u/Ivory_Elodia

Does anyone have any information on this? We use natural fiber cloth diapers during the day and disposables at night, the main reason for the disposables being that she gets a rash after more than 2 hours in her cloth diapers. She is also a heavy wetter and has been soaking through the disposables we’ve tried, even with sizing up and changing in the night.

We’re about to try a new brand, but I’m also considering trying an EcoAble overnight cloth diaper, but I feel she would need the stay-dry (bamboo rayon) version rather than the natural fibers version because of the rash issue, and just for comfort too. My main motivation for cloth diapering is to avoid chemicals, hormone disrupters, etc against her skin, so I’m wondering which is better, is a rayon cloth diaper or a TCF disposable? I’m sure it could be specific to the disposable and its ingredients, but if anyone has any information/thoughts, I’d love to hear them!

Does anyone have a recommendation for a good totally chlorine free diaper for nighttime? My eight month old girl is a belly sleeper and has been waking up with the front of her soaked even with 1-2 changes per night. We’ve tried Pura and Happy Little Camper because of price and accessibility. I sized her up in Pura to no avail. I haven’t sized her up in HLC but her weight is right at the beginning of the size chart for the size we’re at now.

I wanted to try Kudos but it seems you can only buy a month’s supply at a time and that feels like a risk if I don’t know if they’ll work for her.

Any similar experiences and successes with a certain brand? Thank you

P.S. We cloth diaper during the day but I feel it would be uncomfortable for her at night if I were to try to pack enough padding in there. They’re already kind of bulky during the day even with changing every 1-2 hours. I think she’d feel wet too.

I’ve been breastfeeding for 8 months and my nipples are so sensitive. My baby doesn’t have the greatest latch of all time but I don’t know if that’s what’s causing this as it’s not exactly pain—they just cannot abide any kind of touch that isn’t constant. So wearing a bra doesn’t bother them. But if the water directly hits them in the shower, or I try to not wear a bra to bed and my shirt brushes them, or my baby puts her hand on my chest, it feels terrible (hard to explain the actual feeling other than extremely uncomfortable and I guess a little painful but not in a sore nipple kjnd of way). It’s not a problem while actively feeding (thankfully!).

Is this normal? Is there anything I can do about it?

ETA: also in case it wasn’t clear, this isn’t a new problem. I just kept thinking it would stop eventually and it never has!

Please tell me what I’m doing wrong! I keep stripping my diapers and the burn-your-nose-after-baby-pees smell comes back so fast (I assume that is the ammonia smell everyone talks about?). I use Thirsties natural pockets.

Routine:

Separate stuffers from pocket (my washer has been having a hard time agitating them out—maybe part of the problem?)
If poop, scrape poop into toilet (baby is seven months and on solids).
Store in open wet bag.
Wash every 1-2 days.
Wash on hot, regular cycle with one scoop of Clean 365 powder. Then wash on hot, heavy cycle with 1.5-2 scoops powder.

I have been meaning to add Borax to each load but have been forgetting lately. We have hard water (not extremely hard, but definitely hard).

Generally I air dry pockets and machine dry stuffers, then stick pockets in dryer for a short time to soften them.

We have slightly acidic water so I avoid vinegar.

We have an HE washer that does not get extremely hot by design, no way to bypass it that I know of

I have stripped the diapers using 1/3 cup bleach and hot water (I was told this is the way to do it directly from Thirsties support). The burn your nose pee smell came back so fast and is just getting worse! What am I doing wrong?

Do I need to rinse pee out? Everything I read says I shouldn’t have to, though a support person from Green Mountain Diapers told me I should. Do I need to spray or scrub poop off? We were getting smell before she started solids, so I don’t think the solid poop is the main issue, but maybe not spraying it is contributing now. We have always gotten stains from poop. Does that mean I’m not washing well enough?

I’m about to strip them again and start new. I’m hoping if I remember to add the Borax consistently that’ll help, but please let me know what else I can try!

ETA: I just tested my washer strongest, hottest wash and the actual washing portion is only about 15 minutes. At 108 degrees F according to my meat thermometer. So not very hot, and quite short. It is a Whirlpool top loader with no agitator

I just subscribed to Clean Cloth Nappies and will sanitize accordingly. I also have some Tide Free and Gentle I can use (it’s liquid—is that a problem? CCN says it’s fine. Do I need to add a water softener with it?). But I don’t know what I can do about my washer situation. They say you need to wash for soooo long and my washer just doesn’t do it? I can’t realistically run like 8 cycles for one load of diapers. This washer comes with our rental apartment so replacing is not really on the table right now