Adventures in Cloth Diapering

We got the Washer/Dryer installed Thursday. We were out of town Friday/Saturday. (got the diapers Friday).

So I had him in cloth diapers for the first time today.

1st diaper (not 15 minutes after putting it on): single turd. No problem. Flick it into the toilet. On we go.

2nd diaper: 1 large, smooshed turd. Doesn't flick so well. Leaves part of it behind on the diaper. Have to actually get my hands in the stuff. Yuck

3rd diaper: Diaper explosion. Can you believe we have RARELY had a diaper explosion in disposables? And yet our third cloth diaper not only has a explosion, gets it all over the clothes, but ALSO on the carpet! Yuck.

Obed is in disposables right now.

Anyone else experienced this? Just bad luck? Or could it be that the cloth diapers are stimulating waste production?