Here's a little peak at the start of my "newborn stash". I'm 24 weeks into the making of our newest little babe. The idea to cloth diaper didn't come around until Asher, our 3rd baby, was 6 months old. I had no idea what to buy, so I went with cuteness. The diapers I used for Asher worked well enough, but I've found that all those synthetic fibers eventually begin to stink.
This time around, my husband and I decided to go with 100% organic cotton. My searches continually lead me bak to Green Mountain Diapers, and I finally took the plunge and ordered a dozen organic newborn and a dozen organic small prefolds. They looked like this when I started.
We ordered the orange edge and the yellow edge to start.
I went searching right away for a tutorial to convert my prefolds (flat diaper square) to a fitted cloth diaper. I found an excellent tutorial here:
So, this is how Grandma and I spent our Sunday afternoon...whipping up adorable fitted diapers for my little sweetness.
The inside of the diapers.
Here's the outside. I should add that I purchased a set of snap pliers and colored snaps from kamsnaps.com. My cost per diaper was just over $3 (including the cost of the snap pliers and snaps). GMD sells fitted non-organic diapers similar to these (converted from prefold to fitted) for about $10 per diaper. Yay for savings...and yay for saving my baby's tiny tush from disposables that are loaded with chemicals!
We also bought 6 of the GMD 100% cotton sherpa flats, and we used the same tutorial to whip these up. I'm so thankful that my Momma taught me to sew when I was growing up (and that she's here now to help me with all my ideas and projects)! Thanks, Mom.
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