We have been cloth dia­per­ing K and A for a while now. A has worn mostly cloth since he came home from the hos­pi­tal, and K has been in cloth since May. When A was very small, he had Kissaluv dia­pers with (mostly) Thirsties cov­ers. K has always worn Bum Genius One Size diapers.

Once A got to be about 12 or 13 pounds, we moved him into the Bum Genius dia­pers, too. It was won­der­fully con­ve­nient. They both wore the same dia­per. We sep­a­rated them by color. K wore all blue dia­pers, and A wore the green and yel­low. This helped us avoid hav­ing to snap and unsnap the dia­pers to resize them over and over. Another ben­e­fit of the dia­pers is that they fit babies from 10 pounds to 35 pounds. We bought enough for our boys, and at that point, we we were done buy­ing dia­pers for­ever! Per­fect, right?

Unfor­tu­nately, no. Some time after A started wear­ing the Bum Genius dia­pers, he started get­ting a con­tact rash on his tummy and around his legs. So, for about a month now, I’ve been try­ing to fig­ure out what could be caus­ing the rash. Is it too much deter­gent? Not enough deter­gent? Is there not enough absorp­tion in the insert? Am I chang­ing him often enough? I’ve got­ten nowhere. I am hav­ing to admit to myself that it is pos­si­ble that he is sen­si­tive to the suede­cloth that lines the diapers.

Both Jason and I are frus­trated with this con­clu­sion. Unfor­tu­nately for us, the Bum Genius dia­pers are pretty expen­sive, and we have quite a few of them. It’s look­ing like we are going to have to either keep them for later and hope that A is less sen­si­tive at that point or buy new dia­pers. At this point, going back to dis­pos­ables is not an option that we are inter­ested in. There are so many ben­e­fits to using cloth dia­pers, and we like the dia­pers, so it’s hard to con­sider a return to disposables.