Making Newborn Cloth Diapers Affordable

Whether to cloth diaper your newborn from day 1, or wait until baby gets older is a fairly common question parents ask themselves. Since one of the benefits to using cloth diapers is the cost savings, knowing you could spend hundreds of extra dollars on a newborn diaper stash can be daunting for many people. There are options though, that still save you money, while allowing you to use cloth diapers on your gorgeous new baby.

Start Early. By buying a few diapers at a time, you can build your newborn {and regular} diaper stash without breaking the bank.

Newborn Cloth Diaper Rental. This is offered by a few different retailers for new parents. The cost is relatively cheap considering the short period of time they wear newborn cloth diapers.

Add them to your baby shower wish list. Some things to include would be diapers, wipes, wet bag, cloth diaper safe butt cream.

Use one size cloth diapers. There are plenty of options for one size diapers that eliminate the bulk and fit newborn babies so well. A few of my favorites to use on newborn babies are SoftBums and Fuzzibunz. The way these diapers adjust sizes keeps them trim no matter what size, while still growing with your baby.

Buy used. Simple as that. This isn't our thing, but it could save you money.

On the flip side of that, sell them when you are done! Cloth Diapers can be resold, so you can recoup some of the costs of buying them in the first place. Woo-hoo!

Order using Kelly's Closet coupon codes for free diapers. There is almost always a code that will get you a free diaper with a certain dollar amount ordered, and every so often, it is for a newborn cloth diaper.

Borrow them, or split the cost with a friend having a baby a few months earlier or later than you.

I love using newborn cloth diapers, and think they are absolutely worth the cost. Especially if you are planning on having more than one baby. Because one size cloth diapers fit as your child grows, between the legs tends to be wider than newborn cloth diapers. For that reason, we are somewhat picky about which ones we use on newborns. Daddy was very against using cloth diapers on our son as a newborn because of the bulk, so seeing the newborn diapers really turned his thinking around.

The actual cost of purchasing newborn cloth diapers can vary greatly depending on the brand and style you choose. As is generally the case, prefolds and covers is the least expensive of the styles making cloth diapering a newborn even more cost effective. This is just a list of some of the ways that you could build your newborn cloth diaper stash without breaking the bank.

Did you cloth diaper your newborn, or are you planning on cloth diapering a newborn? What diapers did you use and like the most?

By Shannon


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