Cloth diapers feel too hard. To you parents who did the cloth diapers, and did it for multiple children, you are amazing.
We opted for the hybrid cloth diapers. Mostly because when I was pregnant we were gifted hand me downs of gdiapers. Getting baby things second hand, and for free, feels great. Gdiapers is a brand based in Portland whose disposable inserts are Cradle to Cradle Silver Certified. Which is kind of a big deal, I don’t see many other baby things with that certification. Their diapers come in 3 layers: the outside gpants, the middle white gpants pouches, and the inside insert, which can be cloth or their disposable inserts. Their disposable inserts are compostable, so there’s no plastic in them. We tried a few times putting cloth inserts in, but we’re mostly sticking with the disposable inserts. It’s been pretty good so far. There have only been a few times we’ve had a “blowout” where poop actually got onto the clothes, but even then there was only a tiny amount that trickled out. However, when our baby does poop we inevitably have to wash the white pouch every time, since the disposable insert tends to scrunch up leaving some pockets of space for poop to spread. But since it’s a diaper, and it’s meant to get dirty, it’s really not as bad as having to scrub out all our baby’s clothes.
