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Oh, how I want to love you...
I read countless reviews and after much deliberation decided on buying gdiapers for The Baby. This decision was made, and so was the investment, before we even had a baby to put them on. I settled upon them because they functioned the most like a disposable as any other cloth option, and I knew I was going to need simplicity or I wouldn't stick with them. At 2am things need to be fast and easy. There are both cloth and disposable inserts available for these particular diapers, and for eco-friendly, as well as financial reasons I opted for the cloth inserts.
We started using them on The Baby as soon as we brought him home. The first one I put him in leaked out the side. Figuring there was a learning curve, I stuck with it for a few days, changing slightly each time the way I put them on, put the insert in, secured them, etc. They continued to leak EVERY SINGLE TIME. Holy ol' rip my hair out, Batman! wtf?! So then I figured he just wasn't big enough for them yet. The weight range for the Smalls I have is 8-14 pounds, and he was just shy of 8 pounds when we brought him home. So, fine, I put them back in the closet, picked up some Seventh Generation disposables, and waited...
The other day I stepped on the scale at my mom's house with The Baby (yes, I'm the only woman in America who doesn't own a scale), and sure enough, he was 11 pounds. Sweet! guess what the first thing I did when I got home was... Yup, plopped him on the changing table and strapped him into a gdiaper. Guess what happened about 15 minutes later... screaming, unhappy, wet baby with pee on the outside of the diaper cover, and on his pant leg. **me with smoke pouring from my ears Yosemite Sam style** WTF!?
Surely not one to give up on something I've set my stubborn mind to...
I hop online and buy a package of the disposable inserts to try them out in comparison to the cloth ones. They arrive lickety-split, and sure enough, they're way more absorbent, The Baby is way less pissed off, and they seem to work beautifully. I should be thrilled, right? Well, kind of, yes, but mostly, no. I'm thrilled because it's at least a way more eco-friendly option than straight-up disposables, because they can be flushed, composted (without the poo), or tossed, and are completely biodegradable. I'm completely bummed because it's still a disposable, costs about 1/3 more money per diaper change than the Seventh Generation disposables, and in the long run will cost me about a billion dollars (slight exaggeration) more than the cloth inserts would over the span of diaper-wearing years.
I already have covers and cloth inserts (still in their packages, thankfully) in the next size up, and am seriously (but with a very heavy heart) considering returning them...
So what do I do? What would you do? What have you done in the past?
Thanks for stopping by,
-Lindsey
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