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Friday, August 31, 2012

They're here! They're here!

My Imagine SmartFit Bamboo Prefolds and Flip Covers (along with a Plan Toys Rolling Clapper for my son) came in the mail today.

Let me tell you: I have been counting down the days.

An example of a good mail day. No bills & lots of fluffy stuff!

We kept my son in disposables for the first three weeks of his life - until the umbilical area had fully healed and I felt brave enough to venture into yet another new territory in addition to motherhood.

Enter: cloth diapers.
 
I knew long before I found out I was pregnant that I wanted to cloth diaper. Financial and environmental benefits aside, it was the simplicity of cloth diapering that really struck a chord with me.

Put on baby, take off baby. Wash. Repeat.
No lugging a million count pack of diapers in an already full cart.
Yes, I'm that kind of person.

But I never knew just how many options there were in cloth diapering and how big of community existed until recently. People from all over the country bond online via message boards such as Diaper Swappers (a site I highly recommend!) over battling stink issues, debate over putting PUL covers in the dryer vs line dry, pocket diapers or AIOs.

There are acronyms, for goodness sake! 

So while there remains simplicity in the cloth system itself, there is so much more (or can be) to cloth diapering than what I originally thought. I'm beginning to see that this where the real fun begins. :)

A review of these awesome to feel (and they aren't even prepped yet!) bamboo prefolds and Flip covers will be coming next week. Stay tuned and have a safe Labor Day weekend!



Wednesday, August 29, 2012

All The Colors

Today is cloth diaper wash day. 

Mundane, I know...especially when it's the first post of a blog, when introductions are in order, etc. I mean, it's the honeymoon period. Things should be fresh and new. 

Shoulda-coulda-woulda.

I hear the beginnings of a meltdown from my 3-month-old son who just woke up from a rare nap, the dog is slapping her paws on the back door demanding to be let in (Thanks, dog, for waking the child 10 minutes into the nap.), and the only thing I can firmly say I've accomplished today is the laundry.

 So this will have to do. For now. 
The first drip dry rack of Charlie Bananas.