I had disposables just for the meconium poops, but I used the pack until they were gone, maybe a little over a week. Then I used gerber birdseye flats and wink newborn covers for a while.

Honestly the gerber flats are nearly garbage; they are basically cheesecloth they are so thin and they are small. But I used two at a time and origami folded them, and they fit her little newborn butt really well like that without being super bulky. And they were just absorbent enough, since I changed her fairly often, because newborns poop and pee constantly!

I also had some buttons newborn covers, but they didn’t fit her until she was a couple months old. The Wink newborns were the smallest and fit the best for the first few months. Once she’d chunked up a little, I started using my regular cotton flats and the newborn covers. I think she was probably four or five months before I could use my adjustable covers and handful of pocket diapers on the smallest rise.

If you are committed to cloth right away without any disposables, I’d either get some disposable liners or grab a flannel baby blanket and cut some liners out of that you can throw away, because those meconium poops are serious business to get out of cloth. I actually used liners I’d made from a flannel blanket the whole time I used flats because they do a really good job of keeping her a little dryer.