Are you headed to the pool with a baby? Then you need a cloth swim diaper. Designed to keep your baby’s bum comfortably covered and messes contained, a cloth swim diaper is just as essential to keep in your pool bag as sunscreen.
Are you headed to the pool with a baby? Then you need a cloth swim diaper. Designed to keep your baby’s bum comfortably covered and messes contained, a cloth swim diaper is just as essential to keep in your pool bag as sunscreen.
Reusable swim diapers have a waterproof outer and a soft terry inner. They won’t absorb water, but they will hold in solids. The stretchy side panels and side snaps help you get a custom, adjustable fit. Those features also make it easy to put on and take off a cloth swim diaper—whether it’s wet, dry, or dirty—and protect your baby’s swimsuit and the pool (or wherever you’re enjoying water) from poop.
Using a cloth swim diaper is similar to using the GroVia Organic One Size All In One Diaper. The stretch sides and side snaps let you quickly put on or take off a cloth swim diaper. You can do it in a snap (well, four snaps to be exact) with your child lying down or standing up. If you’re taking off a dirty swim diaper, we recommend having your baby lie down.
Our cloth swim diapers are trim enough to wear underneath swimsuits, but because of the waterproof outer, your child can wear one alone when playing in the water.
Cloth swim diapers are made to be worn, washed, and worn again. After wearing, we suggest washing, especially if your baby pooped in the diaper. To clean a soiled cloth swim diaper, remove as much solid matter from the diaper as you can, place it in a dry pail, wash on a warm cycle with detergent, and tumble dry low. You don’t need to soak cloth swim diapers.
While some people use a pocket diaper or a cloth diaper cover without the inserts for swimming, we don’t recommend it. Even though many diaper covers are waterproof, in a pool they will slowly start to fill up with water, which will weigh your baby down, and then when you take them out, all that water (and poop if there is any) will likely leak out the leg openings. Repeated exposure to chlorine will also ruin the waterproofing on a cloth diaper cover.
Cloth swim diapers are made to hold in solid waste, let water out, and stand strong against chlorine. They’re the safer and best choice for swimming.
Wondering if cloth swim diapers or disposables are better? We’ve listed the pros and cons of each, so you don’t have to waste time and money trying out both.
No, you do not need to prep wash your swim diaper since it isn’t an absorbency diaper. It’s just used to keep the “stuff” contained until you can get your baby out of the water to change them.