Cloth Diapers - Decision Time!

We made our decision about which diapers to keep and which to return! It actually only took two weeks of use to make the decision which is great because we had to ship the non keepers back before we vacationed to Chicago. (Our 30 day trial was over the day we came home.) I ended up returning all of the diapers except the bumGenius Elemental all in ones. I wanted to keep the Flips too, but we needed different colors for those.

After shipping almost the whole lot back, we were left with 3 diapers of our preference. I immediately ordered more! The new order included 9 bg elementals and 6 flips. This gives us a grand total of 18 diapers. "Why ship back the old flips and order more?" you might ask. Well my husband, Mike, is color blind and the flip covers are not supposed to go into the dryer. So, I ordered flip covers with colors that stand out to him in case he gets stuck with diaper washing duty. Also, they were running a special of buy 2 flip covers, get 1 free. Yay! I opted to get the stay dry inserts again since they worked well for us the first time around and are cheaper than the organic inserts. I also got 6 Diaper Rite unbleached medium pre-folds to try in the flip covers.

I was ecstatic to get the shipment before we left!! This let me wash the lot twice before we left for Chicago which saved prepping time when we got home. And the main reason I was so happy is because I was able to take flip covers with me! Crazy to say this, but I way prefer putting Evelyn in cloth diapers now. A big reason is because they always contain her poop. Disposables do NOT contain her poop 75% of the time. So, that means a yucky outfit change almost every time she poops in a disposable diaper. Not with a flip cover for back up!

The reasons we chose the bg elemental and flips are because:

1. Absorb well
2. Contain well
3. Easy to spray off
4. Fit well
5. Well made

I'm very happy with our decision to cloth diaper this baby and am really happy with the diapers we chose. I still have this strange affection towards the Rumparooz, but they just didn't work well for us. I have one Rumparooz (free diaper with the first order) and will continue to use it as back up in hopes that my opinion towards it will change.