Friday, October 25, 2013

The perfect pants for cloth diapers!



Cloth diapers during the summer are adorable. Doesn't matter if it's a solid or a pattern, seeing a little bit of fluff peek out from underneath a wispy dress makes my heart swoon. But here in Washington State, that's a short lived season. So the other 10 months out of the year I'm looking for options to keep my baby girl looking cute and not like she's got a badonkadonk.

As a cloth diapering parent you quickly learn that mainstream children's clothing brands sizing just doesn't work. Their pants seats are designed to accommodate a trimmer 'sposie butt. So then you end up buying a size up and usually have to roll up the legs. This past month when I did my bi-annual shopping spree at Just Between Friends, I picked up a few sets of sweat pants for Penny in size 24m and 2T - judging solely on how loose the diaper area looks. When I slid them onto her, I was shocked that the waist and seat fit almost perfectly but there were literally 2 extra inches of pant leg. Yes, I have a shorty. 

But sweat pants aren't a big deal. They're lounging around the house clothes and I could easily give you a wonderful slideshow of the frumpy comfortable options we have available to us. What I'm meaning to write about today is how to dress your cloth diapered little girl with at least somewhat of a sense of fashion.

For us, I've found one bulletproof way of keeping Penny cute and ensuring that one day she will not look back at her baby pictures with pure embarrassment. A very high hope, I know, but at the very least I will spare her from the bus-backup noises that ensue when she wears a 'regular' pants and shirt option that is common for children her age.

My tip: Leggings and play dresses.

Play dresses are awesome for us because:
  • even if you buy them a size up (as I do), it doesn't make a huge difference because the longer the better for covering up the diaper area.
  • the play dress / leggings combo works for Spring, Fall and Winter - you can always use short sleeved dress-shirts in the summer too.
Still, most leggings that you buy are reminiscent of those 'mom pants' that we all remember our mothers wearing in our growing up years (cue the bazillion red faces of grandmothers all around the country) and therefore.. not very cute. Sometimes they come with a little ruffle or lace at the bottom, but most of the time they're just a solid spandexy pant that we want to hide under a dress.

And then there's Doodle Pants.

Doodle Pants make me want to let Penny run around (with reckless abandon, of course) sans play dress. They are just too cute! You'll find each one with an adorable print on the tushie. The best part? The seat of the pants give a ton of room for those cloth diapered babes.


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35 comments:

  1. I love these! We have the same issues, dressing my son!

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  2. I hadn't considered this particular issue. But omg how cute are those pants!

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  3. Oh my gosh. Those Doodle Pants are absolutely adorable, kinda like footless tights! :) I definitely need a few pairs of those for my little girl, as well!

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  4. I'm pregnant with my first so I hadn't even considered that cloth diapers would look bigger and need a bigger pants size.

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  5. Very cute. I'm always on the lookout for pants that will fit my little fluffy-booty man. Too bad I can't put him in a dress!

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  6. I love these! Looks like I will be needing a few of these when I start CD my new lil one in Feb! :)

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    1. Congrats, Devon! I am due with #2 at the end of February/early March!

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  7. What a great post, thank you! I'm a mommy-to-be of a baby girl and I'm also in Washington State, so this post really spoke to me and will make my fluffy life much easier. Doodlepants - I'll remember that!

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    1. Congrats, Stefanie! They are really cute and very functional. Send me an email and let me know where you're at - I'm in the Seattle area.

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  8. We have the same issue with my little girl. only she has really skinny legs, so baby legs aren't an Option right now. With the cute prints this would be a great Solution.

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  9. These look soo comfy and cute! These would be so adorable under dresses for my little girl!

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  10. We do a lot of leggings and tights under dresses or skirts at our house too! I love that look on little girls! These tights are super cute!

    -Hannah Avery
    hannahavery85@yahoo.com

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  11. We basically don't do anything other than leggings in the winter (daughter AND mother, sadly). These are super duper cute.

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  12. These pants are adorable and I like that they are like tights so they help hold the diaper on! I love the rainbow ones

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  13. ive been perusing the baby girl section (were having a girl this time around!) and some of those pants are totally impractical. even for a disposable! i love the fit of these. i wish they werent so expensive (for my budget) or thats pretty much all she'd wear!

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  14. These are so cute. We never really had to worry about pants not fitting my some because he is super skinny.

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  15. Such a great idea! Not only do they fit over cloth diapers, but they're super cute, too!

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  16. my sons are a size up in pants due to cloth diaper bulge, so all their pants are super long and have to be cuffed a million times!! these pants are awesome, i love the look and uniqueness.

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  17. I never heard of these before, but it makes so much sense! I'm glad that you posted about this...guess I have to buy some when the baby comes! :)

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  18. I think this would be fun for my son. I'm learning so much about all the different issues, but fun ways to fix them. I am only about 1 month into cloth diapering.

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  19. Those pants are adorable:) They do look much better than the jeans pic!

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  20. my daughter has those same jeggings and yes, in cloth they look look weird! i love the idea of pants that are made for cloth diapers. I love the Doodle Pants!

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  21. My sister will love these for her little girl. My poor little 18 mth old guy is also short legged and has to wear 24 mth pants to accommodate the diaper bulge---the rolled up cuffs never stay roll when he is active!

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  22. I have never seen these til now! Will have to check them out for my coming lil girl!!

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  23. Oh. My. God. I HAVE to get some of these! I have a terrible time clothing my cloth diapered daughter too. She is also short. Needless to say, it is a nightmare, as I'm sure you know!

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  24. These are so super adorable. my sister is having a little girl and these would be a perfect baby shower gift.

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  25. Awww, we don't do cloth but I really wish we had!! I told my husband we will for our next (and last) baby. Will need to remember these pants!

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  26. We are lucky to live in South GA! My friend has a little girl who wears dresses until about December. My heart swoons when I see her cute little coordinated dress/diaper outfits! I would love to have a little girl to match her dresses and diapers!! But I would be happy with either. :) Babies are a blessing!

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  27. I hadn't thought about how cloth diapers would be harder to dress over, I'm glad I read this before I started cloth diapering our first little one; now I can buy appropriate clothes :)

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  28. We have a new adopted 13 year old daughter whom we have had two months now and we have her in cloth diapers and rubberpants 24/7 and she wears mostly dresses around the house and when we go out she wears loose fitting jeans or other pants.We baptized and christened her two weeks ago and did her in a poofy white gown and bonnet with lace socks and white shoes,we put white ruffled panties over her diapers and rubberpants.

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    1. To anonymous-We also have a new adopted daughter who's 14 and we are also using cloth diapers and rubberpants on her 24/7 and she wears loose fitting shorts or jeans and a tee shirt most of the time.When we take her out,we put a teen size onesie on her that somewhat prevents the bulge under her clothes.

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  29. These look great. It is a struggle to find pants that fit. We also have a short baby, which makes t even harder

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  30. Thanks for the post! I'm finally getting around to cloth diapering and my short 6 month old is wearing 12 month pants with the cloth diapers. And she is in the 25th % in all categories. It's a little frustrating trying to configure. Barely any of the you tube videos mention it either. So thanks again!!

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