Unless you choose to use reusable washable diapers, you will spend thousands of dollars on diapers. To help jumpstart your diaper journey, I highly recommend doing a diaper raffle if you have a baby shower. My husband and I have huge families so gifted shower diapers lasted us about 7 months which is a massive saving. But any amount will help you!
Below is a list of all the diaper and wipe companies we’ve tried and our thoughts assuming a proper size and application:
Diapers
Zero or Limited Blowouts:
- Millie Moon – Soft and good capture
- Huggies Snugglers and Skin Essentials – Good capture
- Pampers Pure and Swaddlers- Good capture and runs a bit larger than other brands so you can stay on a smaller size longer
- Honest- Soft and good capture but beware that it runs smaller than other brands so you size up quicker
- Parents Choice – Not the softest but didn’t blow out
So. Many. Blowouts. Avoid:
- CVS brand- Rough material and constant blowouts
- Luvs- A notch better than CVS in quality but still daily blowouts
Pricey Ones We’ve Only Sampled:
- Healthy Baby Our Diaper – Super soft, contained a lot of poo
- Parasol Bye Bye Rash Diaper – Super soft, good capture
Wipes
- Woopsie Wipes- 100% recommend. These are dry wipes to supplement your wet wipes. I think wiping them dry is a huge reason my babies rarely got a diaper rash. These also can be used for spit up.
- Honest wipes- Perfect, no issues
- Water wipes – Good but would be nice if you didn’t have to reach in for every single wipe
- Huggies natural wipes- Good but wipes do stick if you only pull with one hand
- Freestyle Bamboo Wipes – Too large for newborns, otherwise good
- Fisher Price – Too dry, weird texture, almost too thin to be useful, and reminds me of wet dryer sheets