My cousin (in-law?) Katey gave me a starter kit for gDiapers during Spring Break, and I'm having so much fun using them! I had wanted to try the gDiapers (I'm a sucker for nifty packaging) but couldn't justify the cost/effort of changing our system. But with a FREE starter kit as a gift.....well, if I bought another starter kit that would make them half price, right? =) So, now I have green, blue, ivory, and red. Then I had to get the purple and brown because they are so darn cute. Then when the flushable inserts ran out, I discovered that they are rather pricey--$0.40 each! So, I invested in 18 cloth microfiber inserts from Bumgenius. They fit great in the g-diaper and so far are working wonderfully. Easier to use than a pre-fold and thinner/more absorbant. Plus, Abby was getting a painful rash with the cotton diapers. I also ordered these rice paper liners and Charlie's soap. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing, right?
Let me just say, the rice liners rock! It's a little time consuming to wrap them around the microfleece but they are soooooo worth it if she poops. And the most incredible, fabulous, amazing thing--they are washable (up to 3 times)! If it's a pee-only diaper, I just toss the whole rice paper wrapped microfiber insert in the diaper pail and wash like normal, then line dry. How can a flushable, biodegradable piece of paper be washable? Amazing but true.
I am enjoying the G-diaper/cloth system now that I have all the parts...but I do find it a bit time consuming to assemble everything, make sure there are enough clean parts, and take care of the dirty stuff. I bet that regular cloth diapers would be less tedious (but probably more expensive). Right now the novelty still outweighs the annoyance. And I just bought a camping wind-up clothesline for the laundry room--it makes me smile to hang up the liners with the wood clothespins. It's the little things, right?
More fun stuff back at Rocks in my Dryer.
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I've never heard of g-diapers, will have to look into it.
We use gdiapers when out and about, too :) I prefer cloth, though. They are so much easier. We use AIOs mostly, now, because I got tired of stuffing pockets. How old is Abby now? I have a bunch of diapers that I could hand on down to her, if you are interested, because Tommy is potty trained now. Also. I have a whole roll of those liners that I will never use, that I could send you, too.
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