Nearly every time, I’m in the grocery store I find myself in the baby aisle. And nearly every time I’m in the baby aisle, I walk away without buying anything. We don’t use formula and only buy a few jars of babyfood for times that we aren’t home. We use cloth diapers 100% of the time. In fact that last time Al Capone wore a disposable it was a size 1 (under 14 lbs I think).
In the past, I kept a package of disposables in the house, just in case, but after he outgrew 2 packages in a row that hadn’t even been opened, I quit buying them. So last week when we got a sitter for the first time in the evening. I realized that I didn’t have any disposables and I didn’t have time to run to the store. To be completely honest about the situation, I barely had time to come home and pretend to clean the house, feed Al Capone and get him bathed.
To top it off, we were leaving him at bedtime and nighttime cloth diapering tends to be more complicated. So I figured if the sitter put on his diaper at 7:00 and we’d be home at 9:30, so we really only needed the diaper to last a couple of hours. I double stuffed a Bumgenius 3.0 and when the sitter got here, I showed her where the diaper was and told her “it is just like a disposable.” I didn’t want to stress her out.
When we got home, Capone was still asleep and I didn’t want to wake him. If he’d leaked, he would have woken up. He did wake up later that night because he had a cold and only then did we change his diaper. It wasn’t quite attached like I would have done it. It was bulkier in the front and not super tight at the waist, but it didn’t leak.
An 18 year old college student who had never ever seen a cloth diaper in her life and had successfully cloth diapered Capone at night without leaking. I was shocked. I don’t think I’ll ever buy another package of disposable diapers ever again.
