Cloth Diaper Kids Official Blog

Nobody bought the cloth diapers on your registry did they. 

You spent so much time researching, figuring out what you needed to prepare your home for your new addition and you really hoped guests would select from the list of things you needed.  Instead you got knitted sweaters, disposable diapers, a duplicate of the baby chair you already had and a lot of unsolicited advise from your Aunt Karen while she tried to rub your belly. 

Nothing against pocket diapers, but it’s not what you want for nighttime cloth diapering. If you want leak free cloth diapering overnight, you want a fitted cloth diaper.  Here's what a nighttime set up might look like:

It's easy to look up potty training tips and readiness signs when your baby becomes a toddler and your child might even take to potty learning very easily, but what do you do when potty training doesn't go as smoothly as you hoped. 

With our four kids, we had many challenges so I thought I'd share a few things that helped for us. 

Is your toddler ready to jump into potty learning? Summertime is a great season to start the process if your little one is ready because it's a lot easier to run around without pants in the warmer weather. 

As much as we all love the reusability aspect of cloth diapers, they don't live forever.  After 200 or 300 washes, most cloth diapers are ready to retire.  Of all the components on a modern cloth diaper, elastics might be the first piece to snap, relax or dissolve. To keep this from happening prematurely, so you can get the full life out of your diapers, here's 5 things to keep in mind.

Yes I said clean your washing machine.  No, it's not an oxymoron.  Machines need to be cleaned and maintained so they can do the dirty job of cleaning dirty laundry - and your cloth diapers properly. Is it hard? No. Just one of those 'adulting' things no one told you about. Here's how to do it and how often it needs to be done.