New for Nighttime

Even as a mommy of 3, there are many aspects of parenting that are foreign to me, that I have no experience with.  Cloth diapering is one of those areas.  But recently we joined the cloth diapering clan.

I explored the option and thought about making the switch when Doodle was a newborn but got overhwhelmed by it all, felt like I wasted too much time (I wasn’t sure I wanted to do it past the breastmilk poo phase) and gave up on the idea.  So, why after 5 ½ years of disposable diapering would I suddenly change to cloth, you ask?

Truthfully, I didn’t switch the baby.  Trutfully, I ended up with a 3 ½ year old who started wetting her bed.  Truthfully, I got fed up with doing laundry every day.  Truthfully, I got frustrated with rushing to make her bed before nap time every day.  Truthfully, I decided to put her back in diapers at night.  And truthfully, I decided after we ran out of diapers for her that I didn’t want to buy any more.

So I decided to go cloth.  I figured that since it’s only at night, even if she goes every night, that’s 7 diapers a week that need to be washed versus 7 sheets and mattress pads.  I went to the local baby store, and panicked.  There were only a few choices and I really didn’t like any of them!  I sought the advice of a good friend who has been cloth diapering since the beginning and finally (after lots of questions and googling) found my way.

SONY DSCI chose to go with covers instead of all-in-ones or pocket diapers.  I figure since I’m only dealing with a pee issue, being able to reuse covers for a few nights (wiping them down when wet and letting air dry) and only having to change out the liners was ideal.  I bought 3 covers and 5 liners (for now) figuring that would be laundry twice a week which is less than I do regularly.

But then a funny thing happened, hubby told her she couldn’t pee in her new diapers and she didn’t!  For days, she woke up dry.  We’ve been cloth diapering Sugarplum at night for 2 weeks now and she’s only peed in it once!  But when she went back into disposables for a few nights (when I panicked about laundry detergents), she peed every night.

So for now, we’re doing the cloth thing.  I figure it will save us money over the time she uses them and then we can reuse them when Doodle potty trains and we need the night coverage or a little extra daytime reassurance.

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