Outside of being more "environmentally friendly", cloth diapers are really fantastic. The ones out these days are nothing like those of old. They have different types, the best being an adaptable one that your baby can wear from birth (albeit poorly fitting even with folding and using the corresponding buttons) to toilet training. Diapers can cost like 40 or 50 a month at minimum (for a nonshit brand), while the only costs for cloth are the initial investment (shells, inserts), water, and soap (and electric if you dry that way). At night, you simply wash the used diapers--keep poopy ones in a bag and when you can, use whatever sort of water jet (bidet, hose) to blast off the poop and poop stains-- and hang them to dry (or use machines). If you want to be careful with money and have the time, they work great for at least the first half year. Some will supplement with disposables (esp at night if disposable night inserts don't suffice) or use cloth only for certain stages (as with their lesser absorbency, there's more changes, and when your baby grows to be less compliant...)--but they are still modestly absorbent, just not too much so as to discourage leaving your infant in a pee diaper too long (as with many in ultra-absorbent disposables), avoiding early life urine infections. Never once needed rash cream! This actually plays into a really important part of potty training--going back to cloth diapers makes your tot more uncomfortable more quickly, encouraging them to figure out the toilet so they don't have to feel so pee-y.
Another advantage to them is the avoidance of branding. While huggies is superior (pampers has a weird smell and roughness imo), they use a lot of disney branding, which... infants bearing the mark of the mouse so early in life is a little unsettling, personally.
