Organizing Cloth Diapers

I cloth diaper which, in my humble opinion, is almost as easy as using disposable diapers. The part that's harder? Organizing the diapers. They're so fluffy that storing more than a few can take some finagling or specialized organizers. Not anymore. I store ours in a regular changing table and have never had an issue. Our standard changing table fits around 50 changes, our wipe warmer, coconut oil and all of the necessities with room to spare.

Just so there's no questions later, we got the changing table second hand and painted it white to match the rest of the nursery. It was free with the crib (which cost us $60). The pad came with it and I whipped up the cover in about 30 minutes from fabric in my stash. The toy on top and the wipe warmer came from our baby shower. The hand sanitizer and the pink tub on the bottom are from the dollar store. The baskets were a gift from my sister-in-law. The newborn diapers and hanging wetbag are from Diaper Junction. Those ran us $150. The one-size diapers on the bottom shelf were $150 for around 50 diapers, but we sold the boy-prints locally and made $50 back.

On top of our homemade changing pad cover, we keep a toy and a pump of hand sanitizer. In the first two bins, we keep all of our newborn diapers. Then there's the wipe warmer, coconut oil, and some homemade flats. While the wipe warmer is not necessary, it has been such a great thing to have in the nursery, especially since it has a built in nightlight. The bottom three bins are most of our one-sized cloth diapers. The majority of them are from AlvaBaby. On the left side, there is a hanging wet bag for dirty diapers. This works better for us since we have pets.

All of the diapers are ready to go, meaning the pocket diapers are pre-stuffed and everything is snapped to the right rise settings. That's another tip I share with people who are thinking about trying out cloth diapers. When you do diaper laundry, take the extra few minutes to stuff and snap the rise settings on your diapers. In the long run it will safe you time and stress when you're trying to change a wiggling baby! And always store the diapers bottom side up so that when you pull out a diaper, it comes out easily without opening and having the inserts fall on the floor!

We keep extra cloth diapers in a tub in the nursery closet, along with wipes that aren't currently being used.

How do you store your cloth diapers? Have any tips to share with the rest of the class?