inside the box: gDiapers
gDiapers: the breathable, flushable diaper
I’m 31 weeks and starting to realize that I don’t have months and months to get ready for the baby anymore. :-) It’s strange because I feel like the deadline has crept up on me. The stroller, a mocha Orbit, has been ordered and should come tomorrow. (Pictures, I promise!) Other than that, we’re pretty low-key on the material stuff. I’m setting up the changing station in the bathroom next to the bedroom, and have the general stuff & layout planned in my head.
I’d really like to try cloth diapering as much as possible, and the spouse and I have talked about using a diaper service for the first month, at least. Our second “backup” option is to use the spiffy gDiapers, and the last backup option (for caregivers or others we’d rather not stress out) is either Tushies or Seventh Generation disposables. So to get started, I bought a starter box of gDiapers and, of course, opened it as soon as I got home to investigate the contents. :-)
Included in the starter kit:
- 2 “little g” diaper wraps
- 4 snap-in liners for the wraps
- 10 flushable inserts to go in the liners
- 1 “swish stick” to break up the insert in the toilet bowl
- 1 hook to keep the swish stick next to the toilet
- cute instruction booklet
So the general idea is that you start with the wrap, snap in a liner, tuck the insert into the liner and put it on the baby. You keep the second wrap ready-to-go: liner snapped in, and flushable insert tucked in already. When it’s time to change the baby, you take off the dirty one, put it aside and put the clean one on. When the baby is (reasonably) settled, you flush/toss/compost the insert, rinse out the liner and hang it to dry (drying time: approx. 1 hr) and snap a clean, dry liner into the wrap. (That’s why they give you two liners for each wrap.) Add another flushable insert and you have your next diaper ready. Neat, huh?
