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I have a friend who started when her kid was older, like 1. I can't stand the disposable culture so I'd just start now and keep your disposables for back up. As long as you can stay on top of the wash it's not hard at all.

I'd start using some cloth diapers and see how you feel about it. I had plans to only use cloth diapers for our daughter, but we bought the one size, not the newborn ones, so we had to wait for her to grow into them while using newborn disposables.

They fit her better now, but are still so bulky and dont fit well under a lot of her clothes. We basically only use cloth diapers when we are hanging around the house, but when we go out and for overnight we stick with disposables. I still like using them around the house though as I can tell it makes a difference with how many disposables we need to order every month.

We cloth diapered starting at 3 months. We moved when DD was 8 months (cross country in temporary housing) so we did disposables for 4 months. We put her back in them when she was 12 months. And we were so happy to put her back in! They are way cuter, have had NO BLOWOUTS, and the amount of money saved is amazing.
We've been back in cloth for 18 months, and are just on the edge of potty training... and I'm already missing it!
So that my little anecdote about putting your child in cloth at a little later age.

I think you may be psycing yourself out about it. Cloth is a bit more work, but once it is part of your laundry cycle it really isn't a chore. Start slowly, maybe decide to cloth during the day on the weekends. Once you are back into the swing, it will be easy to eventually be wholly cloth again.

And if you try and don't like it... who cares!

Just commiseration from me. I'm in the same boat. I have a beautiful stash from my first and even bought a couple new ones. We clothed for 2 weeks when he started to fit and then went on vacation and bought hello bello disposables, they're cute and soft and so dang easy. My stash is still in the closet. I feel like I should use them but I just ordered another box of hello Bello instead 🤷

We might go back once he's older and doesn't use so many diapers in a day. And honestly I found ebf poop worse because we have an he washer and I had to spray them off anyway

I acquired a stash with #1 and used it almost exclusively after a couple weeks. With #2, I honestly don’t remember. I know I used cloth, but not how often. Now with #3, we use cloth at home and disposables at night or if we will be out awhile. I feel like the more use cloth diapers get, the better I’m doing for the environment, particularly since I already have them. So I’m fairly committed. I did get a ton of diapers for my shower do #3, so I didn’t start using them until 2 months (and now using the stash for night times and trips).