Why and How we cloth diaper

People look at me like I am crazy when I say we cloth diaper our triplets I don't know why? Do you know the cost of diapering a baby from birth to potty training? Over $1500 per kid and that is if they potty train at 30 months so 2 1/2 if they are like N and don't train till 3 1/2 that puts the total over and that puts you over $2000. Now take that amount and times it by 3 we would be looking at spending $6000 or more ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(cost came from here)
Not to mention the waste we would be throwing away nearly 7000 diapers per kid so wow my kids alone could fill a trash dump with just there diapers.
I wish we would have started when the babies were born with cloth but trying to get used to having triplets and there size did not allow for that for us. We used disposables till they were 3 months old then started them in prefolds. Which is a flat piece like our grandmas used with a cute plastic cover. I am just not a fan of them plus they were not at all trim diapers on my kids but my whole stash of 12 covers and 100 prefolds cost me total of $200 yup so nothing almost. We went through almost $200 in disposables a month so it was a nice option. But I was not a fan of fit and R never quite figured it out so I was able to sell them and make my money back. Yup I sold them and made money! I took that money and put it towards buying a brand I know and love we are Bumgenius family we have close to 50 diapers and as long as we have no issues with them we will never have to buy more.

Now cloth is a little more work then using a sposie but come on anyone can see that cloth is 100 times cuter then a sposie

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My girls don't have to wear kick pants with there dresses cause there diapers are cute enough to show off. So now the work I have to wash there diapers every other day. Yes I have enough to go longer but then the machine will get to full and the diapers will not get clean. So we use pocket diapers which means the absorbent part can be taken out and put back in to make them more or less absorbent mine are also velcro not snaps I just like them better but they do wear out faster meaning might not last using it for 10 kids but will last as long as you wash and take care of them right. So all I do to wash my diapers is I take the insert out as soon as I change the kids and throw both the insert and the shell (what the outside cover is called) in to a pail liner which is a cloth and water prof bag I keep in a large trash can next to the changing table. When it is time to wash them I flip the bag inside out putting all the diapers in to the wash I never have to touch anything. If they babies have gone poop in there diapers I use a sprayer attached to my toilet to spray the poop off the diapers. Then yes I do 4 washes on the diapers with only 2 having soap in then to get the diapers clean the rest are just rinses cause you can get a build up even on your clothes over time. I then just put the inserts in to dryer and hang the shells to dry. After it is all dry and stuff the inserts in to the shell and we are ready to go. The time I spend doing all this is 30mins if that spread out over a night. Not that long but it is so worth it to us. Do we ever use spoises yes like when I had to have the babies do a clear out yes I had to make them have massive blow outs I did use sposies but in the months that we have only used cloth we have all ready saved what we spent on cloth. My total I think is around maybe $500 for diapers for 3 kids again that is a huge savings.
Yes I do a few more loads of laundry a week but the savings and the fact that we could only use some spoises anyways cause the babies have super sensitive skin. And really when you have 4 kids and 2 adults in a house you are doing so much laundry anyways you don't even notice the extra. One thing I have learned from all this is the fact that in my next house we MUST Have a bigger laundry room ours now is tiny and I hate it I dream of a day where I can move in there and not feel like I am a tiny box. So this is what we do and why we do am I crazy yes and no but the diapers are not one of the reasons I am.