Besides me who's pinning cloth diapers here?

Curious. I have an 8 month old and a 2 year old and both wear cloth diapers secured with pins. Anyone else doing the same? If so what are you using cover wise? I use a mixture of both nylon and plastic pull-on pants.

 

you do know that you don't always have to use pins....if you use the right cover, you don't need pins at all...

 

you know...this is weird because just today i was thinking about starting up a thread in here about cloth diapering...i wondered if i was the only one around here who was using cloth diapers....

 

Your safe, your definitely not the only one using cloth! Before I gave birth to my first I was babysitting for my next door neighbour, and she was using cloth diapers with pins and rubber pants on both her boys. I no longer babysit for her on a regular basis but they just had their 3rd baby last summer and he's also in cloth diapers and rubber pants. Then of course there's me too.

 

Quote. you do know that you don't always have to use pins....if you use the right cover, you don't need pins at all...

I like pins because I use pull-on pants with my kids. I like the combination of the two.

 

I use cloth diapers but not with pins. I use pocket diapers that have snaps or velcro and are one piece with an absorbant insert. I love my diapers, and don't understand why anyone would put a baby in paper diapers.

 

Everyone around here thinks that I am strange for using cloth diapers. They tell me that they are too much hassle. I tell them that they are too much hassle for lazy parents, and they aren't really that bad. Not to mention the money I save not having to go out and buy disposables every couple of days.

 

i have saved a TON of money....

 

I used pins on my older 3. My first almost exclusively. We had a few covers, but the tabs wore out so fast and they were so expensive. Things have really improved now. And used diapering items are obtainable online at a great price now.

 

Well... I am going to be using cloth diapers on this one if that counts. It's my first try with cloth, other than helping out with my siblings a wee bit when I was young. I'm excited though. And it's a huge money saver... We got enough diapers to last Bun in the Oven until s/he is a toddler for a little over seventy bucks. They are pre-fold of course, no fancy doohickeys. I have a couple of Snappis too, though I can see myself using pins at some point, once I get over being nervous about skewering my wee one. *haha* Reminds me... I have to sew myself some fleece covers... EEEEK!!! How did I manage to forget about that for so long?!?! Pregnancy brain... *shakes head*

 

good for you....i'm glad that you've decided to use cloth with your latest edition....

after my sister saw me using cloth, she's now decided to use cloth with her latest edition as well....i'm SO happy that it's slowly becoming more of a "normal" thing to do again....now if only breastfeeding would become more of a "normal" thing to do as well....i think the babies of the world would be much happier....

 

Very good to see. Seems to me that there would be more using cloth here in general, but even a few of us is better than none. Pins once you get used to them are no problem. Quick, easy, secure. Huge money savings! Huge!

 

I've always used cloth and pins for all of my babies. I used the good, old-fashioned bird's eye flat diapers, the ones you have to fold yourself and pin. $10 a dozen at Target! I bought 4 dozen for my youngest and they lasted him until he potty trained, and then I used them for cleaning. I loved using cloth. I even liked folding them.

It's hard to find diaper pins nowadays, the only place I have been able to find them is at dollar stores. I don't have babies in diapers anymore, but I use the diaper pins to remove the plastic cord clamp at the 24 hour post partum visit.

 

I use snappis. The only pins we had access to were so nasty-weak, it was hell just getting them through the dipe. Plus, I have a weakness for the cute pocket diapers or wool soakers (homemade of course).

Ive used lots of paper dipes lately, though. I just started a new job and have been so frazzled keeping up with errands, baby, job, sleep, and food, that diapers just never seem to cross my list of to-dos. But hopefully, when my schedule adjusts, I'll get back to clothies. I miss them.

 

i bet moire misses them too....

 

For sticky diaper pins, poke them into a bar of soap overnight, they'll go right through the diaper.

 

Ya your right Brighid, the pins in soap really works! My mom was one to always run them through her hair, then she'd hold the pins in her mouth while she readied the diaper for fastening. One of my aunts used to use a sponge soaked with baby oil as a pin cushion. That worked great too!

 

No no no. I don't mean they stuck. I mean, they were so immensely dull that I couldn't poke them through anything. It was ridiculous.

In other news, diapers are washed and I just knit up another soaker. Curly Purly pattern.

 

i can't believe noone mentioned how much better the cloth dipes are for the environment! you know your culture is crazy when something that heavily-used is disposable.

 

YOu are so right-and better for the babe too! I'm pretty sure that's understood among us hip-mamas, though!!