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Due to wanting to pay off my credit card bill, I have resorted to giving up disposable diapers for the remainder of the year. Yeah, I know, its a big sacrifice. It means not only doing more laundry, it means doing laundry the hard way, with an agitator with no ringer, having to wring seperately since I don't want to be spending quarters on laundry downstairs. Originally, I was only going to give up disposables until my credit cards are all paid off, but then my wife told me that her hours are getting cut again, and then I tipped over a cup of water and fried our router. Oops. So, now we don't have internet save using Wi-Fi hotspots. I don't have $120 just floating around to replace it.

Believe it or not, I have found Angel Fluff prefold diapers to be very comfortable, and I'm wishing I had more of them, now that I got the hang of putting them on so they don't peek over the cover or out the legs of my ecoable diaper covers. I find if I line up the back of the cover with the back of the diaper, my Ecoable cover works well. I am relieved. I thought I would have to buy high backed plastic pants. Tony did offer to take an inch off the u3 on either side, but that's not necessary. I think the overnight extra thick terry prefold has more absorbency than the U3, which would be ideal for when I have those really big floods or when I have multiple episodes. I still use the Ecoable fitteds, but in a more limited fashion than before. With my AI dryer, drying the flannel diapers is not that big of an issue. The machine senses when the clothes inside it are dry and then stops the cycle. My only complaint is that it makes the velcro panel stiff. But it's still useable. Velcro on prefolds are the ONLY way someone with limited fine motor control can use traditional style diapers, period. Pinning is just too much of a hassle. But its velcro that does NOT scratch the skin because the hook part is on the front of the diaper, and the loop tabs are on the wings. It's ususally the opposite with other velcro diapers, which is why you have skin irritation when the excess tab overlap comes in contact with the skin.

As for stay dry liners, or lack thereof, with flannel, I find that to be MUCH less of an issue than with birdseye or gauze. Flannel is by far the softest and most comfortable diaper material I have worn.

So, yet again, I become a fulltime cloth user, out of necessity. Not only that, but I am committed to sticking with my existing inventory and not buying more diapers, since the whole point of the switch is to save money.

PS.. For the unintitated, U3 is referring to Angel Fluff's ultimate custom designed contour diaper, made to the users's exact body measurements.

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