Malachi Jude
4 months

Malachi sure has grown fast!  I thought you might like to see what he is wearing now.  He hasn't been in for a doctor visit yet, but his weight is somewhere around 18 whopping pounds!!!  He is quite tall and has very chubby thighs.

Our "stash" these days consists of the following (approximately):

8 small Growing Cheekies
1 medium Growing Cheekies

6 small covers
1 medium cover

8 one-size pocket diapers
3 size small pocket diapers (yes, they come in sizes)

Additionally, I use 2 large wetbags and 1 travel size wetbag (though I could use another).  We have approximately 24 wipes.  I have a 2-year old in diapers, and we have about 17 pocket diapers for him.  I have a 4-year old who still needs training pants at night and he has 5 pair of those.  We wash diapers every other day.

Malachi nurses frequently from about 4-5 am on, so his morning time diapers are the heaviest wet all day.  If he's going to leak, it will happen then!

Nighttime:  for nighttime, I use a size small Growing Cheekies diaper with it's normal snap-in soaker, and a snap-in from his Little Cheekies also snapped in as a doubler.  Our favorite covers are minkee--they stand up to a LOT of wetness without wicking.

"Oh Mom, is that my favorite diaper with bamboo lining?"  

This diaper is made with a sherpa outer and hidden layer of sherpa with an attached layer of cotton terry in the wet zone.  The inner is bamboo velour.  The closures are Touctape.  This diaper still fits good (it is a size small), but it is starting to get snug.  It helps that it is really stretchy.  The rise is getting a little short on my tall boy.

It doesn't get any better than with a soft minkee cover:

Daytime: For daytime we rotate between fitteds and pockets.  I love the ease of pocket diapers.  They are incredibly user friendly.  Fitteds are so dependable.  M. J. has nice blowout diapers all the time, and he has never leaked out of a fitted and cover.

This is one of my favorite covers, but the small is obviously getting...um...small!  After all, I do say on my site that small goes up to 15 lbs, and he was 15 lbs at 2 months! This cover is a single layer of 100% cotton knit that has been laminated with 2 mil PUL.  It is perfect for  daytime use, but is usually ok for nighttime too (I wouldn't wake him up to change it).

Most of his one size pocket diapers have Touchtape on them, but I recently drafted one with snaps and am so satisfied with the placement that I have been offering them for sale.  I think that the Touchtape may need to be replaced before passing the diapers on to another child, especially since the one-size diapers tend to see more use. 

The celery PUL is my current favorite.  It is so warm! 

I stuff his pocket diapers with inserts made from 100% cotton terry or inserts purchased from my friend Denise at This-End-Up.  My terry inserts are usually a 2-layer rectangle either 12 or 16 inches by 10 inches.  I then fold that in half to form a 4-layer insert that is 5 inches wide.  The longer inserts are folded down in front to put extra absorbency right where my little man needs it.  He often needs a doubler with the shorter inserts.  That is the beauty of pocket diapers--the absorbency is easily customized to fit individual needs of each baby!

The next size:  Well, moving up to the next size in a one-size pocket diaper is easy.  I just snap them on the middle row of snaps.  I don't even unsnap them to wash them.  He is almost ready for this big change.  I have one Growing Cheekies size medium diaper and one size medium (minkee, of course) cover.

This diaper is a side-snapping medium Growing Cheekies.  It has a flannel outer, hidden inner of hemp with an attached layer of terry in the wet zone, and inner of microfleece.  He is dry and comfy in this diaper!  I do still add a doubler for nighttime.  The rise is just perfect.  Because he has fat thighs, though, the leg snap is already on the last snap!  He has room to grow in the waist, and I anticipate (from experience) that his body proportions will change before he grows out of this diaper.  Even if I could only get the waist snap closed on the diaper, with the right cover he would still have all the protection he needs!

Malachi as a newborn

On to 6-12 months!

Malachi at 12 months and beyond

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