GroVia and Charlie Banana: Two New Cloth Diapers We Love

We switched from disposable for our first two kids to cloth with our third, currently two months old. We use GroBaby (the previous iteration of GroVia) and LOVE it. Even my husband, who I thought would never be willing to cloth diaper, is just fine with them.

We started using GroBaby when my son was 12 months old–totally wish we had started cloth-diapering from the beginning! It’s so much easier than I thought it would be and has saved us hundreds! I think if everyone knew about all the awesome new diapers that are available now, a lot more people would ditch the disposables and go with cloth.

I must say we have just started cloth diapering, eekk!!! I was so nervous and everything so confusing!!! BUT then I found Gro Via and seriously THE BEST!!! I am currently trying these and another brand out and I CAN NOT STAND the other brand either can the baby! Our daughter is 3 weeks old and weights 8 pounds and they fit perfectly, we are doing the Gro Via Hybrid. WE LOVE THEM!!!!

Love GroVia, excellent products and quality.

This is great – so happy cloth is getting so trendy and mainstream! CHarlie Banana diapers are the most adorable, fashioable little diapers out there ;)

GroVia makes hands down the best cloth diapers out there! My wife is big on the cloth diaper thing and we have tried them all – Charlie Banana doesn’t hold a candle!

I recommend these diapers to any dads out there who are intimidated by the thought of cloth. Super user friendly and cute, too! Thanks for putting them in the spotlight. Go GroVia!

Cloth diapering is so much easier than I thought it would be. Glad celebrities embrace them too!

I love gro baby they are great!! We love to CD, much cheaper the disposables!

We love the GroVia system. They are incredibly easy to use and very cute. Even my husband willing uses them, saying they are practically easier to use than a disposable.

We’ve been cloth diapering our 10 month old since she was 3 months old – using a mix of Dreameze and GroBaby and GroVia. Cloth diapers have been so good at containing the mess (our primary reason for switching), and the laundry upkeep has been a breeze! It really has been not alot of work, with a tonne of reward!

2 Great Companies offering wonderful alternatives to disposable diapers! It is great to see cloth diapering getting mainstream exposure!

I have been cloth diapering for about 4 years now and am continually amazed by how easy and how cute cloth diapering is. So often when you do something good for the environment you end up spending more, but cloth diapers cost so much less than their disposable counterparts!

I’m not cloth diapering yet, but will be when my baby is born in February! I’m looking forward to using Grovia. I love the different options and adorable colors that they offer!

Thanks for discussing cloth diapers! I started cloth diapering my son when he was 2 weeks old with GroVia and we haven’t looked back (he is now one year old). We love cloth diapering and GroVia has made it so easy. My son starts daycare next week and when I showed them his GroVia diaps the daycare workers were excited too. So easy!!

I have been cloth diapering for the past 8+ years and in the past couple of years some really awesome diapers have come onto the market. The Grovia diapers are my absolute *favorite* diapers. They are trim and comfortable for baby and so good for their skin. No chemicals, no worries. Grovia is also a wonderful company! If you are a disposable user, consider switching to their cloth, hybrid, or eco-disposables. You won’t regret it.

So, noticing the amount of posts for these diapers in such a short period of time…and noticing that most of the comments read like advertisement for the company, I have to wonder how many of these posts are from the company or friends of?

We just switched to full-time cloth diapering and we LOVE our GroVia!! It’s the first one I reach for out of all the brands in my stash.

Yay for cloth diapering! After calculating that we spent about $5,000.00 on disposable diapers for my first-born, I decided I wanted to give cloth diapering a try. I heard about GroVia’s hybrid system and a lot of rave reviews so my family took the plunge and we have been cloth diapering my second child since he was just four weeks old (he’s now 13 weeks). Even though it is a huge expense up front and I wish I had spent the nine month of pregnancy accumulating diapers slowly over time, we figure that we have already saved at least $4,000, especially since we are also using cloth wipes. I LOVE that GroVia’s diapers will stay with my son until he’s potty trained. Their company, customer service, and 100% guarantee always leave me happy with my decision.

What a great article! We began cloth diapering with grobaby/grovia cloth diapers when my daughter was three weeks old, and we’ve never looked back!

Chris I just think people who do things “not the norm” get super excited to see a post on it! I know my heart started pounding when I saw this was for cloth diapers =) It’s just … awesome!

I have been curious about this brand of diapers. Right now I use Motherease and Kawaii covers but have been seeing more and more on the GroVia and was curious about how good they were. Looks like I might be making a purchase!

I love cloth diapers! They aren’t the old school crappy ones anymore and GroVia are some really easy to use!

Love them!

I started cloth diapering when my son was 3 months old. At first I didn’t know where to start so I asked one of my friend’s who is a pro. She said that I should try Grobaby/Gro-via as they are the best. I have been using them ever since and absolutely LOVE them!!! I have never had one issue with these! And the company is fantastic to deal with; I have sent general questions and have had answers right away!!!

We’ve cloth diapered our baby girl since birth and we LOVE it! GroVia/GroBaby diapers are one of our very favorites… we never have leaks and get many compliments on the adorable prints. My personal favorite is the bluebirds print :) Looking forward to adding the new colors to our stash!

ummm i’m sensing some more creepy fake comments!!!!! lol

GroVia’s are amazing! I’m using them with my first child, and it’s amazing how easy they are. When someone first mentioned the idea of cloth diapering my first reaction was negative…my image was the old style prefolds with pins. But when I saw GroVias I realized that cloth diapering has come a long way since then. They are just as easy to change as a disposable, they are cuter, cheaper, better for the environment, and better for baby. I can’t imagine putting my baby in disposables now!

We’ve used cloth diapers for 2 of our 3 kids. Once we started we never thought to go back to disposables. I currently have a mix stash of Fuzzi Bunz and Grovias and they are fantastic. I think alot of people are scared to try cloth diapers because they think they have to use pins and dunk diapers. We don’t do either and they really are easy.

Oh, and I’m not shocked about the comments and responses. Grovia and cloth diapers in general have a huge following on parenting forums and Facebook.

I love my GroVia diapers. They fit so well and aren’t bulky like a lot of the other cloth diapers I have. Everywhere we go, people see them and want to know where we got them. I think it’s awesome that a lot of people are finding out that using cloth is so much easier than pins and plastic pants!

Well, i think it’s VERY strange how many GroVia comments there are – I think the GroVia people are pressuring people to respond! I think I’ll try Charlie Banana just for the fact that they aren’t asking people to post! However, cloth diapers all around rock and ALL mamams need to take a look.

Love the Grovia’s! cloth diapering is so easy and economical, more people should consider it!

We LOVE GroVia! I have both a 2yr old and a 5mo old in them and they are great! Since starting to cloth diaper I have tried a few different brands and GroVia is by far the best fit. They are never bulky- even when stuffed with a few soakers for night time heavy wetters! Hands down this is a great product, simple to use and has converted me from a disposable user to a full time cloth dipering mommy!

So nice to see Charlie Banana here!!! They are such great diapers.
Their fit is so trim and we love the colors…Their customer service is amazing:)

Charlie Banana you are the KING!
Thank you for revolutionizing my diaper world. Until you came along I was scared to tried cloth diapering, now i am an expert!

anyone else notice that “nancy” and “tx mommy had nearly the same comment… parts even exactly the same?

nancy said: “After calculating that we spent about $5,000.00 on disposable diapers for my first-born”

tx mommy said: “After spending what we calculated as almost $5,000 on diapers alone for our first-born”

i’m not doubting both of these products are great, but 99% of these comments look fake to me. NEVER has there been an “ad” that generated so many comments in such a SHORT period of time that are all crazy positive. and so similar sounding! note to companies – when you do this kind of fake commenting, it makes me NOT want to try your product!

Sorry I could not hide my excitement:)

Um, yeah, for the record my comment is not fake. And just like other posts are saying, people who cloth diaper are really excited about it and we just love seeing cloth diapering gettin some facetime because lots of people have old-fashioned notions about what it means to cloth diaper (think diaper pins and plastic pants, ugh!). And also, The Natural Baby Co who is the parent company of GroVia is a lot better known then Charlie Banana which is why most of these comments are from parents who use GroVia (it’s like the Nike of the cloth diapering world). So weird that people would think the only reason why someone would get excited about an article like this and comment on it is because they were “pressured” to do so and not because of all the benefits of using cloth.

GroVia is pretty awesome. Super soft.

I don’t have any children yet but I hope to someday! And I’ve been leaning more and more toward getting cloth diapers when I do have one. I just have a few questions if someone would be kind enough to answer! Could you tell me the process of what happens after a child soils the diaper? Where exactly do you put the diaper? I’ve heard the term “wet bag” (I think?) but what is that exactly? How do you wash them in the wash? How often do you have to do that? (I guess that probably depends on how many cloth diapers you have and how many the child goes through in a day?) I know you are supposed to dump them in the toilet but isn’t there still a good amount of poop residue on them? Does it just go in the wash? Do you worry that it will get on later clothes that you wash in the same machine? And my last question… someone mentioned cloth wipes. What are those and do they pretty much go through the same process as the diapers after being used?

Those are the only questions I can come up with now but any additional information is highly appreciated. I don’t know anyone that uses cloth diapers or I’d ask them!

I posted above and am posting again. If you look these companies posted this link on their Facebook pages. I have fanned both. Grovia has been around much longer and has more fans. I don’t think anyone is being pressured to post. It is just so neat to see these cloth diapers being seen as cool.

Really, go read their Facebook pages or Babycenter or Diaperswappers forums and you will see just how excited people get over cloth diapers.

jill – i’m with you. i get really annoyed when companies do this. these people might truly love the product but i find it disingenuous to make people think these comments are unsolicited and unbiased. people are being bribed essentially to post these comments in order to win a prize. not a fan. these are probably fantastic diapers and i’m all for cloth diapering but grovia has left a bad taste in my mouth and i will go for charlie banana.

i hope grovia reads these comments – please don’t do this again.

I just got back from a month long trip to visit with the in-laws. Diapering with GroVia was SO EASY!! THe biodegradable inserts make it convenient and eco-friendly. I was using pocket diapers mostly at home but after my trip I think I will be making a switch to using more GroVia. They are great!

I have been using GroVia on my son for the last 8 months. I LOVE THEM!!! He’s had no diaper rashes. The diapers are so easy to put on–velcro not pins. Inserts unsnap easily and you never have to touch the dirty part of diaper. Just throw them in the wash like any other load and you’re good to go. When we were on vacation we used the biodegradable disposable inserts–absolutely perfect! The diapers fit him with room to grow and he’s almost 30 lbs. Absolutely LOVE, LOVE, LOVE these diapers!

We love the grovia diapers! We have been using them for several months and they are not any more difficult or consuming than disposables!

Oh BROTHER….if you read their Facebook post THEY SAID TO POST ABOUT YOUR CD (cloth diapering) EXPERIENCES….They did not tell people to come on here and spam GroVia.

GEEZ….what a bunch of dramarific people!

I know there are tons of comments on here with lots of hyperbole… so I’ll just keep it simple and to the point. I’m sure other diapers may be ok, but having found Charlie Banana they are everything I want – fit great, look great, and designed to last. What more could you need?

I like that Charlie Banana gives a portion of all sales to Operation Smile – a charity that does amazing work for kids around the world. I think it says a lot about the company, and how much they genuinely care about children.

Choosing cloth diapers is in part about expressing my eco values, but I’m a parent above all (and care deeply about children’s issues). It seems like Charlie Banana gets it, and I will definitely check out their products.

A lot of diaper companies do competitions like that. It is a great way to reach out to your fans and have them market the product themselves. The thing is, if you aren’t already a fan of the product, you won’t know about the contest. So they really are reaching out to people that they know already like their product. Why is that so wrong?

I personally love Grovia. We’ve been using both their AIO and their AI2/hybrid system for some time.

I do think I am going to try the charlie banana system, though. Just because, I always like to try something new! I’m just crazy like that though.

I do have to say that I doubt any system can beat Grovia’s disposable inserts. They hold EVERYTHING in, and have even lasted overnight for me.

Do the charlie banana inserts have gussets?

Sarah

Shawna, I know what you mean but Fuzzi Bunz actually completely ripped off of Evolution diapers design and charlie banana greatly improved the fuzzi bunz design. I would much rather buy charlie banana then fuzzi bunz any day of the week.