I honestly don't remember how I happened upon the
modern fabric diapers of today. I am assuming Ebay. My husband was in the army
at the time, our son was just shy of being one year old and somehow cloth just
popped up. I instantly fell in love with the awesome selection, wide range of
prices, and all the money we could save on not buying diapers. Unfortunately I
didn't know what I was doing and had not entered the world of Facebook which
has hundreds of cloth diapering sites, and how to do this and that. They were
being washed improperly, dried on high heat, and overstuffed because my son is
a heavy wetter. I swear he has a bigger bladder than me by far! So luckily I paid
a very low price on them because I ended up having residue build up all over
them, and the water proof lining peeled, cracked, and came off. Those problems
did not deter me from cloth it was that my son was a very heavy wetter and
constantly drenched his diapers. If I had known about bamboo, hemp, and
stripping your diapers on top of using the correct detergent life with cloth
would have lasted longer the first time around. We tried Gdiapers but he soaked
those up faster than I could get them on. What went wrong, we used non diaper
service quality prefolds (Gerber is awful), we used a detergent with ALL the
wrong ingredients, and if I had known about the entire community cloth diapering
mom's on Facebook there would have been no problem. I don't intend this passage
to deter you from cloth I am just letting you know of my own trials and
revelations in hopes that you will understand that every problem has a solution
if only you have the means to answer them!
We took his first birthday pictures in a cloth diaper, baby blue color.
Love for cloth was so strong the bumps in the road had no hold on whether or
not I wanted to c.d. our little man.
When baby
number two came along I was quick to jump on Craigslist to find more cloth
diapers since I wore out the ones our oldest had. We found some but our living
situation didn't permit us to wash them properly so we had to go back to disposables
until we moved much to my despair. It wasn't until our second child turned two
that I rediscovered cloth diapers and have just recently completed our stash
for him. This time around I am very happy to say, we use Rockin Green
detergent, and pocket diapers from JustSimplyBaby. No more problems at all, one
leak because I didn't get up early enough to change his diaper. Oops! Sorry
little man!
So there you
have it my confession. Whether you use disposable or cloth it's a messy
business, filled with ups and downs, but at least cloth pays for itself sposies
has nothing on that argument!
Please know we did work out all the kinks with baby
number two and I discovered Portable Clothes Washing Machines that hook to your
sink and an outlet just like Portable Dishwashers. We bought ours second hand
and it’s a life saver for those of us in apartments. Be sure to look for the
post I will be doing about our mighty mini washer!
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