cloth diaper reviews

I've been pretty vocal about our decision to cloth diaper. I love it and am so happy that we decided to do it. Our choice was mainly for two reasons. 1 - cost effectiveness. The average family will spend 2500 per child to use disposable diapers. Cloth diapers cost somewhere around 500 and will last through several children. 2. The fact that they are so much more eco friendly. The average diaper takes over 500 years to decompose and something crazy like billions of pounds of diapers are being thrown in landfills each year. Gross.

If you decide to cloth diaper or are thinking about cloth diapering be prepared to hear the following comments over and over and over and over again.
Gross!
You are Crrrrraaaaaazy
Thats so much work
You mean like with diaper pins?
He/She will get rashes all the time
No way no how would I EVER do that

The fact of the matter is that cloth diapers are no more 'gross' than disposables. In fact now when marley is in a disposable I'm grossed out by how filled out and gel like the diaper gets. You will at some point have to shake your babies poop out into the toilet from the cloth diapers and or spray it off but this doesnt really gross me out that much. They are NOT that much work but there is some extra work that you are going to have to do. Cloth diapers have come so far in just a few years. They are very similar to disposables now depending on which ones you decide to buy. AND because of all the chemicals (ie bleach) in disposable diapers babies are actually less likely to get a rash when wearing cloth.

One thing I'm really glad we did at first was buy inexpensive or used cloth diapers to try them out and see which ones we really liked, which ones worked for us and which ones were no good for us. There are a LOT of options out there and it can get daunting but dont worry, once you get the hang of which diapers mean what (pockets, AIO etc) it's really not too bad. The following is what we pretty much use right now and what we've found that works for us.

Grovia AIO - These diapers are really slim fitting and we've never had a leak. They are super cute, have great prints and dry quickly. I've had to make some adjustments around the legs so that our baby doesnt get marks on her thighs but other than that they are easy and very effective.

Bum Genius 4.0 - The only diaper that Marley can wear overnight without leaking. These are a pocket diaper that come with an infant and toddler inset. We use two inserts for over night. These are maybe a little bulkier but work great and are my favorite pocket diaper.
*I also have one Bum Genius Elemental and one Bun Genius Freetime tha I life to use as well (also great for overnights) but for ever day use the 4.0's are my fav.

Fuzzibunz elite - Really trim diaper (probably the most trim that I've found) so far they fit the babes but I'm wondering if they will still work as she gets bigger. These seem to be the slimest but also smallest One Size diaper that we have. They are kind of a pain to adjust and kind of a pain to stuff so beware. But overall they work well and would fit a smaller child the best.
*We used Fuzzibunz perfect fit smalls for the first couple months and I did like those too.

All in all if I was going to pick a pocket diaper to use I'd pick Bum Genius 4.0 and if I was going to pick an all in one I'd choose Grovia. We've used BestBottom (or tried) but Marley is 9 months and they are still HUGE on her and leak everywhere. I'm hoping as she grows we can use those. We've also used cheaper ones like Baby City (found on Ebay) but they just dont work for us and are already packed away.

I'm very happy to say that I've heard about a lot of people moving back to cloth and I think it's awesome. We are not fanactical about it (we use disposables every now and then.) And have used disposables at night  a lot because we just couldnt find anything that held up but with a little  playing around I think I've figured it out and will continue to put marley in cloth overnight.