BabyKicks 3 Pack Joey-Bunz, Small

I purchased these Joey Bunz hemp inserts for use with BumGenius 4.0 pocket diapers. Although the microfibers inserts that came with the 4.0 diapers worked well for my first daughter, my second daughter was always leaking through at night. I decided to try the Joey-bunz in the small size first, when my second daughter was using the newborn size setting of the diaper cover, and she rarely leaked at night when using them. When we reached the next diaper size setting, I purchased enough Joey Bunz inserts so that I could use them all the time. They work great for overnight (I usually use two of them layered together), and during the day I use one medium Joey Bunz insert and one newborn size microfiber insert (my baby is almost 6 mos old). The best thing about the hemp inserts is that they aren't as bulky as the microfiber inserts, which is great for smaller babies. So, even if you have to layer them up (like we do at night), you can still fit the baby's clothes on, and they aren't immobilized by a giant diaper. I am planning to purchase the large size once my baby is big enough. The hemp inserts do get more absorbent with each use and washing, and they are soft and flexible. A few drawbacks (why I would like to give this 4 1/2 stars): 1) They take about 50% more time to dry than the microfiber inserts. I've found that drying the Joey Bunz hemp inserts with dryer balls cuts down on dry time and leaves them more fluffy. 2) I use these inserts with BumGenius diapers, and the inserts are a little narrower in the crotch than the BumGenius covers. So, this leaves a small gap where the insert and edge of the diaper cover don't meet. If I do have leaks, it is in this area. I have tried the hemp inserts with FuzziBunz diapers (that a friend lent to me), and they seem to fit better. One tip, if you are using the hemp inserts along with a microfiber insert, put the hemp insert underneath the microfiber insert, as the hemp absorbs more slowly than the microfiber, and it just seems to work better to prevent leaking. Overall, these are more effective than microfiber inserts for our big nighttime wetter, but I still have occasional leaks.

This review is from a parent of now two. Our second son was a very heavy wetter. I have purchased 6 brands of hemp pads, as well as bamboo (3 brands).The short version, these are incredible. By far my favorite.The long version...Each pad is actually two thinner liners sewn together. When I first received these, I was a bit confused. Once I discovered why, I absolutely love the design. The two panels sewn together means that they dry much faster in the dryer. I have several other brands (including hybrid cotton-hemp ones) that are still a bit damp and need another 10-20 minutes to dry. Since these leave more surface area available for drying, these come out very dry and fold back easily when stuffing a diaper. The second benefit is that after about a year the stitching connecting the two pads failed on a few of the liners leaving me with several single panels. I was going to sew them back together, but now I like using them on my now two-year old on road trips. They add almost no bulk and provide several times more absorbency and dryness over a single microfiber insert. The older single panels were also great on my second son when he was in his first weeks and I was struggling with the vast volumes of pee he was producing.Hemp is more absorbent then bamboo. If you have a spectrum, put hemp on one end, then bamboo, then microfiber, then regular cotton. Both hemp and bamboo absorb very slowly though. This is why a few manufacturers sell hemp-cotton blends. They are more absorbent then cotton, but absorb as quickly as cotton. However, I do not like any of the hybrid solutions. They still soak quickly, not nearly as much as hemp (if I had to guess, I would say hemp is easily 5x more absorbent then cotton, and a composite liner is about 2x more absorbent then cotton). The main failure of a composite liner is that a child can still feel the wetness. If you have a microfiber liner and a hemp backer, the hemp wicks all the moisture out of the microfiber liner. Since that is what is closer to the child, the child does not sense the wetness much, if at all. My morning experience is to find a nearly saturated hemp liner, and a microfiber liner that barely feels damp.While I touched on it a bit in the last paragraph, it is important to understand how to use these.First, you need to wash them a few times in hot water to strip some of the natural oils out of them. If you do not, they can actually reduce the absorbency of your other pads, and then you will be stripping diapers. After that, it is game on!Second, if you are using any liner besides a cotton liner, understand that they are so absorbent they will wick moisture out of your childs skin if there is direct contact. That leads to rashes, etc.. I use pockets and need to check and make sure that the insert pocket completely covers the microfiber and hemp liners (microfiber is also more absorbent then cotton and will also wick moisture out of skin and cause rashes). The solution is to have a pocket diaper with a microfiber liner, and behind that your hemp liner. If you are not using pockets, use a cotton liner with a hemp one behind it.Third, you will be amazed how absorbent these are. The main benefit is that your baby will not fuss over wetness as much and instead of 5-8 changes overnight for a heavy wetter you will change once or twice at most (depending on how thirsty your wee one is). I tend to use aplix (velcro) diapers for overnight, and snaps during the day. I do not even need to turn a light on to change my boy. I stuff the velcro diapers with the hemp + microfiber inserts, and add a few extra of the now single panels in some of the snaps. It is very easy for me to determine by touch which diapers in my stash are night diapers, and which ones are day diapers.My experiences using this method are for my firstborn... over 1 year without a single diaper rash. My second born... three months with no rashes and 1 month of sleeps where I get up and change him once a night and give him a bottle. Bliss :)I have also helped a few friends with kids who suffered from kids who peed out of their diapers often. Some have switched to cloth and are using a similar system. Others are stuffing every diaper with the combo. It is all good. Just get these and sleep more!

These are good hemp inserts. We use them as doublers for our two month old heavy wetter. However, we have other inserts that we prefer to these because these are long and a little wider than we would like. We ordered (from Amazon) HappyEndings Heavy Wetter 4 Layer Organic Hemp & Cotton Inserts for Cloth Diapers, and we reach for those first. The BabyKicks just don't fit easily into the pocket diapers we have. Our daughter is still small but I think we'll probably still have a problem stuffing these into some of her diapers even as she gets bigger. Please take a look at the attached photos. Two sizes of bumGenius microfiber inserts are on the left. BabyKicks insert is on the right of the ruler and HappyEndings is on the far right.

I love this product. I was just about to give up on cloth diapering (and I did it with my 3 year old until he was potty trained a year ago) with my 6 week old because he is such a heavy wetter. He would through a double stuffed Fuzzibunz within an hour. To prep these: boil with blue Dawn Dish Soap for 30 minutes, then wash on hot and dry three times before use to get rid most of their natural oils. The more I wash, the more absorbent they get. They only reason I didn't rate these 5 stars is because I want to use it as an insert alone but he leaks after an hour with these when used as an insert alone. I usually use these as a doubler with one of the fuzzibunz inserts and he can go 4+ hours in the daytime and 10+ hours at night without leaking (and I get the same results if I use two BabyKicks inserts). I'm hoping that with more washings I can use them as a single insert in the diaper because I HATE how thick the fuzzibunz inserts are.