Sprout Change Reversible and Reusable Diaper Shell, StringBean

I bought these before my baby was born planning to use from birth and on. I know they say they'll fit at like 5 lbs, but at 7 lbs 2 oz, these couldn't fit my baby at birth. the amount of scrunched fabric was just silly looking and it simply wouldn't fit him. I want to love these but there are just too many little things that make them not fantastic. I can't seem to get them adjusted just right. They are either too loose and leak or they are too tight and give my poor baby raw red marks on his chunky thighs. The waist part just gaps open on half of the ones I have and at 4 months old, my baby is already on the 3rd loosest hole for the elastic (on most of them since each one is slightly different.) Another annoyance is that I bought 8 covers, and since they are all handmade, their is a lot of variation between the fit from cover to cover. Some of them have buttons of different sizes for the adjustable elastic. Some of them are rather small buttons, and I've had trouble with them coming undone in the wash resulting in me having to invent a tool to fish the elastic out of the channel they are sewn into to render the cover usable once more. I never had a #2 leak, even with some pretty intense BF poos, but they do leak urine maybe half the time, possibly because I can't get them fitted just right on my son. I don't hate them but I do wish I hadn't bought just these for my whole stash because I'm finding now that I need better options. The company seems to be a great small business, they employ several work at home moms and I had a great experience with customer service, but this product could be soooooo much better with just a little tweaking.

I wanted to love these because the sizing idea is genius. But I was disappointed with several things. Here is my evaluation:Pros: Sizing idea is awesome - adjustments are all hidden inside the cover. Depending on the size of your child, this could be a pretty cute/well fitting diaper. It is pretty easy to put on once they have been sized to fit your baby - no extra snaps to figure out.Cons: Because it is reversible (fabric on both sides with waterproof later in the ), you cannot wipe out and re-use like most diaper covers. Also, because of the reversible fabric-on-both-sides idea, it wicks liquid wherever it wants - inside or outside the diaper cover. This is my worst diaper cover in that it leaks all the time. That's not good! The quality is severely lacking. It looks like it was made in a hurry - seams are uneven (some wide, some narrow) and threads were left untrimmed. There is no elastic across the front. This makes it difficult to get a good fit on the baby.Overall, I'll keep these and use them if all my nice ones are dirty, but I will not buy any more. I would love to see this diaper cover idea improve, but until it does, it's just not that great.