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. |
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:
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:
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.
Paper Towel |
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 |
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.
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