How to Pin a Dipe- a Little Tutorial :)

Here's a little picture tutorial about how to pin:

First, practice on a doll or teddy bear

Lay baby on diaper and fold bottom part in:


Next, bring it up over baby:


Now you may need to fan out the front depending on how big the diaper is, this is a preemie prefold and is a little snug on this baby doll if I tried to pin it without fanning the front out.


Next put your fingers between baby and diaper:


Then stick the pin through and you will feel the pressure from the pin coming through the dipe, go slowly and you can pin all the way through the fabric or not, I usually don't go all the way through b/c then the pin is touching him and can leave a pressure indention on his hips.  Then guide the pin back through and out the front.  Keeping your fingers back there will keep the pin from dragging across baby's skin, I have done that before-not good :(


Now do the other side (you may need to adjust the first side to tighten, pull tight because it will loosen once it's pinned and baby is moving around):


And voila!!

Nice pinning mama!

lookin' good!

Great pics!  This should be a sticky =)

Great tutorial!  Thanks, Morgan!!!

expectingnumber2 wrote: Thanks!  I really want to find the love for pins but just can't.  It almost seems like my pins aren't sharp enough.  I don't know what I'm doing wrong except maybe that I need to practice on a doll a little first.  I haven't had any luck on a wiggly baby.  You make it look so easy!

Definitely practice first- it helps a lot!  And yes, these pics do make it look easy because it's a doll that can't move-it's way harder on a baby that wiggles and kicks.  Just work with them, eventually they will catch on.  I started saying "Hold still, ouchie."  And he would look down see the pin and having been poked before he knew what that meant and he would stop kicking and moving.

Does putting your finger in there affect the fit--make it loose? Or should you be able to get a finger in there anyway so that it isn't too tight?

Thanks for the tutorial...waiting on some pins and prefolds to arrive in the mail!  yay!

Great tute!  I'll add that I found it helped get the second side snug if after you pin the first side you grab the back corner of the second side and the leg of the first side and kind of pull them in opposite directions, if that makes sense.  Well, mainly just hold the leg, but really pull the dipe, it seems to make it nice and snug. 

I'm a pinner. I HATE getting poop on covers, so trifolding and padfolding is out for us. I just think it's gross to have to spray out a diaper AND a cover. Pins keep everything super tight and contained. We tried snappis and gave them a really good long concerted effort, but they just never held for us. The diaper would always loosen up wayyy too much and poop would still end up on the cover. PINS ROCK! I can also let baby go coverless in a pinned flat or prefold, but not a snappi'd one.

mamatothepiggy wrote: I don't see why you would need to use pins with the other options out there, like Snappis fitted dipes with snaps or or the Monkey Doodlez TAG covers, where it is not a pocket but the prefold or pad is held under end-pieces and closes like a disposable.... not trying to be rude but it seems like so much to pin and unpin every change if there is no need for it...

If you don't want to use pins then don't ;) And it's really not that much extra work.

mamatothepiggy wrote: I don't see why you would need to use pins with the other options out there, like Snappis fitted dipes with snaps or or the Monkey Doodlez TAG covers, where it is not a pocket but the prefold or pad is held under end-pieces and closes like a disposable.... not trying to be rude but it seems like so much to pin and unpin every change if there is no need for it...