Okay, I was on YouTube looking at cloth diapering videos and came across a video showing how to fold a receiving blanket to make a diaper. Has anyone actually used these as cloth diapers? If so, did you put a plastic cover over it? Did you use them on a continuous basis or only if you didn‘t have diapers? I‘m just curious how it would work if I tried to use them and not actual cloth diapers. So basically I‘m asking for you experience in using them? Thanks!
I did before I could afford to spend $5-15 on each diaper. I didn't put a cover on them. Just pinned onto my baby. They leak everywhere if not changed within a reasonable amount of time. So if you are going to do it, make sure you change when they are just slightly damp.
Are you serious? These are the original cloth diapers. These were what were used before disposables were invented, and what many people who annot afford disposables use today. The plasticky PVC cloth diapers with inserts that you see today have only been around for a couple of years, they are a reasonably new invention, and people DID use cloth to cloth diaper their babies before this invention. This is probably what your mother used on you (unless you are young - which I assume you are if you can be this stupid.) THESE are the actual cloth diapers.
I'm a bit surprised at the unpleasantness in your first answer - stupid questions deserve being called out as stupid, but this question is perfectly reasonable. Your first answer doesn't even appear to understand what you mean by a plastic cover - an uncharitable person might call their answer stupid, if they were so inclined. I don't have experience using a receiving blanket. I have, however, used terry towelling and muslin cloths for this purpose - just squares of material, folded a particular way. They aren't expensive as prefolds, modern cloth ones etc. You don't need to use safety pins anymore, those rubber stretchy things you can get to hold them together work nicely. They do normally need to be soaked to clean though. You should NOT use a plastic cover over cloth nappies (would you wear plastic underpants? same concept). Use a second wrap over the actual nappy, and cross your fingers. Carry spare clothes when you go out (you probably would anyway even with disposables). Is it as easy as the snap together ones? No, it's not. They will leak. You will have a sneaky bag of disposables for those times you're in a hurry and just can't be bothered. Is it cheaper and more environmentally responsible than disposables? Absolutely.
I did before I could afford to spend $5-15 on each diaper. I didn't put a cover on them. Just pinned onto my baby. They leak everywhere if not changed within a reasonable amount of time. So if you are going to do it, make sure you change when they are just slightly damp.
Are you serious? These are the original cloth diapers. These were what were used before disposables were invented, and what many people who annot afford disposables use today. The plasticky PVC cloth diapers with inserts that you see today have only been around for a couple of years, they are a reasonably new invention, and people DID use cloth to cloth diaper their babies before this invention. This is probably what your mother used on you (unless you are young - which I assume you are if you can be this stupid.) THESE are the actual cloth diapers.
I'm a bit surprised at the unpleasantness in your first answer - stupid questions deserve being called out as stupid, but this question is perfectly reasonable. Your first answer doesn't even appear to understand what you mean by a plastic cover - an uncharitable person might call their answer stupid, if they were so inclined. I don't have experience using a receiving blanket. I have, however, used terry towelling and muslin cloths for this purpose - just squares of material, folded a particular way. They aren't expensive as prefolds, modern cloth ones etc. You don't need to use safety pins anymore, those rubber stretchy things you can get to hold them together work nicely. They do normally need to be soaked to clean though. You should NOT use a plastic cover over cloth nappies (would you wear plastic underpants? same concept). Use a second wrap over the actual nappy, and cross your fingers. Carry spare clothes when you go out (you probably would anyway even with disposables). Is it as easy as the snap together ones? No, it's not. They will leak. You will have a sneaky bag of disposables for those times you're in a hurry and just can't be bothered. Is it cheaper and more environmentally responsible than disposables? Absolutely.
