Our experince with cloth!

I am just going to start out by saying I love cloth diapers!! :) However when I found out I was pregnant cloth was the furthest thing from my mind! Infact I remember saying how gross that I thought they would be and never give them a second thought. When Anna was born I swore I would only use pampers. HA! So much for that they gave her horrible rashes so I swapped to huggies! Well they were ok, but we still had way to many rashes so I swapped to Luvs and just slathered her with diaper creams and hoped for the best! Well when she was 16 months old I started finding out how great people though cloth was and really finding out about them online and that is when I desided that I wanted to try them out!  My first order was a couple of Sunbabies off a swap and have  never looked back since I got them! :) I have several types now and I like them all! Ok I know your asking how did I handle the poop? Well at first I was dumping the poop in the toliet and then rinsing in the tub and santitzing later, but I wond up getting a sprayer off the dog isle in the local grocery store that hooks up to the shower head and is plenty long enough to reach over the toliet. So I just spray them off and put them in the diaper pail! Now my daughter is 35 months old and daytime and naptime potty trained and only wears a diaper to bed! Which I thought would pose a problem with washing, since I was used to washing big loads of diapers and since she is only wearing 1 diaper a day. It took a little bit, but I got it figured out! I simply put the diapers in a large wet bag with a zipper so they don't smell up my house and wash them about ever 6-7 days! I try to remember to rinse them off in the tub when I take them off in the morning, but I don't always have time, but that has seemed to be okay even after almost a year of being potty trained! :) When I wash I simply shake out the inserts in the washing machine and fill with warm or Hot water on medium level (I don't have an HE washer!) and let it run through a rinse cycle, then do a hot/cold medium level wash (there is not hot/hot or hot/warm on my washer) with 1/4 cap full of Arm and Hammer Free laundry detergent and 1/2 cap full of Calogen water softener. Then I do a large load hot/cold wash cycle w/ no detergent to make sure the diapers are rinsed well! Then I hang them up on my indoor 5 line clothes line to dry! I have had an AMAZING experience with them using mostly pocket diaper stuffed with microfiber inserts. I do have some cotton flats and hemp babies that I love as well! I have only stripped my diapers maybe two or 3 times ever and a couple of those times is because we moved and have harder water here where we live and we needed a good water softener. So 1 year and 9 months later I would defiantly recommend using microfiber with pockets! :)