We love Planet Wise products, including the wipes & wipe pouch. I’ve been using a wet/dry bag and the wipes pouch (with a travel size spray bottle of wipes solution) as my “diaper bag” for about 2 years. We’ve been talking about getting a second wet/dry bag and wipes pouch for a while since we have 2 in diapers and go opposite directions sometimes. When I took my baby to his 1 month checkup and hubby took the other kids to a play, we realized we really needed to get another set!
When I bought my original wipes pouch, it came as a set of the pouch & 10 wipes for $18.99, available in pink or blue. Now they are sold separately with the pouches in 12 prints for $10.99 each, and wipes in 8 color combos for $12.99 per 10 pack. This increases the price for a set to $23.98; a $4.99 increase. I was curious what the extra $5 got you aside from new colors/prints.
The new wipe pouch is slightly longer, and has a snap. It seems that this is to keep wet wipes away from the zipper to prevent leaking or wicking. This isn’t a useful feature for me since I don’t pre-moisten my wipes. I prefer not to since I don’t use my travel wipes that often and don’t want them to get musty (or have to figure out how many I need & moisten them before we go out every time, then wash everything when we get home.)
This is the third thing I’ve chosen in an owl print lately. It’s weird. It seems like owls are a “thing” now days, and while I’m not particularly into owls, the colors have been most appealing to me over other new/available prints. I’d choose the lime cocoa bean print in a hot second if it was available, but it’s not.
The pouches have the same PUL inner, though the new PUL is a bright color vs. brown. Wipes are exactly the same size after washing. They are the same, simple, single ply flannel. They feel pretty soft at first, but don’t stay that way.
I’d prefer to have the wipes in all one color or print, but they are only available in color combinations intended to match the pouch prints.
I think $1.29 is very expensive for a single layer, flannel wipe. However, the thin wipes mean you can fit a stack of 10 in the pouch easily. If you made your own wipes, it would be much more affordable since you can buy the pouches separately. $10.99 is pretty expensive for a little wet bag as well, but it’s more compact and waterproof than a plastic travel case, and my travel spray bottle fits inside perfectly too!
What do you use when you’re cloth diapering on the go?
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This is the first cloth diaper blog hop of 2012, since I didn’t post one last month. I love to find new blogs to read, especially fluffy blogs. I would really like to find new participants this month, so I would greatly appreciate a tweet, Facebook share, grabbing the button, blogging etc. etc.
That said, I want to keep this hop is easy to participate in, so you don’t have to blog about the hop or post the button.
You also don’t have to follow certain blog or leave comments. I hope you will visit the blogs that link up, follow them if you like what they have to say, and leave a comment if you like a particular post!
Fall in love with fluff and win $500 of cloth diapers and accessories!
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Oh Katy One-Size Pocket Diaper (Winner’s choice of Color)
Rumparooz One-Size Pocket Print Diaper (Winner’s choice of Print and Closure)
Bummis Tot Bot Easy Fit One-Size AIO Diaper (Winner’s choice of Color/Print)
Green Line One-Size Cover (Winner’s choice of Print)
Green Line Soaker (Bamboo/Cotton)
SoftBums Omni One-Size AI2/Pocket Diaper (Aplix, Winner’s choice of Color/Print)
SoftBums Snap-In Pod (DryTouch)
itti bitti tutto One-Size AI2 Diaper (Winner’s choice of Color/Print)
Swaddlebees Simplex One-Size AIO Diaper (Winner’s choice of Color/Print)
Planet Wise Flannel Wipes (Set of 10, winner’s choice of Color)
Leslie’s Boutique Pail Liner (Winner’s choice of Color/Print)
Rumparooz Print Wet Bag (Winner’s choice of Print)
Changing Diapers: The Hip Mom’s Guide to Modern Cloth Diapering (by Kelly Wels)
THiRSTiES Booty Luster (4 oz.)
2 CJ’s BUTTer Samples (1/2 oz. each)
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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!
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