MSUSpartan wrote:
I have to answer that with a resounding no. At least not me. I used Terry contours, 8 layers thick in center, with PUL pants, and leaked badly about once to twice a week. I used them for about a year. Between the laundry, the extra bulk, and the leaks, I couldn't wait to give up that experiment.
It is realy interesting to see how many of us prefer cloth. I also tried it and was not satisfied for couple of reasons.
First of all - the handling: You have to wash them soon after use otherwise they start to smell - so your washer runs nearly every day and you have to have the time to manage that. We experiaced this as a serios drawback, because both of us working fulltime. Even if I had programed the washer to let it runover the daytime, some one needs to be there to move the diapers into the dryer after washing. So the consequens was that the dryer had to run in the evening/night what was not acceptable because of the noise. I need a dryer, because we live in a small city flat and simply have no room to hang out things for drying and I don‘t like to see my diapers drying in my flat.
Second: Comfort. Yes - cloth works better when you are a side sleeper and yes - you can make them more absorbant then a disposable. But - at last for me I can say I don‘t feel comfortable with such a bulky think between my legs. In plastic pants I sweet and my experiance say - try to get as much air as possible to your skin to prevent it from rushs.
Third: Chemistry. Normally you have to change cloth much more frequently then a disposables for a simple reason - urin starts to to develop amonia in a diaper. This make cloth not the first choice for the nighttime, because the amonia cause skin irritations and you don’t wont to change over the nighttime frequently. Disposables normaly have chemics inside that delay the amonia development. This reduce the risk to get a rash.