Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Cloth Diapering: Liner Options

I am still fairly new to cloth diapering, but one area I can see large improvements possible, would be in diaper liners. Disposable and cloth ones. 

As a breastfed baby, my baby's dirty diapers were quite liquidy when I first started cloth diapering. 

Because of this I wanted and needed a good liner to keep the mess off the interior of the diaper. However, I mostly found thin liners, much like a dryer sheet, such as this: 
GroVia Disposable Liner
vs
Dryer sheet
If you want to be resourceful you can wash dryer sheets a few times and use them as liners.
Liners like these work fine once the baby gets thicker and more solid stools, however, if the stool is liguidy these are too thin and the stool leaks through to the diaper. 

I found a Youtube movie by a woman who had taken Parent's Choice baby wipes, washed them and dried them to use as liners. So I tried it and they worked pretty good, since they are thicker. They look like this, after prepped: 
Parent's Choice Baby Wipes after washed and dried
After trying these, I found a big box of paper towels that look like this:
Paper Towel
The paper towels work good because they are about the same thickness as the baby wipes, but they are a lot longer and wider, which helps cover almost the whole interior of the diaper or insert.

I also made some fleece liners to see how they worked. They look like this:
Cloth Fleece Liner cut out of a fleece receiving blanket
Fleece liners wash out well usually and they give the baby a stay dry feel. Using a fleece liner under a disposable liner can be useful.

The last things I've experimented with for liners has been disposable hairnets and beard nets. A beard net can go on the bottom and the top of a insert, or two hairnets can be used, or a beard net and a hairnet. They work pretty good with inserts that go in a cover, like the snap-in inserts for Best Bottom, or GroVia Covers or a Bamboo insert like you would get with a Kawaii pocket diaper. When the baby's stools were liquidy I liked to put a baby wipe or dryer sheet, or something under the Beard or hairnet to make sure it didn't leak through. 

A HoneyComb Hairnet can be used or the kind like this beard net below.
Spun Bonded Beard Net

I hope some of these ideas were useful. There will be more to come. What are some innovative liner ideas you have used that has helped?

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