Fuzzi Bunz Diapers

Hi, we switched to Fuzzi Bunz was 6 months old and really like them. Before we did, we got a trial pack from www.jilliansdrawers.com. It can with 3-4 different style of cloth diapers. Since I didn't like them all, I returned a few within 21 days, and got some $$$ back! After that, we chose Fuzzi Bunz and bought 18 of them. You do have to seperate liners for washing so it can be time consuming re-inserting once washed, but the save on trash and money is worth it in the long run. I do recommend ordering additional microfiber liners. We put those in during nap time and some outings. I also recommend flushable liners. Although kind of pointless for just pee, they are WONDERFUL for poopy diapers. Another great thing is that there is a 18 month return policy on products. For example one of our snaps broke and we received a full refund. We ordered ours from www.zbeardiapers.com It's a company out of Lansing and the owner has been great to work with.

HI P.
I did like them a lot. However you need to wash them after each use. With a bummies diaper cover you let it air dry once or twice unless it's soaked or poopy. I needed about 6-8 covers. The nice thing about the fuzzi buns is it's a pocket cover, so the clothe diaper gets folded and slipped in. So they go on much like a disposable. You will need the next size up in pants, all cloth diapers a bulker. But the nice part of cloth diapers, I found, I didn't have poopy blow outs, no chemicals next to kids skin, and disposables aren't really disposable taking an average of 400 years to degrade. I felt better about diapering with cloth. I just cut a piece of fleece the size you need to cover the folded diaper. Makes clean up easier as well.
I hope cloth is a good experience for you. A. H

Hello. I cloth diaper and love it! I have a few Fuzzi Bunz and like them; however, I prefer Happy Heiny's pocket diapers. They are one size- meaning they grow with your child and you get more wear out of them. Plus- the velcro is nice because sometimes the snaps don't fit right if you are in between sizes. just my preference. My son is only 3.5 months old. I hear that the older kids will pull velcro off, so snaps are better. Good Luck. I think you will find cloth diapering to be easy and rewarding.
Jennifer

I only ever used cloth diapers, and right alongside all my friends who used paper, I couldn't figure out where the 'savings' is supposed to be in paper.

Diapering is diapering, doesn't matter much what kind of thing you're wrapping onto the baby. There are a zillion choices, but the purpose is to keep the upholstery clean, and they all do about the same job at it. Yes, this means that all of every single kind leak at least occasionally.

With all the laundry we had to do anyhow, I did not find the 1-2 other loads a week to be difficult, and with the ability to hang them on the line to dry, they were not more expensive to use than paper. I bought flat diapers because I am way, way too cheap to dry those multiple-layer objects with power I have to pay for -- flat diapers dry in about 20 minutes, whereas pre-folded, lined and padded diapers can take 3-5 times as long. Ouch on the power bill!

The other huge benefit of cloth is that even if we ran out of diapers, we had all the equipment necessary to make a 3am run on the 7-11 unnecessary. In a pinch, hand towels, tea towels, receiving blankets, even a t-shirt can take the temporary place of diapers as long as you have pins/clips and a waterproof wrap of some kind. Running out of paper diapers in the middle of the night when everyone in the house is sick is not only inevitable (it will happen at least once) but a major pain. Running out when there's no money left at the end of the month is unfixable.

My current favourite thing about flat cloth diapers is that now (my youngest is 17) they *still* make the best dusters, rags, absorbent material for whatever in the world. No garbage created from all those years of diapers, just more handy rags that can still be washed and re-used over and over and over... and no lint has been on them for more than a decade!