Bumgenius 4.0 Cloth Diaper Giveaway – Self-Sponsored (CLOSED 4/3) U.S. & Canada

Mar 19,2012 / By Maria / 15 Comments

My love of fluff began in 2009 with 3 Bumgenius 3.0 cloth diapers, so it’s only fitting that I would give away a Bumgenius 4.0 to welcome all the new faces (and to say thanks to the folks that have been around a while!)

Consider “liking” me on Facebook, following me on Twitter, adding my Google+ page to your circles, subscribing to my YouTube channel, RSS feed, email updates or following me on Pinterest. However, this is a one click giveaway entry, so you don’t need to do any of that to get entries.

~~Giveaway details: One winner will receive a Bumgenius 4.0 one-size cloth diaper in his/her choice of color and closure (ARV $17.95.)~~

Winner may choose Albert or Lovelace print however, they may be backordered. I will purchase the diaper from a reputable cloth diaper retailer of my choice, including (but not limited to) my affiliates Cloth Diaper Outlet, Kelly’s Closet, Diaper Junction and Mom’s Milk Boutique. Winner name, address & email may be shared with the retailer for order fulfillment only. This giveaway is open to the U.S. and Canada, excluding Quebec, and will end Tuesday April 3rd, 2012 at 9:00 P.M. Eastern. I will select a winner using Rafflecopter, and notify him/her by email. Winner has 48 hours to respond before the prize is forfeited and a new winner is chosen. View my giveaway rules for complete details.

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Please note: This giveaway is not sponsored, endorsed or approved by, nor affiliated with any cloth diaper manufacturer or retailer. I was not compensated for this post, and all opinions are my own.

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NEW Style – Tots Bots Easy Fit Cloth Diaper (From Bummis) Review

Mar 13,2012 / By Maria / 7 Comments

I had never used a Tots Bots Easy Fit diaper, but I did use the newborn version, a Tini Fit. Like the Tini Fit, the Easy Fit is made by Tots Bots in Glasgow, Scotland, and distributed in the U.S. by Bummis.

Bummis sent me one of the new version Easy Fits to review, although they won’t be available to purchase until April. I don’t have an old version, and I’ve already sent along my Tini Fit to a new home (it would still fit my son, but I wanted to send all the newborn diapers to my friend at once!) So, I don’t have a side-by-side comparison for you, but I will point out the features that have been changed (including the wider back elastic, which you can see above!) I’m not sure if this is new, but I noticed that the PUL is really soft. It definitely has a different feel than all my other diapers.

Whether you choose hook & loop or snaps (poppers) for your diaper (nappy), they are now color matched. Tots Bots are made in the U.K. so the Tots Bots Facebook page is full of “popper” and “nappy” talk. Tee-hee! The closure tabs are rather stiff on the Tini & Easy Fits, so I really wondered if they’d stay folded back and attached to the laundry tabs. Both the newborn and the big version didn’t give me any trouble. They have a snap down rise to fit babies 8-35 pounds, and the rise snaps are color matched as well.

Above left, I’ve pictured the fleece liner that was included with my diaper. The Easy Fit still has a half sewn-in soaker and brushed polyester side guards to prevent compression leaks. However, instead of a 2 layer soaker made of microfiber & rayon from bamboo, the soaker is 3 layers of color matched minky. This gives you more absorbency with less bulk.

The soaker is super easy to tuck in. It comes out on its own in the wash, but it doesn’t bunch or turn the whole diaper inside out. It gets cleaner & dries faster than an AIO with a completely sewn in soaker, and it’s quicker to stuff the soaker back in than it is to match and stuff pocket diapers. The pocket also allows you to add additional absorbency if you need it. The flap covering the pocket opening on my Tini Fit was the same brushed polyester as the side guards, but this Easy Fit is a different, even softer polyester.

Here is the small setting measured folded & stretched:

Below, I closed the left side of the diaper first. You can overlap the tabs (both of them,) and if you notice, the right tab extends further, allowing you to close the diaper even more tightly if you close the left tab on top of it.

Medium:

You can better see what I mean about the overlap in this picture!

Large:

My older son is 2 years, 9 months old and in the neighborhood of 29ish pounds. I put him in the large setting, and he looks like he has room in this one.

My little guy had just turned 3 months old last week when I took these pictures. He’s around 11 pounds (guessing…he was 10 lbs a month ago) and he’s somewhat slender since he’s a bit taller.

The small setting fits him with no leg gap, without struggling or double checking that it’s snug enough. This is what it looks like all the way closed, with that entire overlap being used.

The Tini Fit was one of my favorite newborn diapers because it gave me the absorbency I needed (with the booster, it was as absorbent as (if not more than) a one-size diaper, but fit far better. The Easy Fit fits my little guy with no gapping or readjusting, and fits my big guy too. Plus, it’s absorbent enough for both of them! My younger son can soak a one-size microfiber insert in 2 hours, and so far the Easy Fit has lasted longer than that without a hint of leaking. That said, I have a hard time comparing the absorbency of inserts since both boys can really have a wide variation in their wetting habits. Since I can’t remove this insert it’s not as easy to tell how wet it is as it is when you yank a sopping wet microfiber insert out of a pocket. I’m still trying to find a good way to test insert absorbency “scientifically,” but Bummis says the old style Easy Fit can hold 17.6 oz (wow!) and I believe this is more absorbent.

You will be able to find the new style Easy Fit (and new prints) at Bummis Retailers in April. The new Tots Bots Easy Fit diapers will still retail for $23.95. You can see new prints & colors in Tots Bots’ Facebook album and they have photos of the inners as well. I pretty much want one in every color. 😉

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Giveaway – Knickernappies One Size Cloth Diaper w/Loopydo Inserts (CLOSED 3/8) U.S./Canada

Feb 23,2012 / By Maria / 13 Comments

Last year, I reviewed the Knickernappies one-size cloth diaper. My son was 23 months old and about 22 pounds when I posted my Knickernappies one-size cloth diaper review, wearing the medium rise setting and next to smallest snap setting. Be sure to check out that review for all the nitty gritty details, measurements, and photos of my son at that size!

Prices have gone up a little bit since I posted my original review, but you can get the diaper with small and large microfiber inserts for $21.95, or with small and large loopydo inserts for $26.95. Loopydo inserts sell for $7.49 each separately (worth every penny BTW) so $5 extra for two is a great deal!

I received a diaper in Knickernappies’ very first print, Ooga Booga! It’s adorable of course (I do love Ooga monsters!) and I love the matching inner.

While the diaper comes with small and large inserts, they are available in small, medium & large. I’ve been using Superdo inserts at night for two years, and I continue to sing their praises! The small inserts fit in my mini one-size diapers that are a bit wider through the crotch, the mediums fit in most small one-size diapers, and the larges are what I’ve been using since my older son was in mediums (he’s still using them now in the large setting.)

Both the loopydo and superdo inserts are hemp (6 layers for the superdo, 2 for the loopydo) sandwiched between 2 layers of microfiber.

The loopydo is barely thicker than a microfiber insert alone, but far more absorbent. The superdo was a lifesaver at night for us, getting through every night dry. I had tried two microfiber inserts with a hemp doubler, but they were so thick, we ended up with leg gap. Thick insert + 12 hours of use=a little stinky, so I used to bleach my inserts once per month (I don’t need to anymore since adding Oxiclean to every load.) Bleach isn’t good for natural fibers, so after two years, there is some wear on the hemp of my superdos, but they still work fantastically!

Of course, all that absorbency makes the diaper a little bit fluffier! Above is a diaper with a microfiber insert and one with a superdo.

Above is my son at 10 weeks old and around 10 pounds. It fits him with no leg gap, and is quite trim for a o/s diaper on such a small baby. He’s wearing the blue with a large microfiber insert & the ooga with a small loopydo.

My older son is now 2 years & 9 months old, and about 29 pounds. He’s wearing the largest rise setting, but it hits him quite high, and he has two snap settings to go. He has tons of room to grow!

Giveaway: One winner will receive a Knickernappies one-size diaper in their choice of color (subject to availability), with Loopydo inserts. The retail value of this prize is $26.95. Entries go in the Rafflecopter form.

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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.

~~Giveaway: One reader will receive a Ones & Twos diaper in his/her choice of color. (ARV $16.95.) Entries go in the Rafflecopter form.~~

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Sweet Pea One Size Cloth Diaper Review & Giveaway (CLOSED 2/3) U.S./Canada

Jan 26,2012 / By Maria / 10 Comments

Sweet Pea Diapers sells all-in-3 diapers, covers, prefolds, accessories, and the one size pocket diapers I reviewed.

The diapers have two snap overlaps and a snap down rise, to fit babies from 8-35 lbs.

They have stay-dry, microfleece inners and encased leg elastic.

There is both a front and rear pocket opening, allowing the inserts to agitate out in the wash.

Diapers come with both small and large microfiber inserts. They have a Sweet Pea label to make matching them up easy, and the large insert snaps down to fit the smaller sizes. For $3 more, you can get the diaper with 1 hemp and 1 microfiber insert.

Here’s the small rise setting measured folded & stretched (not an exact science, just to give you an idea!) P.S. I was having major lighting issues the day I took these pictures, so my apologies for any weirdness!:

Medium:

Large:

Here’s the large setting on my 29ish pound 2.5 year old:

The small setting on my 8 1/2ish pound 6 week old:

The diaper was great on my older son, but still a bit big on my little guy. He is a wee bit scrawny, but I think this would fit a shorter/chubbier baby of the same weight a lot better! The diaper is well made and cute!

~~Giveaway: One reader will receive a one-size Sweet Pea diaper in his/her choice of color, subject to availability. (ARV $15.95.) Entries go in the Rafflecopter form.~~

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Category : One Size Diapers

Bumgenius 4.0 Cloth Diaper Giveaway – Self-Sponsored (CLOSED 4/3) U.S. & Canada

NEW Style – Tots Bots Easy Fit Cloth Diaper (From Bummis) Review

Giveaway – Knickernappies One Size Cloth Diaper w/Loopydo Inserts (CLOSED 3/8) U.S./Canada

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

Sweet Pea One Size Cloth Diaper Review & Giveaway (CLOSED 2/3) U.S./Canada

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