Since I enjoy our BumGenius 4.0 diapers so much, I thought that I would buy a couple of the new "Freetime" diapers in the "Albert" print. I read a lot of reviews first, before making my purchase, because I don't have a whole lot of money. I can only buy a few diapers at a time, and they have to really work for us. But, since I really like BG and most of the reviews were really good, I decided to shell out the money for a couple diapers for my boys to use and abuse. If you haven't seen this new diaper, here is a video that Kim from Dirty Diaper Laundry (*one of my favorite diaper-minded sites*) made, and you can see all of the inside bits. :)
With only having two of these diapers in my rotation, it took me a little while to see how I was really going to like it. I can imagine that other moms will have different opinions on how it functions, being that I don't have real young babies to use it on. My boys are currently 1- 1/2 years old. I've found that this diaper seems to be a little more generous than the 4.0 diapers. It isn't that they are bulkier, but that they seem to have just a little more rise. Maybe it has more to do with how the insides all lay together? I don't know.
Both of my boys are able to wear this diaper on the medium setting, and are very comfortable. I love not having to stuff the diaper, and when I put it under their bottoms, I just hold the back of the diaper and gently pull the front with my other hand. The two fold-over panels then open up just enough to adjust for the size of my little ones. With the way that the flaps fit in the diaper, it keeps any bulk from sliding up too high inside the diaper, and causing the waist area to become ill-fitting. I've had a little trouble with this, with some other diapers. I would stuff them and try to fold down some of the insert and pull everything a little further down in the diaper, because having the insert right under the snaps was making it difficult to get the leg adjustment where I needed it to be without making the waist too tight. As I said, one of my boys is rather skinny. Because of the absorbent flaps being sewn in the front and back, I don't have to worry about them traveling where I don't want them.
I've read some reviews where folks had trouble with the flaps bunching up, but I haven't had that problem at all. With the middle setting, I don't have to fold the flaps over at all for my boys. This might be where our experience could be totally different from trying to diaper a small infant. I can imagine that with the two flaps, watery baby poo, particularly if the babe is breastfed, it might get pretty messy inside the diaper. To be honest though, having nursed both of my boys, there wasn't a single diaper that was any different. There is going to be crazy, wicked mess. Just so long as it is held in and doesn't leave me changing the baby's clothes every time they have a poo, I'm fine with it. With little baby poo, it isn't all that sticky, so I can't imagine that it is all that hard to wash off. On the other hand, I don't have a diaper sprayer. Some folks get so comfortable with never having to touch anything, they are terribly put-out if they have to swish a diaper or wash it out by hand. I've heard that these diapers are hard to spray, because of the flaps. If you use a sprayer, that might be something to consider. Since my boys have some pretty solid poo, I can usually just dump it over in the toilet, and the Freetime hasn't made this any more difficult.
I like the absorbency in these diapers. I've only used them during the day, and I don't need any extra inserts for them. If I were going to use them at night, I'd probably want to put at least an extra layer of microfleece in the bottom of the diaper. Since I've used the 4.0's pretty regularly overnight, without any leaks, I can't imagine these causing me any trouble. I know that some folks think that by the time you have it all stuffed and ready for bed, the diapers are rather bulky. However, I haven't found a nighttime solution that isn't bulky, aside from a paper diaper. My concern isn't how bulky something is at night, but rather whether it will leak, or whether the waist and leg bindings will be comfortable for that many hours. If I put BG diapers on a little loose, they don't leave any marks, but still don't leak. That works for me. I'll certainly go with that if I don't have my woolies available at night.
Anyway, I thought that all of the folding of the flaps would be annoying, and then found out that I don't need to fold them at all on the medium size. Groovy. We have plenty of room to move up to the Large size as the boys grow. Should they need more absorbency, it is no trouble to drop an insert into the bottom of the diaper and flip the flaps back over it. I love not having to stick my hand inside a diaper, because it's just not an easy task for me. Maybe I have fat hands. lol
Well, there it is. If we need to buy more diapers to fill out our rotation, I would be pretty happy to pick up some more of these. I think that the "Albert" pattern is so stinkin' cute. It would be cool if they had some more patterns like this that were attractive. I'm not into the abstract "artist series" stuff that they have been doing. I like the color choices that they offer in solids though, so it would be no hardship to "settle". :)
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