The Bumgenius Freetime is an All-in-One diaper, which means that the inserts (the absorbent material) are all sewn into the diaper. The outside is water resistant PUL and the inserts are a stay dry microfiber. These inserts are overlapping, and attached at one side which makes drying a lot faster. These diapers have snaps with a 3 X 3 rise setting. At the smallest setting, these diapers should fit a baby at about 8 lbs. This is how big Gabe was when he fit into these diapers. At it's largest setting it should fit a baby of 35 lbs, but I clearly can't attest to this. I love all the fun prints this diaper comes in.
Here are some pictures of how the Freetime fits on little man.
Look at that adorable fluffy bum! I recently moved the rise setting to medium for these diapers. This is the "Albert" print, and this is the very first diaper I ever bought. I found it at Target long before I even knew I was pregnant.
These diapers have been working great for us. They're our favorite go-tos for night-time, especially now that little man is sleeping in longer stretches.
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| Inside of the diaper - stay dry semi attached inserts |
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This one is Chris' favorite - he calls it the "hippy diaper."
The only thing about this diaper that bothers me is that while the semi attached inserts help with dry time it always worries me that they're going to somehow move around while on him and his little bottom will be exposed to the microfiber side of the inserts (which, by the way, should never touch baby's skin - it will draw the moisture straight out of their skin and cause a nasty rash). This has not happened so I'm fairly confident it won't and it's just my mommy anxiety
UPDATE:
At 4 months we stopped using the Freetime for night time but they are still the first diapers I reach for during the day. They're definitely the easiest to care for and dry the fastest. Our wash routine is an "express wash" with warm water and Tide filled to the 1 line. Then a normal wash, highest soil level, hot water, with a prewash to start. Then we throw these in the dryer with other inserts and our wipes on medium low heat. We haven't had any staining problems with these and they come out of the wash just great. We upped the rise setting on these pretty early with little man - in fact, probably earlier than we needed to but I can see him staying on this rise setting for some time.
Overall I love these diapers. The colors/prints are super cute, they're incredibly absorbent, and no blow outs to speak of! (yay!). They're super easy to use, even my mom got the hang of them pretty quickly so these are the go to diaper for when we have someone watching Gabe and I can see them being great to send to day care. I also love that there's no unstuffing of the diaper before putting it in the diaper pail. I would definitely highly recommend this diaper!
Here are a few more recent pics of Gabe in a Freetime:
ugh the fluffy bottom is just so cute!
Also, I guess I'm supposed to mention that this is not a sponsored post, I just thought this would be something fun to do especially since I know reading other blogs cloth diaper reviews was super helpful to me when deciding what diapers to get!
