Bumgenius Cloth Diaper Giveaway U.S./Canada (CLOSED 6/10)

May 31,2011 / By Maria / 33 Comments

As you may know, I started a new Facebook page for Change-Diapers.com. The Change-Diapers.com vs Fitteds and Pockets and Snappis, oh my! seemed too confusing, and I wasn’t able to change the name of the Facebook page. So, the new page is exactly the same, only now you can use @Change-Diapers.com to tag me! Unfortunately, I had about 1,300 “likers” on the old page, and only 523 on the new page.

I’ve been promising a self-sponsored giveaway to ~~bribe~~ encourage people to follow me to the new page, and to thank those who already have. I really haven’t received a whole lot of feedback on what I should give away, and the suggestions I did get were kind of all over the place!

Last night I finally decided that Bumgenius pocket diapers were really the start of this blog, since I started my stash with just 3 diapers, shortly followed by three more. They’re not only what got me hooked on cloth, but they are really still my favorites, especially after the Bumgenius 3.0 vs 4.0 improvements and experiencing the great Bumgenius warranty.

So, that’s what I’m giving away this time!!

I am sure I will do another self-sponsored giveaway in the future, so if there’s something you want to win, or something that you’d like me to review, let me know!

Giveaway: One winner will get their choice of a Bumgenius 4.0 one-size pocket diaper, a Bumgenius Elemental Organic AIO or a Bumgenius 3.0 XS/Newborn AIO (for those who wanted a newborn diaper!) Winnner chooses color/print and closure where applicable. ARV $12.95-$26.95 depending on winnner’s choices.

Here’s how to enter: All entries go in the form below. I love comments (great way to remind yourself you entered) but comments do not count as entries. One entry per person please (not per day.) If other members of your household enter, I ask that they enter for themselves and that you do not enter on anyone else’s behalf.

Mandatory entries include your name and email address. You may receive a bonus entry if you “like” The NEW Change-Diapers.com Fan Page. Please remember that this is a new page. Make sure you “like” the NEW page and NOT the old page. There are still 1,221 people who haven’t moved over to the new page!

I will accept entries until Friday, June 10th, 2011 at 9:00 P.M. Eastern. I will select a winner using random.org’s true random number generator 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 page for complete details. This giveaway is open to residents of the U.S. and Canada.

# of entries received as of giveaway close: 647

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Kissaluvs Kissa’s Pocket Training Pants Review

May 25,2011 / By Maria / 27 Comments

The last mystery product from Kissaluvs is training pants, as readers had guessed!

They will be available in a 2T (20-32 lbs) and a 3T (28-40 lbs.)

They have two snap settings on each side and are easy to pull up and down without unsnapping.

The inner is what made me say “oohhhhh!!” when I opened the package. The dinos are so darn cute!! The inner is 100% cotton flannel, so a toddler will feel the wetness of an accident.

The Kissa’s training pants are pocket trainers, so you can stuff them to customize the absorbency.

The training pant has a 2-layer microfiber insert sewn in, so it can be used as is (this is the trainer pictured inside out.)

The trainer is quite trim and a little narrow through the crotch, but I was able to stuff a narrower full-size insert in the pocket.

Above is the 2T trainer I received, compared to the Kissaluvs Marvels AIO on the large setting. My son is 2 years old and 23 pounds and still wears the medium setting of the Marvels AIO and other one-size diapers, so he could really use a bit smaller size in the trainer.

The 2T trainer was really easy to pull on and seemed to fit well, but for a great fit, we’d need it to be a little more snug at the legs (he ended up sagging a bit.) My son is rather unusual though; he is just now on the growth charts at 2 years old, and still wears mostly 24 month clothing.

The trainers will be available in lagoon blue, chocolate (what I reviewed) or gold with the dino inner, and white with a cycle print inner. They will be available starting June 15th with an MSRP of $14.95, but they will have an introductory price of just $12.95 until the end of June!

I’d say the sewn in soaker is enough to catch an accident, but you’d need to add an insert to hold more than that. I think they are really a great value since they are available in larger sizes and can be used as a pocket diaper or trainer. You can buy them for a baby who is perhaps on the cusp of learning to use the potty and use them as a pocket diaper first, a trainer later. This is especially great since there aren’t that many diapers available to fit kids who outgrow large cloth diapers. Of course, I haven’t seen/measured a 3T but since the 2T is about the same size as a large diaper, I think it’s safe to assume the 3T is larger. 🙂 2013 update: See the 3T & both on my 4.5 year old in my updated Kissaluvs trainers review.

FTC compliance: I received the pictured item at no cost in order to review it. I was not otherwise compensated for this post, and all opinions are my own.

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Kissaluvs Kissa’s Newborn AIO Cloth Diaper Review & Giveaway – 3 Winners (CLOSED 5/29)

May 22,2011 / By Maria / 20 Comments

You may have already guessed that the second Kissaluvs product I have to share with you is a newborn diaper!

Like the popular Kissa’s Size 0 Cotton Fleece Fitted, it has an umbilical cord snap down, and can fit babies from 5-15 pounds.

They look quite similar in fact!

Here is the newborn diaper compared to the Kissaluvs Marvels AIO on the small setting:

Measured folded with the umbilical snap down snapped and unsnapped, then stretched:

The brand new newborn diaper is an all-in-one style, with a sewn in 2-layer microfiber soaker, stay-dry fleece inner, and a PUL outer, so you don’t need a cover!

I called in my usual newborn diaper model to help me with this mystery product reveal! I’ve also pictured him in a size newborn disposable diaper so you can see how the Kissaluvs compares.

The Kissa’s Newborn Diapers are made in the USA, and will be available on June 10th, 2011. They will be available in White or Lagoon blue with white inners, as well as spring green and chocolate with yellow inners. The MSRP per diaper is $14.95.

See this on my newborn.

Giveaway: Kissaluvs is offering three of my readers each one Kissa’s newborn diaper! (ARV $14.95 each.) You could be one of the first to own one!

Here’s how to enter: All entries go in the form below. I love comments (great way to remind yourself you entered) but comments do not count as entries.

Mandatory entries include your name, email address and what other Kissaluvs product you’d like to try. You may receive a bonus entry if you “like” The Kissaluvs Fan Page and/or follow Kissaluvs on Twitter.

I will accept entries until Sunday, May 29th, 2011 at 9:00 P.M. Eastern. I will select a winner using random.org’s true random number generator and notify him/her by email. Winners have 48 hours to respond before the prize is forfeited and a new winner is chosen. View my giveaway rules page for complete details. This giveaway is open to residents of the U.S.
# of entries received as of giveaway close: 461

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Oh Katy Cloth Diaper Giveaway U.S./Canada (CLOSED 5/19) Plus Quick Comparison to Katydid Cloth

May 12,2011 / By Maria / 25 Comments

Last year, I posted my Katydid Cloth diaper review. Since then, Katydid Cloth has become Oh Katy, but I haven’t done an Oh Katy cloth diaper review! I just ordered some more Loopydo Inserts and Bumgenius 4.0 diapers for night time, so I could stretch my washing to every 3 or so days. I ordered from Kelly’s Closet (why yes, that is an affiliate link, tee-hee) and I used the coupon MAYFLOWERS to get a free one-size diaper valued at $17 or higher. I had my fingers crossed that I’d get something I hadn’t tried yet, or maybe a Bumgenius 4.0, but these things never work out that way for me! What I got was the Oh Katy diaper you see above, same color as my Katydid Cloth diaper and everything!!

So, I figured I’d pass it along to one of my loverly readers instead.

The big change of course, is the name. The also added a few new colors, reduced the amount of packaging and switched to more gentle elastic. The sage color looks slightly different, and the packaging says the outer is TPU. I checked the inner tag of the Katydid (don’t have the original packaging obviously) and it just says 100% polyester. So, I’m not sure if they have always been TPU (didn’t think so) or if they used to be PUL.

I obviously didn’t want to open the package for photos, you can view measurements etc. in the Katydid review from last year. That was one of the posts where my spacing ended up funky after my hosting switch (I am sure there are still more out there too!) and when I added single line breaks, it added gaping chasms of white space. I figure it’s better than being all squished up though, so oh well!

I did take two photos so you can see that the leg and rear elastic definitely do look looser, so they shouldn’t leave red marks on your baby!

~~Giveaway: One lucky reader gets this Sage Oh Katy One-Size Pocket Diaper (ARV $17.95.)~~

Here’s how to enter: All entries go in the form below. I love comments (great way to remind yourself you entered) but comments do not count as entries.

Mandatory entries include your name, and email address. You may receive a bonus entry if you “like” The NEW Change-Diapers.com Facebook page. Please note: this is a new Facebook page. You must like the new page to receive this bonus entry. Feel free to “unlike” the old page after you do!

I will accept entries until Thursday, May 19th, 2011 at 9:00 P.M. Eastern. I will select a winner using random.org’s true random number generator 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 page for complete details. This giveaway is open to residents of the U.S. and Canada.
# of entries received as of giveaway close: 526

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FTC compliance: This giveaway is not endorsed or sponsored by any cloth diaper manufacturer or retailer. I received this diaper with a coupon code. I was not compensated for this post and all opinions are my own. This post contains an affiliate link as indicated.

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Turn a Snap Diaper into a Velcro Diaper – Adapt-a-Snap from GoGreen Pocket Diapers – Review

May 5,2011 / By Maria / 26 Comments

Last year, I wrote a 4 part post about my thoughts about the future of cloth diapering. In part 4 I mentioned that I’d love to see a diaper with snaps, that also had a Velcro strip and tabs that could snap on and off at a whim. I’d mentioned this to a few WAHMs, and as far as I know, no one had made such a thing. At least one WAHM had made a diaper with both snaps and Velcro, and you just affixed whichever you wanted, but I thought you really needed to be able to remove the Velcro.

Anyhoo, a little while ago, GoGreen Pocket Diapers posted on their Facebook page that they were coming out with a snap-to-aplix conversion kit that sounded exactly like what I was talking about! I’m a little embarrassed to say that I got pretty excited. I mean, really. Who gets all bouncy and squealy about a cloth diaper accessory? Well, me I guess. Largely because I was like OMG, YES! Someone else thinks this is a good idea! I’m not crazy!!

OK, so here’s how it works. You can get either white or black, and you can buy them with matching snaps (so you hardly notice them) or multicolor snaps (so they have the cool look of the GoGreen Champ, with the ease of Velcro.) It just snaps right on the front of the diaper.

The tabs snap on the same way.

I wasn’t sure how well the tabs would stick, since there are snap caps all along the Velcro strip, but it’s as if they aren’t even there, they stick just fine.

You can overlap the tabs since they have the loop texture on the reverse side.

You can also reverse the way the tab is snapped in to make it close up even smaller.

When you reverse both tabs, you can close it up just as small as when it’s snapped, or even smaller. (Only one tab is reversed in the pictures above & below.)

So obviously, I tested this with a Bumgenius diaper. The adapter will work with The Champ, or any other diaper with 1″ snap spacing, and two rows of 10 snaps. The obvious thing would be to test the adapter with the Champ, but when I received it, my Champ was dirty and I was anxious to try the adapter! This means I was extremely confused by what I thought of as “the mystery tab.”

It is slightly smaller than the closure tabs (closer to square) and has male snaps on one side (caps on the other) and loop (fuzzy Velcro) on both sides. I couldn’t figure out what it did. I contacted Leah at GoGreen, washed my Champ, and it all made sense. (LOL)

I totally forgot that the Champ has an additional set of female snaps on the wing, so you can overlap the tabs for tiny babies. I sound like such a dummy, but since I’ve never needed the overlap, it just totally slipped my mind.

This additional adapter snaps to the newborn overlap snaps and attaches to the hook of the other closure tab. There’s no hook on the underside of this adapter since it sits up against PUL (hook might snag it.)

Using this adapter on the newborn snap gets the diaper even tinier for really small babies. Since a baby that small isn’t going to be mobile, you shouldn’t have wing droop issues from the tabs attaching to each other vs. having them both attach to the front of the diaper.

You already know the adapter works on the Bumgenius, so obviously, it works on the Flip as well.

Rumparooz, check! I was trying to figure out what else I could try it on. I’m more of a Velcro gal myself, so I will choose that over snaps if it’s available. I was mentally inventorying my diapers and thought maybe it would work on the Oh Katy (especially since I remembered that had a newborn overlap snap!)

As it turns out, the snaps aren’t quite the right distance apart, and it only has 8 snaps!

Even so, I made it work! The adapter is pretty forgiving! The end of the Velcro strip might rub baby’s tummy this way though!

So, why would you want an adapt-a-snap? I’ve heard so many people say they started out with Velcro because it was simple (also an easy transition from sposies in my opinion), and it was great until their baby figured out just how easy it was to undo! So then they were stuck buying snap diapers, or trying to stop their streaker wannabe. With these adapters, you can buy snap diapers, but use them as Velcro until you need the snaps. Or, if you always love snaps, but want something easier for babysitters, this is it.

The other problem with Velcro is the longevity. The laundry tabs of many diapers aren’t exactly great, so you end up with curling closure tabs, snagged diapers etc. etc. It’s so easy to just pop the tabs off before you toss them in the wet bag, then snap them back on when they’re dry. Alternately, you could get a strip of fuzzy Velcro, cut rectangles, and slap ’em on the closure tabs before you wash.

At $6.99 each (edit: The price isn’t set in stone since this is still really a prototype. They may end up being less!), the adapters might be a little too pricey to buy one for each diaper in your stash, but it doesn’t take too long to attach them, so you could definitely get away with having just a few. I wouldn’t want to try to snap all 20 snaps on a new diaper with a wiggly, naked baby waiting. So you’d probably want to at least have enough to have one or two already on diapers, waiting in the wings so to speak!

Hooray for GoGreen reading my mind! What do you think? Could you use one of these?

FTC compliance: I received the adapt-a-snap at no charge in order to review it. I was not otherwise compensated for this post, and all opinions are my own.

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