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.

New Small and Medium organic cotton Quick Dry Diapers arrived yesterday. I still get excited when piles and piles of new diapers arrive.

I make undyed organic Quick Dry Diapers my first stocking priority. These are not necessarily ordered most often, though they are ordered more often in larger quantities.

I put up a poll (and by “I,” I mean my tech-savvy friend did it–do I link to her every day?). I know by sales what SELLS the most, but I was curious to know what priorities people give to fabric type (organic, hemp, knit, woven), to price, to fair trade (that’s what I voted for), and to color.

It wasn’t even my original intention to offer Firefly Diapers in color. I did it once just as a special thing, and customers loved it. So, I let these become a regular item. It shouldn’t be a surprise that more color creates more buzz. I knew that from our sister company, Fuzbaby. When I had bunches of dyed fabric but ran low on undyed, I created Firefly Diapers with color in every one of the six Quick Dry parts (body + 2 wings = 3 x 2 layers = 6). I called them Quick Dry Color Clown Diapers. Recently, when I had undyed organic cotton sherpa but little plain fleece, I created Quick Dry Color Cushy Diapers. Variety seems to be good, and customers do love these colorful diapers.

But I still think of the undyed organic cotton Quick Dry Diapers as our main diaper. Once, when taking a telephone order, I asked the women whether she preferred undyed or color, and she said, “It’s a diaper. Why would I want color?” EXACTLY!

If I were diapering a baby today (which is theoretical only, since my little ones left diapers behind years ago), you would probably be surprised to see how plain my stash would be: a few undyed fitted diaper, maybe a special color diaper or two, and a bunch of big, flat squares. I used flat diapers like Firefly Diapers offers for my first child, but I would probably just choose the big, 36″ square guaze diapers that used to be standard when my own mother was a baby. Easy to clean, baby doesn’t grow out of it, and doesn’t really take that much time to fold.

People like special diapers. I do, too. I find that I favor simple solutions, though, and my favorite diaper for fit, function, and convenience is the Firefly Quick Dry Diaper. Plain, undyed.