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We CD full time but just got back from a one month vacation where we did a mix of cd and sposies because I didn't want to travel with our full stash. I would thunk that since you already own the diapers, any use of them is going to save you money.

What about using diaper liners?

@Coco Bee: what do you dislike the most? Is there a way for DH to pick up some of those things to make it easier on you?" It sounds like he is more on board than you. I know that wasnt your quextion but it might help.

We CD basically full time but have been doing disposables at night for leaking, so i dont know if that counts as part time?

I have been cloth diapering part time just recently, to see if it is something that interests me. Since I'm a SAHM with my second baby, I figured I should just give it a try. Maybe if your LO is on a poop schedule, put a disposable on for that, and at other times CD? I haven't put my LO in CD at night yet, for the fear of leaking (and we only have six CDs at the moment)

@Coco Bee: if you really dont like the wholething, maybe it is worth looking into selling you CD stash and recouping your investment, and then put the money toward honest co or whatever works for you.

Our CDs very rarely leak, and i like the fit and the colors and how cute her fluffy butt looks! I almost never have her in pants because it is just too hot, but i can see wherethat would be a pain. We only do laundry twice a week, which helps, and i kind of enjoy hanging everything on the line.

We're probably going to end up using disposables overnight b/c the only solution I've found so far to keep DD from leaking at night is to use disposable night diapers. If your son only poops once or twice per day, can you predict when it will happen, and just put him in a disposable then? I usually have a pretty good idea when my daughter is going to poop, so I might try that strategy once we start w/ solid foods. Right now we're doing disposables full time b/c we just moved, and our cloth stash hasn't arrived in the moving truck yet. I just had a massive blowout from a sposie, which never would have happened with cloth... so that makes me want to stick with cloth even though it's a pain sometimes.

@Coco Bee: If every brand you've tried is leaking, perhaps you haven't quite found the right wash routine and you have repelling issues?

@Coco Bee: We ran into repelling issues when we first switched from fitteds to pockets. We were using RnG classic rock and it worked great on our fitteds but caused terrible repelling issues on our pockets. We had not only prepped our diapers with RnG but every time we washed them it caused more build up on the diapers and inserts no matter how much we rinsed. We ended up stripping diapers every single weekend for a few months before we figured out it was our detergent and water that was causing the problem. We then tried a variety of soaps (RnG soft rock, charlie's soap, allen's naturally, soap nuts, and tiny bubbles) and amounts of the different soaps to find the right combination for us. We would hand strip the diapers and then try a new soap for a few weeks and evaluated how it did. Some still caused repelling, some just didn't clean well, and some were okay but not great. We found success with Tiny Bubbles and adding in oxiclean free but I know other people had success with other soaps and such. Long story short, our diapers were brand new too but if you aren't rinsing the soap completely out (by no fault of your own I promise since it didn't matter how much we rinsed or at what temperature) you have the potential to have the soap building up causing them to repel.

I use the toilet paper like liners at the times he usually poops (and waste some, but they are only a few cents each.

I stopped getting pee leaks by adjusting how tightly I wrapped them (less tight, actually!)

Still not really a fan as much as I thought I would be but it is much more tolerable.

Do you have hard water, by any chance? We do, and it makes rinsing the soap out super difficult, so we use a tiny bit of soap and do two rinses. I don't feel like I am doing the environment any favors, but oh well.

@artbee: Thanks for that. It helps!

@Coco Bee: I agree. The only way I could handle the poo is by using the liners. We use a sposie at night and if we feel like it at home. I am goingto keep up with it because it's cheaper at daycare and they change every two hours there.