Today I tried putting Harvey in some of the small sized diapers because the tiny gDiapers were starting to seem a bit TOO snug on him. The size up fits great now! I can't believe he's moved up a size already, but that is a good thing . Hopefully at our appointment tomorrow they will confirm that he is in fact growing like it seems like he is. :)
Now, about the diapers. The ones I tried on him today were the small gDiapers, small GAD, a One Size FuzziBunz, and a One Size Rumparooz. No leaks out of any of the brands so far (though he pooped in the rumparooz right after I put it on him and then pooped in the fuzzibunz one just about 10 or 15 minutes later so I really don't know how they hold up yet). The GAD ones are still on my favorites list now that I have used them a few times. I just really liked the design and how soft the inside velour part is. I was hoping they'd work well and so far they seem to be great and fit him well. I also really like the gDiapers. They fit him really well and I think they are the trimmest fit out of all the diapers. I haven't had any trouble getting them to fit right like many people seem to complain about on reviews. I'm not sure what their problem is. Maybe the brand just didn't fit their particular baby? I just double checked inside the leg when I had it on to make sure the inside part was against his leg and then double checked that the top was done tightly enough. After a 3 or 4 hour nap both times he used them, he didn't have any leak issues at all.
I'm really happy with the cloth decision. I haven't felt overwhelmed by laundry or anything and it is really nice mentally because I don't really get as mad when he "wastes" a diaper by peeing on it during the change or pooping 5 minutes later. I know I will just wash it and use it again. Whereas with disposables it was kind of frustrating as it was a one-time use and I kept thinking "there goes another perfectly good diaper". Nick has actually really enjoyed them too because Harvey can stay in the same outfit all day and use the same blanket all day too. He also feels like the cloth fits him better. You can tell if it's fitting him correctly so you know to adjust it to stop leaks.
Harvey leaked through the disposables at least 70-75% of the time (maybe more) those first 3 days. Leaking so often was frustrating because we had to change his clothes each time because it would go all up on the side or front of his belly. Then we had to switch out blankets, any sheets on our bed or his crib that he happened to be laying on when the leak occured (he had leaked to our fitted sheet two times in a row so we had to sleep on our regular sheet one night), our shirts or pants if we were holding him, etc etc. Anything fabric that got soaked when it went through his clothes was added to the pile. We did laundry at least 2-3 times a day because of the dang leak issues those first few days before we made the switch to the cloth. Going from that to only having to wash the diapers once a day instead of everything he touched was really nice. Once all the inserts from the newborn ones are washed tonight we can use the size up and we'll have a bigger stash of diapers (we only had 13 newborn ones so we had to do it every day) so we should only have to do laundry every other day or every day and a half for the diapers. It's sort of funny to me how I feel like I'm doing less laundry now that we switched to cloth when a lot of people don't want to do cloth because of the laundry.
Here's to hoping the cloth experience continues in the direction it is going! I'm enjoying it so far and will update on the cloth experience again in a few months when we've had more time to REALLY test out all the brands. :)
