CD questions

JenniferBultman

Hey guys- I've been thinking a lot about CD'ing but have 2 (hopefully none flammable) questions.. 1) if you tell the hospital you're CD'ing can you CD from birth? 2) I get a lot of the benefits of CD- but one that doesn't make sense to me is why would CD'ing effect potty training? I've read that babies who are cloth diapered potty train faster but don't understand why? Thanks for your help!

homespunmetier

i have no idea but cd-ing scares the sh!t out of me...hahaha no pun intended

jayefay

# 1 - You would just tell the hospital you are CDing, bring your CDs with you and start diapering the baby from the beginning.  I wouldn't expect the nurses to diaper your baby, but you can do whatever you want - it's your baby!  If we deliver in the hospital we plan on taking prefolds with us, and DH will just go right ahead and diaper her up.

# 2 - From my research, CDing makes the baby more aware of when they are wet.  Although CDs are absorbant, they don't take the wetness away and gel it up like a lot of the sposies do.  So your baby feels the wetness, and this apparently can help when it's time for potty training. 

NesJas

homespunmetier:

i have no idea but cd-ing scares the sh!t out of me...hahaha no pun intended

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LuvNCupcakes

jayefay:

# 1 - You would just tell the hospital you are CDing, bring your CDs with you and start diapering the baby from the beginning.  I wouldn't expect the nurses to diaper your baby, but you can do whatever you want - it's your baby!  If we deliver in the hospital we plan on taking prefolds with us, and DH will just go right ahead and diaper her up.

# 2 - From my research, CDing makes the baby more aware of when they are wet.  Although CDs are absorbant, they don't take the wetness away and gel it up like a lot of the sposies do.  So your baby feels the wetness, and this apparently can help when it's time for potty training. 

Well put Jaye! Also, thanks Jenn for asking question number 1 I was wondering the same thing

timark99

You can definitely bring your own cloth diapers to the hospital and start right from the beginning. The nurses never changed our baby other than maybe the very first diaper to be put on after birth, otherwise it was always me or DH. That being said we did disposables in the beginning for a couple of reasons. I didn't know what meconium would do to the prefolds, I didn't want to be discharged fromm the hospital and have to come right home and do diaper laundry, and this was our first baby so the only practice we had was on our teddy bears. We started using cloth when Aiden was 3 days old. The easier potty training only works if they are wearing prefolds or fitted diapers during potty training. If they are wearing pocket diapers or all in ones then they have a stay dry liner so it is similar to disposables in that the wetness is wicked away from them.

CTri17

I didn't read other answers so here are mine.

1) yes you CAN CD from birth, but I preferred to wait until the meconium was passed (usually in 24-48 hrs) and then start cloth. That stuff can stain like crazy. 1 pack of NB diapers should be all you need.

2) If effects potty training because they know what it feels like to be wet (because of the cloth vs feeling nothing in a disposable) they won't feel a TON wet but enough that they won't like it as they get older.

LMK if you have any other questions, we've been CDing all of Lucy's life...