Comments on: Prefolds

By: Payton Butler

Payton Butler — Tue, 11 May 2010 21:09:04 +0000

i usually choose diaper bags which are made of recyclabe materials to help the environment not just your babies.~’*

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:28:14 +0000

I loved your video I found on Youtube. I posted about it on my blog and embeded the video so other moms can see, I hope thats okay with you, if not I can remove it. Check it out.
http://lifeofmaca.blogspot.com/2010/04/cloth-diaper-expert.html

By: rbenson

rbenson — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:04:57 +0000

I loved cloth diapering so much that I started selling them online. Not only due you save money but you make a difference of the environment as well. Now when traveling I still used cloth diapers. I would put the used ones into a little travel size diaper bag. I really liked thirsties diapers. They are great quality and easy to use.

By: matt

matt — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:05:42 +0000

Huh. We haven’t found much of a wet puddle at all: the diapers are absorbent enough that there isn’t really any liquid, like, sloshing around in there. (Wow, just grossed myself out.)

On the other hand, the owner of a place called Diaper Lab just might know what she’s talking about!

By: sarah

sarah — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:16:03 +0000

Thanks for answering my comment even though I am a random stranger (I found your flickr and then your blog through Erin/Minty/Pepperknit who is a friend from college).
The plastic trash can with ventilation was recommended by the owner of Diaper Lab (www.diaperlab.com) a store here in Boston. Her experience has been that diapers smell less if they dry out and don’t sit in a wet puddle at the bottom of the pail. So she just make a bunch of small air holes with a nail in the lid of the plastic trash can. She also uses the reusable/washable liner, and we have one of those as well.

By: matt

matt — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:11:36 +0000

Congratulations on your upcoming arrival! You probably have some time to get your system in place: we stuck with disposables for about four weeks until the babies were big enough for the extra-small diapers. Then again, if you’re only having one, chances are yours will be normal-sized…

Ventilating the diaper pail sounds like a bad idea to me, since it seems like it would allow undesirable aromas to percolate out into the room, no? We just keep the lid closed. We also line the can with one of these which has a little patch of fabric on which we put a drop of tea-tree oil every time we change the liner. I have no idea whether that tiny drop of oil has any effect or not, but it doesn’t seem to hurt.

I’m sure Rachel’s laundry post will be helpful!

By: sarah

sarah — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:46:26 +0000

we are about to start cloth diapering, whenever our almost due baby decides to arrive, and just bought some prefolds and thirsties last week. thanks for the video tutorial, as we haven’t seen this done on an actual baby yet! also, we plan to adopt your velcro strip and spray bottle techniques. we bought the same trash can — how do you manage the smell in it? we were thinking of taking it back because someone recommended getting a plastic one and poking holes in the lid to ventilate and dry out the diapers to make the whole thing less stinky…also i really am on the edge of my seat waiting for a laundry post.. you can drive yourself crazy reading about what kind of detergent to use or not use!

By: matt

matt — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:38:36 +0000

Hey, thanks!

It’s not much soap… we drop one cube of the soap in the spray bottle and fill it up, and we don’t add another cube until the first one is totally gone, which usually takes two or three refills of the water.

Also, I thought “Nice work, Rachel,” would come off a little patronizing.

By: Julia

Julia — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:06:36 +0000

Also, we take issue with the “Nice work, Julian” comment at the end of the video. Clearly, Rachel was hard at work — it seemed pretty easy on J.

By: Julia

Julia — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:05:55 +0000

Wow. Jeff and I are extremely impressed. For the record, our cloth diapering technique is WAY less proficient. We congratulated ourselves when we figured out that Elly’s diaper should be folded AGAINST the folds, while Ben’s could be with the grain. We don’t own any of those Snappis either — we just use the diaper covers. Hm We may have to consider investing in some Snappis. Jeff is also impressed with your cloth wipes, very Portland and environmentally correct he says. What’s the proportion of water to soap in the solution? Finally, your website is amazing. We are very pleased with ourselves for just accomplishing our rudimentary Flickr site. Ah well. Perhaps Jeff will put a baby-esque background on the flickr site to attempt to compensate.