and love them.  (the babies too, lol).  

the g diaper covers are nice b/c you can use them with cloth prefolds (lots of CD moms buy used gdiapers for this), or use them as intended with the flushable inserts.  i've done both, but prefer the latter.  they are easy, we've never had a toilet problem, and while i was drawn to the green-ness of them, i love that they are low wash (the outer cover can go through several uses w/o a wash b/c of the  plastic liner) and really love that there are no smelly diapers in the house.  they are not perfect, but then again, nothing is.  i order my inserts online, but just saw them at whole paycheck last week, so i'll have to compare pricing soon.  

800Diapers.com now sells gdiapers online. Very convenient way to get diapers...

I tried, and gave up on, gDiapers. They'd probably be easier now, but I just never had enough assembled and ready to go back when my daughter was smaller and required round-the-clock diaper changes. We also had some leaks. But I think they're great, and different things work for different people.

Speaking of which, 7th Generation worked GREAT for us. Fit perfectly, whereas another brand - was it Pampers? did not. Perhaps baby bottoms come in different shapes. In any case, 7th Generation just did another redesign and they may work better for you now... might be worth giving a try.

I don't think they're called gDiapers in Oz, but they have the same product. We used disposable with Jess without being too fussed by it. From my pov, with our neck of the woods being in severe drought, forgoing an extra wash or two a week by using disposables was more sustainable. Plus they were so nice and absorbant... But now that Jess is potty trained for all but the overnights, we're at the end of the discussion with her.

With the next one (touch wood!), I'm thinking of going a combo of gDiaper during the day and disposable at night/when out for a long time. Cuts down on the enviro waste, but still keeps the convenience.

about these. I've seen them at the store, but I never bothered to understand what they were. They sound cool! We started with cloth diapers (using disposables at night), but ended up using Seventh Generation diapers with both kids. I think they're great diapers and haven't had a problem with leaking. Stinky diapers in the house is another issue...

to use the G Diapers (we had to have a plumber over just days after our son was born), but now we use Bum Genius. You wash the both parts, so it is a little messier than the G Diapers, but they have adjustable snaps so they grow with your child--you invest once and don't have to keep buying more as the child gets bigger.

This comes and goes for me, but there are times that unless it's about personal health (dairy, meat, chemicals in plastic), I just give up on environmental stuff. Which feels kind of blasphemous, but, for example, sometimes I see the cans and bottles on the counter that need rinsing before they go in recycling, and I just throw them in the trash. Counter cleared, job done.

I really think that sustainability won't really happen unless they make it easier on  us women - who do most of the housework, buy most consumer goods, etc. It's just gotta be easier, and built in - better products, better processes.

Oh, and much cheaper! There's a new green living homewares shop near me, and I thought, this is excellent, now I have a place to go to get stuff that somebody else already figured out. I saw a beautifully painted kitchen stool for ds - proper paint, proper wood, proper sources, fair trade, la la. $250. $250?!? O-kee.

There was a matching table and chairs - god knows how much.

We have the hybrid car, just did some renovations around energy efficiency, are getting solar panels, and dh is an environmental lawyer heavily involved in all this stuff. There are a lot of big ideas, but unless they trickle down to every day life, it feels like it's going to take forever to have impact.

My youngest was potty trained for poo completely by 9 months.  In China they have to potty train the babies early because diapers are expensive to wash and only the well off buy disposables.  So they put the babies in pants with a split so they can pee and poo while you hold them over a potty or where ever.  Totally green and cheaper.  I saw women holding tiny babies over gutters to pee while walking down the street.  It was so nice to not have to deal with poo diapers!  I did let her continue to use diapers for pee though but that was only 4 a day usually since she peed when she pooped on the potty too.  YOu can do it.  Put them on the potty first thing in the am and give them the signal.  I used to say "Ba!" and pretend to grunt a bit at first.  Then after awhile she just knew when she sat on the potty to poo.  Put him there after every meal and after a warm bath too.  They always seem to poo after th bath rather than before.

types of cloth diapers.  Fuzzy Bunz, Happy Heiny's, and covers made by SAHMs from Wiggle Worm Bottoms, Strawberries N Sunshine, and Kidzoos.  I love them.  My only problem with them, they DO NOT keep DS dry at night.  We have to use evil huggies for bed time.  

I LOVE the fluffy butt my son sports all the time, and now that it's warming up here, he'll run around in just a diaper and t-shirt, assuming he keeps the diaper on ;-o

My mom had three kids under the age of 5 and we all used cloth diapers. SHe also didn't have a dryer, so she was line drying like 3 dozen a day or something. I have two brands of cloth diapers (bum genius and whisper wipes? maybe) and one starter kit of gdiapers. I tell my hubby, "Look if it doen't work, the Huggies will ALWAYS be at the store."

Of course the two days she will be in the hospital (while I get my last 2 nights of sleep!) they can put her in whatever, but once we get home I have a plan in place.

I had the worst cloth diapers with kids 1 & 2, prefolds so thin that they were really only good for burp cloths and some hand-me-down all-in-ones that had long since lost their waterproofing. They ended up in disposables. But on the younger three kids I've had Chinese prefolds with a Snappi fastener in wool wraps which are surprisingly easy to care for.

There's a calculator here to determine your cost for cloth vs disposable diapering.

I have gotten lazy since ds4 potty trained, and put dd into disposables. Two in cloth is a pain, I thought I'd take a little break. We've been using the Costco Kirkland brand. We were short of diapers on a weekend trip and bought Pampers because that was what was available. So nasty. The mesh liner inside- who thought of that? The filler keeps pilling up on dd's girly bits. Eww.