Ones & Twos AIO Cloth Diaper Review & Giveaway (CLOSED 2/7)

Jan 31,2012 / By Maria / 15 Comments

Ones & Twos are easy to use, all-in-one cloth diapers

Ones & Twos are designed to be very easy to use, even for those new to cloth. Therefore, they only come in hook & loop (Velcro) closures.

They have soft laundry tabs, and the hook part of the hook & loop is a little unusual, different than others I’ve seen. It’s more of a stiff plastic. Very hard to explain and equally difficult to photograph, but I tried!

The diapers have stay dry inners and encased leg elastic.

There are 4 snap down rise settings.

These 4 settings are designed to fit babies from 6 1/2-39 lbs.

The Ones & Twos offers the best of both worlds, with both a sewn in soaker, and also a front opening pocket to add additional absorbency.

Bamboo boosters are available separately, but each diaper comes with a microfiber booster. The best part is that the booster is topped with stay-dry microfleece, so you can just lay it right inside the diaper, without dealing with stuffing and un-stuffing.

Here is the XS/Newborn setting (6.5-13 lbs) measured folded and stretched (not an exact science!):

Small (11-22 lbs):

Medium (19-31 lbs):

Large (22-39 lbs):

I put my 29ish pound 2 1/2 year old in the large setting:

He definitely needs the included booster since he is an unpredictable heavy wetter. He isn’t big into the potty yet, but he tends to “hold it” and soak a diaper all at once sometimes!

I also tried the XS/Newborn setting on my 8 1/2 ish pound 6 week old:

It fit him well too, with no leg gap. It didn’t seem nearly as bulky as other one-size diapers are on him. I didn’t have any trouble snapping a newborn size onesie over it. The pictures make it look like the waist/rear elastic is digging in on both the boys, but it wasn’t at all.

While Ones & Twos don’t have lots of colors and prints (there are 6 colors, plus white) and don’t come in snaps, they are a great value and are super, super easy to use. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them to someone thinking about switching from disposables to cloth since I think it would be an easy transition. My big question is how the velcro will hold up, and only time will tell. So far it has been fine with the handful of washes it’s been through, though it is pretty “grippy” and takes a bit of yanking to get it off the laundry tabs!

Ones & Twos Diapers solid colors retail for $16.95 each, or $79.95 ($15.99 each) for a 5-pack of white diapers. Find a Ones & Twos retailer, follow Ones & Twos on Twitter and “like” Ones & Twos on Facebook.

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Cloth Diaper Advice – Mailbox Mondays 1/30/12 – Hard to Soft Water

Jan 30,2012 / By Maria / 3 Comments

Need cloth diaper advice? Each Monday, I’ll answer a user submitted question.

Questions don’t have to be cloth diaper related, just email maria at change-diapers.com with “Mailbox Mondays” in the subject, or fill out my contact form for readers, which you will always be able to find on my Contact Page.

Carrie says:

Here’s question for you:

I’ll be moving in a few short weeks to a house that has a water softener, which we will use. I have a front load washer and very hard water in my current house, and settled on a routine with Rockin’ Green Hard Rock and a couple of rinses, which generally works most of the time.

Any suggestions for switching to softened water? Any guesses as to whether my older diapers that have been in rotation for 2+ years will improve (less smell, softer, more absorbent that currently).

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Used Cloth Diaper Sales History – Please Contribute

Jan 29,2012 / By Maria / 4 Comments

As another portion of my latest project, I want to track actual sales of used cloth diapers. If you have bought or sold diapers recently, please complete the survey once for each diaper bought or sold, as you find the time. No need to complete multiple times if you purchased several of the same diaper at the same price.

This will not be my sole source of information, but will help me analyze data to create more accurate results. The more responses I receive the better the results, so please share – especially in cloth diaper selling/trading groups!

I welcome photos of diapers as well. Please email them to maria at change-diapers.com with “Diaper Photos” in the subject. Please include info to help me find your entry on the survey spreadsheet; mentioning in the additional info field that you are sending photos would be great! Please note that any comments, photos or other information become the property of change-diapers.com to print, publish, or use as we see fit.

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Surveys – Characteristics of Used Cloth Diaper Conditions

Jan 29,2012 / By Maria / 4 Comments

As one step of my latest project, I want to get opinions from as many people as possible, so please share this post!

I want to know what you personally look for when deciding whether a cloth diaper (that you are buying or selling) is in excellent, very good, good, or used condition. (I’ll also be including some conditions that are more objective, such as new, like new & needs repair!)

Feel free to use the “other” fields in each category to add other characteristics, and the bottom “other” paragraph to add additional, general characteristics that do not apply to any particular category. I did not include snap closures, since they are generally either in fine shape or broken/not working, without any real in-between!

I’d also love your photos of your own diapers, including close-ups of the areas/characteristics that make you rate them a certain way (you don’t have to be selling them, just have diapers that you think are a good example of a condition.) Please email photos to maria at change-diapers.com with “Diaper Photos” in the subject. Please include how you “rate” the diaper and why.

I’d also be interested in photos of diapers you purchased that were advertised as one condition, but when you received them, you felt they should have been rated a different condition. Please include how the diaper was advertised and described, how you’d rate it and photos/descriptions of why you feel there was a discrepancy.

Note that any photos, information or quotes emailed become the property of change-diapers.com to republish, reproduce and use as we see fit.

When completing the surveys please think about characteristics that would make a diaper fall into one category vs. another. Ex: what makes a diaper GUC rather than VGUC.

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Thirsties NEW Duo AIO Cloth Diaper Review

Jan 27,2012 / By Maria / 6 Comments

The Duo AIO cloth diaper is a brand new, U.S.A. made item from Thirsties.

Like the duo wrap, duo diaper and duo fitted, the duo AIO comes in size 1 (6-18 lbs/0-9 months) and size 2 (18-40 lbs/9-36 months) so you can truly take your child from birth to potty training with 2 sizes.

You can choose snap or hook & loop closures, and each size has a snap down rise to get a custom fit with 3 sizes within each size.

The duo AIO has leg & waist elastic like the fitteds rather than the double gussets of the wraps & pockets.

It also has a tunnel soaker (3 layers of microfiber) like the duo fab fitted. It doesn’t have the hemp that makes me love the duo pocket, but the tunnel design allows you to add absorbency, as well as allowing for more thorough cleaning and faster drying. The inner of the diaper is soft, stay-dry microfleece.

Here you can see that the duo AIO is much more similar to the duo fab fitted…

Than the duo pocket (accidentally had the duo pocket on the small setting vs the AIO’s large in this photo):

The sizing is also more similar to the fitteds.

Here is the size 1/small setting measured folded and stretched:

Medium:

Large:

Here’s the Thirsties Duo AIO size 1/small setting on my 6 week old, 8.5ish lb son:

To compare, here he is the same day in a Duo Pocket (print), duo fab fitted (honeydew) and wrap (honeydew also.)

I have pictures of the fab fitted on my son at days old and 6 lbs 5 oz in my newborn cloth diaper post if you’re curious about fit on a smaller baby!

This diaper is designed to be both easy to use, and affordable. 8 solid colors (plus white) retail for just $15.75, and prints are $1 more. This is $3 less than the duo pocket diaper however, hemp inserts retail for $9.00/2 pack. So, if you need the extra absorbency of hemp all the time, in every diaper, you’re not really saving over the pocket since it includes the 2 piece insert.

I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend these to someone new to cloth, who wants something affordable, that’s also super easy to use and wash!

FTC compliance: I purchased these items at normal retail prices. I was not asked to write, nor was I compensated for this post, and all opinions are my own.

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