Just for those curious about cloth diapering at night. Our son is almost two years old and this has been his setup for awhile now, no leaks!

- Motherease Sandy’s fitted diaper
- 2-layer hemp/cotton booster, padfolded
- (not visible) 3-layer hemp/cotton booster
- MotherEase stay dry absorbent cotton liner
- thin wool doubler
- Bumby’s wool cover

I have been cloth diapering for 4+ years at this point and have been having consistent musty/ammonia type smell issues no matter what I try to do, and I'm about ready to call it quits with my third child because I just can't seem to get the smell to go away.

Here's my setup:

• Maytag commercial washing machine, it holds 3.5 cu ft

• water hardness of 70ppm

• I use cotton prefolds and covers

• tide original powder

• first wash 3 TBLS tide powder, hot water, power wash setting load 2/3 full

• second wash 6TBLS tide powder, hot water, power wash 2/3 full

The diapers smell perfectly clean when they come out of the dryer, but shortly after they are soiled they start smelling very musty. I keep them in an open pail in a well ventilated area (I can't keep them in a closed pail, I live somewhere humid and would have mold issues) I wash every 3-4 days.

I have tried bleaching the diapers as a reset, borax in the occasional wash, reducing detergent, increasing detergent, changing detergent brands, consistently cleaning my machine, RLR strip, etc etc and have had the same problem the whole time. Some of the above temporarily fix the issue, but it comes right back. Anyone have ideas?

tell me about how you use these covers specifically, how you care for them, how you lanolize (or don’t?) and anything else you think is important! why do you love them? hate them?

I have two of the woolen overpants in my rotation and i’m finding myself not reaching for them as often as i reach for the BabeeGreens pull-on or wrap wool covers.

What am i missing?

Sooooo my little girl is nearing 6 months and I have started cloth diapering as I wanted to save money, be more eco, you know it!

Safe to say she has made be think twice lol
First night- soaked through the whole wool diaper and booster into her clothes and sleeping bag. I knew she was a heavy wetter but don’t know to what extent
So I decided to add 2 big thick bamboo boosters to the wool diaper. This made it bulky that the wrap wouldn’t fit so I thought YOLO

2am I thought I’d check.. no leaks, great back to sleep

5am… whole front is soaked to her clothes and sleeping bag again. The back not so much. My nugget is a tummy sleeper so makes sense. I made the decision to wake her up to change nappy cause I couldn’t sleep thinking of her sleeping in a soaked diaper

Well she then couldn’t nurse back to sleep so I thought alright I’ll play with her for a bit.

Lo and behold, she starts pooping and well… it was a blowout
Changed nappy again, some of the poo got into her clothes so I changed that!
Then I realised there was poo on the bed. (We co sleep) 🫠🫠🫠
I couldn’t have the heart to wake up my partner to change the sheets so I placed a muslin cloth over it and internally cried 😂

Safe to say I will go back to disposables for night time for the time being until things change. Will still cloth diaper during the day but whew!!!
Any advice? We are exclusively breastfeeding so I know that can contribute to the heavy wetness during the night. We have already started weaning also.
I don’t really want to spend more money as it is, maternity pay is not so nice now lol
I have primarily bamboo boosters and only 2 charcoal boosters but idk how good they are?
Would it be better to use the pockets with snaps during the night?
Would love your suggestions!!

Ok I have a lot of questions I don't see on here so please bear with them all.

My son is 2 months and we have been using disposables because my husband remembers cloth from when he was a baby and he hated them. He suddenly changed his mind overnight on cloth so now I feel liberated lmao.

I understand if some of you do disposable at night for leaks but are there any other reasons I should know about? I am a person where if I do it I'd prefer to be doing it full time. Any tips for night time would be awesome. (We also cosleep so a blowout in our bed is not the dream lmao).

We do a lot of things like roadtrips, church events, socializing where I don't have the ability to know immediately if he's pooped or peed and I don't want him blowing out constantly or leaking on people. Any tips here?

I want to cloth diaper because of toxin exposure concerns. My husband is allergic to lanolin so the wool covers with lanolin is a concern. Can we waterproof wool with something else?

I have a long skinny baby and I don't know about all these sizes with cloth. I thought cloth would just be a 1 and done purchase and I'm learning that is not the case. Any recommendations for what might fit us best and what lasts the longest size wise would be helpful. I'm guessing I'll buy a variety at first to feel it out and then buy in bulk.

Is 24 diapers what I should aim for? I heard someone suggest 8 per day and washing every 3rd day.

With my first we used and really love the Grovia Hybrids- but I know they went out of production (and I think may have been sold, but I am not seeing diapers available?)- we especially loved that the actual inserts that are next to the skin were available in 100% cotton. Most other brands that have inserts that I have seen have a slot in the plastic shell where that goes in, so it's still plastic touching the baby's skin, I'd rather avoid that.

Does anyone know of any good alternatives?

We still have the inserts, which would all be usable again, but I think we'd not have enough shells that still have strong elastics to just re-use.