6 covers. how long will that last? wwyd?

6 covers for the NB stage lasted us at least 2 days. We loved our orange-edge pf's! i definitely don't see the need for a diaper service at that age. Congratulations on your new LO!

Yep, I have six NB covers for my new little baby.  She's not here yet, but 6 is our plan.  We did the same thing you're doing and had my mom, who was going to buy us 13 weeks of diaper service, use 2/3 of the money to buy J's stash.  (We used the service for 5 weeks.)

I'm the weirdo who likes to have 8. But I just fold my PF's and lay them in. We get poo on covers alot. I also like to have 8 pre-loaded and ready to wear. So I use a cover/pf, toss the pf in the pail and lay the cover over the side of the changing table. At the end of the day I can have 6-8 covers (per baby, I have 2 in cloth with another at night)  laying on the side of my CT.  Then in the evening I put new folded PF in the covers and stack them for each kid. If a cover is too dirty to reuse then I toss it in the diaper pail to be washed. 8 means that I almost never have to handwash a cover AND I always have a days worth of covers loaded. :)

I recall 6 covers being about 1 days worth for me.  But I often trifolded for convenience and seemed to have a super pooper.  I also never reuse a cover that has even a faint smell of pee.  It depended on the cover for me whether it wiped clean enough for reuse, proraps and bumkins come to mind as being very nice in that aspect. 

If you've got two dozen orange edge, I would think that's enough and spend the dough on the small to medium fitteds where you'll get more use out of them.  I really enjoyed prefolds in the newborn stage and then other types of diapers after a few months when things start fitting better. 

BTW, nice MIL for helping you out like that. 

OK, so correct me if I'm wrong, it seems I should get the 6 covers I'm considering and then see what kind of a pooper we've got. Then if we need more we can always order.

dlw200 wrote: I think 6 should be a good starting amount of covers.  I think we had 4 but we were always running out.  Good luck getting help buying the diapers you want.  I registered for cloth diapers and specifically said NO clothing please.  The week after my shower I was running all over town returning clothes.  Oh well, I like diaper shopping anyway.

OMG! This is me already and I'm not due until December!

I think 6 is a good number. We always got BF poo on them. I just washed them in the sink and hung them to dry. I really liked the XS Thirsties. They lasted a long time.

I have a 2 1/2 week old. I've been CDing for about a week and a half. I have 9 covers, 3 Thirsties XS, 4 BSWW nb and 2 others. I bought the 3 Thirsties new and the rest used. I lay my orange edge pf in them and keep them ready to go for DH because it is only one step for him. For me I mostly use KL0s. I find the nine covers are more than enough considering I usually have 2 or 3 in the diaper bag and one of the covers I don't care too much for.