My husband’s biggest complaint is that the cloth diapers are too bulky. My baby doesn’t mind, but he’s convinced that she’s uncomfortable. He’ll still use them but grudgingly.

After reading this, I am very lucky to have a partner who very quickly came around to the thought of using cloth diapers! We ignorantly switched to disposables for a short while because we were dealing with a yeast diaper rash and it was just TERRIBLE. The very first disposable we put on, we had a “poosplosion”! She was red ALL THE TIME in the disposable, AND the smell of the disposable was just disgusting! We’ll never switch back to disposables for ANY reason…

And my partner told me after the whole disposable experience “yaknow, I really do LIKE changing the CLOTH diapers!”

I was “underground” for YEARS with my first 2 kids. Went all out with my 3rd and you know what hubby never really changed diapers no matter WHAT we used unless I was away from the baby. I’d ask but the baby would STILL be screaming 20 minutes later and still in the same dirty diaper! But he changed the baby promptly if I was out of the house, hmm. I just made cloth as easy for him as I could and eventually when one of his co-workers started complaining about THEIR crazy wife, hubby piped in with all the changes in the past 11 years and the not so crazy after all remark! and it’s FUN with out having to drag marketing characters into the mix! leopard print check! harry potter check! purple dinos, not if I have any say in it! lol!

lol I love the paper underwear suggestion, luckily my hubby is already on board for CDing!

When I first started pushing for cloth diapers my hubby just rolled his eyes. We have been using them for about 2 months now on our 14 month old daughter and the other day I overheard him telling a friend who is also a daddy that “cloth diapers are definitely the way to go. Man, you should see how much money we are saving.” This even comes 2 days after he was left at home with our little one by himself, and had to change 4 stinky’s! (Generally, I am the poopie changer if I am home). I will say that if he has to change the poopie CD I will find it on the back porch rather than the diaper pail when I get home, but all in all I really think cloth diapering has caught on with my husband.

You should also push the smell factor. That’s an underused selling point. Never once has my daughter’s diaper pail smelled so bad that I had to take it out of her room. In fact, when I put a soiled diaper in the pail and close the lid, I don’t smell anything. With my nephew’s diapers (his mom puts him in dispoables) WHOOOOOOOOO! It’s awful! One diaper could stink up the whole house! Even when he was exclusively breastfed, it was just terrible. The polymer in sposies, I’m convinced, makes the smell of baby’s waste smell worse than it naturally does. Friends of mine who also cloth diaper have said the same thing. And for that matter, disposable sanitary napkins do the same thing. Since I switched MYSELF to a menstrual cup, there have been no odors of any kind to account for.

I’m lucky that my husband originally wanted to use cloth diapers because he hates waste and also the high cost of disposables. If any ladies out there have issues with dads, the best bet is to push the cost of diapers! I also agree with Denise about the smell. Disposables unused even have an unnatural and unpleasant odor that overwhelms that cute baby smell.

Hahaha, i’m so glad that so many of ya’ll had husbands who were so willing to use cloth! Mine needed MUCH convincing. I finally got him with the cost. I broke it down for him and told him what we could buy instead. After I said we could get a new LCD tv with the money we would save, he was on board!

I got my husband with the cost too. He said, “Why didn’t we start this when he was born?” (he’s one). Now I just need to find the ones I like :)

My husband made me promise before we were married that we would “always have icecream in the freezer and that we would always use disposable diapers.” When he decided to go to medical school when my daughter was one, however, I got him on the money we could save. We plan on having a few children in medical school, so rather than at least $3000 of student loans, we will now be paying ~$400 on everything, even electricity and detergent (we hang dry and make our own detergent).

I’m so lucky that my hub was on board with cloth. He just won’t use the prefolds and covers so, gee darn, I was forced to buy some all in ones for him. :-) My friend, however, isn’t so lucky–her husband flat out refuses to use cloth, despite my attempts to show him how great it is.

My husband is on board. He hasn’t complained one time. Our son has terrible eczema and he knows that cloth is better for him!! (plus, he’s excited about saving a little money:)

When I first told my husband I wanted to use cloth he forbid me! LOL, not how it works, sorry. She’s 3 weeks old and has yet to change a cloth diaper. In his defense he is in the military and not home much anyway, but he really has no choice but to come around. I really doubt he’s going to make a special trip to the store to buy diapers.

I was not at all in the know about the changes to cloth, until friends of ours who are expecting in September said they were thinking about the BumGenius CD. I started researching, and wow, was I impressed. My hubby, on the other hand was not on board at all. He got the savings part, but was worried that they would take time away from other things that needed to be cleaned in the house. After listening to him complain, I just ordered a few to try. And just kept adding to the stash :) He doesn’t do the laundry, ever, so he had nothing to worry about. He’s gotten over it, and doesn’t complain anymore :)

As a guy, I am appalled that more men are not taking an active role in the rearing of their own children. I can’t imagine not doing laundry. I grew up in a household that if you got it dirty, you cleaned it up.
I love cloth diapers because of the environmental reasons and cost. But I do disagree with the poo argument. I get much more poo on my hands with cloth than anything else. But it’s nothing that a little soap can’t handle. Off to do an errand for my wife…

My husband wasn’t wild about CDing either, so I just bought a few to try out myself, and then once he got used to the idea and saw how easy it was for me, he agreed to do it too! We both work, but I work every other weekend, and this weekend was his first with using the cloth diapers. There were no complaints last night…so apparently it’s not as bad as he thought! I think it helps too that I promised to do all the washing of them (I do the majority of the laundry anyway, so no biggie – he does the kitty box, so I think it’s a fair trade!).

I totally agree!! Even though my daughter is now 2, we are slowly making the switch. SO is looking for a new job right now and we can’t afford the $15 every week! It’s not feasible right now! So we have 4 CD right now and He’s totally adjusted. He was against it, but as soon as he saw her in one he started asking questions, we openly talked about it. I answered all his questions and now he’s on board with it! I have since purchased 3 more and they should be here this week!! I paid as much for them as I did for 2 weeks of diapers! Not bad. And with these 7 diapers I should be able to cloth diaper her full time. I also have always done the changing so That’s not an issue here. I also do all the laundry so again, NOT a problem!!