And the winner is.....

After trying eight different types of cloth diapers, we bought fourteen of the Bum Genius 4.0 One-Size Pocket Diaper.  Like the Rumparooz, it is a pocket diaper that comes with a newborn insert and a one-size insert.

The inside, with the "pocket" open at the right

 The white fabric is less fleece and more microfiber, which means it doesn't get pilly like the Rumparooz did.

The outside in "dazzle"

It fit all of our criteria:

• It's daycare friendly: We stuff the inserts ahead of time and our daycare provider tosses each dirty diaper into a wetbag, which we pick up every evening. (She stores all the diapers - disposables in the trash and cloth in wetbags - on her porch. In the winter, this means we pick up a bag full of frozen diapers at the end of the day!) 
• They work well at night: The fleece/microfiber shell wicks almost every drop of moisture away from the peanut's tush. We double stuff the pocket for nighttime, either with a newborn insert and a one-size insert or with a newborn insert and a hemp doubler, for extra absorbency. We haven't had a single leak. 
• The snaps are great: No more sticky velcro!
• The one-sized diapers will fit the peanut for the rest of her diaper days, saving us money.

In addition, they are super easy to wash and dry and the shells are coming clean after either one or two washes, depending on how messy they've gotten. The inserts are holding onto stains a bit more - I am going to investigate stain removal techniques but since there is a nice clean layer of fleece between the stained insert and the peanut's bum, it bothers me less. 

Fourteen diapers lasts us just shy of two days. This means we're forced to do laundry frequently which, in turn, probably helps with the staining. I might pick up two or three more diapers just so we can comfortably make it through two days, but we're doing just fine for now. 

Here is the peanut with her new stash of diapers: 

We got lots of colors because colors are fun.

Happy customer!

She's quite a bit bigger in this photo (which I took today) than in all the other photos (which were taken in early January). A little steadier on her feet, too! The diaper fits a little trimmer than it looks like here. So far, we can use the newborn insert for day wear, which makes the diaper very trim under her clothes. 

Price-wise, it seems like every online retailer carries single diapers for $17.95 (Amazon, Diaper Lab, and the Green Nursery all have the same price) and packs of six or twelve for slightly less per diaper.  At the Diaper Lab, you get a discount for buying in bulk so twelve pocket diapers, one wetbag, and one giant box of Country Save laundry detergent cost a total of $250.00. I went back and got two more diapers for $17.95 each after it became clear that twelve diapers would not get us through two days. So for under $300, we could potentially make it all the way to potty training. Various websites estimate the cost of disposable diapers for one child at between $1500-$3000. I am not committed enough to be a coupon clipper and the Target brand disposables that we tried for a little while were a disaster, so I would imagine we would have ended up in Pampers or something and landed close to the upper end of that range. I'll be glad to put that money towards something else! 

Thus ends the diaper quest! We've been using the Bum Genius pocket diapers for about a month and we couldn't be happier!