Cloth!

Have a mentioned to you that I love my cloth diapers? No? You must not have had me over for a playdate this month.

I do, I love them. I love them so much, I just grabbed the button for Green Baby Elephant, which is where I bought my diapers! Tonya is a great Tucson gal, and had the best prices I found anywhere online! She even came to my house to show me all the products she carries. Talk about awesome.

So I am old fashioned, I went with simple prefolds, but not the kinds our mothers used. They are hemp... so they are very thirsty! They soak up pee like no other. I am also old fashioned because I wanted all my cloth diapers to be the same. Lots of CD mamas have like one of every brand... but I didn't need to do that, because when I saw these prefolds, I knew they were the diaper for me... well for Spencer! I use Thirsties brand hemp prefolds with Flip brand covers.

It's gross you say? Obviously you haven't tried it yet! No I don't stick my hands in the toilet... I have a diaper sprayer. But they get stained and gross. No again. Hang dry them in the sun, and let them bleach out, and bonus all the germies get killed t0o. Well, it's gross to tote the dirty diaper in your diaper bag when you are out and about. Nope. I have a "wet bag", and it conceals the smell, and it also doubles as a spot for Lyla's wet clothes because of pee accidents, or jumping in friends pools before taking her clothes off. No more carrying around grocery bags!

Softer than paper on my baby's precious bum. Good for the environment. Cuter than disposables by far!! Budget friendly.

People have asked me what my investment was totally. The switch cost me $350. And that was everything! Sprayer, 26 diapers, 12 covers, 2 big wet bags, 1 small wet bag, 12 cloth wipes, and enough detergent to do 90 loads of diapers... which will last me 1/2 the year! And I no longer need to buy diapers or wipes for any of my children... ever again. And diapering a child from birth to 2.5 is around $2,000 ... so the research says.

Wait, before I end, can I also rave about my cloth wipes? Wierd I know. I originally thought I wanted to stick with disposable wipes... but then I was picking the used poopy wipes out the the dirty diaper before I tossed it in the wet bag, and they had to go in the trash... and they aren't folded in a disposable diaper. So my house smelled rank! Well I tried cloth wipes, and I love them too!!! I fold them so they pop out of an old wipe container (Tonya at Green Baby Elephant taught me how). One wipe cleans poopy bums, they are so soft, and they smell great, and they go in the wet bag with the dipes. I make my wipe solution with 2 cups boiled water, 1tbs. baby wash, 1tbs olive oil, 5 drops grapefruit seed extract. The extract makes it antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, and what not. I pour like 1/2 cup of solution over my wipes in the wipe container, and am good to go for a few days. I use the wipes for everything! Even Lyla and Spencer's faces.

I am suprised to admit, but I love cloth diapering, and I am also suprised it takes no more time or effort than regular disposable diapering. The "unknown" was the hardest part to deal with! But it passed quickly!