Cloth Diapers, especially at Daycare

 Do you use cloth diapers?  We do...I love them, they have saved us so much money and are not that much extra work.  An extra load or two of laundry a week but luckily for me we have fancy indoor plumbing so I just throw them in the washer at night, hang them up in the morning, and have clean dry diapers for the next day.   

As far as sizing and type goes I started out with about 20 Best Bottom snap in diapers that I bought used from a friend and 6 Baby Goal pocket diapers that I got from my baby registry.  It was perfect, maybe 4 or 5 more diapers than I needed but that wasn't a bad thing...until Little Dude decided to grow super fast and be in the 99th + percentile for height and weight for his entire life...now he has effectively outgrown the Best Bottom diapers so I had to make a decision...buy more of the bigger size cloth diapers or make the switch to primarily using disposable diapers.   

I decided that since we would be using diapers for at least another year to look into more bigger cloth diapers and decided on Alva Baby pocket diapers and just a couple of weeks into using them I am in love...I bought 11 Alva Baby diapers taking our total count of diapers that fit to 17, which is perfect for where we are right now.  I am washing diapers every 3 days, and the Alva Baby diapers fit great with room for growth.   

As far as daycare goes, I've found cloth diapers to be even easier than disposable ones.   When we were at my mom's we had to use disposable and I had a hard time keeping track of how many they had at daycare/when I needed to buy more.  But having cloth means that I just send enough for a day every day and don't have to worry about it.  It's easy for my daycare provider because they just throw them in the wet bag and send them home.   When I get them home I throw the pee diapers in the washer and dump the solids out of the diaper into the trash, do a quick rinse in my toilet if the solids don't dump out but I use a bamboo liner that is flushable so usually all of the solids dump straight out.   

Do you use cloth diapers?  Have you considered using them?   I think the most important thing is finding a wash routine that works for you.