In response to Birdiehandmade's question here is my experience with cloth diapers.  I went to cloth after the birth of my second child.  Here is my original review of my experience for my blog

Cloth diaper review originally written on my blog on 4/26/06

So about a month ago I made the switch to cloth diapers. After spending a few months doing research (you would not believe how many options there are) I decided to buy
Fuzzibunz which is a pocket diaper. After a month of using them here are the highlights of my findings:

1. They are incredibly cute. The color choices are wonderful.
2. Much easier to use than I thought. Diaper changes are just as quick as with a disposable. There are not pins or covers with these diapers. You just pre stuff the diaper with one of the inserts and they are ready to snap on.
3. Washing isn't as bad as I thought. I wash probably about every 3 days or so. I hang them out to dry when possible so I don't end up using the dryer too much. There is no way I am spending in water and electricity what I was spending per month to buy disposables. No way.
4. No more gel balls on my babies skin from the SAPs(Super absorbent polymers)

So there you have it. It is not as hard as it looks. JB was surprised how easy it is too. I am glad I made the jump. It feels sort of liberating (in that hippy kind of a way) to not be dependent on the evil diaper companies any longer.
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Update on my experience:  The above was written when my son was about 6 months old.  At the time I bought size medium Fuzzibunz.  He is now about to turn 2 years old in another week and he is still wearing the size medium.  They are just now starting to get small but we still have more snaps to move back on.

washing:
I was so afraid of cloth diapering before I made the jump.  Washing seemed crazy to me.  Here is my system.  I have a small house an no room for a large diaper pail so I opted for this hanging diaper bag  I hang it in the stairwell to my basement.  Wet diapers just get pulled apart and dumped in the diaper bag.  For soiled diapers I just scrape the poop off into the toilet, pull the stuffer out of the diaper and put both pieces of the diaper in the hanging diaper bag.  I DO NOT dunk diapers.  Gettting them wet just creates mold as they sit around in your diaper bag.  There is not need to dunk diapers.  I washed about every 3 days when he was younger.  Now I go through less diapers each day and so I wash more like every 4-5 days.  I think I have a stock of about 25 diapers.  You can spread this out if you own more. 

Pros: 
1. I was using Seventh Generation disposibles before switching but they are still filled with SAPs (Super Absorbent Polymers).  Even though they were not bleached I still felt that putting human waste in our landfills was beyond disgusting.   People might argue that you waste water and energy washing cloth diapers.  Yes I use my washing machine but there is no way I am using that much more water.  Unfortunatly I have to do laundry anyways so unless you go 100% green and start handwashing all of your laundry I don't think you really can compare.  

2. Cost wise I was spending about $40.00/month on disposables.  My water and electricity bill has NOT gone up this much by switching to cloth.  You can argue with me about the environmental debate but I just do not see how in the end loading up our ground with human waste and diapers that do not break down is a better solution.

3.  They smell so much  better.  Take out one of your disposable diapers, open it up, stick your nose against it and take a deep breath.  Disgusting!  Also - the gel balls.  I don't miss the gel balls that would be on my kids skin every day.

4.  Night time diapering has less leaks.  I know so many people who make the switch during the day to cloth but still use disposables at night becasue they are afraid of leaks.  Our old disposibles leaked WAY more than these do.  For night time diapering I stuff my fuzzibunz with two stuffers instead of the one and then I put on a wool cover that I bought here.  I use it winter and summer and it works awesome!

ok I think I have gone off long enought here.  Let me know if you have any specific questions.  I highly reccomend getting this book The Do it Yourself Cloth Diapering Book if you are confused about all the options.