So we’ve officially made it one month using cloth diapers. How’s it going you ask? They are fabulous. Perhaps we just had a bad experience with a certain named brand disposable (HUGGIES) but before cloth we experienced some kind of leak (pee or poo) once a day (on average – more with Huggies – less with Pampers) – we tried all sorts of things – making it tighter, less tight, pointing certain things down (if you catch my drift) -still B and I routinely got wet. It definitely wasn’t fun. You sit there holding your adorable baby wondering if you are having a weird hot flash all of a sudden…nope…you just got peed on. Since starting cloth diapers we’ve only had maybe 4 leaks – and half was because he was a bit small for them in the beginning – the other half user error. I’ve also noticed that we haven’t had any rashes…yes I know at 8 weeks he’s a bit young for rashes – but in those first two weeks of using disposables I will admit that during that middle of the night feeding he didn’t always get his diaper changed – the choices are change it before feeding him and listen to him scream because he is hungry (which is not an option since Daddy has to get up to go to work at 4:30 so we try to be quiet) or change him after he’s eaten which in the middle of the night normally means that you are gonna wake him up. Now idk about you but at 1 a.m. I normally choose letting him sleep over changing his diaper. So I noticed during those two weeks his bum getting a little redder than normal 😦 which definitely made me feel awful for choosing sleep. Well since switching to the cloth we haven’t seen any red on the bum and he is normally in the same diaper from 10pm-5am because I still don’t want to wake him up after our 1 a.m. feeding. Our stash is made up of BumGenius 4.0s. They are a pocket style diaper which just means there is an insert you put in it – this cuts down on drying time and allows you to customize absorbency. Fancy Shmancy! We like the ones with snaps because they don’t collect stuff like velcro does (by stuff I mean dog hair – ick) So you take the diaper off – and put it in the diaper pail – which is lined with a pail liner (or wet bag) – from here you just throw it all in the washer – once he starts eating real food – things get more complicated. But for now you just do one wash on warm – another on hot – and an extra rinse – and all done! Well ya gotta dry them and stuff them – then all done!
Here are the diapers ready to go (for some reason all the blue ones got used in one day (I have two of almostevery color 🙂 ) The diaper changing caddy holds my cloth wipes (cheap washcloths in a disposable wipe container with a mixture of water, baby oil, and baby soap), coconut oil for rashes, and hand sanitizer. The scissors are to remind me to take the labels off of his toys 🙂 The diapers hanging to dry – the top right is one of the pail liners drying. It’s super water proof so really the water is just dripping off of it 🙂 – and the bottom left are two baby wet bags for my diaper bag. They are pretty small but still can hold about 8 diapers each as I found out on my trip to Cville this weekend. The diapers are cute enough to wear without clothes 🙂 – but seriously who does love a naked baby. This weekend we went to visit a friend for her birthday and LB ended up in only his diaper at one point. We got so many compliments on them 🙂 – guess it’s nice to have pretty underwear.
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