Fuzzibunz update!

So, as promised, here is our Fuzzibunz update! We have been using cloth diapers for 3 months now, and I will say that it has been an adjustment. It was a steep learning curve, but we are getting the hang of things! All I can say, is I wish we would have done this sooner! 

We have added four new pocket diapers to our collection- Go Green pocket diapers. The biggest draw to trying these out was their price, they were $9 each, much cheaper than Fuzzibunz! And, they came in cute patterns and fuzzy fabrics. They are a very basic pocket diaper, snaps for the legs instead of elastic like the Fuzzibunz, but over all I have been very pleased with them! Nothing can compare to our Fuzzibunz, but they work and have been a great asset to our CD stock! 

Our cloth diaper supplies!

We have gotten our CDing system down pretty well. You can see from the picture how we’ve set up her diapers in her room. Her changing mat is on the ground (after a nasty bump on the head from a roll off accident!) and all of her diapering supplies are on a bookshelf next to the mat. I don’t pre-stuff my diapers because I like to rotate the cloth inserts (we still use both the “newborn” and regular inserts interchangeably and haven’t had any leaking issues!). The Fuzzibunz diapers go in a metal basket, Grovia shells and Go Green diapers and their inserts go in another metal basket. The microfiber inserts for the Fuzzibunz go in a cloth bin with the flushable rice paper liners (makes changing a poopy diaper a breeze!). Used diapers go in our hanging wet beg on MK’s closet door and we keep some Rockin’ Green pail freshener on the bookcase to ward away any stinkies! I must say that cloth diapering doesn’t produce as much “stink” as using disposables. I used to gag going into MK’s room if her disposable diapers had been sitting in the diaper Dekor for more than a day. Now, the cloth diapers can sit in the hanging pail for a day or two and there is barely any stink! 

We’ve got a good laundering system down too. We are using Rockin’ Green detergent (although, once this runs out I’m going to be looking for something cheaper!) which seems to be doing the job. We wash our diapers every two to three days…I love doing laundry and probably do a load that often anyway, so this wasn’t a huge change for me! We have a standard 5ish year old top-loading washing machine that has pretty basic settings. To wash our CDs we do a cold pre-rinse (sometimes with Funk Rock, an ammonia buster if there is a stinky pee diaper!) followed by a hot rinse with 2 TBS Rockin’ Green, followed by a cold rinse. When it was hot and sunny outside, we sun dried our diapers. Now, we just put them in the dryer on low heat for 30 minutes! 

To sum up our short experience with cloth: it’s just as easy as disposables and not nearly as “yucky” as I thought (rice paper liners= no poop in the washing machine!). We have only used disposables a handful to times- when we have a babysitter, at church and recently when she had a nasty stomach bug!

Happy cloth diapering!

Love,

The Vogs