Do any WOHM cloth diaper? I love the look of cloth diapers but I'm not sure I could handle it with a full time job, 2 kids and a nonexistent DH (he works a LOT). B was super tiny, preemie diapers so we just got caught in the disposable diaper routine for him. I may try something different with LO #2. Our daycare allows cloth diapers.
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Our daycare doesn't do cloth so it wouldn't be an option for us. But I don't think I could handle it. I can barely keep up with the laundry as it is! Our washer dryer is like 10 feet from the nursery so I can't do laundry when LO is sleeping!
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yes we did cloth diapers on nights and weekends when LO started daycare. its not that much extra work just a bit more laundry
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I mostly work at home these days but we cloth diapered when I worked FT at the office...lots of laundry, prep work and emptying wet bags but it was definitely doable!
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Yes, we cloth diapered and I am a WOHM. We made sure to pick a daycare that allowed cloth and did diapers 3x a week. Granted, if your husband isn't around much it might affect what type of diaper you want to choose. We did mostly pockets and I found that stuffing pockets/assembling diapers took time (usually I did it while watching a TV show) but that I was more inclined to do it with certain diapers more frequently because they were generally easier and it went super quick (i.e., applecheeks and itti bitti SIO).
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Our daycare provides all the diapers and changes the babies hourly, so it was better and easier for us to do disposables. It worked best for our family.
If cloth is what you want to do, and your childcare providers are willing to do it, then go for it! If your husband isn't around to help with the manual labor aspect of cloth, you might go for the easiest type of cloth diaper (all-in-ones I'm assuming!) so you can manage the commitment easier.
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After LO arrives, I will WOHM and we are planning to use cloth - so I can't tell you yet how our experience is but I know other moms here do it (I've seen similar threads when we were deciding!). Agree it's going to be more laundry but I think it's doable. We were able to find a daycare that will take AIOs, and I think we'd just those anyway just for the ease and time savings vs. something like pockets. Check back in in October and I'll let you know how it's going
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DH and I both WOH, and we tried to do cloth part-time for a while (daycare doesn't allow it) and what really killed it for us was not the normal maintenance, but the fact that once we started having some problems, we didn't have the time or energy to troubleshoot.
We started off with prefolds and covers, and those were always fine, but once we got into using the Fuzzibunz and BumGenius AIOs/pockets, we started having problems with smell and/or water repelling, and while I'm sure we could have fixed it by trying different things, after we tried stripping, and switching up our routine a bit without totally solving the problems, it got to be not worth it. -
We both WOH and use cloth diapers although not 100% of the time. We send them to daycare and use them most often at home, but when we are busy, out and about, and overnight we use a disposable (aka we just don't beat ourself up over not using cloth).
I do laundry about every other day or 3 times a week. It works really well for us and isn't a big deal. After work, I throw the load in the washer, let it run for 2 hours (pre wash, wash, extra wash, extra rinse) and then I dry the inserts and hang the shells.
We use disposable liners so we can throw them straight in the wash when getting home. Daycare throws out the poo.
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Yes we do it, but we have a nanny so we don't have to worry about daycare stuff. My husband washes. He takes his job VERY seriously.
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We both WOH and use cloth diapers. We pack a few in his daycare bag each night and bring them home in the evening (and transfer into the big pail). We do laundry every other night (and have 24 diapers).
Recently, we've had to switch to disposables because we're having pipe issues and can't wash the cloth. I haven't noticed any feelings of "Oh - it's so much easier/so much more free time to do disposables." In fact, I'm dying to get back to cloth!
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I'm a WOHM and we CD. We send diapers to day care. We use liners, so they dispose of poop for us. We send a wetbag for the wet/dirty diapers. We wash diapers every 2-3 days.
DH is a huge help with diaper laundry and stuffing/folding diapers, which makes things a lot easier.
We occasionally use disposables (if we're going to be away from home for multiple hours or if we're traveling).
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I'm a WOHM using cloth diapers, but DH works from home with a really flexible schedule and takes care of her Mondays through Thursdays. (My parents come over on Fridays and they've been OK with the cloth diapers so far, despite some initial reservations.)
I'm mostly in charge of laundry because DH takes care of the lion's share of cooking and washing dishes (not to mention weekday childcare!). It's gotten more difficult to keep up with laundry now that I'm back at work, but I'm going to stick with it. We use pockets.
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I did. We only needed to wash every 2nd to every 3rd day.
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I think its great so many husbands help with CD's! My husband was ok with me trying them out but he doesn't touch them!
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I did with Owen, but his daycare would only use disposable. Because we always had them on hand, I didn't buy as many cloth diapers, and so we ended up doing more half and half.
Eloise is going to go to a babysitter who uses cloth with her own kids, so I'll be sending them there. I just bought some more, so I'll (hopefully) be able to keep up with the laundry.
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I do! I've been back at work for 4 weeks now, and it's still going well. I do diapers Tues night, Thurs night and Sun morning. It's manageable. I usually end up stuffing diapers as I need them because I can't find 10 minutes to sit down and stuff them all right away, but it's not a huge deal. Like everything else you do, you make the time if you want to! Now to make time to exercise... hahaha
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