LaLaBye Baby

 I recently was contacted by Melissa, the mama behind LaLaBye Baby cloth diapers. She asked if I would be interested in reviewing one of her diapers for her. After checking out her website I agreed to a review. While browsing her site and checking out her products I realized that not only is her name a nursery song but all the names of her diapers are as well which is really cute! I was able to pick out which color and I chose Three Blind Mice (because I don't have any grey diapers!).


Here is the 'Three Blind Mice' diaper I received in the mail. I love the color and its uniqueness to my stash. So cute!

 

The diaper is a one size cloth diaper with 4 rise options, newborn, small, medium and large. It also features cross over snaps for the tiny newborns as well as hip snaps to prevent wing drooping. All of which are great features to have on a diaper.

 The diaper comes with two inserts, a small and large. The inserts are compatible and can snap together, or be used separate, depending on the needs of your child. The inserts are made out of bamboo and are very soft and really trim.

 Above you can see how they snap together and below shows the size differences.

 When I first opened my fluffy mail I loved the color and though it was great. Very simple and plan but I really liked it. Then I opened up the waist snaps and was blown away by the rainbow of colors across the front of the diaper. They were beautiful! My husband thought I was a little  crazy with my reaction. :) The colors are not your typical rainbow colors but nice unique colors. I am not sure if the snaps are different on other colored diapers or not but this is so much fun!

 Well what kind of diaper is this anyways? This is a cool diaper because its a two in one kind of deal. You can use the diaper as a pocket diaper and stuff the insert in either end because it has two openings, also known as a 'sleeve' style diaper where the insert will agitate out on its own in the wash so no un-stuffing wet inserts. SCORE! I hate touching wet inserts. If your not a pocket fan then you can...

 ...use this diaper as an AI2 diaper! There is a flap over the front of the diaper to tuck the insert under to help hold it in place and you can also snap it into the front of the diaper with the snap on the insert into a snap that is inside the opening of the pocket.

 Here is the diaper in use on my 5 month old. He is around 17 pounds when this picture was taken. I have it set on the small snap setting for him and on the waist I leave just the white snaps open.

 Here is the diaper all secure and ready to be used.

 The diaper looks puffy in the picture but it is really a nice trim diaper. (the elastic marks on his leg were from a different brand of diaper)

 A back view shows the rump.

Now the fun part: My thoughts on this diaper...

There are a lot of things I really enjoy about this diaper. The snaps are all great, I always like having the hip snaps on diapers as well as cross over snaps for tiny babies. The 4 rise snaps make this diaper  fit a wider range of babies as well. The fit on Micah was great every time. We actually had to use this diaper for the first time as a night time diaper which I tend to avoid with new diapers not knowing how they will preform. I placed both inserts in the pocket and used the diaper for about 12 hours over night with out a single leak. However I would never be able to do that with our 2 1/2 year old because he pees though EVERYTHING which is getting  old real quick. For daytime use I have also been very please. No leak issues with the diaper being used as an ai2 or a pocket diaper which is nice.

Micah seems to really like having a stay dry diaper on him so using this as an AI2 isn't the greatest option for him because as soon as he pees, he fusses and wants to be changed so using the diaper as a pocket is much more our style. We have used it a few times in a row with the AI2 and it did work with out any leaks.

One thing that I would change about this diaper is the pocket opening in the back of the diaper. It is really small and I have bigger hands (thanks to my lovely dutch heritage) so I don't like stuffing it though that  hole but the hole in the front of the diaper is nice and big and very easy to stuff inserts into.

I would recommend this diaper to people. Why? Because I  really think this is a great diaper. We have had total success with this diaper, no issues at all. I think the price is great for a pocket, the quality is great as well.

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