Colored cloth diapers don’t absorb better than undyed diapers. They don’t give your baby a better fit.

So, what is the point of colored diapers?

We make colored cloth diapers for 5 reasons.

5. Happy Baby

Once your babies are old enough to recognize and love colors, you will probably find that they have preferences. Cloth diapering becomes so much easier when your toddler looks forward to diaper changes with a favorite color.

4. Happy Parent

Colors are fun. When you see a color you like, you add a little joy to your task. You smile while your baby is watching you. Your baby smiles back. Diaper changing time becomes a time of happy smiles. If you consistently make a stinky face while you are changing diapers, your child won’t enjoy that time quite so much.

3. Happy Diaper Maker

Our work space is gorgeous! We have colors everywhere. In the same way color adds a little joy to a diaper change, it adds joy to diaper making time. Beautiful colors make for a pleasant work environment.

2. Low-impact Dye

Sustainability matters to us. We love the idea of using natural dyes, but we know you demand color-fast dyes. Without high-impact mordants, nasty chemicals that help the pigments attach to fibers, most natural dyes won’t give you bright, lasting colors. Fiber-reactive dyes create a permanent bond with the fibers, and the dyes are fixed on cotton with simple soda ash.

It also takes less energy to use fiber-reactive dyes, since room temperature to body temperature water does the job. We chose to balance color and impact with fiber-reactive dyes.

1. Our Customer Asked for Them

We thought Firefly Diapers would be all about the plain, undyed diaper. Our sister company, Fuzbaby, is all about color. We loved Firefly Diapers for their excellent functionality. Well, it turns out that not everyone wants just function. You want beautiful diapers! Our customers asked, nudged, requested, and demanded Firefly Quick Dry Diapers in colors, so we made them. Then, our customers collected colored diapers.

Usually, Quick Dry Color Diapers are undyed on the inside, but we sometimes use up small pieces of fabric and lulls in production to create Firefly Quick Dry Color Clown diapers, with colors in every one of the six pieces and trimmed with organic cotton thread. These popular, colored diapers are in stock now.

We’ve been selling a lot of flat diapers lately. When I take phone orders, I usually ask the customer about the choices they are making. One customer ordered a few diapers a couple of months ago and liked them so much she called back to order three dozen more.

• “Are you using pins or Snappi or anything else to secure the diapers?” I asked.
• No, she just uses a snug cover.
• “What do you like best about them?”
• Absorbency. She folds them in four (first the long way, then across) and tucks the rectangle into a cover.

This is so different from the way I used flat diapers with my children, shaping them in an hourglass and adding another layer down the center. It’s just a plain rectangle. You can fold and bunch it any way that works for your child. And, size is less an issue than with fitted diapers.

The great thing about flat diapers, the biggest selling point in my opinion, is the use of only 100% organic cotton for every part of the diaper, including the thread. No elastic or plastic snaps.

If you are looking for a 100% organic cotton cloth diaper and you want more flexibility than you can get with fitted diapers, try Firefly Flat Diapers. Buy 3+ to save.

All of our regular diapers are currently in stock — even Extra Small (preemie) and Extra Large (toddlers). This doesn’t happen very often. We are usually running to catch up, but we’ve been pushing production harder recently. We arrived!

We’re here, we said. Now what? Have some fun! We created colorful Clown Diapers. We used the colors we had on hand, which happen to be strong primary and secondary colors. Check out our home page for swatches.

Right now, in the moment of my writing, we have a bunch of Clown Diapers in Small ($24), Medium ($26), and Large ($26). We will update stock both here and the Firefly Diapers home page.

Call to order: 800/597-0561. We ask you to call to order these so we can be completely accurate about what stock we have left. You call, it’s yours.

UPDATE: Since there are just a few of these beautiful Clown Diapers left, we’ve posted them for sale on our website. You don’t have to call — though you are always welcome to call to place any order. ORDER CLOWN DIAPERS. (If you don’t see Clown Diapers and a nice “Buy It” button on our home page, all of the diapers are gone.)

So tiny they fit in your hand.

Quite a few years ago, before we began the diaper manufacturing adventure, a friend of mine gave birth to her baby more than four months premature. I still remember visiting him in the NICU, his bottom as big as a tangerine. He was as healthy as a 4 1/2 month-baby could be, but she ran into one problem that she passed on to me: find diapers because nothing fits.

The two of us had lived on the same street and cloth diapered our first babies together using exactly the same flat diapers. She knew I would get diapers she would like. I figured, how difficult could it be? Finding preemie cloth diapers was difficult. I found no fitted diapers, no flat diapers, and in the end I produced a pile of wash cloths as diapers for her 4-lb baby. The wash cloths worked, though the covers were much too big. The baby didn’t move around much, so he just had to put up with the giant covers.

The problem of preemie cloth diapers stayed with me. Once I began designing cloth diapers, I knew I needed a size small enough for a premature baby. The Firefly Diapers Extra Small is the result.

We have just stocked Extra Small in trim Firefly Quick Dry Diapers for daytime and extra layered Firefly Sleep Tight Diapers for nighttime. Check the measurement details.

We have quite a few Easy Wool diaper cover colors available in Extra Small.

And, you could always opt for future usefulness of the diapers by choosing a pile of organic cotton wash cloths to be used as diapers now and cloths later.