Baa, Baa Black Sheep - Have you any wool [covers]?

Since everyone might be getting bored with constant baby, baby, baby posts, I thought I'd take a break and talk about something a little more serious - like cloth diaper covers.

I know, right? You're salivating on the edge of your seats.

Now that we've established I'm super boring these days, and the uninterested have clicked away, let's talk about my newest favorite thing:

Wool Diaper Covers

From the Diaper Jungle on 100% wool covers:

Wool is very comfortable and it is the only fabric, or fiber, that can actually absorb up to 1/3 of its weight in moisture. Despite the fact that it is full of moisture, wool does not feel wet or clammy. The moisture immediately begins evaporating into the air! As a result, wool is considered a natural fiber and air conditioner in one! Wool is an amazing insulator, which is why people use it in so many products despite the weather. When it is hot, wool can keep the body cool and the heat out. Yet, when it is cold, the wool keeps the body warm and the cold out. 100% wool really is beneficial at regulating body temperature, no matter the temperature outdoors.

With Boyo, we had one wool cover we used in a larger size (that he has since grown out of), and I did like it. But by that point in our diapering, we had mostly AIOs in our stash, so it did not get used very often.

However, with a newborn (ack. an almost ONE month old. Where has the time gone?) we are again in the land of prefolds and fitteds that require covers. And, again, I have a super soaker baby. His bladder is the size of a quarter, so where he keeps all his pee, I'll never know but we leak through lots of diapers around here.

Unless he's wearing wool. No lie, these things are bulletproof - they have held the most soaked prefolds I have ever seen and barely felt damp. We have three kinds at the moment:

2 WAHM made cashmere soakers (handmedowns from a friend)
These are the softest things ever, like little diaper clouds.

From the same handmedown friend, 2 Imse Vimse velcro covers.
These are really nice because I can throw them in the wash with normal things as long as I relanolinize when its done.

I stumbled upon this little beauty on Etsy before Pumpkin was born - best investment ever. It velcros closed (with laundry tabs) and has the absolute best gusseting in the world. By far, my favorite cover and I am seriously considering getting another.

The Etsy owner is great too, because she did a custom for me, and combined this and the next size up for me into one order (and let me change my mind like 8 times with no trouble).

The last thing I'll say about how great wool is is that you don't have to wash it everytime you use them. They do not hold a pee stink (cough B.G. cough), so you just let them air out and dry (if they're even damp) after use and then throw it right back in the pile. In three weeks of use, I've had to wash one cover, one time and that was to get the poo spot off.

I am definitely planning to get more wool in the medium size once Pumpkin grows out of his smalls. Our PUL covers are still in decent shape, but I haven't used them once - these just seem so much more comfy!

So Baaaaa! We should have done sheep costumes this year!