1. I like to save money and because I plan on having several kids it will certainly save me money.
2. I was kind of sad with how much trash I was creating and how many trees or something I was killing with all of the diapers. (Are diapers made out of trees or cotton or what?) I wouldn't call myself a tree hugger type of person, so I was surprised that I felt like this. I love the less wasteful feeling. This is probably the biggest reason that I keep using them. It started out a money thing, but it has evolved.
3. I didn't know what was going in to my baby - I mean it is not natural for something to soak up so much pee like that. What were those little clear balls that I found on his skin sometimes?
4. He was having blowouts very regularly in the stupid huggies - maybe a different type of disposable would have been better about that. So far the cloth diapers have been better about containing messes, once I figured out what I was doing. There have still been a few blowouts - I think it is inevitable, but it has been WAY better.
5. It is really not nearly as difficult as I thought it would be. I was just testing them out to see if I could handle it. It turns out it is easy peasy! I really don't mind doing an extra load of laundry every other day and that is about all that I have to do. It isn't messy at all, I just keep a bag ready to hold on to my "swaddled poop**" until it is ready to go into the laundry. It might be totally different when my baby starts eating solids, but for now breastfed poop is a piece of cake.
6. It feels softer and nicer for my baby - definitely.

For right now I am just using the prefold which are like the cloth diapers our grandparents used to use. Only I use a "snappi" instead of safety pins. They are a lot easier then i thought they would be and definitely the cheapest option when it comes to cloth diapers. There are also lots of different fitted type diapers that are patterned after disposable diapers. I haven't use any of those yet, but I hear great things about them and I will probably buy a few.

I keep disposables around for if I have been too lazy to do laundry or if I am going out of town or something. I just got back from vacation and I hated having to waste all those disposables and start creating trash again. It was nice to get home and get back into the cloth ones.

My sister is the cloth diaper queen and has used them with all three of her kids. I know it will probably change when my baby is not tiny and breastfed anymore, but she has loved it the whole time so it must not get too much worse. That is all I know. Feel free to leave comments about this subject or to ask more questions... :)

**( I loved that phrase in Janae Ranes' blog, you've got to read that story if you haven't )