A Cloth Diaper Change II {trifolded prefold and cover}

I can hardly believe over 10 months have passed since we started cloth diapering Ian. And we're still going strong! Three days in, I posted A Cloth Diaper Change. Since then we've gone up a couple sizes to the brown-edge (large) GMD prefolds, we've moved on to Size 2 of the Thirsties Duo Wraps, and we've ditched the Snappi and are now trifolding the prefolds and laying them in the cover.

Here's our new diaper changing process.

{1} STAGE IS SET
Diaper (a Rumparooz one-size cover and red-edge/medium GMD prefold) is dirty. Clean diaper (a brown-edge/large GMD prefold trifolded in a Thirsties size 2 Duo Wrap) is in place. A couple wet wash cloths and cloth diaper-safe diaper rash cream (in first photo) are at the ready.

{2} DIRTY DIAPER IS QUICKLY REPLACED WITH CLEAN
You might notice there's a few less photos showing this process. It is amazing how feisty a little guy can be when his diaper needs changed! Dirty diaper is set aside with used wash cloths set inside (pictured below). The clean, trifolded prefold is pulled up and, because it is larger than necessary, I fold it down a little to fit below his belly button (this also helps add extra absorbancy where he tends to wet the most). We ditched the Snappi when his poop became more solid and have had no issues with leaking out the legs.

{3} COVER IS SNAPPED AROUND PREFOLD
Ian is now in a Thirsties Duo Wrap, size 2 fully unsnapped. I'm curious what happens as he gets bigger, but it seems there's still room for him to grow into it length-wise. I check to make sure prefold isn't sticking out of cover, but that doesn't happen often when trifolding.

{4} DIRTY DIAPER IS "DISPOSED"
There's a little more to this step now that Ian is eating solids (and no longer has water soluble exclusively breastfed poop), so I will be covering this in another post. No more throwing all dirty diapers directly into a diaper pail to then be thrown directly into the wash. Poop diapers now need to be rinsed.


{Update: see what to do with a dirty diaper here.}
{See a cloth diaper change on a newborn.}