Poofy Heiney's: Day 1: Flats and Handwashing Challenge

Today is day 1 of the Dirty Diaper Laundry Flats and Handwashing Challenge. To prepare for this challenge, I purchased 3 dozen unbleached flats from clothdiaper.com when they were at the Great Cloth Diaper Change on April 21, 2012. I knew I was going to do this challenge, so I asked if they were selling any. They did not have any on hand, but in their usual great customer service habits, they specially brought some for me and the few others who had asked them about flats! I already had covers from use with my prefolds. My husband made me a camp bucket to wash my diapers in a couple of days ago and I am so excited to use it to wash the diapers!

My 1 year old

Today, I used Thirsties Duo Wraps in size 2 on both of my boys. I used the padfold and the kite fold with my 2.5 year old. For my 1 year old, I used the padfold and the origami fold. I did not wash any diapers today. I plan on using my camp bucket and washing the diapers and covers in the morning, then hang drying them outside.

So far, I am really liking the flat folds! They are working very well for both of my boys. I was bit worried about night time, as my 2.5 year old is quite the heavy wetter. To combat this, I used the diaper bag fold and then folded another flat in half, then in half again, and the basically rolled it to stuff in the front of the kite fold diaper. I did this for my 2.5 year old.

Then, I used the kite fold and put a second folded flat in the front of that for my 1 year old. It is a little bulky, as you can see in the pictures, but I am confident they will do the job.