to cloth diapering. Ernie seems willing, and for the past two days now we've been exclusively cloth-diapering him with eight Bum Genius pocket one-size diapers. They change Ernie's delicate figure from a sweetly tapered chest to bum, to a bit more straight to eggplantish, but they'll fit him until he's potty-trained. If you're browsing on-line cloth diapering, my second sentance would read "ECDing with 8 BG OS 2.0." I've basically had to learn a whole new language to even research where to begin with cloth.
We've even had to change a poopy dipe already. Well, Jeremy changed it but I washed it. Ernie doesn't go twosies everyday, but when he does you could feed a small family off it. It went fine so far!
I ordered some of the prefold diapers (these are like the traditional ones but more absorbant). We got Indian (as opposed to Chinese) prefolds, a snappie (which is a fancy tool to secure the diaper closed instead of using pins - as Jeremy can attest from our formal dances, I should not be pinning anything on anyone, much less a baby) and two Bummis whisper wrap covers. Jeremy is less enthusiastic about the prefolds. He looked at me like I just got off a spaceship when I showed him how they should be folded.
But his reaction to that is nothing compared to my news that we will also be transitioning to cloth wipes. I mean, with disposable wipes you have to keep a pile of trash next to your cloth for washing. With cloth wipes, they all go in the same bin. And you can keep them in a wipe container with homemade solution and just pull them out as needed. When I told him all this, he looked at me like I'd just sold Ally Cat.
But I'm excited. I don't know if its the thrill of buying things for Ernie online (we were so set from our baby showers that we really haven't had to buy him anything outside of disposable dipes and wipes yet) or just glad we'll be helping the environment and our pocketbooks at the same time. Wish us luck!
4 comments:
What about a rectangular piece of fabric says "pre-folded" to any of you? For the record these do not look as easy as velcro cloth diapers or disposables. Anyone who says differently is selling something (i.e., rectangular pieces of fabric). And I don't imagine that kids get easier to change after they're mobile but before they're old enough to listen to reason. My concern over cloth wipes is mainly the poop. There's a lot of poop there people which normally takes four to six disposable wipes. I have a hard time envisioning doing the job with one little cloth wipe but not getting everyone filthy in the process. This'll all work out fine I'm sure, we obviously won't be the first ones to try this. But I will always miss the simple days now gone of disposable wipes and diapers.
I wish you 3 the best of luck in your transistion to cloth. I like the idea myself so I'm happy to see that someone is doing it.
You are more adventurous and environmentally friendly than I...and I have to admit that cloth wipes never even crossed my mind as an option. Good luck and kudos, but I feel your pain Jeremy! :)
I think the disposible wipes should be on hand for true messy diapers. Jeremy needs a few perks in his life. MOM
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