Cloth Diapering Question

I think it's ok to switch to pull-ups or natural paper diapers until your child is potty trained. I had a similar problem with cloth diapering when my son was young.

I've always used cloth for the day and disposible at night. I don't want my baby in a cloth diaper for more than 2 or 3 hours.

My son pretty much learned night time training at the same time as day time, but for a while I did use 7th Generation disposables at night since he was only having 1-2 nighttime accidents a week and he had outgrown his cloth diapers (I couldn't justify shelling out the money for a very temporary situation). I reused the disposables if they were dry. If wet, they obviously went in the garbage. Not the best solution, but it worked for the few months that he had accidents at night.

There really shouldn't be a huge problem with waiting three days to wash diapers, but you could always try rinsing your diapers before placing them in your diaper pail to help control odors. Do you have a diaper sprayer? There are also pull-up style cloth diapers and training pants that you might find useful at this stage. Feel free to stop by my shop in downtown Olympia if you'd like to see or discuss some of the options available to you and your family! :) Simple Cloth, 210 1/2 W. 4th Avenue, Olympia. ###-###-####

Hi! I saw your request and it hit home for me since I've been going through what you're looking forward to! We've been working on potty training with our 2-year-old daughter for several months now (next time I won't start so early!) and I quickly found that, as you predicted, a pail of diapers that takes a week to fill is VERY ripe! At the time we were keeping it in my daughter's closet and it was really bad so we decided to just use disposable for nighttime and for longer outings. However, the problem was solved when our son arrived two months ago! Now I have enough diapers to fill the pail every other day, and I started keeping it in the laundry room anyway which has been great. So you could always just have another baby! :) Anyway, just thought I'd add my experience to your responses!
Blessings!
R.

Yes, I agree they are pretty ripe, if your diaper pail doesn't contain the smell, I would just move it to the garage or something. Also, when I was potty training my daughter in cloth one day I just told her that there would be no more diapers as night so she needed to wait until morning and it worked! ( there were a few accidents of course )She uses a saddle-type pad on her twin bed it wraps around the bed and tucks in the sides, but rarely needs it.

My 2 1/2 year old is down to just using diapers at night, and we've been using pocket diapers (the one size happy heinys). I wash them on the lowest water setting in my washer every 3-4 days. You are quite right about them getting quite ripe -- I wouldn't want to go longer than 3 days or so! I've also often used the g-diaper flushy thingies as inserts for my pocket diapers for night time. They are more absorbent, and I can flush them away in the morning, and just wash the exteriors of the pocket dipes when I get a chance (we have enough pockets for five nights). Without the soaked inserts, the ripeness factor is much better.

I am transitioning to using cloth diapers in my daycare and preschool, so we do not always have a full load. We have an energy efficient (front-loader) washing machine, so I don't feel too badly running it with a smaller load, but I still almost never do it. (Okay...pretty much never...) We always have towels, doggy bedding, something to throw in there with the diapers. I use the "sanitize" setting with a pre-wash, so I don't mind washing other items that can use a good sanitizing.
By the way, I could have written the second paragraph about your "A Little About Me." Is your home-based business an in-home daycare, by any chance? If so, please feel free to contact me so we can "talk shop!" :) Blessings to you and yours! <3

I like pull-ups for this because they are more like real big boy pants so he does not feel like he is having to wear a diaper.

We use pull ups at night. That way it is easy to get them on and off when my son wakes up and needs to use the toilet. If you are solely cloth diapers from day one and don't want to use disposables at all, you could always use the same cloth training pants that you will likely use during the day...or they have some that are for transitioning between cloth diapers and traditional cloth training pants that are cloth on the inside and pull on/off like underwear, but are vinyl on the outside...although, I'd guess that if you just used plain old cloth training pants over night (with rubber sheets under the normal ones of course!) that you may not need to wait 3 days before laundry needs to be done...;~)

Double diaper. And for my son as he got older triple diaper.