Country1

I used cloth diapers on my DD 26 yrs ago. I layered them with layers or batting, sorry I still don't the pattern I made. I bought a few and then made a pattern from them. I also would put some vinegar in the rinse cycle. I has natural disinfective and also makes them really soft. That's what my Mom taught me, it had been done in our family for yrs! Good luck! I'm sure whatever you make will work great and be GREATLY appreciated. Glad to her some women still are using cloth!

misspriss

I bought Curity, the ones with the extra protection down the middle, and am still using one to clean my glasses. My son is 59, so, they do last with care. Both diapers and son.....

Flo Pierce

In our area NNY they are using cloth diapers again too. I can't believe it but they will never have sore bottoms ( if they
remember to change them ) The soap to use to wash them is DREFT. It is easy on the butt.
Maybe also makes it easier and quicker to train the child to training pants.
GOOD LUCK

coopah

That waterproof fabric is on sale at our Hobby Lobby. By sale, I mean more than the regular discount, but more of a closeout price.
I used cloth, but we had rubber pants to go over the diaper back in the day.

Jingle

I had no choice but to use cloth diapers. Even doubling when baby got older didn't do much good. My kids are now 51-47-43. In my opinion all they are good for is glass cleaning and maybe burp cloths. All our Grandkids had disposable and very few rashes.

berryberry

Interesting thread. It's bought back some wonderful memories, although I can say with a smile I'm glad to be pass the diapering stage. It's been a while since I've had to use diapers. For my boys, I was a disposable girl myself. At first mom didn't much like the idea and then my mom thought the disposable were a great invention. It makes sense there would still be a need for cloth diapers, but I haven't seen them. They were not at the Baby r us store and I have never seen so many things for baby as there is at that store.

dee1245

I used cloth for all three of my boys, now 48, 46, and 45. I first used the long Curity gauze diapers then made my own out of (what it was called at the time) diaper flannel. Pure white and flannelled on both sides; so much more absorbant than the gauze, but used them mostly for night diapers. I only used disposable when going to the dr. office so I didn't have to worry about carrying wet ones home. I never had diaper rash with my boys. I laundered with Dreft and rinsed with vinigar.

Grace MooreLinker

Cloth diapers were all I used on my 5 children, with the last 3 I made fitted diapers cut down on folding time . No special fabric, unbleached muslin .

kellen46

Back in the good old days....there was only cloth diapers, and they were just a large rectangle of absorbent cloth that we folded ourselves...one way for girls...pee to the back and one way for boys, pee to the front. I washed them with the same soap as I used for every thing else in a wringer washer and hung them up to dry on a line...Yes we had those awful plastic pants but since my kids got rashes easily I mostly only used them at night. Yes I had to change the diaper often...it was a once used, it was removed sort of deal. We used big pins with Duckies on the top to keep them closed. Now I am not saying that this was better than what is available but what I think is KISS...we all know what that means. Fabric.com has a designated diaper flannel, in 27" width, and PUL fabric for making a waterproof cover. I think that lined with more flannel they would be easy to make and comfortable. It was sort of relaxing at the end of the day to sit with a pile of fresh smelling cloth and fold a nice stack of clean ready to use diapers for the next day. I did this in a house without running water. We lived on a cattle ranch out in the desert, since the ground water was too alkali to use we had our water trucked in and stored in a cistern. Water was too precious to run it down a drain so it was hauled up one bucket at a time and used carefully. I had quite a system for storing, drinking, cleaning and washing up water. I do not recommend anyone do this but mention it only show that cloth diapers are a can do thing even under the most difficult of circumstances.

helenhiwater

I recently tried to find cloth diapers for my daughters first baby, because even if you don't use them for the obvious, they make excellent burp rags, floor mops, etc. and a must-have when you run out of the disposables and are too tired/broke to go to the store. I finally found the diapers at Babies R Us along with the pins, but no waterproof covers anywhere! I was surprised because so many people are going green now, and cloth diapers keep the mess out of landfills.