Thanks to Bridget for this Frugal Baby Tip!

My pads are 6 layers of linen stacked and sewn together, with and
outer covering of terry cloth, essentially making them 8 layers thick.
Most times I have an extremely heavy flow, and have thus had problems
with disposable pads and leaking - mostly because they couldn't hold
the amount and tended to bunch up a lot on me. I've never had leak
problems with my cloth pads, and I've not treated them to be
waterproof in any way. I guess the linen just does its job really well.

I usually only have to change the pad halfway through my day on days
of heaviest flow, and only have to use one pad per day on lighter
days. Right now after having had a c-section, I'm using one pad per
day. Tho' when I was at the hospital, I used their disposable pads
just for convenience merely so my family would have less laundry to
cart around for me.

I like my cloth pads better because they never get that weird
pervasive smell that disposables get once they are wet, likely due to
synthetics in the disposables.

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