A couple of months ago, I started scouting for a toddler diaper, not something really common here, but I thought I saw it somewhere before. After searching online, I was led to this website, Everythingbabything.com ran by a mom called Joanne. I thought I had gone to nearly all online baby things shops, but this was the first time I heard about it. Li from Tiny Tapir introduced me to Joanne, and Joanne told me about the Poverty Janes diapers. These are hand woven really thick wool diapers of many layers, and they are not water proof. They do not have a PUL waterproof layer, thus they are not warm on baby, but they do need to be used together with a diaper cover. What was interesting was, Joanne recommended using Snugglepants longies, a kind of pants made using former sweaters made of wool, fleece, or cashmere.
What is really unique is that wetness will not go through these pants, and these pants only needed to be washed once in 2 weeks. I thought that was weird but really cool, as it meant I didn’t have to buy anymore pajama pants for Josiah. When I bought the super soft cashmere pants, I realised that it was really practical, it really never got wet. Plus point was, Josiah loved the pants so much, he calls it ‘soft soft pants’ and looked forward to wearing it every night.
I bought 2 of the Poverty Janes to cycle for 2 days, with the intention of getting them washed daily. Both of the diapers came with different kind of inserts, but both have one top layer to keep baby dry. They are super thick, but super comfy coz the leg areas do not tie to baby’s thighs and cause redness like most Pocket diapers do. The only thing is that the stay dry liner can be rather itchy on baby during the first few uses.
I really thought Josiah was a real heavy wetter while using the Fuzzi Bunz for nights, sometimes it leaked so bad onto the bedsheets. However, after we started using the Poverty Janes, guess what, he stopped peeing in his diapers, even if he did, it is so little. At the moment we are still putting on the diapers at nights, just in case. So we’ll wait and see how long he managed to stay dry and start removing diapers for nights all together.
Thank you Leona, for writing this.