I’m SO excited about the review I have for you today! I have been using cloth diapers for almost 3 solid years now and I have never, EVER loved a diaper the way I love my bumGenius AIO Elemental cloth diapers!
I was recently sent the bumGenius AIO Elemental in Twilight. The beautiful blue color looks like this:
bumGenius AIO Elemental (One Size) Cloth Diaper Description
Made With Organic, One-Size… affordable.
Looking for organic, natural fibers next to your baby’s bottom? Our award winning one-size bumGenius design is now available with luxuriously soft, 100% organic cotton inside.
bumGenius Organic One-Size Cloth Diapers offer an industry first – tabs that stretch for a perfect fit. Stretchy tabs combined with our brand-new snap fasteners make cloth diapering easy. Our new, “no-stuff” system available only in the bumGenius Organic One-Size Cloth Diaper is an ideal solution for families with a child in day-care or family members resistant to cloth diapers! It really is as easy to use as a disposable diaper. Using the snaps on the front of the diaper, adjust the size if needed, put the diaper on your baby, wash, dry and re-use. No extra steps. No stuffing. No cover required. Our one-size diapers are designed to fit most babies weighing between 7 and 35 pounds.
Highlights of the bumGenius AIO Elemental Cloth Diaper
- Absorbent layer integrated into the waterproof outer layer.
- One step cloth diaper – no stuffing!
- Now also available in snap closures! Two rows of snaps ensure a trim, bumGenius fit every time!
- Ultra-absorbent, certified organic cotton inner.
- Gentle leg elastic contains the mess!
bumGenius AIO Elemental Care Instructions
Your organic diapers will need to be prewashed 5-7 times in hot water with a bit of detergent in each load. Dry warm.
For your regular wash routine: Wash cold with ¼ of the manufacturer’s recommended amount of additive free detergent. Wash hot with the same amount of detergent. Double rinse. Dry warm.
My Review of the bumGenius AIO Elemental Cloth Diaper
I’m going to get right to it! The bumGenius AIO Elemental is my absolute favorite, never-want-to-use-another-cloth-diaper-in-my-life, cloth diaper! I regularly used pocket diapers for about the first 2 years I cloth diapered. They worked pretty well, however, I would get compression leaks and after 2 years, I was just plain tired of stuffing cloth diaper inserts and liners! That’s when I decided I would try to find an All-in-One (AIO) diaper I liked. I had been scared away from AIO diapers when I first started out because it seemed like they didn’t receive the greatest reviews. I REALLY wish I had given them a try sooner.
The Elemental has the bumGenius tabs that BG users are used to. They have a little bit of stretch to them, which makes snapping them into the best position easy, and helps you get a better fit.
The inside of this diaper has two layers of organic cotton to absorb the pee (and poo).
Now, I have, for the most part, put my children in disposable diapers at night because they would always pee through cloth diapers. However, with the bumGenius Elemental cloth diapers, I was able to use them with my baby at night (with an additional tiny hemp insert) until he was about 4 months old. At 4 months, my son started waking up MORE often at night to nurse. He’s at the point where he generally even soaks through a disposable diaper. My daughter has potty trained but still wears a diaper at night. I’m able to put her in a BG Elemental overnight (again, with a small hemp insert) without any leaks, unlike her other pocket diapers.
Now, to be honest, I have talked to some moms who don’t absolutely adore their Elementals the way I do (honestly, I have no clue why they don’t!) but the common complaint I hear is that they take longer to dry. This is true–they are going to take longer to dry compared to most of your other diapers. Normally, I will wash a load of diapers, followed by a load of the kids’ clothes right after. I put the diapers in the dryer, then throw the clothes in the dryer with the diapers when they are finished, so that way I’m at least drying other clothes during the long dry cycle. For me, it’s worth the extra dry time to have a diaper I can put on my kids that I don’t have to worry about leaking!
I’ve been using Elementals for probably 5-6 months now and I have NEVER gotten a daytime leak out of them….and sometimes I’m bad about leaving them on for 3-4 hours. I also do not find them to be any bulkier than your average pocket diaper.
I’m sold on bumGenius AIO Elemental cloth diapers and have sworn not to spend any more money on diapers unless they are Elementals! I’m in the process now of actually selling off some of my other used diapers so I can pad my stash with more Elementals. The Elementals are my go-to diaper and the minute I grab my last clean Elemental diaper, I start doing diaper laundry ’cause I hate using anything else these days!
You can purchase bumGenius Elemental Diapers at your favorite cloth diaper retailer, including Amazon.com. They are available in a number of adorable prints and colors.
The bumGenius AIO Elemental Cloth diaper recently went through an update. The version shown in this review is 1.0. You should also check out my review of the bumGenius AIO Elemental 3.0 cloth diaper.
gemma sidor
Thursday 3rd of April 2014
Would love to try this nappy and experience a non microfibre nappy. It looks really comfortable on your little man.