Cloth Baby Diapers

For people who want a more natural way to diaper their babies, using cloth diapers can be intimidating at first. It seems as though no matter how you put the cloth baby diapers on, they always fall off or they end up leaking on your brand new shirt. There are many methods for diapering a baby. All you need to do is learn one method that works for you and stick with it.

The square diaper is assumed to be the most difficult to use when cloth diapering. There may be a few more steps required, but it is really not very hard to do. You can use a couple of different methods. Try them and then choose the one that you are most comfortable with. Do not forget that you will need diaper pins and cloth diaper covers.

If you want to try the easiest method for using a square cloth diaper then you will lay out the diaper. Put the baby on the diaper and the take the end that is closet to you. Flip it over on itself so that it has an hourglass shape. Fold this around the baby’s waist and pin.

To pin the diaper, there is one tip and this is the most important if not obvious one. Never poke the baby with the pin. You can avoid doing this by placing the fingers of your left hand underneath the band of the diaper and where you are going to place the pin. When you insert the pin with the right hand, you will know if you go too far and you will poke yourself, not the baby!

Another method is to put the baby on the diaper with the narrower end underneath the baby. This is easier with a padded diaper but will work with the square diaper as well. Once you have the baby on the diaper, you will fold the two sides over to make a V shape. There will not be a large point as you want to have a few inches for the top of the diaper.

You will then bring the point end up between the baby’s legs. If the point end is a little long, you can fold it under and pin through it. Use the same pinning procedure as you used when doing the other fold. Again, you do not want to poke the baby.

If you have already decided that you do not feel comfortable pinning a cloth diaper on to a baby, you will want to look into another type of cloth diaper. You can get a cloth diaper that will be put on by Velcro. This issue with this is that the Velcro can some times get clogged and then it will not fasten properly.

Those who want to use cloth diapers should really not be intimidated by the pinning process. Practice with a doll until you get the hang of it. You can use many different types of folds that will allow you to choose the one that you are most comfortable with.