gDiapers Starter Kit, Large

My wife and I use gDiapers for both our newborn and our one year old and we love them!

With cloth diapers you have to keep a bunch of poopy diapers around till you wash them, and with disposables, you have to keep a bin full of stinky diapers around until trash day.

The great thing about gDiapers is that you flush most of the gross mess away instantly and, at worst, you're left with a slightly soiled liner or cloth outer.

I was worried that the flushing would be a hassle at first, but I grew to believe it's actually less of a hassle than dealing with diaper bins.

Oh, and my wife and I also have a good tip for at night: instead of having to change a wet diaper at the 2 AM feeding, you can throw two pads in the diaper when you first put them down for bed and your baby will be fine till morning. The two-pad approach makes it much more absorbent than any other diaper for nighttime convenience.

We switched from regular disposable diapers to gdiapers a few months ago and we love them. My daughter has very sensitive skin and used to get diaper rashes at the drop of a hat. No more. She used to stick her hands in the legs of her diapers all the time, but she stopped doing that once she started wearing gDiapers. She is so comfortable and cute in these diapers. We use cloth inserts at home and the flushies at daycare. Once I showed her caregivers how to put them on her properly they said it was actually easier than using a disposable. I really love that I can flush the flushies, compost them or throw them away knowing that they will degrade and not fill up a landfill. They are a flexible green alternative to disposables!

gDiapers are great. i don't much like the new style gDiaper velcro. it's aplix but i don't like aplix.

otherwise, they're very soft, very nice. good for the environment and cute. i wish they did come in more colors.

As a cloth diapering mom, I always had to fall back on traditional disposable diapers during busy weeks and trips. G-Diapers have saved us from not only the waste, but simplified our clean up process. I've yet to have a leak, even over night (I have a boy, btw) - but I do noticed that the messies get on the liner easier than I had hoped. It really doesn't matter though, since we can swap the liners out so easily. And I just LOVE that the flushies are also biodegradable, so they can go in the garbage or down the toilet with ease.

I now have 6 covers, 12 liners, and feel this is the perfect combination for my 17mo.

Unlike some folks reviewing "green products" - I'm not going to go on about how I'm saving the earth. While a great side benefit - it's not my main objective. I'm more concerned with my son's room NOT smelling like an open sewer. I gave them 4 stars because they achieve my goal - reduce the smell - but they're not the perfect solution. While it may sound like I'm griping - I'm not - I just want folks considering this solution to have ALL the facts - and not just glossed over reviews espousing the benefits to Mother Earth.

PROS:
- I can walk into my son's room without gagging at the smell
- My garbage can doesn't fill up as fast (nor does it smell as bad)
- The diaper covers are cute

IN THE INTEREST OF FULL DISCLOSURE...
- The refills are about 2x more expensive than disposable diapers
- The amount of contact required to flush the inserts - I don't care what anyone says, it's not "easy". You have to peel down both sides (usually holding the end that is not soaked with #1 or #2) then try to get the middle part to drop in the toilet. With simple #1 diapers, this is bearable but not easy b/c the soaked part tends to not want to fall out as easily; when you add in #2... not so fun. The instructions direct you to get the entire middle part out first, then break it up, then toss in the top. While this is nice in theory - doesn't always work as easily in practice.
- If your toilets are "Green" and you reduce the water usage - you may need to change this. One bathroom is pretty much for the kid so the only toilet use is his diapers - I've had to adjust the toilet so we get a nice full bowl of water to allow the diapers to break up and minimize risk of a clog in my ~100 year old pipes.
- They include a plastic stick to break up the inner diaper - which is fine but who wants this hanging around the bathroom? It's not terribly sanitary, and it's one more thing for my kid to try & grab. I rinse it when the toilet is flushing and hang it as high as I can- and it's in a bathroom not frequented by guests.
- I do not travel with these diapers. I'm not going to risk someone else's plumbing, nor am I going to cart around the break up stick. My kid wears disposable diapers when we travel, and for that matter, when I know someone else is going to be watching him, I put him in disposables. I don't mind enduring this much contact with his diaper parts, but I'm not going to ask someone else to.
- Leaking. Nothing has made it out of the diaper (yet), in part because I'm paranoid and change him more frequently; however, I've not had a clean poopy diaper yet. Every time some poo gets on the plastic snap out liner which I toss in the sink with some hot water and soap. It's really not ideal - do you want baby poop remnants in your sink? Do you want to clean it every day? Spray it down with bleach? Again, I do it, but it's all to avoid the stench.
- Wipes: They're still an issue. Stinky wipes alone have not yet made the pail unbearable. Maybe I should just find flushable wipes.
- Night time: We stick with disposable. My son will sleep a good 12 hour stretch and that diaper is loaded when he wakes up. No way I'm going to put him in a g-diaper through the night.
- The Velcro straps - work great so far... one time my son realized he could pull on it and... well it was only once. Also, they're SO strong that if it's not a perfect seal and your holding baby, the Velcro can rub against your arm/wrists (I had scratches on my arm and it took me a while to figure out what had caused it - some exposed Velcro on the gdiaper.

Good luck!