Hi, it is a hard decision to make however the general concenus is that you will save around $1000 a year using cloth (depnding on the cost ofhe disposables and which type of cloth you choose) There is also a debate on going about the environmental cost of washing vrs the 1500kg of disposables thrown out each year per child, but as a cloth user I can tell you, I don't do that much more washing now as I did with my son is sposies.

Disposables - you will use about 10-12 in the first few weeks and slowly decrease to about 8-10 a day. I bought a packet evertime we went shopping and I would recommend just getting the boys nappies if you aren't finding out or snuglers have unisex. We got 2 boxes of newborn (3-6kg), 5-6 packets of infant (4-8kg) (you can find these in bulk boxes somewhere on the net) and I still have 4 boxes of crawlers (6-11kg) in my cupboard

Cloth - come and have a look at The Nappy Bucket (hehe - see my sig) really though there are so many gorgeous nappies and you can just start out with your ordinary flats or prefolds and slowly get more. I started out with 24 terry squares and now have a whole stash of differnt types of modern cloth which I love. Don't have the poo blowouts that we had with disposables and no nappy rash either which is great.

Have fun deciding