Thank you so much for all your insights and experience! Oh boy- even 3 months waiting for everything to arrive is ages! For some reason I'm hung up on how we would live without our cloth nappies more than anything else
Me too!!! I shipped them all, we had to, they are so bulky. We used disposables and then spent months stressing that DS would have outgrown all the Medium AIOs I had bought. Fortunately he still fitted them all, but it was a loooooong wait.

It might take less than 3 months for your shipment to get to US. Ours had to go through the UK for customs, which added on heaps of time. Also we went with a cheaper company that basically "backloads" a container, so we were waiting for other people's stuff. We only shipped 4 cubic meters of personal things - no furniture.

Working out the timing with shipping stuff / new baby might be tricky for you too though - we had ours collected from our house when DS was only 3 weeks old. They were not fun weeks. My poor DH