts as liners be efficient, or would it just lead to instant leakage?

TIA! 💕

I've been CD for a total of 7 years now and I have tried a lot of brands. I'm looking for the perfect pocket diaper which would include:

Suede lining (not AWJ!) Thick elastic in the back TPU tummy panel to prevent leaks Quality materials Modern patterns Comes with natural insert (bamboo okay) Wide pocket to stuff Affordable ($10ish per diaper or less)

La Petite Ourse comes close but is expensive for what it is. Wegreeco also comes close but their back elastic is weird.

Does this unicorn diaper exist?! Point me in the right direction if so!

Still new to cloth - I always assumed you were either cloth or not, and of course I’ve learned there’s everything in between. When we first started cloth my husband suggested disposables at night while we figured it all out, and we have continued that way. Seems from these forums a lot of people stick with disposables at night.

Is layering up at night really that tricky? My girl consistently leaks if we don’t change her every 2ish hours during the day. Wondering if/when to make the switch to cloth at night or if a lot of people never do?

A couple of weeks ago my toddler woke up crying from a horrible burn around the diaper area. Like skin peeling horrible. I'd been doing cloth at night consistently for a few weeks and had noticed only a couple days with some light redness which went away the same day.. but this particular diaper smelled SO strong of ammonia. I use flats so I have never had ammonia smell other than in the mornings, which I always rinse out immediately. However, I had also done that load of diapers (first wash cycle only) with a scented detergent PLUS I remember thinking that her wool cover wasn't 100% dried out before I put it on that night. I've been using disposable overnight ever since because I'm too worried about the night ammonia causing another reaction. Could a reaction happen from a detergent even if I washed it out on a second cycle? Is it possible she was dehydrated and pee was extra concentrated? Was the wool cover unable to absorb excess? I don't know what caused it but I am almost out of the pack of disposables I bought and I am scared of this happening again!

Edit to add: she's been in cloth her whole life but when I was pregnant I switched to disposable for a night diaper bc I was very sensitive to smells and she kept pooping first thing when she woke up. This was just a couple weeks into going back to cloth only at night and it was the first time I've ever had anything like this happen!

Hi everyone, my baby girl was born Monday and we are currently using Grovia newborn diapers, the “buttah” kind. She is exclusively breastfed and seems to be well hydrated, her little head doesn’t have any dips and the pediatrician seemed happy with her at our visit today. Poo diapers are super easy to identify and easy to deal with and we’re getting a good number of them a day, changing them immediately upon noticing. However, Im not noticing a lot of diapers that feel just wet. I check her diaper every feed and they often seem dry? When they seem dry, Ive been leaving them on and changing them after a couple feeds. This means sometimes 4 hours go by before I change her diaper. Maybe once or twice in a day the diaper might feel heavy and very wet and I always change it when it feels like that. My questions are, is this dry diapers situation a result of the diapers being moisture wicking or is my baby just not peeing often? Is it okay to leave it on if it doesn’t feel wet instead of changing it every time she eats? Thanks in advance, Reddit.

I’m with my first baby very soon and in the process of building my stash which is mostly second hand. I’ve got plenty of one size pockets and covers for when she’s a bit older. I’ve got some one size flats, larger prefolds, newborn AIOs and workhorses too. All of this seems good for daytime use but I’m curious as to whether I should get some fitted diapers for overnights or more flats and prefolds? Please lmk what you find to be the most absorbent for those longer stretches of sleep when they finally come haha thank you!

Or just do your second wash?

My baby’s daycare doesn’t do cloth but does provide disposables. They say that I can bring her in in cloth but they will change her into a disposable and return the cloth at the end of the day.

The thing is, her outfits are all built around being fluffy butt compatible, so we don’t put additional bloomers over her diaper cover under dresses and her pants are sized up to accommodate the diaper. We also don’t do onesies, which I assume are for helping keep disposables on (or blowouts contained)?

Do I need to get her new bottoms to wear at daycare or is it fine for her to just have a disposable diaper on under her dresses, after they change her out of her fitted+cover?

Know of any good deals going on or upcoming? Did you find a lot on Marketplace and aren’t quite sure if it’s a great deal? Share sales or ask away. Happy shopping!

Context: My wife and I have a newborn (currently 1wk old, exclusively breastfed) and are transitioning over to cloth diapers after working through most of the disposables we got from the hospital. I've been reading up on how to properly wash them, and understand that there is usually a pre-wash step to remove waste followed by a cycle in the washing machine to clean them. We have a bidet sprayer on our toilet which we are planning to use to rinse solid waste off diapers before they go in the washing machine. But, right we just have pee and breastmilk poop to worry about.

Questions:

1. Immediately after removing the dirty diaper from the baby, should I rinse it immediately (e.g., in the sink or with the bidet sprayer), or just put it in a wet bag/pail to pre-wash in the machine later?
2. If I do rinse the diaper immediately, does this "count" as completing the pre-wash step, allowing me to just run a single wash cycle in the washing machine before drying?
3. For storing soiled diapers after rinsing (if recommended) and before putting them in the washing machine, do you recommend using a wet bag or a diaper pail?

It's been about 5 ish years since my last baby in cloth diapers. I want to get back into it with my baby due soon. I dabbled a little in wool before but mostly used covers and this time I'd like to go more full time wool. I feel like the cloth diaper world has changed a lot though in 5 years and I'm wondering where do people buy their wool covers now? I know there used to be a lot of really popular sellers on Facebook I think?

How do I mitigate this problem? I never keep the diapers on for too long. Sometimes they leak within the hour when with two inserts inside and I change him as soon as I notice. But his poor thighs look like they are on fire! I use dreft detergent to wash the diapers, which I also use on his clothes that never seemed to bother him so I don't think it's the detergent. All of my PD are one size and I don't have the funds to buy bigger sizes. I don't live in an area where cloth diapering is common so they are hard to come by on marketplace.

Any tips are appreciated!

I'm using a mix of AlvaBaby and La Petite Ourse pockets. I've stripped them, and I've bleached them twice. Both times in hot water. The first time I suspect wasn't long enough and I used only a half cup of bleach to max water, and the second time it took 4hrs and 1 cup of bleach with about 2 gallons of water to get the stains to fade (but not completely) from the ABs, but the LPOs have a double gusset, and it's along the inside gusset that I have random bright yellow staining that despite the same amount of bleaching didn't come out at all. We don't have a lot of sun right now where I'm at, so using sun bleaching isn't much of an option.

What am I doing wrong? Are my diapers permanently stained forever? Do I just need more bleach?

We experienced some housing uncertainty when my son was 6-7 months old and had to go to disposables for that imte. It was a few months. Also found out we are accidentally pregnant again during that time. Now we are somewhat settled in a small home and I would like to start using cloth again, but I'm overwhelmed and not sure where to start. I don't have a good setup for changing / storing dirty diapers, but do have a nice washer/dryer.

They are full size but we have them stacked to fit where the hookups are in our little kitchen. There is no room near the washer/dryer to collect dirty diapers, I don't think. Our bathroom is miniscule. The bedrooms are in the basement which is a total mess because we had to rip out a whole wall due to poor plumbing to the washer causing a leak. On the brightside that means my husband has the excuse to do some customizing on the kids room as he puts it back together. It will take a little while. Then he has to rebuild the stairs because they are uneven and unsafe and we've both fallen on them. Once that's done I won't mind up and down too much.

The only thing is I do EC too so my son has a potty in the bathroom, and it wouldn't make sense to carry a dirty diaper all the way down. But I don't put him on it every time. Maybe I could keep a bucket in the tub and wash every evening? My friends mom said she put diapers In a borax soak throughout the day and then washed at night. Would that work?

Maybe I should start with one cloth diaper a day and just see if it's even feasible to try again right now. I would love to be able to do cloth for the new baby and would like to do reusable wipes as well.

Hello, I am doing Nora nursery pockets and haven't had much trouble with the inserts they come with. I'm interested in pre folds and flats. Anyone have major preference for these and can you tell me why? I am also interested in making my own pre folds.. what is the best specific fabric to purchase for this and can you tell me where to get it?

Poop escaped a cloth diaper 💩 We've had plenty of pee leaks, but this is my first my first poop on clothing situation. Grandma once had a pocket diaper barely on (A for effort? I don't know how they didn't just slide off when grandma was in charge lol) and she had a mess, but never Mama. Plenty of poop up the back, but it always stopped at the waistband. The only messes I've had are courtesy of disposables.

I'd say that's a pretty good run 😂

Baby has struggled with diaper rash since she was born. We had her exclusively in disposables the first 1-2 months, and have needed to slather on sudocrem every diaper change to keep it at bay.

Now we use a mix of LPO pockets (with their standard inserts) and disposables. The problem is her diaper rash comes back with a vengeance every time we use cloths, and I can’t use much sudocrem with them as they’re not compatible. I’d like to have her in cloths nearly full time but her rash isn’t permitting that. I don’t think it’s a detergent problem - more likely just her skin being quite sensitive to moisture as her diaper rash comes back even with disposable diapers if we don’t use a ton of sudocrem.

My specific questions are:

1. What’s the best diaper rash cream compatible with cloths? Preferably something with zinc as her rashes are quite intense. Something available in Canada.

2. Should I change inserts to something that will wick moisture away from her body better? Or add something on top of the existing inserts?