About

My foray into the cloth diapering world happened with the birth of my first kid. I muddled along, using a combination of cloth and disposable, pretending like I knew what I was doing. This was before I had a smartphone and could use all those hours breastfeeding, gaily swiping through articles to fill in the chinks in my knowledge. So cloth diapering and I had an on again, off again type relationship.

When my daughter reached the age of potty training, I started making her training pants and then thought, wouldn’t it be great to start an Etsy shop and then I could get paid to do what I’m already doing? Yes! Buuuut, as I quickly found, the marketplace for toddler pull ups was very saturated with everyone and their mother selling those things. So when someone approached me about making adult sizes, I said yes. Thus began six years (and counting) operating my cloth diaper shop, Little Onion Diapers, where I design, sew, and sell adult and older child diapers, baby inserts and waist tab extenders.

Over the years, I’ve had hundreds of people contact me with questions about how to cloth diaper and what products to use. I realized that most of the adults contacting me about products were either for their older children, parents or they themselves had incontinence issues due to medications and illness. While the web is inundated with info about cloth diapering for babies, it is surprisingly void of information for adults who need to use these types of products. My customers have taught me so much about their struggles using cloth, as well as sharing with me the things they have learned on each of their journeys.

It’s my hope that this blog will not only teach you tips, tricks, and explain the jargon, how-tos, and what products are out there, but also how to wade through all those options and find a system that works for you and your own individual needs. Cloth diapering is not a one-size-fits-all thing. Because seriously, not even those one-size-fits-all diapers are actually one size fits all! 

So keep an open mind, and know there are no mistakes in cloth diapering, only experimenting and mixing and matching to find what works for you.