These are excellent item for
fastening prefolds and snapless fitteds.
Fastening your prefolds saves you money.
Use this pull - on wool cover over a fitted diaper over
a fastened prefold or as extra protection at nighttime.
The diapers come down a bit in rise when
you fasten the prefold, making them easier to fit the larger diapers in the smaller covers.
Snappis are another really great option to
fasten a prefold.
When using a Thirsties Diaper Cover, you will always need to
fasten the prefold.
A Snappi is a little rubber thing that lets
you fasten prefold diapers without pins, and reduce the danger of poking yourself or your baby.
Pull - ons have the advantage of being quick and easy to get onto a squirmy toddler (even if they're standing up), but they have the drawbacks that they can only be used with
fastened prefolds or fitted diapers.
Fastening a prefold can help with keeping BM's off your diaper covers and is more versatile than just laying the diaper in a wrap.
If you plan to use a wool or pull - on cover, you will need to
fasten your prefolds with Snappi or Boingo diaper fasteners, or good old fashioned safety pins!
How do I fold and
fasten prefold / flatfold diapers?
Use over a fitted diaper or
a fastened prefold.
This works over fitteds,
fastened prefolds or unfastened prefolds.
Not exact matches
My one quibble is that the thick center section of the
prefold is not always in the center of these diapers, which makes
fastening them with a snappi bulkier on one side than the other.
Prefolds are
fastened with either pins or a Snappi ®.
Prefolds can be
fastened with either a Snappi, pins or can be trifolded into a cover.
I keep going back to Imagine bamboo
prefolds, but I'm scared of having to fold /
fasten them, and I've heard padfolding results in poopsplosions all over the covers.
Size small cover over a medium red edge
prefold with the front folded down, Snappi
fastened, on a 4 month old 17 pound baby.
Using the infant sized
prefolds was easy,
fastening with a snappi or just tri-folding and laying into a cover.
Prefolds can be
fastened with a Snappi or simply folded and laid inside a diaper cover.
When I started cloth diapering, I couldn't see a use for a
prefold that
fastens in the back... until I had a toddler.
Covers are $ 6.50 each, but
prefolds must be
fastened with pins or a Snappi.
Prefold diapers may be trifolded, or folded and
fastened when using the Duo Wrap cover.
Just
fasten over a
Prefold or fitted.
Traditional
prefolds are sized to wrap around baby and be
fastened diaper pins or diaper fasteners.
Other types of cloth diapers, like
prefolds or flats, require you to
fasten the diaper with diaper pins or a fastener as demonstrated below.
The Fitted diaper category lives in the space between
Prefolds (flat, square, cotton / bamboo diapers that require folding and pining to
fasten onto baby and need a cover to be waterproof) and the more modern Pocket Diaper or All In One (waterproof, has either snaps or hook / loop features so that it can
fasten onto baby.)
I didn't like
fastening a fitted diaper and then adding a cover, or
fastening on a
prefold diaper and then a cover.
Another amazing way to help diaper rash is to go coverless with fitteds, or with
prefolds and flats
fastened with pins.
Fastening a fitted and cover at 2 and 4 am can be a tad easier than folding a
prefold, using a Snappi and then tucking the edges in a cover.
Like flats and
prefolds, you still have to
fasten them with separate snaps or pins and layer your cutie's diapered derriere with a waterproof cover.
You don't have to pin them if you don't want to — just lay the
prefold or flat diaper in the cover,
fasten the cover, and everything will stay in place.
Two worthwhile pointers for choosing reusable cloth diapers are to look for hook and loop
fastenings as these can make the diaper fit a growing baby better, and snap in one varieties or
prefolds with a PUL cover are easier to dry than all in ones.
This diaper can be wrapped around your baby and
fastened with a diaper fastener OR you can simply trifold the
prefold and lay it inside your favorite diaper cover or pocket diaper.
This tagless
prefold allows you to
fasten your diaper where you want without working around a pesky tag.
Boingo - used to
fasten terry nappies,
prefolds and fitted nappies that don't have a
fastening like sloomb multifits or minis.
size large brown edge
prefold,
fastened, on a big 25 pound 1 year old.
The cover actually held the
prefolds ok with no
fastening because of the interior flaps.
It fits over everything,
prefolds or fitted diapers, but note that
prefold diapers must be
fastened under pull - on style covers.
Some babies need the absorbency of size large
prefolds but they are too long to trifold into Flips at the largest rise setting but they can be smooshed down in there or
fastened but the brown edge size large
prefolds really are longer than fits into a Flip when trifolded.
When using Thirsties Duo Wraps, you can simply trifold the
prefold, lie it in the wrap, and
fasten around your baby.
However, if your diaper service diapers are flats /
prefolds, you'd have to
fasten them with pins or Snappi to use a pull - on cover.
If you use
prefolds, the snappi makes
fastens easy as pie.