Nearly 14 months in, we’re still using cloth diapers. We do use disposables, however, when we go out of town. When we were in England Jack was wearing disposables, and I said to Chris, “He looks so skinny!” before I realized it was because he didn’t have his usual cloth diaper butt.
I’m still happy with them, and happy with our diaper service. I don’t know if I’d do cloth if I had to wash them on my own. I’ve had to buy some new diaper covers (we own those) because they seem to lose their waterproofness over time.
We upgraded to the “super absorbent” ones because we were having some issues with leaking, and now we only need to use one at night.
The biggest disadvantage to using cloth: finding pants that fit. Jack is pretty short and the length of most 1-year pants is either fine or too long, but most 1-year pants don’t fit over his cloth diaper. Even some of the 18-month pants (that have zippers) don’t fit. The 18-month elastic waist seem to be best, and we have to roll up the pants. I just bought some 18-month shorts though and those are great.. they’re long on him, but that’s fine.
At the moment we”re planning staying with cloth until he’s potty trained.
