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I do the fold down the middle, stretch them out to "activate" the leak guards.  I'm seeing some ideas here I might have to try, especially use of deodorant(?) at the waistband.

I fold them right down the middle.  It helps with getting the fit just right IMO.  Whenever I open a new bag of diapers, I always take one out to give the others a little bit of space in there to decompress naturally.  

He doesn't quite realize it yet. But post milk he let the grown ups talk and didn't interrupt much. He even got comfy against her chest and tuned them out several times, since she's become his comfort zone. (I think some of us could enjoy being held cradled by a giant and allowed to just sort of tune out the world at will)

I do the "hotdog bun" fold up the middle of them, so that they tend to form a concavity, or "V" when they're on, rather than a "W", and I generally anoint them with a swab of Secret baby powder-scented deodorant, at the waistband, as well as a shake of baby powder. I don't fluff them up, per se, because I'm generally trying to suppress visual bulk, rather than enhancing it, at least for what I'm wearing during the day. Diaper cream is also an integral part of the operation - I use it 100% of the time. 

With the holidays, and my travel schedule, I hadn't re-upped the contents of my diaper drawer, which were dwindling down to next to nothing, when I waddled into the house at about the dinner hour. I had to change - I was almost shamefully wet, although I hadn't had a loss of containment yet. But I didn't want to sit down at the table with the family, and then suddenly develop a panicked look in my eyes, and have to say, "I have to go to the washroom...", or "I have to go change...", or whatever I would have said, because they'd have suspected what was going on. I was also worried about olfactory notes that I had become desensitized to, but those concerns were allayed, when I blew the hatch on that desperately overweight Mermaid's Tale. Fresh as a spring daisy wouldn't be accurate, but neither would Dank as a summer casket. This high-end disposable did what they usually do, and severely curtailed the process that turn fresh, close-to-sterile wee, into Satan's oven cleaner.  Which brings me to what I did after that... rather than going to the basement, and restocking, or putting on an ATN that would have lasted 3 hours without careful operation, I put on a cloth diaper, an Omutsu, with a folded birdseye cotton baby diaper in it, and then I went on with my evening. It was moderately damp, when I went to bed, and when I woke up this morning, it had done that wicking thing that cloth diapers are so good at, and was damp everywhere, but didn't feel like it was anywhere near the cusp of failure, despite my having been in it for ~14 hours at the point where I'd planned to take it off, in order to conduct nature's operation #2 on the potty - I was not about to do that in a cloth diaper. My hat is off to those of you that do, but that's an order of magnitude more labour than I want to put into something that I do at least twice a day.  I'd thought that I could probably put the Omutsu back on, and maybe wear it for the morning shift in my office; we've had a foot of snow overnight, and I am definitely not going anywhere, or expecting any visitors, this morning. But when I blew the hatch, I became concerned about the dermatological ramifications of putting that soggy equipment back into the game - the eau de diaper was eyewatering. I rinsed it out in the shower, bagged it, and I'll contend with disposing of the body later - into a BeDry Night, I went. As to if I'll still be in this BeDry at night, we'll see - in my experience, this will carry me from 8 AM to bedtime; the question will be, if it's wise to go to bed in a diaper with, at that point, 16 hours on the odometer. Probably not. But it will still smell better than the Omutsu.  If I want to seriously integrate cloth back into my routine, something which I vaguely committed to quite a while back, but then immediately reneged on, I'd need to come up with some kind of bucket solution, an actual diaper pail, with water and vinegar, or maybe formic acid in it, so that I don't have to do laundry immediately, when I take one off. I have bucket technology available, and lids, so I could do this. I know I've mused about this before, and some of you have made suggestions, but it would take me a while to search back through the 100 pages I've filled with my drivel... remind me, if you're reading this, and have a suggestion, what you experienced cloth diaper pilots put into your pails, to keep the phantoms locked within?