Flats and Handwashing Challenge Day 5

Diaper Challenge Day 5

Todays topic is: Techniques/Performance: How You Make Flats Work For You

Turns out I’m a simple gal when it comes to diapering.

Ha. Just kidding. Sort-of. (see Day 3)I love diapers, lots of them- I just like them to be easy. I don’t have patience for all these fancy folds (and neither does my daughter).

I’m on team pad-fold mixed in with a little origami if I’m feelin’ fancy. The pad fold really seems to be the most absorbent for us (I fold it in a way where I have 16 layers of absorbency) and quite frankly, the quickest to get on my squirm worm.

I had every intention of taking a bunch of great pictures of my folds but well… that just didn’t happen. My super awesome words will just have to suffice.

To pad fold:

  1. Fold your flat in half.
  2. Half again. (so you get a square{ish} shape)
  3. Fold one side in 1/2 way.
  4. Fold the other side in 1/2 way (their two ends should meet in the middle).
  5. Fold the whole thing in half again along the line where the two ends met.

That’s it- you are done! Clear as mud, right? Really its simple. Just fold it a bunch of times. It should look like a plain ol’ rectangle insert.

I usually tuck these in my Blueberry Capri or Coverall covers (my fav!) and they work like a charm. We really have only had a couple leaks and that was when little miss took a longer nap than usual.

At bedtime, we do an origami fold with a pad fold on top. No worries, I wont try to explain how to do an origami fold. Y’all know how to YouTube right? 🙂

It really is easy though! Trust me!

Diaper Challenge Day 5
Trim overnight diaper!

We have used origami fold during the day too and it works great as well! Both folds are very trim- another bonus!

Whew, that was a short post. Good. I’m tired- off to go wash yet another load of diapers! 🙂 Two days y’all! Two days!

(Seriously LOVING this challenge- no worries!)

 

 

 

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