Get a little pack of the fours and give them a shot. If he still blows them out you can go back to the threes. Starting solids may help too, it won’t be as runny. Does he do it the same time every day? I usually use up the last of the smaller diapers at times when I know they won’t fill em up.

Believe it or not, the stanky poops are one of the most compelling reasons to switch to cloth! That way you dump the smelly poop in the toilet — where, arguably, it belongs. Just my two cents!

Either way, as Lucky mentioned, blowouts should be less of an issue with solids. My little guy’s poops pretty much peel off his dipes in little cakes. (Gross, but true!)

Regarding cloth, I’d be willing to try but I know that the poops won’t really be ‘solid’ for a while (if they’re anything like my other son’s-boy this is a conversation I never imagined I’d be having-comparing my son’s poops). He’s still mostly on breastmilk and it will be a while before that goes away.

@Jenny- Unfortunately I live in a small one story house so closeting the stinky poops ‘upstairs’ is not an option for me. Also, our washing machine is not the best, I can imagine finding poop residue in there. How is doing the poop laundry? Do you have to pre-treat each diaper?

I mean above, not below!

To carry on from Jenny: Unlike disposables, you can try cloth second hand, or try new and resell if things don’t work or for you.

My babe is still totally breast fed. I just rinse the poo nappies and squeeze them out before adding to the bucket. I keep the bucket right there in our bathroom and wash every two days. To be honest, I don’t even have the lid on properly most of the time so that I can easily toss nappies in while carrying a baby in one arm. I haven’t noticed a smell yet and, trust me, if it did smell, somebody would have told me by now. If not a friend, my mother definitely would have!

If you do decide to try cloth, keep in mind that they are not all made equal. I’d go with a multi-fit + covers system because it will contain the sloppy breastmilk poo and, apart from covers, you don’t need to buy anything when the time comes to size up. Once the Fuzz is on solids you could start to experiment with some of the cuter, all in one, or snap in sized nappies. Hmmmm…. I have lots of advice, but I’ll stop there because it’s not really what you asked about. I’m sure that, if the time comes, you ask for (and receive in multitudes) whatever advice you need/want.

I know it’s not what you want to hear–but I have never had a single blowout in cloth (pee leaks are probably about equivalent–rare, but they do happen).

Poop was my main hesitation in trying cloth, but, it’s not a huge deal. Breastmilk poos can go straight to the pail–the washer really and truly will just dissolve it away. Solid poos need to be dumped in the toilet. For the 10 month stuff I’m dealing with now, like E said–it just kind of falls off. I would argue that dumping it into the toilet and flushing is a lot less work than running a super toxic smelling diaper to the outside trash. The semi solid stuff is the worst–I never sprang for a sprayer, I just gave them a quick dunk in the toilet. Which sounds gross, I know. But…it was only a diaper a day, at most, and so much easier (and less gross) than dealing with the aftermath of a blowout.

As far as pail smells–I have a fairly inexpensive pail from cotton babies, with a tight fitting lid, and a carbon filter, and it never smells, so long as tbe lid is on. When the lid is off, yep, it’s pretty smelly…but aren’t all diaper pails? Before the baby was born, I seriously fretted about the fact that the rocker was right next to the diaper pail, and that there would be smells. It has never been an issue.

So, for us, cloth is worth it. I buy maybe one case of diapers every 4 months for extended outings, when I want to use diaper rash cream, or for when we travel—even if you use cloth, you’re still allowed to use disposables! Cloth can be pricey to get started with, but even by now, they’ve paid for themselves. I figure every month we use them from here on out is bonus savings!

Maybe this would help? http://www.pampers.com/en_US/diaper-size-tool I’m just now pregnant with my first, so I have no experience or advice to offer, but I stumbled across this calculator the other day. It lets you plug in weight, height, and age and tells you what size you need (in Pampers at least). So, maybe you can’t just look at weight, but have to look at the combination of weight and height to figure it out? Dunno. Hope this helps!

I had a nurse in the hospital tell me that when you start to have a lot of blow outs, it’s time to go up a size, and so far, that advice has worked for me and my 7 month old. Don’t worry about the weights listed on the packaging. And for goodness sake, what’s with all the people who just keep bringing up cloth diapers? She asked a question about disposables, folks. They are not evil, and for some of us like them better. : P

Keep in mind that different diaper brands have very different cuts.

That said – we cloth diaper both kiddos – babe the elder from about a year on because that’s when his skin went absolute ape-stuff-crazy and babe the younger from birth on because her skin is even wilder. We do laundry every other day, use the flushable liners (because they’re no worse than TP), BTY is now on solids so her poo is getting easier to manage as we’re at quasi-turd stage as opposed to the liquid goop stage (although being BF it just went straight into the washer). I have a “sprayer” that I pieced together from random parts in our shop (I can get a parts list for anyone who wants to HD or Lowe’s it) and it helps too.

The wash routine isn’t bad. You don’t need to pretreat the diapers. Just toss in the washing machine and let it rip ( I do 3-4 diff cycles). If you do not have an energy/water efficient washing machine your life will be even easier! The more water the better. The sites below have more detailed directions and the various diaper laundry detergent sites and cloth diaper company sites also have tips.
if you want to find out more about cloth diapers there are a lot of good blogs out there with great info. When I was reading up on cloth diapers I found the following sites to be most usefull: diaperpin.com – product reviews and tips
theclothdiaperwhisperer.com- clothdiaper blog and info site.
dirtydiaperlaundry.com- cloth diaper/ mom blog with video reviews

We had to try a few different brands of disposables to find the ones that fit my daughter’s chunky little thighs and round backside the best. For us, the Huggies diaper-verse worked best, but friends with babies of different builds found different brands to work. Good luck!

I would say size 3. My dd is 6 1/2months and is about 15 lbs. and she wears 2s.