anyone use both?

[jhrabosk]

I'm only going to be able to stay home for the first two months, then the little one will be in F/T daycare at a center. I'm 99% sure that this will mean that I won't have a choice...must use disposables. My eco-friendly side isn't so happy with this.

Does anyone know anything or have any good resources with info about using both (e.g., disposables at daycare, cloth when DH and I are around)? I don't know whether this is possible (someone mentioned to me that it might cause diaper rash), but thought I'd throw it out there.

Thanks!
Jessica

[nitaghei]

We started out that way - DS has been in daycare since he was 4 months old. We switched to CD'g part-time when DS was 8 months old, and full time at 14 months. I would definitely ask your daycare about using CDs - and make sure to take along the dipes you want to use. It was an easy sell when I showed them aplix pockets - which look and function exactly like disposables. NOT your mother's - or grandmother's- CDs (flats, pins and plastic pants). I can't see asking a daycare to use prefolds or fitteds and covers - that's just too much work. I provide a pail, and pick up the used dipes every afternoon, and bring fresh dipes every morning.

FWIW, DS is actually in a daycare center. I researched the regs first to make sure that there wasn't any legal barrier to using CDs. Once I had that information, it wasn't that hard to persuade them to give CDs a try. We've now been using CDs at daycare for over a year.

We're going to be moving soon, and I will have to convince a new daycare in a new state to use CDs. sigh. So not looking forward to that. But disposables do give DS rash, so really aren't an option for us anymore.

HTH

Nita (wool is my crack)
mom to Neel, January 2003
dog mom to a PWD and a cocker (at the Rainbow Bridge)

[stillplayswithbarbies]

I use disposables at daycare and cloth at home with no problems.

[squimp]

We have never had trouble switching back and forth, but I have found that sposie wipes give DD diaper rash. It only happens if we use them all day every day (like when we're traveling). So hopefully it won't be a problem when we start part time DC this summer.

I have found that I almost have to have two separate sets of pants for sposies and cloth, especially now that we're in the 2T size....

[danagee]

I stay at home and switch between both. Sposies every night and AIO's approx. every other day - just for fun! Anyway, no problems here except that normally, once the AIO's go on, the shorts have to come off because there's not enough room in most of DS's shorts for those fluffy boom booms!

[jhrabosk]

Thank you all for input! I'd feel so much better about going disposable, even if it ends up being part-time.

[tarahsolazy]

I assume you mean you'll feel better using cloth? LOL! You've got mama-brain already.

[jec2]

we use both. DS is in daycare 15 hours/week and uses sposies there. DH has fallen off the cd wagon. we have no problems with switching back and forth.

[C99]

I use both, but for a different reason -- cloth at home on my newborn, sposies when out. With my son, I used cloth until he was around 2, and then switched to disposables due to a difficult pregnancy and now he has an opinion on CDs...

[danagee]

Sorry I'm slow....what's his opinion on cds?
Dana