elm

Everything is so much more expensive that I wonder how young couples or single parents cope. Maybe cloth at home and paper for day care might lower the costs, but time to do the added wash may be a problem for a full time worker.

BobbiG

You have to factor in the smell, time, ease of use and the carrying of that heavy diaper pail for 3 years. I would choose the disposable any time.

Caroline S

I also passed the link to this thread to my GD. She is in the process of making cloth diapers after seeing the prices of purchasing the ready made ones. I will have to ask her what materials she used in the construction because she did mention buying a couple of shower curtains from Goodwill to use in the liners because the waterproof fabric normally used is quite spendy. She also raided my stash for fabric and took a couple of unused bed underpads that had not been used for my mother.

quiltnutt

My niece makes her son's cloth diapers and diaper covers. You can't find rubber pants. She even makes her own laundry soap.
She is a stay at home Mom and did the math and found it is cheaper to do cloth diapers.
I remember when my kids were babies and we only had cloth diapers. Kids never got a diaper rash and it was so easy to potty train..no body wants to sit in wet.
Pampers just came out and you only used then for trips ,if you used them all the time,it was implied you were not a 'good mom'...lol

maryb119

I used cloth diapers for all of my kids. It was so much cheaper. I even cut the laundry cost by line drying them so that was free. With 6 kids, I washed a lot of diapers but all I really did was throw them in the washer and the machine did the work. I did use disposable diaper when we were away from home as a convience but the cost savings of the cloth diapers really made a difference for our budget.

Iraxy

My DD and I just found my stash of her cloth diapers in the attic. She is 30. I must have washed those diapers thousands of times. I had no dryer and hung them out to dry. She remembered running through the lines of diapers when she was little. She was amazed, but says she will try to use cloth diapers on her children if she ever has any.

Steady Stiching

I used cloth diapers on all three of mine, 30 years ago it was still considered "uncool" to use cloth but I had no choice. I just had other places to spend that money.
My DD recently had a baby and is very eco minded. She wanted to go with cloth because it is so much better for the environment but day care doesn't allow it and she needs full time day care so she's out of luck, there are brands of paper diapers that are better than some other brands for the enviiroment.
She did her research and says that she gets the cheapest price on diapers by being on Amazon.com's diaper plan. You also get free shippiing the first year. Second year they chose amazon prime at an up front cost of 75.00 (i think thats the figure) per year and get free shipping through that program.

KathyPhillips

It is easier to tell when baby is wet and needs changing with cloth diapers. The disposables are not so easy to tell, and baby gets diaper rash more often from wearing wet, stinky diapers longer!

maxnme01

1st Great Grandbaby on the way and we've already purchased 5 dozen cloth diapers. My kids weren't traumatized by them and neither will the baby. LOL

Mom and Dad are on a tight budget.

LenaBeena

A big, big YES to cloth diapers for many reasons: cost, no diaper rash, environmentally friendly, no trouble washing a pail full, wonderful to hang on line and dry in the sun, last years and years, can be easily found at places like "Other Mothers" stores, Mothers exchange web sites, play groups etc.. My daughter who works full time uses them and so did I and all the mothers we knew.