Sorry about that!  We went out of town and things were crazy and then I got lazy and… well, you know how it goes.  Right now I’m in a foggy haze of sippy cups, diaper laundry and sleep schedules.  And I stopped to wonder when it was the last time I posted over here.  And… yeah.  It was November 5.  OOPS.

We spent a long weekend at the grandparent’s house and I decided at the last minute against taking my goodmama diapers with me.  I wasn’t sure when I’d be washing diapers down there and since Evie’s poops are starting to get more interesting, I didn’t want to be too far from a diaper sprayer (since I am NOT the sort to drunk and swirl in the toilet).  And my goodmamas, well, they’re sorta like my babies.  I love them so.  I don’t want them to get stained.  So they stayed home and I found I missed them terribly while I was away.  Does that sound strange to anyone else?

I finally got some Ecover at Whole Foods a few weeks ago and I am LOVING it.  In fact, I have to force myself not to use it every single wash!  It works wonderfully.  I’m considering getting a little Bac-Out this next month to have on hand and use once in a while.  We haven’t had much trouble with diaper stink, but I think it couldn’t hurt to treat the inserts and such from time to time.  Hey, anything to make washing diapers more exciting, right?

I’m pretty close to temporary stash nirvana here.  It’s a wonderful feeling.  I still need to sell the medium prefitteds I have, but was never able to find anyone on Diaper Swappers FSOT boards who was interested.  Maybe I need to ask a lower price.  I’d like them to go to a new home rather than get sucked uselessness on my changing table shelves.  Eventually, I’ll need to size up our diaper covers too as they are all mediums.  Hey, is anyone out there interested in medium prefitteds?  They’re fabulous, I can guarantee you that!  Heh.

It’s a little sad, though, to be at such a stable stash size.  I love getting new things, I have to admit, and finding new and more awesome deals (have you see the goodmama sale yet??).  But for now, there just isn’t much of anything we NEED.  Though if bumgenius ever comes out with snapping diapers rather than velcro, well, then all bets are off.  Because that would make them pretty much the BEST DIAPER EVER.  And I would have to have one or two or twelve.  You hear me, Cotton Babies?

So what’s new with you all?  Anyone have any cloth diapering questions that I can answer for the class?  Have you discovered any awesome new diapers lately?  Share, share!

Tags: Bac Out, bumGenius, Ecover, Goodmama, laundry, sale, shopping, stash

I didn’t consider using cloth because I had a strong conviction about all the diapers in the landfill, nor because I thought that the possible health consequences of disposables, but because my neighbor (we had just become friends) used them, and I wanted her to like me.  Truthfully, right around that time, I was starting to be interested in being environmentally conscious, but the deciding factor wasn’t that - it was that L and I would have just a little more in common.

My husband is a rather frugal guy.  He’s starting to wear off on me, and I’m starting to be able to admit that I will try anything for about two weeks… but I will usually quit after that amount of time.  So when I said that I wanted to try cloth diapering, he pretty much told me that it wasn’t going to happen.  He thought that we would spend a lot of money, and I would quit far before we got our money’s worth.  We had an agreement - L would lend me 6 Indian Cotton prefolds, and I would buy 2 covers and 6 fleece liners.  We spent as much on the covers and fleece (and shipping!  Oy vey!) as we would have spent on a box of diapers so we had to cloth diaper as long as that box would have lasted - one month.  And by we, I mean me, because lets face it - Rob is NOT a fan of prefolds.

So we started with my itty bitty stash.  It grew quite quickly, considering that was back in April.  Two months later, we have a considerable stash going on.  We still use the 6 prefolds (most of them have been embellished by me now), 4 covers, 5 pocket diapers, 1 AIO, 3 fitted diapers, and 1 fleece soaker.  I also have 3 more fitted diapers on the way to me, and we’re now branching out into cloth wipes!

My friendship with L has grown quite a bit as well.  It’s not all about the diapers for us, but being able to identify with each other with the highs and lows of cloth is definitely a plus.

Tags: covers, prefolds, starting out, stash