Cloth with Kiana — Preflats: How to Use
When I first started using preflats, the results were... interesting, to say the least. Despite that, it only took me a few good tries to really get the hang of putting them on my son!
Though they require a bit more finagling, I truly love preflats for the absorbency and comfort they offer. I also believe a lot more people would enjoy using preflats if the learning curve didn't feel as steep as it appears. In this post, I want to show you the most basic way to get a preflat on a kiddo but first, let's take a look at the anatomy of a preflat.
Though they require a bit more finagling, I truly love preflats for the absorbency and comfort they offer. I also believe a lot more people would enjoy using preflats if the learning curve didn't feel as steep as it appears. In this post, I want to show you the most basic way to get a preflat on a kiddo but first, let's take a look at the anatomy of a preflat.
If you lay a preflat out like the image above, this is your starting point. If you tried to wrap one around your kiddo just like this, it'll most likely be way too big and loose; plus you lose the benefits of having folded layers, which give more absorbency.
The wings are the parts that will wrap around your kiddo and help keep the preflat on. You can secure these using a snappi, pins, boingos, or sometimes you can just tie them or leave them undone.
The rise is the bigger portion of the preflat, and how much you fold the free edge up determines how big or small the fit of the preflat will be. Different brands will have differently sized/shaped preflats, so sometimes you have to experiment with where the rise needs to be to fit your kiddo.
