Diapers - Part 2

So I'm guessing by this point (i.e. my last diaper post) I've already lost the interest of the few people who are actually reading this blog... but I'm going to continue anyway, even if it's just to document my current insanity ;-)

The First 8 weeks
The plan was to use the gdiapers, however the gdiapers said they were for 8lbs+ so we knew it was likely we'd be using disposables for awhile. So we picked up some pampers swaddlers in newborn size and that's what we used for the first 6 weeks. As a side note we preferred the Pampers Swaddlers to the Huggies (thanks to my cousin Emily for the tip!), Huggies seemed to have more blowouts for us.

8 weeks to 16 weeks
Around 8 weeks, Megan was bigger (she weighted 10lbs 2oz at 2 months). Her legs had beefed up a bit and I got brave and decided to try the gdiaper. At first we loved them! They contained breastfed poo better than the swaddlers! Almost every poo did get the covers and liners dirty though, so there was more washing than I expected... but they were working and I didn't mind the flushing. The routine became I would stuff all the covers with the flushable inserts at night (or while megan napped) so they were ready to go for diaper changes. Then after the diaper change I put Megan in her crib with her mobile on (which she loved to stare at) while I flushed the insert down the toilet and restuffed the cover/liner with a new insert. Since Russ was doing the nighttime diaper changes (I fed her on one side, Russ changed her, I fed her on the other side), he stuck with disposables for awhile because they were easier at night. Eventually he used gdiapers at night too, as long as they were pre-stuffed and ready to go, then he just left the dirty ones on the bathroom counter and I (or my Mom once she got here) took care of them in the morning.

At 11 weeks my Mom came out to Texas to stay with us for 4 weeks and watch Megan while I went back to work. This was so great because it was a much easier transition for both Megan and I and we were really glad we got to spend the 4 weeks with my Mom / Grandma :-) So I should mention that my Mom was so supportive of us using the gdiaper and even though it was a lot more work for her, she used them the entire time!


Megan at 2 months in her gdiaper


Megan at 3 months in her gdiaper - note it's usually tighter around her waist, we just loosened it for the photoshoot

gDiaper Conclusions
There were a couple things that bugged us about the gdiapers (1) the flushing is kinda a pain, it's not that big a deal and you get used to it, but it's more work than just throwing the diaper in a pail (2) With newborns you're doing a lot of laundry! Especially if they are breastfed; Megan was still pooping at most diaper changes, or at a min half of them and almost every poop got the liner dirty and a lot of them got the cover dirty too. So it was creating a lot of poopy laundry (3) The flushable inserts cost more than Pampers Swaddlers!!! This was the biggest complaint we have about the gdiaper, they are more expensive. And then if you add in the cost of covers and liners (although reusable, are not cheap) it's even more expensive. So with all these factors I started looking into cloth diapering....