How much did you actually use small cloth bibs?

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Before DD was born I stocked up on cloth bibs because they seemed like an important baby kind of thing. In actual fact she wasn't a dribbly baby and they were absolutely no match for BLW (turned to long sleeve + pelican bib combo instead) so barely used them.

Now in the process of getting things organised for the (hopefully) imminent arrival of DS and wondering whether it's worth hanging on to them or ditching them. Did anyone actually find them unbelievably useful? Are they just good if you have a dribbly baby?

never used them for dd1 an2, ds wears one a lot used to be for reflux, now drool, we have loads!

For the first 6 months or so, they were a godsend. DD was very sicky and the bibs would be sodden in minutes. I would have between 20 and 30 in a wash at a time. Once she got bigger and moved on to solids, I used muslins but those bibs were utilised in the extreme at the beginning. Worth hanging on to until you know whether your baby can keep her milk down!

I didn't really have a dribbly baby, but had a very sicky one and there's no way those bibs would have dealt with it, I just always used to have a muslin to hand.

Never. Like you, we used long-sleeved/pelican combo for meals. And muslins in the early days for drippy BFing.

But DS didn't dribble or throw up much.