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Top Tips For Dealing With Diaper Blowouts 💩
Let's be honest, blowouts are a lot less common when babies wear cloth diapers compared to when they wear disposables. But 💩 happens and sometimes it happens in a BIG way. This is a new parent's worst nightmare and no one wants to be stuck dealing with a smelly, uncomfortable mess, especially in public. If this is you, you're not alone and there are lots of ways to at least make a 'poo-splosion' less catastrophic. So what can you do to keep it contained in even the most extreme circumstances?

First, know your enemy. What causes a diaper blowout in the first place?
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How To Fold Flat Cloth Diapers

Personally, I like doing just a quick pad fold into a rectangle shape and then you can use them in a pocket diaper, or pop them in any cover. But if you want something more advanced and origami style...here you go, a tutorial just for you.

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Is Your Cloth Diaper Delaminated?
How do you know if your cloth diaper is delaminated? Is there a way to tell if the PUL or the TPU has been compromised or if that's the cause of your diaper leaks? Yes, it's easy to tell the...
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The Best Lactation Cookies For Breastfeeding (Or Anytime)
I struggled to breastfeed my babies and I tried everything to boost my milk supply: domperidone medication, blessed thistle and fenugreek, moringa, all the oatmeal and more. Tinctures and pills and teas and whatever else I could find, I tried it. I...
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The Ammonia Fix Trick
Do your cloth diapers have ammonia smell? Have you washed them and stripped them and used bleach and RLR and GroVia Mighty Bubbles and OxiClean and extra rinses and washes to no avail? Do they still have a tiny hint...
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Can I Use A Diaper Cover As A Swim Diaper?
NO! Don't do it! Diaper covers are laminated to be water resistant which means they work great at keeping wetness in when used over a fitted or prefold cloth diaper. If you use this same material in the swimming pool,...
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Should I Buy Newborn Size Cloth Diapers?
This is a question we get a lot here at Cloth Diaper Kids. Should you buy newborn cloth diapers, or go straight to one size cloth diapers. Those itty bitty newborn diapers look so sweet and adorable it is hard to resist them, but to invest in a whole bunch of tiny newborn diapers that get outgrown so quickly can be a major deterrent to considering them at all.
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Don't Use Dryer Sheets With Your Cloth Diapers
So, if you’ve been using cloth diapers, you likely already know that you shouldn’t use commercial dryer sheets in the dryer. But why?
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Cloth Diaper Terms and Acronyms
Are you researching cloth diapers and coming across lots of lingo you don't understand? There's lots of abbreviations, acronyms and funny terms when it comes to cloth diapers sometimes, so here's what all the shorthand means. Hopefully it'll make browsing...
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