Wool Cloth Diaper Covers

Wool falls into the same category as fleece as far as cloth diaper covers go. As in it is water-resistant, but not water-proof. It is also highly breathable.

I’m just going to be honest here & let you in on the cons first:

• Expense. Wool covers, whether snap/aplix covers, soakers or longies/shorties, wool is expensive. There are however a few ways around it (we’ll talk tomorrow).
• Care. You have to hand wash wool & it needs to be (occasionally) lanolized. However, the washing & lanolizing are not at all difficult, & you don’t do it NEARLY as often as any other type of cover.  The trick is to not have all your wool dirty at once. Having to wash a huge bunch IS annoying & then you’re left without any covers until they’re dry (I have a few longies that take 2 full days to dry in the winter!).
• If you get a little forgetful on diaper changes & baby gets sopping wet, there will be compression leaking (as in, if baby sits down on an absorbant fiber, like a couch or your jeans, it will wick through the wool onto the absorbent fiber). Though it won’t be dripping wet like going coverless would be.

So why would anyone use wool?

• Well, it’s SO breathable for one, but not as “dangerous” as going coverless (dangerous for your furniture or carpet anyway).
• It’s a very natural fiber that will easily bio-degrade.
• In the case of longies/shorties (even soakers in the summer in my opinion) the pants ARE the cover & can get super cute at that.
• Last, you don’t have to wash them very often at ALL (unless of course poo gets on them). The lanolin in the wool creates natural antibacterial properties. Just let the covers air-out when they get wet or have a ‘pee smell’ & after 15-30min, i promise, they smell fresh & clean. It’s crazy. I have only been using wool for a few months, and I’ve gone a month before needing to wash/re-lanolize, whereas my fleece covers have to be washed after one night-time or naptime use (I wash PUL every other day). So you don’t need that many, particularly if you are only using them for night-time/naptime (a lot of people go this route since PUL is admittedly just easier to deal with for busy day-time).

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