A lot of people these days are turning to cloth nappies for their baby and it's wonderful! Cloth was always the means of choice for popping around baby's bottom in the "olden days", and for many good reasons. Firstly, there was no such thing as disposable nappies, so cloth was the only choice, except if the mother decided to go nappy free using an ancient method which today is called "elimination communication".
But for most people, cloth wrapped or tied around the baby's bottom was the main form of nappying throughout history. It was cheap - even old rags would do, if the family had little money - and simple. The same size standard square fits around any size baby or toddler - no need to make or buy separate nappies for different ages or sizes, as it often is today if you get into "fitted cloth nappies". The beauty of cloth nappies are manyfold.
Terry nappies, which are cloth nappy squares made from terry towelling, are excellent for every age baby and they dry so much faster than any other type that you can buy. Fitteds, modern cloth nappies, and other fancy kinds may seem cuter or neater or trimmer but they will take ages to dry if you live anywhere that isn't warm all year round. Plus, they are fussier to clean, whereas with plain old terries you can simply use a flushable paper liner which gets flushed away if your baby had done a poo, and the terry squares go in a smell-proof bag just as they are until they get washed - every 2 days is usual.
Before you fork out hundreds of dollars on modern cloth nappies (which many first-time parents do), why not get a few stacks of terry nappies which are cheap and simple, and try them out first? With a few basic woollen or PUL covers, you can have a full nappying system which will take your child from newborn through to toilet-training -
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