Both offer many nice features but in this post I am going for a side by side look (picture heavy)of these two Hybrid style diapers. Why you ask? I say why not!
No but really this post is personal in that for a couple months now I have been helping a fellow mom make the right pick of cloth diaper for her son! Not always easy when your half a country apart. So in an effort to help her (cause she has been so passionate about starting CD and patent with me in my crazy life right now) This post is over due.
First a look at the GroVia with insert.
This is the GroVia with GroVia snap in organic cloth insert. Not easy to see is a small strip of elastic sew in to the sides of the cloth insert to add extra protection agains mess.
The inside of the GroVia is lined with a mesh sport liner. Shown here in this next picture side by side to the Best Bottom.
When cloth liner is used some have said the diaper looks a bit bulky, But everyones idea of bulky is not the same in the next picture I will show both the diapers thickness when a cloth liner is used. And a side view of the GroVia.
The GroVia
The GroVia offers a disposable liner option nice for times that one may find a disposable easier. Like when traveling.
Disposable liners made by cloth diaper companies still contain somethings like a fully disposable diaper but at different levels and in most cases are a lot easier to biodegrade then other. Some are even compostable. But back to the post at hand. The GroVia disposable liner looks like this.
And side by side with cloth insert .
It is my personal feeling that the disposable insert offers more coverage when the cloth insert does.
As with most diapers these days GroVia and Best Bottom offer snap or hook and loop as shown below.
GroVia
Best bottom
Both diapers are OS (one size) and from personal experience I can say they fit nicely on my 4 month 8lb son as they do my 15 month 27lb son.
Zurich (8lbs ) in his Best bottom .
Now for Lyric(he is not as happy to model for mommy so pictures maybe fuzzy)
Lyric in his hook and loop Best bottom(27 lbs)
Now the GroVia
Lyric(27 lbs)(this picture don't do a lot of justice the rise is a little low in my opinion but this diaper does fit him well).
By now Lyric had enough of my picture taking but I promise no baby was harmed in the making of this blog;)
Now Zurich ( he is much easier to photograph as long as he has a clean diaper and is fed he don't mind at all:)
(You may not that a disposable liner was used in the GroVia Zurich is wearing I will touch on this in a moment.)
This is the visual fit of both diapers :) (I said this post would be photo heavy right?)
Now as to why I used a disposable liner in the GroVia Zurich is wearing. Is because of one of my few dislikes with the GroVia system. The cloth insert is one size. Why is that bad it's not inherently bad. I just don't like how the insert bunches when using the smaller sizing of the diaper. I am unable to photograph this well with the GroVia so I will show what I mean with a Best bottom diaper.
One of the unique features of the Best bottom diaper system is size liners. To simulate what I mean by GroVia cloth liner bunching I have snapped a small(liner with green threading) in to a Best bottom on the largest setting and a large(liner with blue) threading in to a best bottom at it's smallest setting.
One last feature of the GroVia system I have photographed is the boaster. This is a lay in cloth liner to add absorbency to the diaper.
The GroVia diaper sales for around $16 without a liner or with a cloth liner for about $22. If purchased one at a time.
The disposable liners sell for around $8 for a 20 pack.
The soakers(cloth liners) sale in packs of 2 for $17. Both trial packs and a full time cloth diapering using the GroVia system with cloth liner is offered. The trial packs include 2 diaper shells and a set of cloth liners or a pack of the disposable liners price range $40-$60. The GroVia live pack as the full time easy to buy everything needed to use GroVia full time includes 12 GroVia set (a shell including soaker)
6 2packs of organic soaker pads
2 2pack of the organic boaster pads
The cost of this set $394.00
My final thoughts on the GroVia all in 2
It is a good system with nice prints and features.
I do find that I have messes on the covers mesh liner and find that I have to change the whole diaper when this happens. This I find happens more often then not when I'm using the cloth liner.
Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
No comments:
Post a Comment