Diaper Service

Cloth diapers are great--cheaper than disposables, better and more comfortable for baby's bum and better for the environment. And modern cloth diapering systems make it easier (and way cuter!) than the older method with pins and vinyl pants. There's just one thing that sposies have over cloth--time (well, and if you're really squeamish...but diapers are diapers and you will come in contact with baby poop regardless; it washes off, don't worry). But there's a solution for that: Diaper service, in which a company drops off clean diapers with all the accessories (reusable waterproof bags for dirties, soft cloth wipes, cute waterproof covers) and, a week later, picks them up and launders them, leaving you with a fresh stash. Gotta be expensive, right? I thought it must be, but I'd never looked into it before now.

Introducing BA Cloth Diapering, a local diaper service operating out of Topeka and serving Topeka, St. Louis & the KC area. Their service is $20 a week with all necessary accessories (you don't have to buy your own diapers, but if you have them you can use them), and that's a huge number of diapers--90 for newborn-size, 80 for infant and 70 for large. Definitely enough.
[To compare, an economy pack of Pampers Swaddlers newborn disposables (204 diapers) is $59.95 plus shipping, plus wipes, on Amazon.com--and in an emergency you can't toss those in your washer and have more for free, nor do they wipe up spitup equally well.]
And they use local work-at-home-mom-made diapers, covers, wipes and wetbags, so you're supporting other parents. Check it out! They also offer reusable breast pads and post-partum bleeding/menstrual pads (which I highly recommend--SO much more comfortable and breathable than the disposable pads!)