If you cloth diaper, chances are you have a diaper company you tend to go back to again and again. For me, that is Thirsties.
The majority of my cloth diapering stash is prefolds and covers, and most of my covers are Thirsties. I love the ease of use, double gusset, and fun colors. When I learned we weren’t going to use a cloth diaper service with this baby I really wanted to expand my stash to include some AIO and pocket diapers.
I own two Thirsties Duo Diapers, which I think are just a great option for cloth diapering newborns. I was excited to check out the Thirsties Duo All-In-One as well.
My Review
The Duo AIO is a very trim diaper that comes in two sizes: size one for babies 6-1 8 lbs (0-9months) and size two 18-40 lbs (9-36 months). The diaper has a three layer microfiber insert sewn right into the diaper that can absorb 7 times it’s weight in liquid. Thirsties left a “tunnel” beneath the insert to allow for easy washing, cleaning, and drying. Plus this allows you to add extra inserts if you need to.
My little man was pretty much able to fit in this diaper from the day we brought him home.
Baby D is 2 weeks old in this picture and 9lbs 8ozs.
We were able to get a nice tight fit all around his legs and belly, better as he chunked out with age. I really like how trim the diaper was too.
However, I found that if this diaper was on for more than 30 minutes to an hour, my son would soak out of the top. At first I thought it was because he was a bit skinny or he was maybe pointed the wrong way. When it kept happening I contacted Thristies customer service. They told me what I suspected, and that was that I had a heavy wetter. It was especially clear once I explained that the front of the insert was soaked, but the back was still dry. Since most of his soaking is near the front, they said we could try a hemp insert to see if that fixed the problem.
After boiling the inserts for 30 minutes, and washing them we tossed on into the tunnel of the diaper design. Wouldn’t you know we didn’t have any more soaking through!
At 11 weeks we have one happy Thirsties loving baby!
Bottom Line:
Thirsties Duo AIO is a pretty good diaper. I still do prefer the Duo Diaper to the all-in-one because of the double gussets and great fit. However, this diaper is usually always in our diaper bag for quick changes when we are out and about, and when we have someone care for Baby D, we put this diaper on top as it is really easy caregivers to use!
BUY IT
The Thirsties Duo All-In-One comes in aplix and snaps and a variety of colors and prints. The diaper retails for $15.75 for solids and $16.75 for prints.
You can find Thirsties on Facebook and Twitter.
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those are sooo cute!
I’m glad the inserts did the trick!
I also love AIO for quick changes – haven’t tried thirsties at all.
They make cloth diapers so cute nowadays. 🙂
Great review!
Oh, I really loves Thirsties when I was cloth diapering! They have the cutest designs.
How cute are those!
I love our Thirsties!
I just came in to look at the cute baby photos, have to say cloth diapers are pretty stylish.
Cloth diapers are always so cute!
Bub was my only heavy wetter so I remember that problem all too well. I’m glad you found a solution and I can not believe he’s holding his head up to pose for the camera already. Like a little baby model!
Those are cute! I wish I had known more about cloth diapering when the boys were little.
I love the little owl on them!!
I love the look and feel of cloth diapers, but I had an unusual ‘fear’ of them. My sister had her kids in the late 70s and early 80s, and she always made her own flannel diapers. What I remember from that experience is the smell of her huge diaper bucket of bleach! UGH! It was awful! It pretty much destroyed my desire to try cloth. I’m regretting it, though.
I love that owl pattern!
Those are so cute!
I could barely read this review because I kept getting distracted by that adorable baby! 😉 Seriously though, those are really cute diapers!
I also love the thirsties!! We only have the duo wraps that we use with prefolds now, but I’m interested in checking out the AIOs (mostly for ease with caregivers in the future- like my mama who can’t use the snappi on the cloth diapers cause of her rheumatoid arthritis!)
I love the side gussets of the thirsties!
Looking back I wish I had cloth diapered. I love that you can reuse the inserts and the covers are just so stinkin’ cute.
Love the AIO and these would be easy for anyone like you said.
I’d love to try one of these! Cute prints, too:)
I love the “tunnel” in this diaper! I loved using the Duo Diaper on my grandson when he was a newborn so I’m sure I’d love these too!
I don’t have a single thirsties diaper! Love to try this one! Such a cute print : )
I love these diapers. We have tried the covers and pockets but would love to try the AIO. Love the tunnels that help keep the poo in with
i love that thirsties put a cheaper aio on the market.
I always hear good things about these! I’ll definitely be trying them.
Great review! I love how you explained how you problem solved instead of just saying it leaked! Thank you!
I’m already a loyal Thirsties customer, this just made me want to try the AIO even more!
I am researching cloth diapers. I am still unsure if I want to do AIO or something else. AIO seems so easy but then reviews always say they soak through more often. Thanks for your review its helpful!
I love theit hemp inserts, Id like to try a diapewr to, they are adorable
loving the duo AIO on my 3 week old! Great fit for her. I also love that i can add abosobancy to this diaper unlike other of her “newborn” or “small” diapers that i have
I love the DUO AIO. We have 3 in our stash and they stay in the diaper bag as well for easy changes when out and about. I would love to know how you got the hemp inserts to fit though. My little one is in a size 2 and I can’t fit a size 1 hemp insert in there. Maybe I’ll try again b/c she could use the extra absorbency.
I love the Thirsties gussets too! Awesome to hold in EBF poop and keep cute baby clothes clean.
Love the print and the “trimness” factor! Thanks for the review!
ur lo is PRECIOUS.. we love thirsties.. they make great dipes!
I love my thirsties! I think that if they had a hip snap they’d be the perfect diaper! I love the Scottish Rose print and the blackbird print. So cute!
I’ve heard so many good things about thirsties really want to try them
I love my Thirsties diapers! Cute baby. 🙂
definitely going to get some of these when i have a nb
I love all of the fun prints that Thirsties offers. My fave is Hoot.
I love the prints. I’ve never used Thirsties but am eager to try. It’s great to know they have helpful customer service. Thanks for the review.
Love my thirsties covers. Would love to try an aio after reading this.
I love the owl print. Too bad it doesn’t have double gussets, but the ease of use definitely makes me want at least one in my stash.
The owl diaper is super cute!
I am due i October and I love that you were able to use these as soon as you came home!
Adorable pics, really nice to know about the hemp insert fix for heavy wetters. LO is due in a few weeks and I’ve been curious if certain inserts are better for such things then others, as i’m the first in my social group to CD. Thanks for the info
I love the Duo AIO!!
I love these diapers, but I also have to change them more frequently than others. I always stuff at least a little something extra in them, though I am almost ready to move up to the size two with my baby. that will probably change things again…
I love this print so cute.