what diaper brand is best?

[HonneyEdwina]

In my exoerience, I think Mamy Poko and Huggies are not bad

[agnes4eva]

in australia, huggies is the 'top' brand, it is pretty good, absorbs pretty well and minimal leakage.
i have tried target, woolworths select and also baby love.
mamy poko brand (from malaysia or singapore) is the 'best' brand as it can absorbs very well (a lot) and can last long hours and still remain dry. baby love seems to be similar to mamy poko.
depends which country you are in, you have different 'top' brands. if you are in australia, i highly recommend you to go to baby expo (once a year) and you will receive different diaper samples and you could try on bub. it depends on the bub's butt size as well.
i have looked into cloth diaper, it cost a lot initially but long term, it saves a lot and it's much better for baby (no chemicals etc). also, they can last very long (reusable for the next bub too).
i plan to change miss R to cloth nappies (have a few given to us) at 6 months when she starts taking solids. i am just worried that since i do laundry every 2 days that the cloth nappies (we have 5-6) won't last and won't dry fast enough. if that happens, i may buy more.
to prevent nappy rash, initially (1-2 months) i changed her diaper every 3-4 hours regardless if it's full. if her skin starts getting red, i applied sudocream on the area and it soothes it. a good practice is too use a warm wet cloth to wipe the area during each nappy change and give the bub some nappy free time as well. there are many organic baby balm (e.g. only papaya) for nappy rash in the market - check out those that contains chamomile, calendula and pawpaw.   

[Skylark]

Agnes4Eva,

Yes, you would need to have more cloth diapers for diapering full time. However if you are planning to do EC, then 5-6 would be enough. Baby usually goes potty every hour or more during the day, so you can calculate.

We never used diapers with our daughter, and she used her potty sometimes twice every hour and at different time of the day every hour and a half from birth. With our son we used diapers during a few different periods -- one time when we changed continents (it was freezing cold when we arrived to Europe, and we decided to use diapers when we were going out for a longer periods of time, just in case we would not be able to find the bathroom inside) and then another time when I had our third baby, and our little boy had a hard time zipping and unzipping his pants on his own. We have about 10 diaper covers ( which we bought on ebay for an awesome deal) and we have about 30 liners (which we made ourselves). You only need to change diaper cover once in a while as diaper liners usually absorb everything and you can most of the times change just diaper liner. In our case we always had tons of clean and dry diapers ready to use. I would say we would have had easily managed with 15 liners and 5-6 covers.

[agnes4eva]

Hi skylark,

Thanks for the advice. I'm really impressed that you didn't use diapers on your daughter and potty train from day 1!! It's amazing. At the moment, I'm potty training her (just the bowel) and most of the time she would open her bowel in the morning (in the potty) and then just urine in diaper the rest of the day. She could sit pretty well with support but not turning yet or crawling. My mom bought me lots of mamy poko diapers so most probably will let her wear cloth nappy during the day. There are so many different brands out there. The bamboo ones seems to take a long while to dry. I've looked around and Grovia seems to be the easiest to use. The ones given to us are pocket cloth nappies, not sure if its easy to use. using cloth nappies full time could cost a lot approx $500, I would like to have a go on the second one next time (hopefully our finances are much stable then),

[Skylark]

Thank you, Agnes4Eva, Actually, if finances are of concern, cloth diapering is much much cheaper! You do not need to get most expensive brand, or even a brand at all,  that they are natural and you can get excellent deals on Etsy or EBay (for the same thing, just not bought at the fancy store) or even make some yourself ( there are a lot of DIY tutorials on line) we got ours on eBay brand new for $40 ten of them, and then we invested in good quality natural materials ( about $80--100) and made our own inserts, so the whole lot cost us under $150. For the same things, that others payed aout $800 just for a brand name writen on the cover  When we travelled across the world on one of our trips and had to get disposables couple of times it costed us already half of that price!

As far as our kids we actually never did potty train them, since they have not used diapers, there was no need to, just listened to them and followed their clues. And by 2-3 months they also would ask audibly. So I don't think I can take any credit for that, it was not much of our accomplishment, and we did not do much to make it happen, in fact I did not know anything about ECing at all at that point. we just knew that she did not want to use diapers and was very keep to communicate with us her needs.

Good luck to you with using cloth diapers, it is very easy and baby looks so much cuter, then wrapped in plastic and paper wrapping

In the meantime, while you have to use disposables here is a tip - judge the diapers not by how long they will hold between changes, but by how much less chemical ingredients were used in their making. So probably the ones that would last not that long (less absorbing chemicals) would be much better for the baby! We need to remember it is not about convenience for a parent, but about safety and health fr the baby.

[Korrale4kq]

You can have a full cloth diaper stash for under $100 easily. It does not need to be $500.

I like to keep it simple. If I did over I would nix the fancy brands and just use flats, prefolds and wool.

[deenamathew]

I've always heard that huggies is better for little girls and pampers for little boys, but it's probably best to try a small pack out and open them that way in small packs.  you never know what your child may be allergic to and some have very sensitive skin.  you can return unopened packages.

[LoveMyBabies]

I know this might be a little off topic but I wanted to post it here because it is a little related to diapers.  My child is two years old and not potty trained.  I am 39 weeks pregnant so it is becoming harder to squat down and teach potty.  I have tried so many things.  I tried using the bathroom and demonstrating.  I have tried keeping him in underwear with no diaper but he just uses the bathroom on the floor.  I tried explaining to him not to do this and to call me when he is ready.  I tried taking him to the potty every ten minutes.  Nothing seems to be working.  He is now at the point where he will call me and say "ka ka" after he already uses the bathroom.  If anyone has tips, please help.

[anyagujraal]

I like cloth diapers of bamboo.

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