They are much easier to
use than prefolds but are also more expensive.
Newborn fitted cloth diapers are easier and faster to
use than prefolds and flats but you will pay more for that convenience.
Not exact matches
Much of that time we
used much more «high - tech» cloth diapers
than prefolds.
• Have a learning curve to
use, even more so
than prefolds.
(It also makes cleaning up messy diapers easier, since poop sprays off of suedecloth more easily
than it does off of natural fibers) If you plan to
use this diaper cover as an all - in - two or cover over flats or
prefolds, you'll be glad to hear that you can buy these liners separately too!
For less
than $ 10, you can have a cloth diaper that you can
use for your baby's
prefold and still continue to
use it until he is old enough not to wear diapers because it can fit babies up to 36 lbs.
After doing a lot of research, I was set in wanting to
use pocket diapers rather
than prefold, but decided that if I wanted to be full - blown into cloth diapering, I needed a small stash of
prefolds.
You'll need to take along your snappis, diaper pins, or boingos if you plan on
using prefolds or flat diapers and you
use any folds other
than the pad fold.
So this is a little trimmer
than using two
prefolds.
In addition, an AI2 system is a bit less complicated
than using prefolds, flats, or fitteds under a covered diaper because it's a quick process: just open the diaper, and switch the inserts.
However, we
used infant size
prefolds and small (rather
than newborn) covers.
If you
use a
prefold that is slightly longer
than necessary, you can either fold down in the back or the front, placing more absorbency in one of those two areas.
We
use Gerber (don't buy them, sadly I did, they have terrible water retention properties) which have a looser weave
than my other
prefolds.
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.
The shell is narrower and trimmer
than a regular diaper cover, so you won't be able to add a doubler to it if you
use it with
prefolds.
The covers fit longer
than the fitted diapers, so I was able to continue
using them with
prefolds once I had sent back my rental diapers.
My son just started daycare a few mornings a week, and the center he's at would like easier diapers
than the
prefolds and covers we typically
use.
I'm not really
using my fitted diapers and
prefolds that much since I got more
than 50 pocket diapers but I
use the diaper cover nonetheless to prevent my heavy wetter boy from leaking.
* You can actually spend much, much less
than $ 700 on a full set of cloth diapers if you opt for an economy system such as
prefolds and covers, an all - in - two system, or by purchasing gently
used diapers!