If you're like me and you want to cloth diaper right from the start, read on.
The basic problem is that newborns are very tiny and they grow very fast. A diaper that fits a newborn will not fit an older baby, and vice versa. It is hard to get your money's worth out of newborn diapers, but a size small will be uncomfortable on a newborn. Fortunately, many newborn diapers have high resale value.
We accidentally left our cloth diapers at home when we went to the hospital. So her very first diaper was a disposable, darn it. My husband went home and got our cloth, which was a mix of Kissaluvs size 0, preemie and infant prefolds.
Maybe it's because we were first time parents, but we just couldn't bring ourselves to use anything except Kissaluvs for the first few weeks. They fit her perfectly, they didn't bother her umbilical cord, and they were so easy to use that we could (and did) put them on in our sleep. Even Grandad changed his share of diapers with Kissaluvs during those weeks. We used them with newborn Bummis Super Whisper wraps, which we also loved.
Our baby was 6 pounds at birth and grew to nearly 11 pounds in the first month. The preemie prefolds never fit her at all, and she had outgrown the waist on the infant prefolds by six weeks, so I pretty much went straight to regulars. The infant prefolds would have fit much longer if I had been pinning them or laying them in a wrap-style cover, but at that point I was mostly using Snappis and side-snapping covers.
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