Diaper Diaries: The Diaper Challenge - Bumkins

December 10, 10:29 AMEarly Childhood Parenting ExaminerAngele Sionna

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  Bumkins' All in One Diaper

This is a part of a new series of stories called Diaper Diaries - The Diaper Challenge that explores cloth diapering, which is gaining in popularity everyday. (Read the rest of the articles in this series HERE.)

I challenged diaper companies small and large to send me their best diaper to test out. I will be reporting my findings about each diaper individually as well as comparing and contrasting them later in this series. Each diaper has been tested for about a month or more by both my one year old and 2.5 year old girls.

Bumkins, bumkins.com

Bumkins are made with American fabrics in America. They have no vinyl, PVC, or Phthalates in them. Bumkins makes lots of products for cloth diapering including, All In One diapers, diaper covers, pullups, and overnight pullups.

We tried the All in One 3-pack in "girl elements" in medium ($72.95, bumkins.com), which is a pack of three of their really cute All In One (aka AIO) diapers with three cotton inserts and also a waterproof Dirty Duds bag for dirty diapers. The set is a really a good price for all that you get too.

The thing that stands out about Bumkins are the really cool fabrics they're made from. Nothing boring here. Girls can be really girl and boys can wear cars and other boy things. They also have several gender-neutral designs like Dr Suess' Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs & Ham, and One Fish, Two Fish.

The diapers themselves wear well and dry fast in the dryer. The inside has six layers of cotton sewn into the diaper in two layers, which make them dry faster. The outside is waterproof. The AIOs close with velcro on both sides, for easy adjusting and have tabs for keeping lint off of them in the wash.

The Bumkins AIOs come in small, medium, large or extra-large. (Check out the size-chart HERE.)

The AIOs aren't absorbent enough for my heavy wetters to wear overnight, but they are great for use during the way. I have had them leak before but it was only once and when my toddler peed a lot at once, and she's over the recommended size limit for the medium diaper. Also as far as size is concerned, if you don't adjust the diaps tightly and they're big on your baby, the front can sag, which has happened with them on my youngest. But that's easily fixed by putting them on properly.

The bag that comes with the set is a great accessory for cloth diapering. it has a long, drawstring cord to hang it from the back of the bathroom door, if you want. The bag keeps wetness and smells trapped inside until you're ready to wash them. About six diaps will fit inside it packed tightly. You can also use it folded up in your diaper bag for storing dirty cloth diaps on the go.