I love the BumGenius 4.0 by CottonBabies. I love my BGs so much that I use them first every time, and I get visibly annoyed when I don't have another one in the clean diaper bin at changing time.
In my twoish months of exclusively cloth diapering, day and night, 24/7, the BGs are most consistent, easiest to use, and freaking adorable.
The color names are super cute: Ribbit, Noodle, Butternut, etc.My stash includes every solid color that existed when I ordered except white and Noodle. (In fact, since I stocked up they've released two new colors, Countess and Hummingbird, and I'm so upset I don't have them.) There is also a Genius series, where designers come up with patterns. I don't have any of those, but oh how I covet them.
These diapers are One-Size pocket diapers, meant to fit your little one from 7lbs to 35lbs. The first photo below (of a diaper in Sassy, a really fun reddish-orange) is snapped to the smallest size, and the next photo is the largest. This adjustable rise feature is fantastic, and our 95th percentile beauty is on the second set of snaps now that she's almost 15lbs.
The inside is a pretty stain-resistant microfiber:
The inserts are insanely absorbent. The newborn insert was perfect and didn't leak (barring user error, I'll get into that later) until The Girl was about nine weeks old, and she's a pretty heavy wetter. We switched to the baby insert when we changed the rise of the diapers, because we needed more length to fill the pocket!
At the baby insert's longest, it would fit in the pocket when the diaper is at its largest. At the baby insert's shortest, it's perfect for the first and second set of rise-snaps.
This is shows the newborn insert at top, and the baby insert on bottom, at its longest.
and, below, at its shortest:
For now, this insert is exactly what we need. We aren't using doublers, we aren't having leaks, and we change The Girl every 3 hours max while she's in pocket diapers.
The problems I've had with other brands of pocket diapers: leaks, too-tight elastic, weird distance between snaps (which prevents a good fit, and in turn causes leaks).
The problems I've had with BumGenius 4.0 pocket diapers: they didn't notify me when they were going to release a beautiful emerald green and call it Hummingbird.
I will admit, they've leaked on occasion, but 95% of those leaks occurred when Anthony put the diaper on the baby, and I think he's scared to make them too tight and cut off circulation and have The Girl's legs fall off. Which is fine, but pee gets out, so...
It's an issue.
The BG's snaps are close enough together to make sizing easy and predictable (we are currently at three snaps in on one side, four snaps in on the other) but far enough apart that one more snap-distance makes a significant difference in the tightness of the legholes.
Further, the elastic in the BumGenius 4.0s just seems higher-quality, to me. Or maybe it's the stitching? Or maybe it's both, because the channel the elastic lives in is padded enough that I don't think The Girl is uncomfortable (other brands, Alva, for example, seem to feel sharp or something) and the elastic doesn't move within the channel (I'm looking at you, Kawaii.)
Most importantly, each and every BG4.0 in my dorky cloth-diaper-Mommy collection is exactly the same, just differently colored. I say most importantly because I seriously just almost apologized in case someone from Kawaii Diapers or Alva happens to read this review and be all, "the ones you got were just not our best work!"
But with BGs, the stitching is consistent. The absorbency is consistent, The snaps are consistent. And it's all consistently great. I just haven't seen that with the other pocket diapers I have.
Now, I'm going to wash a load of fluff, because I'm pretty sure the last BG is on The Girl's tush.
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