When Maria first brought up the idea of cloth diapers, several months before Evan was born, I was leery. I imagined poking myself (or worse, the baby) with pins... and pictured the diapers constantly falling off, making a mess everywhere.
One of Maria's friends turned us on to Pasadena-based Dy-Dee Diapers, which has been in the cloth diaper business since 1938.
Cloth diapers meant an economic alternative to disposables, and yes, an environmentally friendly one as well. Plus, these days velcro diaper covers are used in place of baby pins -- so they stay in place. (They also offer diaper fasteners, which I don't advise -- they're harder to use, and if your baby is active at all, they fall off.)
We've been using cloth since we brought Evan home from the hospital. On the down side, cloth means changing your baby more frequently, since it's more noticable when the diaper is wet. (Of course, that's a good thing if you're trying to keep track of your baby's movements.) But on the plus side, it just seems like a more natural way to go.
Dy-Dee also supplies you with a hamper to dump the soiled diapers in -- no worrying about washing the cloth. They come by every Monday, picking up that garbage bag full of soiled diapers, and leaving another bag of fresh ones. (We keep a bundle of disposables around too, for nighttime and other moments where it's simply easier to throw one on. Yeah, I know, that's slightly cheating.)
One more thing that convinced us: Dy-Dee claims that babies diapered with cloth generally toilet train a year earlier than babies diapered with disposable diapers.
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