I am dealing with this issue right now! I didn’t cloth diaper my daughter until she was about 18 months. They fit just fine with most any clothes. Now, my 4 month old is in cloth. I get so frustrated because his clothes just don’t fit well at all with cloth. I feel like the diaper is too tight too, so I loosen them, but it just looks crazy. :/

For bedtime I like one piece sleepers because the pants always roll into the top of DS’s diaper and get wet if he wears separates. His sister wore disposables and I liked the separates better for her because they were cuter. For regular clothes I have to size up his pants (and bodysuits) to cover the oompa loompa butt. He’s 12 months and wears 18 month t-shirts but 24 month pants. His sister was much more proportional at this age — 18 months for everything.

he wears pants from the older two boys which were not cloth diapered. with that a onesie and a shirt. he wears comfortable pants at daycare. no matter what cloth diaper we choose, there is enough room. but i have to admit, to wear the newest slim style jeans, I have to choose his cloth diaper carefully. thirsties aio is quite good and also other ones are actually slim enough to fit.
for the night (typically a stuffed fab fitted plus duo wrap) we use a one piece sleeper, size 18 months. he is 14 months now and I agree 18 months clothes fit him best.)

We have had to size everything for our daughter up by at least a size if not two. Girl’s styles are cut so tight-fitting that everything in the proper size looks… well tasteless!

I have never liked onsies with cloth. I find they tend to draw the liquid out and end up wet. Thankfully my little one who is a year is tan and skinny so 18 month knit pants with a long or short sleeve shirt works the best. Agreed on the one piece rompers when he was little. We live in WI so cold nights but even still I won’t put a onsie under his fleece pjs cause it would draw the liquid out. I find a prefold and wool cover works the best for night time since I can put a little extra thickness in.

We seem to have the opposite problem! We love the cute little one-piece rompers, but they are all far too wide for our skinny ninny. Also the crotches rarely go low enough unless we size up a LOT. With onesies we use crotch extenders (http://www.amazon.com/Size-Clothes-Extender-10-Pack-Onesie/dp/B002YQU6KC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332204749&sr=8-1), but obviously that can’t work with rompers. The cloth diapers only make it worse, because they make her even longer. With pants, on the other hand, the cloth is great. Pants fall off when she is wearing disposables, but with cloth she has just enough butt to keep them on. She is 3 months and 3 1/2 weeks, a little over 13 lbs, and was 25 inches long at her 2 month checkup (no idea how tall now, but definitely taller). She is wearing 6 month onesies and rompers but 3 or 3-6 month pants.

I don’t have a problem with cloth diapers under my son’s outfits. My sister in law couldn’t do jeans, but I think she had more inserts in her diapers so it was fluffier.

Luckily we haven’t had to size up for his cloth butt! But he isn’t a heavy wetter so one insert still works on him. This may change when we have to start using 2 inserts, which is coming pretty soon

We also have a tall, skinny baby. At night I put her in either a one piece pajama, or wool pants with the onesie snapped outside. It’s not very cute, but she’s just going to sleep anyway. During the day, she wears dresses a lot, without the matching diaper covers, cause her cloth covers are cuter! Or she’ll wear a onesie and pants combo. We found that Carter’s brand has plenty of space for a fluffy bum, even without sizing up. And because she’s the first, and a girl, of course she ALWAYS has matching socks!

I had to move up a size in wardrobe for each of my wee one when we switched to cloth at 10lbs. Modern clothing is definitely not CD friendly.

I find it hard for my little one to wear jeans when he’s in his fluff. Though, I haven’t actually tried to put any on while he was wearing a disposable, I would assume that it’d be somewhat trimmer. He also may be wearing bigger clothes than he would have, I’m assuming again. He’s 8 months and he’s wearing 12 months clothes.

I hope to CD for the 1st time and will only use disposiable after the hospital stay.

We also like the onesie extenders (mentioned above) for helping snap clothes fit over CDs! Doesn’t really help with the jeans issue, though

I love making homemade leg warmers out of knee high socks. That way I can show off my girl’s cloth!

My chunky monkey has ample booty without his cloth diaper. Last summer at 8 months he wore 18 month shorts rompers. They were by far the easiest. This spring he is wearing mostly 3T knit and athletic shorts. They are way too long, but are cute and easy to pull up over his fluffy bum. The rompers seem too babyish for my big boy.

I haven’t tried cloth with kids yet but my first is expected in May and I hope the newborn and 0-3m onesies fit him/her!

I’m new to cloth diapering so I have a question. Is it common to have to increase the size of their pants to go over their padded little tushies?

We’re planning on taking cloth with us to the hospital, so we’ll never know how any of his clothes fit over anything but cloth. This is our first child, hopefully the cute newborn sized outfits will fit over his cloth bum! My goal is to never put any of my children in disposables, kind of my challenge to myself. We’ll see how it goes.

I have luckily been given a TON of hand me downs. However, I was just telling my mom and in laws this weekend that since it’s already March and has consistently been in the high 70s /low80s for a week straight (unheard of in IL this time of year), that my little one (who is due in 7.5 weeks) may just be in a diaper this whole summer if it keeps up this way.

I love my son’s fluffy but. I think I will just have him weat tee shirts and the diaper covers this summer.

I’ve never really thought that a fluffy butt would make clothes fit differently. Good to know!

We use old school prefolds, they really do take up a lot more room in his clothes, especially onesies. Unless we’re going to church, he pretty much wears a sleeper all the time. By the time you get to number five, you really learn that less is more, LOL! When we do go to church, tho, I usually put him in a disposable, just to make things easier for the ladies in the nursery.

We are havig our first home birth and got newborn cloth to use

We didn’t make the switch to cloth until our fourth baby was born. I was already a big fan of stretchy pants from Carters, and found that brand was great for fitting over my daughter’s fluffy bum. But for onesies, we had to make a slight change: Gerber brand were MUCH too trim over the cloth diapers. But Carter’s brand of bodysuits are awesome – plenty of length, just the right width, and lots of stretch.

My kids have always been a size bigger on top than bottom, so maybe this will even out the size for baby #3, who will my first in cloth diapers.

We’ve had to use larger sizes with cloth, but it depends on the type of garment. Our long baby outgrows rompers first, then pants with feet, then onesies. At 3 months, she can still wear some NB-sized pants, but they and the 3-6 mo size are high-waters!

My 12-month-old also wears 18-month, just for the diaper room! (He’s also 23 pounds.) I have hand-me-down Lands End baby knit pants that work great with cloth, but they don’t make them anymore! I’ve also heard that Hanna Andersson’s “wiggle pants” have roomy bottoms. Then again, we love overalls too!

I really like overalls for my 11 mo old 22 lb boy.

I’ve actually had almost no trouble with clothes (a handful not working) until now with my 2 year old. He’s transitioning from 2T to 3T now, and several pants, especially jeans, just won’t fit. If it doesn’t have elastic at all in the waistband, it likely won’t. If it has elastic in the front or back, it might, and if the waistband is elastic, it probably will. Also, some of the jeans and pants are low-rise, which *sometimes* work. I do love yoga pants and other much more stretchy pants since they are almost always work easily.

I love the elastic gowns too! Received my cloth diapers yesterday and prepped them. So easy using them today:-)

I’ve never had a baby in disposables (other than when DS was in the hospital) so I don’t have any info for comparison, but I haven’t had any trouble getting clothes to fit that cloth butt. Perhaps this is because DS is relatively tall and skinny. In disposables he might look lost in the size he needs to fit his height.

We’re finding one-piece outfits work best as well with my almost 4-month-old. He’s wearing 6 month shorts to get over his toosh but they’re big at the waist.

When it’s summer with a newborn, I like to use BabyLegs with cloth diapers and a t-shirt. So much easier for diaper changes (which are all the time with newborns!).

We have to go a size up in jeans, but other than that, he’s true to size!

I found that rompers tend to pull open at the crotch unless they are pretty big, and only a few brands are big enough in the butt for him. It doesn’t matter if he’s wearing cloth or disposables, for some reason. Maybe I’m just too “aggressive” when hauling him around! I do dress him in pants & tops (regular “T” version and crotched versions) but I don’t have enough socks to completely matchy-matchy. Sometimes his clothes match, sometimes it’s whatever is out of the drawer…especially when we’re home and it’s laundry day!

Now that it’s summer, my son is mostly pantless, but I love sweatpants and stretchy material to accommodate his big booty. I once saw a tutorial on re-sewing the crotch of pants to make room for the cloth diaper, but resewing pants is beyond my ability.

I am jealous of a hospital that only uses cloth!! That is simply amazing! We do generally have to go up a size on pants to make cloth fit, but also if I don’t super stuff the diaper, that helps when we’re in public that he doesn’t have to wear a really big diaper. I find the Thirsties AIO do really well under clothes!

I’ve also noticed that pants are a little snug on my CDed baby. During the summer, it won’t be an issue but it is one part of having a baby in the late fall (and cloth diapering) that I hadn’t thought about prior.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. I’m on my third cloth diapered baby and it’s the only thing I don’t like about cloth diapering- my babies look sloppy in their too-large clothing.

I think I’ll do some searching around to see if I can alter my 11 week old baby girl’s clothes to fit her better.

I didn’t cloth diaper my older boys, so pants that fit them are not fitting over his fluffy bootie. I love sweat pants!

I love to pair a Duo Fab Fitted with a Duo Wrap first thing in the morning for the increased absorbency. This is, however, a bulky combination on my daughter. So, we try to keep her in her footy pajamas until her second diaper change.

I usually just let my fixing to be two girl run around in a shirt and diaper. I did recently find a tutorial on how to make your own baby leg warmers out of adult knee high socks, so now she runs around with those on too. When we go out, I do put pants on her. I find that leggings are all right over her cloth diapers. When it warms up, I’m going to just leave off the pants when we go out since her cloth diapers are so cute!