We did this on our recent vacation to Hawaii and LOVED it! So simple. Cut my dry time in half - my covers and wetbags dried outside overnight, the flats got a half an hour in the dryer. No stuffing. 👍 it was perfect!
Yes!! Second this quality inserts are a must! I’m in Australia so doesn’t matter what inserts we use dry time is the same about 4 hours inside and an hour outside 😂 love my smartbottoms inserts and thirsties!!
Absorbency is key. Leaks suck! My go tos are small gmd cotton prefolds, Large gmd muslin flats, diy stretch flats and Geffen quick absorbers as boosters where needed.
I use the intermediate blue edge green mountain diaper prefold on my 8m old son. For night time I use a OS GMD muslin flat and Geffen hemp insert. With my 3yr at night I use GMD overnight stay dry doubler with a GMD large muslin flat.
For my 15 month old heavy front wetter girl, in the daytime we use a large clotheez muslin flat with a half birdseye flat. For night time, I can stick a hemp insert in there, or even just fold to put in front, but lately I'm trying out other solutions. I've been using grovia one with both their inserts plus another hemp insert in the front, or some hemp/bamboo flitteds with the extra hemp insert which I'll top with a regular cover or a wool cover. Everything I use is 2nd hand except for the flats which I bought new. I never see flats for resale.
I remember starting out I was soooo intimidated by flats. In the beginning we used prefolds and covers and pockets stuffed with prefolds for daycare. Now that I'm home fulltime I finally decided to try flats and oh my I can't believe I waited this long. I love flats. And I love Thirsties new line of Stay-dry Cotton Doublers. They go perfectly on top of the flat for nap time to help with the additional absorbency and keeping little man feeling dry. I love your channel and am so excited to continuing to see more from you!
My entire stash. I have 10 newborn rumparoos cover 24 newborn, 24 size small, 24 size medium and 5 size large all GMD prefolds 12 os buttons covers and 3 super buttons cover. Currently we use the size medium on my 10 month old and use a size large and a newborn with a super cover for over night. Love love love this cloth diaper system. It’s takes a lot of trial and error to find what works for our family 3rd kid we’ve cloth diapered.
I’ve been using best bottoms bamboo during the day for 2 years through 2 kids. In the past 6 months or so I started using geffen fleece prefolds. I remember thinking $13 for a prefold was crazy, but they work great for my flooder. Microfiber is what I use when I fall behind on laundry or I need a booster. Microfiber doesn’t work at all for heavy wetters
Cloth diapering baby #4! Over the years I've found that prefolds, flats and covers work best for our family. I agree that the green mountain diaper m flats are the best during the day. They wash beautifuly. Works for my 8 month old and my 3 year old. For bedtime I do prefer pocket diapers. We do need a bamboo or hemp insert along with the flat or prefold at night. Soon I hope to try out the large m flats. I really enjoy your videos !
Love the Jay Jabbers! Our daytime favorite is nicki's bamboo cotton flat pad folded (diaper changes every 1 1/2 to 2 hours) and nighttime favorite is thirties hemp pre fold with a cotton doubler on top.
Love your videos,messy or not. Right now I’m using during the day I use a few things, 1. thirties cotton doubler with a mama koala bamboo insert 2. Nickis snapless fitted 3. a flat wrapped around a Geffen microfiber layered with a thirsties hemp 4. A flat either origami fold or pad-fold 5. Medium prefold, or a newborn prefold layered with bamboo It depends how i feel during each change. Lol. I have a heavy wetter so I’m trying new combos every so often. Right now I’m liking covers with flats, microfiber and bamboo at night. Although I’m considering of trying bamboo flats, since I only have 5 cotton flats.
We use mainly cotton GMD prefolds and diy hemp and bamboo stretchy flats. I also use blueberry aios and love my buttons covers and my upcycled wool covers ❤️❤️
How are you liking your stretchy flats? Did you get just a hemp blend or a hemp/bamboo blend. I bought a hemp/bamboo from Moonglade but she went out of business.😓 I’ve been thinking about eventually making a few.
Jay's Nest I bought some of those too. I got 8 we haven’t been able to try them too much yet, but so far I like them. Do you know the exact fabric it is? And I have the ft bamboo, the hemp bamboo jersey, and the hemp cotton stretch fabric. I like them all. The ft bamboo is a bit bulky for my preference and the bamboo hemp is super absorbent for how trim it is but I find it’ll only hold like one pee unless I add a booster (since I use wool mainly with my flats). My hemp cotton is super thin, I like it pad folded in covers and it absorbs a ton! I might buy more of the moonglade fabric if I can find it.
For my toddler I use medium cotton prefolds and muslin flats with a mix of thirsties, Flip, nickis diapers and blueberry capri covers in the day time and large bamboo prefolds with a cotton booster at night in a thirsties size 2 cover. For my newborn I'm using newborn cotton prefolds in the day and at night usually imagine newborn bamboo fitteds. :)
So glad to see you making more cloth diaper videos! ❤️ For daytime we use receiving blankets padfolded in our pockets! When needed, outings for example, I throw in a Geffen super absorber plus. We have however invested a little more in our nighttime set up, we use Kissing Blake Bullets underneath WAHM made wool 😊
I feel really inspired to make videos right now. So I’ll be cranking them out 😉 Lots of HUGE projects going on behind the scenes. Both those will take forever to edit so I’m uploading smaller short videos in the meantime!
I tend to fall back on GMD workhorses and their Flip or Nickis covers. My mini has never leaked out of a workhorse but I do put a scrap cut piece of fleece down to protect against wetness. I just dumped all my microfiber pocket insert since they dried out my hands stuffing and use FSTs or flats for stuffing. Seems a bit bulky sometimes but I'm not going back. Thanks for the videos!
For my newborn (2 months), one charcoal bamboo is working for the time being. I'm thinking I'm going to have to up her absorbency soon. I do Thirsties NAIO or Smartbottoms Deam 2.0 overnight for her right now. For my 2 year old, my favorite (because it's SO trim) is a Thirsties large hemp insert and half of a FST, pad folded and sewn. I don't have enough of the Thirsties for all of her diapers though, so I also do a pad folded FST + either a Mama Koala bamboo microfiber, or a Charlie Banana hemp. I do Grovia O.N.E. overnight for her.
We use cotton flats boosted with AMP hemp 3 layer inserts for naps/longer times between changes and bamboo flats un-boosted for regular times! I also use Funky Fluff bamboo inserts and AMP bamboo inserts to boost, especially for nighttime! My fave is hemp though. It just seems to absorb forever and ever
My 3 year old is at a stage. He can wear just about anything and it holds up. I change him about every 3-4 hours because he holds all of his pee for awhile. Even just a microfiber insert hold just fine for him. But my one year old is the polar opposite if I can make it 2 hours with her I am lucky. There are moments I have to change her after 30 minutes because she pees so much. Natural fibers are a must for her.
My fluff butt is only 4 months and microfiber works fine during the day. At night we use an Alva baby all in one with an extra insert or a pocket stuffed with a 2 layer bamboo fleece snake insert that I made that is 6 layers when folded. I plan on making more inserts when I get the money to get more fabric.
Funny story, I wanted to make a video today but I had flaming hot Cheeto stained lips 🤣 so I put on lipstick but it looked odd so I finished my face with a little bit of makeup. I didn’t even comb my hair today. Lost the brush 🤷🏻♀️🙈 if that isn’t mom life then idk what is 😂😂 Thank you for the compliment 💕
@@JaysNest You are so welcome! I love your videos! I have a baby boy on the way and you have been so helpful with helping me decide how I want to cloth diaper. I also love that your videos are so real, our lives are crazy and hard and I find a lot of comfort knowing that I'm not alone when going through some of the harder challenges.
There’s beauty in speaking your truth by sharing your journey. My life can be ugly sometimes but I’m learning how to flow through the good & bad. I’ve realized that I cannot avoid the bad times. I can only change my perspective and find healing through the lessons and pain. This is a year of great growth for me as I learn to open up more. Thank you for being here and tagging along 💕
Love me some Jay Jabbers videos❤️❤️ You’ve made me into a flats girl! I have so many different flats but I think my favorite is Imagine Stretchy Bamboo Flats or Sassy Flats which are expensive but they’re ridiculously soft and hold so much pee!!
I’ve heard mixed reviews about Imagine stretches. How do you like them? I’ve been eyeballing Sassy flats 😍 I’m in her group and her flats are gorgeous!
They’re AMAZING! They’re super soft and stay soft! I add a Geffen Hemp insert underneath and it works perfectly for night time solution! I use them alone in covers/pockets for day time on both my 13.5lb infant and 26lb toddler and they’re both heavy wetters. The infant more than the toddler 😂
Fist time using cloth. A lot of trial and error with nighttime for my newborn. Fitted with cotton/bamboo have really saved me for a nighttime routine. So far microfiber is still in rotation during the daytime. I want to switch to prefolds and fst but can’t get over the bulkiness, especially for the car seat 😕. So I need to invest in hemp for our outings that require a car seat. Definitely love your channel I have learned a ton from you!
FSTs are so trim on newborns and little babies! I wasnt able to get the pickman down when Willow was a small baby. Poop always spilled out onto the cover lol. It's still one of my favorite folds though
@@JaysNest a good jelly roll with the wings is key. Its the only fold that will usually contain the poop. Also it's very easy to adjust to put the absorbency in her wet zone. The only down fall is she's sensitive to wetness. We use fleece liners but they sometimes shift. After a while day or two the shifting can add up and make her start getting pink. So I'll give her air and switch back to pockets or I'll just switch back and forth the whole day
Right now we do pocket alvas with a microfiber and flour sack towel, we hope to move away from microfiber eventually but for a heavy wetting toddler for us it works we have a boy on the way and know that probably what works for our girl may not work for our boy so it'll be a couple months of trial and error again but so much better than forking over hundreds of dollars a month for disposables for two little's with sensitive skin.
Fuzzibunz has such an affordable hemp pocket. I feel like I don’t see that brand around anymore. It was one of the first brands I bought 4 years ago. But back then the hemp didn’t exist yet. They used microfiber. My Fuzzibunz hemp ended up shrinking a little wonky but it absorbed well!
Yes, they still shrink up into weird shapes, but I love the absorbency and like you said, they are really affordable (especially at 50-60% off which is almost always a thing on their website these days).
I wonder if she’s going out of business then. The history of Fuzzibunz is interesting. I think diaperswappers & babycenter have talked about the things that have gone over the years.. because Fuzzibunz has been around forever
Jay's Nest I don’t think they are going out of business because they keep releasing new diapers and prints. Then they put them on sale a month or two later and release some more. I really don’t ever need to but more diapers but I do like to grab their inserts when they are on sale because I hate the microfiber that comes with most pockets
I feel so weird doing this series lol but I’m glad you like it. It’s interesting to divide my attention between my 3 younger children while I make these. I feel more scatterbrained than usual 😂
I have been using normal muslins and they work great. I plan to get some proper ones as I need some more. Also, Osocozy bamboo prefolds, size 1 still work grat pad folded.
For my first two kids one girl and one boy, flour sack towels and receiving blankets worked the best. Around 1.5 years old I had to double the flour sack towels. I just pad folded them and put them in my Alva pockets and a few nickis covers that I had. Microfiber stopped working with my first after about 6 months so I stopped using it and went cotton all the way. With my second I got some hemp and bamboo boosters which really helped lessen the bulk of the flour sack towels because I no longer had to double up in them with the boosters. I ended up getting some cotton hemp flats that worked amazing overnight for my second babe. We will see what works with baby number 3 when she gets here in March 😊 right now I have a bunch of mixed nb all in ones and several applecheeks and several different types of covers. I never used nb diapers on my first two, so I’m super excited to with this one. When she gets big enough we’ll move to my one size stash that I used with my first two.
I feel like your pregnancy has flown by! It’ll be March before we know it. I doubled up on FSTs during the Flats challenge and it was so bulky in a pad fold. It worked though!
Jay's Nest it really has, I’m so ready to meet her!! Starting to get a little achy and miserable stage. Fst’s was definitely bulky doubled but it worked till I bit the bullet and finally got some hemp and bamboo used off facebook. It definitely helped with the bulk when I was able to just use one fst and a hemp insert. I have also seen a lot of people pad fold an fst inside another fst that’s diaper bag folded. So you still have all that absorbency but it’s less bulky that way too. There’s more than one way to skin a cat and that’s what I love 💕 about cloth diapering is there are so many ways to make it work.
Hi thank for all of ur cloth diapering videos..they are inspiring and i have taken ur advice to upload videos about cd also...i am a big fan of yours...😘
I have a 6 week old baby boy and I am currently using thirstiest size 1 Duo wraps with Imagine Baby prefolds during the day and Thirstiest Newborn AIO at night. Once he gets big enough for one size AIO I would like to use those when we go somewhere also but for now we use disposables or my newborn AIO when we go somewhere 🙂 I would like to branch out into flats at some point also to see if I like them
Love the Duo wraps! I find them to be sooo trim. You can use flats in the same way as your prefolds, and when baby isn't pooping as often you can just padfold them in the covers. The nice thing about pockets and covers vs AIO's is that you can very easily adjust the absorbancy as your babe grows and their needs change (:
I don't have favorite absorbances in practice yet because most of what I know about different fabrics has come from reading. I am, however, generally obsessed with natural fibers so I'll probably lean that way. What I don't know yet is how much absorbancy to have in a diaper. I play around with it, but sometimes it seems like my son's diaper is so thick that he can't walk quite normally and walks like a bow legged cowboy. 😆
Prefolds and thirsties covers. We we’re trying pockets but there just not for us I guess. We’re using oso cozy prefolds but she’s growing out of them and she’s such a heavy wetter at 3 months old so I’m investing in gmd medium prefolds. We usually do the jelly roll through and pad fold at night. At I didn’t like prefolds to much but as she’s gotten bigger and they fit I find they are great.
Idk which they are they are long not wide blue edge. And yea we had leaks out of the legs with them but I didn’t have good absorption in them. However the other day we used a grovia bamboo blend medium size and she soaked it within a hour and a half. Which that’s not to bad bc I change her a lot. When we get the gmd I’m thinking of just getting the medium red edge and 1 pack of smalls to pad fold. She’s about 13 lb if I’m guessing.. what would you suggest?
But I also have 4 imagine prefolds I usually use at night to pad fold bc there thicker im hoping that’s how gmd prefolds are. I don’t mind bulk but everyone im around always had something to say 🙄. I’m ordering them tonight I just hope I get the correct size
I cloth diaper my 3 month old son with Alva and Nora’s nursery pocket diapers which I’ve been loving! ..I use charcoal bamboo and regular bamboo inserts during the day and then bamboo combined with a microfiber insert overnight. After watching one of your videos, I tried one of my cotton prefolds during the day and loved it! I don’t have any flats as of now but I do want to try a few and I also really want to get a few hemp inserts or prefolds for overnight because sometimes I will get a leak with the bamboo/microfiber combo :/ I love your videos btw! So informative and you’re super down to earth. I’m a first time mom and I learned so much from your videos about cloth diapering! “I don’t understand why more people don’t try it!” Believe it or not, those were my husbands words lol saves him money so he is a happy camper.
I’m glad I could help you with your journey and open you up to the world of flats and prefolds 💕 It’s awesome that your husband has such a positive attitude towards cloth 👏🏼
GEFFEN!!! For some reason I don’t think Thirsties does as well as my Geffen. But I do like to just put the geffen alone and I can’t do that with Thirsties.
I haven’t tried either of them alone. I feel nervous to do that 🙈 Maybe Bailey from the cloth diaper Podcast and do an absorbency test on them. If not, I might attempt it! I reach for my geffen over my thirsties though. I’ve formed a bond with them 😂 I’ve been using my geffen ones since willow was born and I love them!
Jay's Nest Yes I wish I could afford to put Geffen in all my pockets 😂. The super absorbers plus are what I have. She wets heavy from time to time, but she’s always dry with only one! Im too scared to even do a fitted all the way through the night, but I do either my geffen, hemp fitted or Nickis bamboo flat with one change for night time! I have enough diapers for two babies lol. So when we have our next that will be my big purchase! Just a ton of them 😂
Maybe I’ll try using just 1 geffen in the day to see how it holds. We always have huge stuffed diapers 😂 it’ll be weird to see a trim diaper. Lol I could always use more inserts but diapers are much more fun to buy than inserts 🙈
Most of my stash is from my daughter 6 years ago and from my sister's kids that she was given from a friend. I have sooo much but I don't know what anything is. And I cant remember which item worked well after its washed.
I'm new to cloth diapering and have been going through your videos. I know you mainly use flats now, but when you still used inserts did you ever consider making your own? We started cloth diapering with Alva pockets, their microfiber inserts, and FSTs but even doing a FST/microfiber combo isn't always enough for my 3 month old. Look around at all the inserts online is super overwhelming to me, and I was just thinking about making my own.
I used bamboo French stretch terry! I made a very detailed video about what I used, where I got it, and how to make your own. It’s super easy 😊 Video here: ruclips.net/video/bZ4V2dkfuUE/видео.html
I have a silly question are muslin flats the one's I swaddled my baby at birth with Aden+Anais the same as the one's you can buy at like GMD & Nickis diapers ? Can I use my old swaddle blankets for stuffing my pockets or snappi that around him is it the same ?
Yes! They’re similar material! Not exactly the same but they’re from the same family of fabric. A&A blankets are huge so they’d probably need to be cut down. But they’re the same concept. Also, they’re super absorbent!
When my baby gets here I'll be using flower sacks "flats" and (I wanna) wash every 3 days I know every child is DIFFRENT but with your experience how many do you think I should get to be safe lol
Do you want to exclusively use FSTs? For newborns I like to have 15 changes a day. So 45 changes for 3 days. But if your baby isn’t a super pooper then that will be VERY roomy. Willow goes through like 10 a day now. Sometimes 8. 45 is about my sweet spot for my stash right now.
Yes ill be exclusively FST. I have 30 pockets for them and 6 covers. But 45 sounds good. Thank you!!!!!!!! I have 50 of them lol but i wasn't sure if I should put them on my baby shower register or not.
I highly suggest getting boosters if you can. During the Flats and Handwashing Challenge I got a bunch of hand towels to use as boosters! They’re SO absorbent. I forget which video I showed them in. I had a video clip of me at the store showing which ones I got. I think it might be the Flats Stash Cost video! If you’re on a tight budget I highly recommend them
Bamboo stretch French terry! I have a video about the material I used, where you can get it, and the supplies you need. It’s super easy to do ruclips.net/video/bZ4V2dkfuUE/видео.html
Hello Jay! I would like to know the size of the smart bottoms hemp prefold (small or medium) that you showed in this video and also want to know whether thirties duo wrap size one work under the umbilical cord
I use size medium and large smart bottoms hemp prefolds. Thirsties size 1 didn’t work for my youngest baby under the cord, but she was short with a short torso. It might work for longer babies though
I want to cloth diaper was looking to buy some used the lady was selling 5 for 55 and they had holes in them and were in bad shape. Thats not a good deal when you can get 6 diapers a wetbag and vicose liners on amazon for 29.99. So i cannot find any used. Im wanting to use cloth so so bad. Also is the charcoal bamboo inserts good at absorbancy. My baby isnt a heavy wetter
I've decided to simplify and get rid of all my pocket diapers..
Doing inserts and covers now. Absorbent, simple, cheap, and easy to wash :)
I’ve been going back and forth between simplifying my stash more. Sometimes the basics are all you need to cloth diaper successfully without stress
We did this on our recent vacation to Hawaii and LOVED it! So simple. Cut my dry time in half - my covers and wetbags dried outside overnight, the flats got a half an hour in the dryer. No stuffing. 👍 it was perfect!
Yes!! Second this quality inserts are a must! I’m in Australia so doesn’t matter what inserts we use dry time is the same about 4 hours inside and an hour outside 😂 love my smartbottoms inserts and thirsties!!
Absorbency is key. Leaks suck! My go tos are small gmd cotton prefolds, Large gmd muslin flats, diy stretch flats and Geffen quick absorbers as boosters where needed.
I use the intermediate blue edge green mountain diaper prefold on my 8m old son. For night time I use a OS GMD muslin flat and Geffen hemp insert. With my 3yr at night I use GMD overnight stay dry doubler with a GMD large muslin flat.
For my 15 month old heavy front wetter girl, in the daytime we use a large clotheez muslin flat with a half birdseye flat. For night time, I can stick a hemp insert in there, or even just fold to put in front, but lately I'm trying out other solutions. I've been using grovia one with both their inserts plus another hemp insert in the front, or some hemp/bamboo flitteds with the extra hemp insert which I'll top with a regular cover or a wool cover. Everything I use is 2nd hand except for the flats which I bought new. I never see flats for resale.
I remember starting out I was soooo intimidated by flats. In the beginning we used prefolds and covers and pockets stuffed with prefolds for daycare. Now that I'm home fulltime I finally decided to try flats and oh my I can't believe I waited this long. I love flats. And I love Thirsties new line of Stay-dry Cotton Doublers. They go perfectly on top of the flat for nap time to help with the additional absorbency and keeping little man feeling dry. I love your channel and am so excited to continuing to see more from you!
My entire stash. I have 10 newborn rumparoos cover 24 newborn, 24 size small, 24 size medium and 5 size large all GMD prefolds 12 os buttons covers and 3 super buttons cover. Currently we use the size medium on my 10 month old and use a size large and a newborn with a super cover for over night. Love love love this cloth diaper system. It’s takes a lot of trial and error to find what works for our family 3rd kid we’ve cloth diapered.
I love the simplicity of prefolds and covers!
mirnie555 me too.
Sarah Gattis we love buttons super covers 💗
Love GMD muslin flats! They are so soft and absorbent! Especially with my hard water, cotton and hemp work the best for us!
I’ve been using best bottoms bamboo during the day for 2 years through 2 kids. In the past 6 months or so I started using geffen fleece prefolds. I remember thinking $13 for a prefold was crazy, but they work great for my flooder.
Microfiber is what I use when I fall behind on laundry or I need a booster. Microfiber doesn’t work at all for heavy wetters
Cloth diapering baby #4! Over the years I've found that prefolds, flats and covers work best for our family. I agree that the green mountain diaper m flats are the best during the day. They wash beautifuly. Works for my 8 month old and my 3 year old. For bedtime I do prefer pocket diapers. We do need a bamboo or hemp insert along with the flat or prefold at night. Soon I hope to try out the large m flats. I really enjoy your videos !
Love the Jay Jabbers! Our daytime favorite is nicki's bamboo cotton flat pad folded (diaper changes every 1 1/2 to 2 hours) and nighttime favorite is thirties hemp pre fold with a cotton doubler on top.
Love your videos,messy or not. Right now I’m using during the day I use a few things,
1. thirties cotton doubler with a mama koala bamboo insert
2. Nickis snapless fitted
3. a flat wrapped around a Geffen microfiber layered with a thirsties hemp
4. A flat either origami fold or pad-fold
5. Medium prefold, or a newborn prefold layered with bamboo
It depends how i feel during each change. Lol. I have a heavy wetter so I’m trying new combos every so often. Right now I’m liking covers with flats, microfiber and bamboo at night. Although I’m considering of trying bamboo flats, since I only have 5 cotton flats.
For my 3 month old, we are using a GMD prefold + Thirsties Hemp Insert as her nighttime diaper! SO happy we found a good solution.
We use mainly cotton GMD prefolds and diy hemp and bamboo stretchy flats. I also use blueberry aios and love my buttons covers and my upcycled wool covers ❤️❤️
How are you liking your stretchy flats? Did you get just a hemp blend or a hemp/bamboo blend.
I bought a hemp/bamboo from Moonglade but she went out of business.😓 I’ve been thinking about eventually making a few.
Jay's Nest I bought some of those too. I got 8 we haven’t been able to try them too much yet, but so far I like them. Do you know the exact fabric it is? And I have the ft bamboo, the hemp bamboo jersey, and the hemp cotton stretch fabric. I like them all. The ft bamboo is a bit bulky for my preference and the bamboo hemp is super absorbent for how trim it is but I find it’ll only hold like one pee unless I add a booster (since I use wool mainly with my flats). My hemp cotton is super thin, I like it pad folded in covers and it absorbs a ton! I might buy more of the moonglade fabric if I can find it.
For my toddler I use medium cotton prefolds and muslin flats with a mix of thirsties, Flip, nickis diapers and blueberry capri covers in the day time and large bamboo prefolds with a cotton booster at night in a thirsties size 2 cover.
For my newborn I'm using newborn cotton prefolds in the day and at night usually imagine newborn bamboo fitteds. :)
So glad to see you making more cloth diaper videos! ❤️ For daytime we use receiving blankets padfolded in our pockets! When needed, outings for example, I throw in a Geffen super absorber plus. We have however invested a little more in our nighttime set up, we use Kissing Blake Bullets underneath WAHM made wool 😊
I feel really inspired to make videos right now. So I’ll be cranking them out 😉
Lots of HUGE projects going on behind the scenes. Both those will take forever to edit so I’m uploading smaller short videos in the meantime!
Are receiving blanket as absorbent as fst or less or comparable?
In my opinion, they’re more absorbent than FSTs. I’d actually recommend them over FSTs after using them for an extended period of time.
I tend to fall back on GMD workhorses and their Flip or Nickis covers. My mini has never leaked out of a workhorse but I do put a scrap cut piece of fleece down to protect against wetness. I just dumped all my microfiber pocket insert since they dried out my hands stuffing and use FSTs or flats for stuffing. Seems a bit bulky sometimes but I'm not going back. Thanks for the videos!
For my newborn (2 months), one charcoal bamboo is working for the time being. I'm thinking I'm going to have to up her absorbency soon. I do Thirsties NAIO or Smartbottoms Deam 2.0 overnight for her right now.
For my 2 year old, my favorite (because it's SO trim) is a Thirsties large hemp insert and half of a FST, pad folded and sewn. I don't have enough of the Thirsties for all of her diapers though, so I also do a pad folded FST + either a Mama Koala bamboo microfiber, or a Charlie Banana hemp. I do Grovia O.N.E. overnight for her.
We use cotton flats boosted with AMP hemp 3 layer inserts for naps/longer times between changes and bamboo flats un-boosted for regular times! I also use Funky Fluff bamboo inserts and AMP bamboo inserts to boost, especially for nighttime! My fave is hemp though. It just seems to absorb forever and ever
Ps this is for my 6 month old son, we usually go 2-3 hours without changing and we almost never have a "soaked" diaper with these combos!
My 3 year old is at a stage. He can wear just about anything and it holds up. I change him about every 3-4 hours because he holds all of his pee for awhile. Even just a microfiber insert hold just fine for him. But my one year old is the polar opposite if I can make it 2 hours with her I am lucky. There are moments I have to change her after 30 minutes because she pees so much. Natural fibers are a must for her.
I am loving 4/5layer bamboo Terry paired with geffen baby hemp super absorber plus inserts
My fluff butt is only 4 months and microfiber works fine during the day. At night we use an Alva baby all in one with an extra insert or a pocket stuffed with a 2 layer bamboo fleece snake insert that I made that is 6 layers when folded. I plan on making more inserts when I get the money to get more fabric.
We use charcoal bamboo and thirsties hemp primarily during the day.
LOVELY MAKEUP! idk how you manage to look like a goddess with all your kids. I would have no time!
Randi Baker right!? I have one baby (10 months) and I never have time or energy to do makeup or hair!
Funny story, I wanted to make a video today but I had flaming hot Cheeto stained lips 🤣 so I put on lipstick but it looked odd so I finished my face with a little bit of makeup.
I didn’t even comb my hair today. Lost the brush 🤷🏻♀️🙈 if that isn’t mom life then idk what is 😂😂
Thank you for the compliment 💕
@@JaysNest You are so welcome! I love your videos! I have a baby boy on the way and you have been so helpful with helping me decide how I want to cloth diaper. I also love that your videos are so real, our lives are crazy and hard and I find a lot of comfort knowing that I'm not alone when going through some of the harder challenges.
There’s beauty in speaking your truth by sharing your journey. My life can be ugly sometimes but I’m learning how to flow through the good & bad. I’ve realized that I cannot avoid the bad times. I can only change my perspective and find healing through the lessons and pain.
This is a year of great growth for me as I learn to open up more.
Thank you for being here and tagging along 💕
Love me some Jay Jabbers videos❤️❤️
You’ve made me into a flats girl! I have so many different flats but I think my favorite is Imagine Stretchy Bamboo Flats or Sassy Flats which are expensive but they’re ridiculously soft and hold so much pee!!
I’ve heard mixed reviews about Imagine stretches. How do you like them? I’ve been eyeballing Sassy flats 😍 I’m in her group and her flats are gorgeous!
They’re AMAZING! They’re super soft and stay soft! I add a Geffen Hemp insert underneath and it works perfectly for night time solution! I use them alone in covers/pockets for day time on both my 13.5lb infant and 26lb toddler and they’re both heavy wetters. The infant more than the toddler 😂
As for Sassy Flats, I’m obsessed with Black Brazen!! You NEED to try them. Brazen and Fresh is the BEST for heavy wetter!
I’ve had my eye on the Brazen Flats. I’ve stalked the website multiple times but I haven’t dived in lol. I definitely will soon though!
Fist time using cloth. A lot of trial and error with nighttime for my newborn. Fitted with cotton/bamboo have really saved me for a nighttime routine. So far microfiber is still in rotation during the daytime. I want to switch to prefolds and fst but can’t get over the bulkiness, especially for the car seat 😕. So I need to invest in hemp for our outings that require a car seat. Definitely love your channel I have learned a ton from you!
AMP hemp inserts/boosters are very cheap! And made in Canada! (:
mirnie555 thank you! I’ll start looking 😃
Im also in love with just a simple flour sack towel folded in the pickman fold for my 2.5mo. It is absorbent enough and is incredibly trim
FSTs are so trim on newborns and little babies! I wasnt able to get the pickman down when Willow was a small baby. Poop always spilled out onto the cover lol. It's still one of my favorite folds though
@@JaysNest a good jelly roll with the wings is key. Its the only fold that will usually contain the poop. Also it's very easy to adjust to put the absorbency in her wet zone. The only down fall is she's sensitive to wetness. We use fleece liners but they sometimes shift. After a while day or two the shifting can add up and make her start getting pink. So I'll give her air and switch back to pockets or I'll just switch back and forth the whole day
Right now we do pocket alvas with a microfiber and flour sack towel, we hope to move away from microfiber eventually but for a heavy wetting toddler for us it works we have a boy on the way and know that probably what works for our girl may not work for our boy so it'll be a couple months of trial and error again but so much better than forking over hundreds of dollars a month for disposables for two little's with sensitive skin.
I love prefolds or fuzzibunz hemp inserts with a flat padfolded around the insert.
Fuzzibunz has such an affordable hemp pocket. I feel like I don’t see that brand around anymore. It was one of the first brands I bought 4 years ago. But back then the hemp didn’t exist yet. They used microfiber.
My Fuzzibunz hemp ended up shrinking a little wonky but it absorbed well!
Yes, they still shrink up into weird shapes, but I love the absorbency and like you said, they are really affordable (especially at 50-60% off which is almost always a thing on their website these days).
I wonder if she’s going out of business then. The history of Fuzzibunz is interesting. I think diaperswappers & babycenter have talked about the things that have gone over the years.. because Fuzzibunz has been around forever
Jay's Nest I don’t think they are going out of business because they keep releasing new diapers and prints. Then they put them on sale a month or two later and release some more. I really don’t ever need to but more diapers but I do like to grab their inserts when they are on sale because I hate the microfiber that comes with most pockets
I’m loving your jay jabbers!
I feel so weird doing this series lol but I’m glad you like it. It’s interesting to divide my attention between my 3 younger children while I make these. I feel more scatterbrained than usual 😂
You have great information and it’s a lot more relaxed
I have been using normal muslins and they work great. I plan to get some proper ones as I need some more. Also, Osocozy bamboo prefolds, size 1 still work grat pad folded.
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Thank you ❤️
For my first two kids one girl and one boy, flour sack towels and receiving blankets worked the best. Around 1.5 years old I had to double the flour sack towels. I just pad folded them and put them in my Alva pockets and a few nickis covers that I had. Microfiber stopped working with my first after about 6 months so I stopped using it and went cotton all the way. With my second I got some hemp and bamboo boosters which really helped lessen the bulk of the flour sack towels because I no longer had to double up in them with the boosters. I ended up getting some cotton hemp flats that worked amazing overnight for my second babe. We will see what works with baby number 3 when she gets here in March 😊 right now I have a bunch of mixed nb all in ones and several applecheeks and several different types of covers. I never used nb diapers on my first two, so I’m super excited to with this one. When she gets big enough we’ll move to my one size stash that I used with my first two.
I feel like your pregnancy has flown by! It’ll be March before we know it.
I doubled up on FSTs during the Flats challenge and it was so bulky in a pad fold. It worked though!
Jay's Nest it really has, I’m so ready to meet her!! Starting to get a little achy and miserable stage. Fst’s was definitely bulky doubled but it worked till I bit the bullet and finally got some hemp and bamboo used off facebook. It definitely helped with the bulk when I was able to just use one fst and a hemp insert. I have also seen a lot of people pad fold an fst inside another fst that’s diaper bag folded. So you still have all that absorbency but it’s less bulky that way too. There’s more than one way to skin a cat and that’s what I love 💕 about cloth diapering is there are so many ways to make it work.
Hi thank for all of ur cloth diapering videos..they are inspiring and i have taken ur advice to upload videos about cd also...i am a big fan of yours...😘
I have a 6 week old baby boy and I am currently using thirstiest size 1 Duo wraps with Imagine Baby prefolds during the day and Thirstiest Newborn AIO at night. Once he gets big enough for one size AIO I would like to use those when we go somewhere also but for now we use disposables or my newborn AIO when we go somewhere 🙂 I would like to branch out into flats at some point also to see if I like them
Love the Duo wraps! I find them to be sooo trim. You can use flats in the same way as your prefolds, and when baby isn't pooping as often you can just padfold them in the covers. The nice thing about pockets and covers vs AIO's is that you can very easily adjust the absorbancy as your babe grows and their needs change (:
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I don't have favorite absorbances in practice yet because most of what I know about different fabrics has come from reading. I am, however, generally obsessed with natural fibers so I'll probably lean that way. What I don't know yet is how much absorbancy to have in a diaper. I play around with it, but sometimes it seems like my son's diaper is so thick that he can't walk quite normally and walks like a bow legged cowboy. 😆
Prefolds and thirsties covers. We we’re trying pockets but there just not for us I guess. We’re using oso cozy prefolds but she’s growing out of them and she’s such a heavy wetter at 3 months old so I’m investing in gmd medium prefolds. We usually do the jelly roll through and pad fold at night. At I didn’t like prefolds to much but as she’s gotten bigger and they fit I find they are great.
I’ve heard of some babies flooding so much that pockets can’t keep up with how fast the flow is. Are you using the Osocozy better fit prefolds?
Idk which they are they are long not wide blue edge. And yea we had leaks out of the legs with them but I didn’t have good absorption in them. However the other day we used a grovia bamboo blend medium size and she soaked it within a hour and a half. Which that’s not to bad bc I change her a lot. When we get the gmd I’m thinking of just getting the medium red edge and 1 pack of smalls to pad fold. She’s about 13 lb if I’m guessing.. what would you suggest?
But I also have 4 imagine prefolds I usually use at night to pad fold bc there thicker im hoping that’s how gmd prefolds are. I don’t mind bulk but everyone im around always had something to say 🙄. I’m ordering them tonight I just hope I get the correct size
I cloth diaper my 3 month old son with Alva and Nora’s nursery pocket diapers which I’ve been loving! ..I use charcoal bamboo and regular bamboo inserts during the day and then bamboo combined with a microfiber insert overnight. After watching one of your videos, I tried one of my cotton prefolds during the day and loved it! I don’t have any flats as of now but I do want to try a few and I also really want to get a few hemp inserts or prefolds for overnight because sometimes I will get a leak with the bamboo/microfiber combo :/ I love your videos btw! So informative and you’re super down to earth. I’m a first time mom and I learned so much from your videos about cloth diapering! “I don’t understand why more people don’t try it!” Believe it or not, those were my husbands words lol saves him money so he is a happy camper.
I’m glad I could help you with your journey and open you up to the world of flats and prefolds 💕
It’s awesome that your husband has such a positive attitude towards cloth 👏🏼
i love bamboo prefolds van blumchen.(NL)
GEFFEN!!! For some reason I don’t think Thirsties does as well as my Geffen. But I do like to just put the geffen alone and I can’t do that with Thirsties.
I haven’t tried either of them alone. I feel nervous to do that 🙈
Maybe Bailey from the cloth diaper Podcast and do an absorbency test on them. If not, I might attempt it!
I reach for my geffen over my thirsties though. I’ve formed a bond with them 😂 I’ve been using my geffen ones since willow was born and I love them!
Jay's Nest Yes I wish I could afford to put Geffen in all my pockets 😂. The super absorbers plus are what I have. She wets heavy from time to time, but she’s always dry with only one!
Im too scared to even do a fitted all the way through the night, but I do either my geffen, hemp fitted or Nickis bamboo flat with one change for night time!
I have enough diapers for two babies lol. So when we have our next that will be my big purchase! Just a ton of them 😂
Maybe I’ll try using just 1 geffen in the day to see how it holds. We always have huge stuffed diapers 😂 it’ll be weird to see a trim diaper. Lol
I could always use more inserts but diapers are much more fun to buy than inserts 🙈
Jay's Nest I know 😩. I’m in diaper jail. I’ll probably have enough for 4 kids when I have my next 😂😂😂. LMK how it holds!!! I hate the bulk! Lol
I’m in uk I am using one bamboo and one microfibre insert for my 22 month old
Most of my stash is from my daughter 6 years ago and from my sister's kids that she was given from a friend. I have sooo much but I don't know what anything is. And I cant remember which item worked well after its washed.
I love CD ... and I love your videos
What do you make your DIY stretchy flats with and how well do they absorb?
I use bamboo stretch French terry! I have a diy video it :
ruclips.net/video/bZ4V2dkfuUE/видео.html❤️
I'm new to cloth diapering and have been going through your videos. I know you mainly use flats now, but when you still used inserts did you ever consider making your own? We started cloth diapering with Alva pockets, their microfiber inserts, and FSTs but even doing a FST/microfiber combo isn't always enough for my 3 month old. Look around at all the inserts online is super overwhelming to me, and I was just thinking about making my own.
What are some of your favorite brands for pocket diapers? I am trying to find solutions for when I’ll have to take my child to nursery at 5 months!
What kind of fabric did you make your stretchy flats out of? 🙂
I used bamboo French stretch terry!
I made a very detailed video about what I used, where I got it, and how to make your own. It’s super easy 😊
Video here: ruclips.net/video/bZ4V2dkfuUE/видео.html
I have a silly question are muslin flats the one's I swaddled my baby at birth with Aden+Anais the same as the one's you can buy at like GMD & Nickis diapers ? Can I use my old swaddle blankets for stuffing my pockets or snappi that around him is it the same ?
Yes! They’re similar material! Not exactly the same but they’re from the same family of fabric.
A&A blankets are huge so they’d probably need to be cut down. But they’re the same concept. Also, they’re super absorbent!
When my baby gets here I'll be using flower sacks "flats" and
(I wanna) wash every 3 days I know every child is DIFFRENT but with your experience how many do you think I should get to be safe lol
Do you want to exclusively use FSTs?
For newborns I like to have 15 changes a day. So 45 changes for 3 days. But if your baby isn’t a super pooper then that will be VERY roomy.
Willow goes through like 10 a day now. Sometimes 8.
45 is about my sweet spot for my stash right now.
Also have extra to double up just in case. In my personal experience fst hold almost nothing. They are very easily out wet.
Yes ill be exclusively FST.
I have 30 pockets for them and 6 covers.
But 45 sounds good.
Thank you!!!!!!!! I have 50 of them lol but i wasn't sure if I should put them on my baby shower register or not.
I kinda over do it when I get stuff for baby's 😂
I highly suggest getting boosters if you can. During the Flats and Handwashing Challenge I got a bunch of hand towels to use as boosters! They’re SO absorbent. I forget which video I showed them in. I had a video clip of me at the store showing which ones I got. I think it might be the Flats Stash Cost video! If you’re on a tight budget I highly recommend them
what kind of material did you use to make your stretchy flat?
Bamboo stretch French terry! I have a video about the material I used, where you can get it, and the supplies you need. It’s super easy to do
ruclips.net/video/bZ4V2dkfuUE/видео.html
Hello Jay!
I would like to know the size of the smart bottoms hemp prefold (small or medium) that you showed in this video and also want to know whether thirties duo wrap size one work under the umbilical cord
I use size medium and large smart bottoms hemp prefolds.
Thirsties size 1 didn’t work for my youngest baby under the cord, but she was short with a short torso. It might work for longer babies though
Hey! Thank you for the quick response
Keep making more and more awesome videos
I want to cloth diaper was looking to buy some used the lady was selling 5 for 55 and they had holes in them and were in bad shape. Thats not a good deal when you can get 6 diapers a wetbag and vicose liners on amazon for 29.99. So i cannot find any used. Im wanting to use cloth so so bad. Also is the charcoal bamboo inserts good at absorbancy. My baby isnt a heavy wetter
There are definitely good deals out there but they can take time to find. That sounds like an awful deal and I hope no one buys that lol
Right thats why im thankful for your videos you have taught me a ton.
What is your favorite B\S/T site.
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