Experimenting with Sposies
Until this week Kate had not worn a disposable diaper since the day she came home from the hospital at 1 day old. I still have most of a package of newborn pampers swaddlers stashed in her room, untouched. It’s been all cloth diapers since then. Even when we went to Canada for two weeks we used all cloth – not really convenient on the airplane, but we stayed at my parents so it was easy to do the wash.
This summer we are going on vacation to a cottage near the beach. With no laundry facilities. I thought a lot about what I was capable of doing by hand and what hybrid options there were and finally just said screw this and bought a package of disposables. (Huggies Little Movers, size 3.) Not only is this pretty much a requirement for vacationing without laundry, but Kate also has a very persistent blister on her bum that opens up every time she poops. It’s been a losing battle for a few months now and I’m at the point where I need to use some heavy duty butt cream which would ruin/stain the cloth diapers.
First impressions: The disposable diapers don’t smell bad like I thought they would. They don’t feel plastic-y either. They are also very thin! I like that her pants fit better and she doesn’t have a huge bubble butt (though the bubble butt is adorable, too). I like that I can stuff 2 or 3 sposies in my purse or small diaper bag and not have to either carry around the big bag or leave the diapers in the car and hope she doesn’t have an emergency. Very convenient, for sure! They ride up really high though, I had to ask my friends if I was doing it right or if she was in completely the wrong size, I am simply not used to a diaper going halfway up her back, it’s so weird and stupid-looking. They do get grossy mushy when she pees, from the gel soaking up the liquid – but that also means I notice and change her right away. Oh, and the poops? REEK. Holy yucky. It must be some interaction between the chemicals and the poop, because it does NOT smell like that in the cloth diapers – which is part of the problem, since we sometimes don’t notice a poop for a long time (and she doesn’t tell me that she pooped, doesn’t cry or whine or anything half the time!). So for right now the immediate notification smell is a good thing, but it’s still gross. I also really appreciate not having to swish the diapers in the toilet to get the poops off before tossing them in the bin.
I really thought Den would be all, “This is so much easier!” but instead he gagged horribly at the mushy gel butt and said, “Go put her in a REAL diaper, that’s gross!” He is so funny!
So we’ll see how it goes on vacation. I really hope we don’t start having leaking issues or something, I don’t have the patience for trying out all different brands or anything…. I just want the Huggies to work for a few weeks, that’s all. Once she’s healed up I’ll be going back to the fuzzibunz!
Other great thing about vacation/cottage/beach is she can have tonnes of air time which should help her heal too! Enjoy.
We are a CD family too…but it is not that I am anti-sposie…I am just pro-cloth…But…we do use sposies when we camp or when on vacation as well…and Huggies is our preferred brand. I also sometimes revert to them if we are having rash issues…but I found some great liners (Kushies) that I can just lay in my cloth and still use the Boudrouxs Butt cream on her without ruining my dipes….Yes…they ride up really high….and they smell awful…I swear…my pail of soiled cloth diapers don’t smell nearly as bad as a wet sposie in the trash. Oh…and we put diaper sprayers on our toilets….ahhhh…lovely for the poops on cloth…I would highly recommen the BumGenius one if you ever get tired of the toilet swishing.
Enjoy your vacation…
I too second the diaper sprayer. We didn’t get one until my son was out of diapers and my girls were almost a year old. I don’t know why we held out so long but it is the best purchase we’ve made it the last year!
:) Heather
Hi- Just thought I would throw this out there…..never had much luck with Huggies. Always been a pampers girl! (swaddlers or cruisers not the baby dry). Here’s to no leaks!
Inhave used huggies snugglers and little movers with both my kids and they are the most absorbent. I have tried all brands and huggies are the best.
I’m with Danielle myself, not a huge fan of huggies. Pampers for us. How about Penaton Creme and pure cornstarch for the sore bum?
Ooops Penaten =)
I use BumGenius 3.0 s. The diaper liner, if it’s what I think your tailkng about, just gets folded, and put between the diaper and baby. I just placed them on, before I put the baby on the diaper. I no longer use them, I kinda think they’re a waste.I love the bumgenius, and only use them. I have looked into prefolds with covers, but I just like the ease of a pocket diaper. I also hang dry, and have read that AIO’s take longer to dry, so I wont use those.I buy mine from cottonbabies.comI just change my daughter about every two hours. If she’s taking an extra long nap, I don’t wake her up to change it, but if she’s had a diaper on for an hour to an hour and a half, I change it before she goes down for a nap. Cloth definitely leak before disposables but I don’t think a diaper should be left on a baby, for more to a couple of hours, on a regular basis, so it doesn’t really matter. I do however, use a disposable at night. By the time the diaper is stuffed enough to prevent leaks, it is way too bulky, and seems like it would be uncomfortable.