My baby girl has mostly worn these since birth due to the fabulous price and that we wanted her umbilical cord to be able to dry out quickly and not be aggravated when it did come off. The nappies are so soft and those times you forget to apply the cream, don't upset the baby at all. Yes, they can leak sometimes, but so too have the others that we have tried her in. Even if they were more absorbent as other reviewers suggest they should be, my serial-nighttime-pooper always cries within a few minutes of leaving a "gift" to have her nappy changed anyway.
On the down side, they did start leaking at night when her weight reached 4kg, but before then we loved them - certainly more than store brands which had to be changed every hour due to not being as absorbent.