Sassy Stainless & Rustproof Diaper Pins - Set of 8

Our son (aka the escape artist) is really adept at getting loose from his swaddling at night. We've started using a single safety pin to secure the blanket, and that has worked wonders for keeping him snug, and consequently helping him sleep longer. These are fairly standard safety pins, and do their jobs very well. Other than the one that our cat chewed to pieces, they're all working as they should.

PROs:

1) Sharp!

2) Do what they're supposed to do

3) Help us get a few precious hours of additional sleep

CONs:

1) Not cat proof

I'm giving these 5 stars....not because they're as good quality as the ones I used on my kids in the 80's, but because, as a grandma now in 2011, I was surprised to be able to buy any at ALL lol (most people who use cloth diapers now seem to use those very expensive "designer" nappies with velcro) and, with that in mind, they were better quality than I expected to find for a product I thought was obsolete.

True, the safety lock is not as good as the ones of long ago, but is better than a regular safety pin and seems to be good enough until my granddaughter is potty-trained.

Note about tip sharpness of these pins: I'm using homemade prefolds & birdsey diapers I made from my old flannel sheets, and that may be harder on the pins than the prefolds & birdseyes you buy....a couple of times the pins became difficult to push through (after many times of pushing through) but if the pin becomes dull or the tip gets bent, you can fix that by sharpening them on an emery board/nail file...i'd sharpen the pin, putting the tip on the file and running it downwards, turning the pin and filing more, checking visually by holding the pin in front of the t.v. and gently poking my finger on the sharp tip to know when it was sharp enough.

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I bought these pins to use with prefold diapers and have found them to be terrible.

First, they are too blunt and hence useless. I had to use force to just push them through two layers of a prefold diaper. That is not something you can work with, especially when diapering a wiggly baby.

Second, these are too big to use on even a two year old so there is no way I can use them on an infant without them poking out.

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Good bargain pricing for diaper pins that are functional and get the job done. The pins close easily and also open easily (when an adult desires to open them.) The pins are not quite as sharp as some vintage models of diaper pins, but these pins certainly are perfectly acceptable and easy to use when diapering your baby.

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We use prefolds on our 7 month old, and the snappies don't hold our favorite bamboo/cotton diapers very well, so we usually use pins. I bought this pack thinking, "how much variation can there be in diaper pins? Surely one pin is as good as another." Not the case, I found out. These pins are like needles, seriously, not sewing needles, but like, you would use this level of sharpness for an intravenous injection. But! Even with the incredible sharpness (I'm serious, my husband, mother and I have drawn blood numerous times, and I'm so sad to admit, I even got my baby once), these things won't go through the diapers! I guess the circumference of the pin is much wider than the point, and it takes extreme force to get them through the diapers. Which is really frustrating when you have, you know, a normal baby who wiggles around during diaper changes. I'm tossing these and buying a few more packages of the Nuby ones.Nuby 4 Pack Safety Pins, Colors May Vary