Cheap cloth diapers

My husband and I started using cloth diapers on our darling daughter Hannah many months ago. We chose flat diapers because they were cheapest, and also used some pre-folds that had been given to us. But when Hannah began sleeping through the night, she began waking up in puddles of pee-pee.... the cheap diapers just couldn't stand up to all that wetness.

Because it's both a shame and a crime to wake a sleeping baby, I was not eager to consider the option of waking her for a mid-night diaper change.

So we started using disposable diapers at night. And because it's the cheapest way to buy them, we purchased the great big economy package of diapers. So because we had about 150 paper diapers lying around at any given time, we found ourselves reverting to our old ways. Hannah was only wearing cloth ablout half the time...and we were throwing good money in the trash.

The answer is a good quality cloth fitted diaper, but those can cost anywhere from 12 -20 dollars EACH, not including shipping costs!!! Not an option.

But this week we were in Sears with a gift card we'd been given and found some Kushies fitted cloth diapers. We bought a pack of 8 for 36 dollars! Can you believe that?

They are great. They work wonderfully at night time, so we can stop throwing money away on disposables! Right now we only use them at night and nap time because we only have 8 of them, but in time we'll get more and use them all the time for both babies (I'm due with baby #2 on Sunday!!!)

We use the Kushies diaper wraps on top of them, which is what we were using with the flat diapers too. They only come in velcro, which doesn't seem to stay on very well when Hannah is running and playing, so I think I'm going to swing by my friendly neighbourhood dollar store and get some little snaps to sew on.

Anyways, for those of you who can't make it out to a Sears store (I think it's a Canadian chain) here's the Kushies website where you can buy them. These are by far the best priced fitted diapers i've seen anywhere.

Happy diapering!

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