Saturday, February 9, 2013

Tots Bots Easy Fit All-in-One

The Tots Bots Easy Fit All-in-One diaper was one of our favorites. It was a tongue-style all-in-one diaper with a "minky" interior that was oh-so-soft against the tush.  Laura, who set up our trial, gave us a thin fleece liner that we could lay in the diaper to make it "stay-dry" overnight.  The fleece liners came many-to-a-pack for $5, which made it a workable nighttime solution. 

Slight staining - and we know how I feel about stains

Tongue laid across the middle of the diaper.
Tots Bots diapers are made in Scotland and the pattern we got - "Jubilee" - was extra delightful and British. I didn't get a close up of the outside, but there are totally Union Jack hearts and tea cups and something I assume is a tea cake. The company also makes nursery rhyme patterns (Hansel and Gretel, Jack and the Beanstock, Three Little Pigs) along with solids, putting Tots Bots in the running in the "cutest patterns" category.  


Despite the slight staining you see in the first photo, the diapers actually washed really well.  The washing machine's agitator takes the tongue out of the pocket for you, so you don't have to touch the wet/dirty part at all. The "minky" fabric also absorbs a ton but dries really quickly, a huge plus for an all-in-one.  

The fit was quite trim as well. 
One red flag came up when I was looking online for prices and availability for each of the diapers in our trial. Although I love the Diaper Lab and will certainly shop there as much as I can, getting the best price on baby items is also important (because there are SO MANY baby items). The plus side of all my internet searching is that I can safely say that the Diaper Lab has VERY competitive prices. The downside is that Tots Bots are curiously not-that-available on Amazon. In my head, if Amazon doesn't have something, it's relatively obscure. The Diaper Lab is a pint-sized store and doesn't always have things in stock when you need them. It's also quite a haul from where we live and I could see the benefit of having diapers available online. Other websites carry the diapers, of course, but free shipping and such from Amazon tends to steer me in that direction on a regular basis. 

In the end though, the main reason we didn't buy a ton of these was that we found something we liked just as much that cost less.  I'm not going to spoil the surprise and tell you what we picked just yet, but I can tell you that I was a little bummed to return this diaper at the end of the trial. 

Price Info (from the Green Nursery, which seems to have a consistently good online selection):


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