How to Prepare to Use Cloth Diapers

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Veronica Barajas with mywigglesandgiggles.com and I'd like to share with you how to prepare for cloth diapers. So if you've chosen to use cloth diapers, then I'm sure that you live in a more natural, organic lifestyle usually; or definitely try to save some money. So preparing your budget is good. Also, you may have to take an initial, you know, chunk of cash in order to prepare, in order to buy your cloth diapers and they also usually come with special ointments for like diaper rashes, things like that. You can usually use any kind of regular wipes for cloth diapers. But depending on how you're going to, you know, dispose or not necessarily dispose, but, where you're going to store your diapers before you wash them for the day; so usually I would try to get a large plastic tops, maybe with the zip top of some, some sort that you can clean out daily and will also help eliminate odors; having on hand the proper ingredients into keeping this clean. One of the things that I can suggest, a lot of times diapers, cloth diapers can leave stains, depending on how long you keep them in storage before you can wash them; natural sunlight will definitely help bleach these diapers back to their, to their natural colors. So definitely, you know, look into the storage bags, special ointments or wipes that you need to use with your cloth diapers and all the ingredients needed to keep this clean and safe for your baby to use regularly."