K.M.
Hello! Since you are in the LA area .... look up Di Dee Diaper Service. We used cloth, but I wasn't convinced I wanted to clean them myself considering all the additional laundry that brought on top of the newborn laundry. We used the service and we loved it. My daughter never had diaper rash with the cloth diapers and they worked well. Cloth does require more frequent changing as the cloth can only hold so much pee, but ....
The service gave me a container, bags, and a scent disk which was replaced every few weeks. I put out the bag of dirty diapers one morning a week and magically a bag of clean ones appeared that day. Stark white, not smelling of bleach or chemicals, and feeling quite thick and soft. It cost us about 70.00 a month, which in many cases is cheaper than regular diapers. Let me know how it works out for you!