Navigating the Foreign Language of Cloth: The ABCs of CDs

If you are just starting out with cloth diapers, you may find yourself on some cloth diaper message boards and websites where everyone around you seems to be talking in a completely foreign language!  What are all these abbreviations and terms that are whizzing past you?  

Here is a pretty extensive list of some things that you may come across...

AIO - All-in-One

AI2 - All-in-Two

Aplix - brand name of hook & loop, same as Velcro

BV - Bamboo Velour 

BB - Blueberry diaper 

BG - BumGenius diapers

EUC - Excellent used condition 

FB - FuzziBunz diapers

FS - For sale

FSOT - For sale or trade 

FTO - For trade only

FUC - Fair used condition 

GM - Goodmama diapers

GMD - Green Mountain Diapers

GN - Gender neutral

GUC - Good used condition

HH - Happy Heiny diapers

Hook & loop  - generic term for Velcro or Aplix

ISO - In search of 

KL - Kissaluvs diapers

KL0- Kisssaluvs size 0 

OBV - Organic Bamboo Velour

OS - One size diaper

PF - Prefold 

PPD - Postage Paid

PUL - Polyurethane laminate - waterproof material used to make diapers/covers 

RaRz - Rumparooz 

RnG - Rockin' Green (detergent)

Rock a Soak - Doing a soak in Rockin' Green (often overnight)

Sbish - Sustainablebabyish - manufacturer and seller of wool items and cloth diapers

TPU- Thermoplastic Polyurethane (similar to PUL)

VGUC - Very good used condition 

WAHM - Work at Home Mom