To Cloth Diaper or not to Cloth Diaper?

So baby #2 will be joining us in just about 4 months. I'm going back and forth on cloth diapering. We didn't do cloth with Santi because basically we were first time parents and it was intimidating. Disposable just seemed so much easier. It was what was "popular" and seemed to be what I knew. When I thought of cloth diapering, I thought of messy (especially with those little newborn messy poops), I thought of old school diaper pins and diaper covers. I thought it would be hard.

And then I saw some of the "new" cloth diapers. The pre-folds, the all in ones. The snaps which adjust to growing babies. It seemed easier. But by the time I discovered them, I'd also discovered the price. And despite the overall savings, selling diapers at $15 each to my husband when I just had stopped working, wasn't possible. For some reason, he convinced me that disposable diapers would be easier and somehow cost less in the long run. I think he was mostly afraid of the mess and having to wash them in the washer. What he didn't realize was that I was the one who was going to be doing that laundry since I'm home all day with the kids.

And then I discovered this link, to Hugga Buns on Maine Cloth Diaper. I actually own one Hugga Buns diaper and used it on Santi once when he was napping and it was a colossal fail as he peed through the whole thing. But I loved the idea of the diaper and they were cheaper than the FuzziBuns and other diapers I'd seen out there at about $10 a pop. Well on this site, they are currently listed for $5.50 each!  So I'm toying with the idea of getting some. Someone told me that you should really have about 20 diapers to start with and then add more over time. It's a little investment (if I got them at the sale price it'd be about  $110 but that's a lot better than the $300 I'd be spending on FuzziBuns or the other $15 each diapers.) But I'm still wavering.

So I made a list of pros and cons for cloth vs. disposable:

Cloth Cons:
1. Cost - Initial cost up front, but over time they pay for themselves.
2. Mess - Having to clean up something that I can't just throw away is a little icky, especially the early, breastfed baby poops
3. Skin reaction? - I've read some blogs and articles where some kids have interactions with the fabrics and it gives them rashes and other issues so they have to go to disposables anyway.
4. Will they really work? If not, am I stuck with a bunch of diapers I can't use and have to resell somewhere?
5. More laundry?

Cloth Pros:
1. Good for the environment - not having diapers in a landfill is a nice feeling
2. Cost less in the long run - enough said
3. Cute - yes, I'm a sucker for the colors!
4. Ease of use with the new diapers - just as easy as disposable, aside from having an extra "part" (the insert) to wash
5. No need for a Diaper Genie (i.e. stinky poopy diapers) in the room, although we'll need to get a diaper pail. But nothing stinks up Santi's room more than his Diaper Genie, even after bleaching it it still smells after awhile.
6. Being fiscally and environmentally responsible

Disposable Cons:
1. Diapers in a landfill = not good
2. Cost - we pay about $17 a pack for regular diapers and $20 a pack for overnights right now about once a month. When the baby is little it's almost twice a month because they use so many more
3. Smelly diapers in the Diaper Genie

Disposable Pros:
1. Ease of use and you can get them anywhere - we travel a lot, so we'd probably still use disposables for the travel portion of our trips, and then switch to cloth if we have access to clean them (like if we're staying with family and can do laundry while visiting.)
2. Ease of disposal - toss them into a little bag and then into the trash...no need to carry a stinky, poopy diaper with you in the diaper bag when you're out and about.

So I think we're going to bite the bullet and buy some and see how it goes. Once we find out what we're having for a baby (next Tuesday!) it will make it easier to buy the diapers since some of the colors are truly more "girly" than others, and I don't want to put a little boy in a lavender diaper! I think, just like anything with parenthood, once we get used to it, we will be wondering why we hadn't used them with Santi all along.  We'll be sticking with disposable for Santi though as my hope is to have him potty trained by the time he's 2. (More on this later, but this photo should illustrate what we've just started here in our household):

So what about you? Do you cloth diaper or not? What are your reasons for going one way or another? Have you switched with one child to the next?