These ARE your grandma’s cloth diapers!

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Perhaps the most common expression I’ve heard since beginning my cloth diaper journey over a year ago is, “They’re not your grandma’s diapers!”  This statement is so true! Cloth diapers have come a long way from the gauze flats and cotton prefolds my mother and grandmother used. I often found myself wondering why on earth would anyone choose to use flats or prefolds other than out of necessity? With the modern cloth diapers available today, I could not figure out why people wanted to … [Read more...]

Have you checked us out on Youtube? You should!

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Here at Diaper Junction we've been hard at work growing our selection of Youtube videos.  We're developing videos designed to help make cloth diapering easy on you.    From reviews of popular cloth diapers to tutorials on how to fold flats and prefolds, we've got some great videos so far and even more on the way! Make sure you follow our Youtube Channel, favorite the videos you like, and leave us comments on our videos letting us know if you like them.   We love feedback and love … [Read more...]

My Mom’s Story sheds some light on the reason behind the #FlatsChallenge.

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Preparing for the Flats and Handwashing Challenge:  My Mom's Story I have always known that my parents used cloth diapers for the first 2 or 3 of their 7 total children.   I knew because they taught me how to put these diapers on my siblings—pins and all.  In fact, my parents’ good example was the reason that using cloth crossed my mind in the first place.  I sort of remembered some of their frustrations with pins and leaky rubber pants, but with our tight grocery budget on the line, I … [Read more...]

Cloth Diapers, a luxury item? Shouldn’t it be the other way around?

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Lately the world wide web and especially cloth diapering communities have been buzzing around recent news articles bringing to light the fact that low-income families are having trouble affording diapers.  Not only are they having trouble simply affording them, they're resorting to attempting to reuse soiled disposable diapers and/or knowingly leaving them on their babies for as long as possible in order to try and stretch the amount of use they can get out of a package of … [Read more...]

Fall in LOVE with One Size Cloth Diapers!

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Cloth Diapering with One Size Cloth Diapers. I love one size diapers! In fact, I can say that about 95 percent of my stash is made up of one size diapers. Most of those sized diapers and covers that I do own, are currently sitting in a “to sell” pile because I just don’t like having diapers around that I can’t use—even if it is because they have already been used or will be used in the future. I think the biggest reason, though, that I love one-size diapers is because they save … [Read more...]

Cloth Diapering with Wool, Now I am a believer!

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The first time I heard about wool as an option for a water-resistant diaper cover, I just didn’t believe it. How on earth could something made of wool hold water? So I smiled and nodded, but never really considered the option of buying a wool cover to go over my daughter’s prefolds and fitted diapers. As time passed and I just kept hearing about the wonderful properties of wool, my curiosity was understandably piqued. All natural, breathable, a great cure for diaper rash, … [Read more...]

Now Old School Moms can enjoy the best of both worlds!

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In the cloth diapering community there are usually different types of cloth diaper fans.  There are those who use cloth solely for economical    reasons and strive to use the most basic cloth necessities; prefolds, snappi, cover and that's it.  They often can't justify the extra money spent on fancy modern diapers with all the bells and whistles in cute prints and luxurious fabrics, " it's just a diaper after all" is their mentality and they take pride in using "old school" cloth diapering … [Read more...]