Being a new mommy

One of the things that you learn quickly once you become pregnant is that everyone has an opinion....about your pregnancy, about your body, breast or bottle, cloth or disposable...All advice can be taken or left.  You don't need to explain your decisions as a parent and lets be honest, most people who are already parents or have a few years of experience should remember what it was like to have unsolicited advice shoved at them every 5 minutes....but that is neither here nor there.

A friend of mine (who's advice I take 99.9% of the time) sent me a great article on things your crying baby wants you to know.  It's a good read and worth the time. I can guarantee you won't spoil a new baby by picking them up when they cry, or by loving on them!

Oh cloth diapers...

When we I decided to use cloth diapers there were a lot of naysayers.  It's gonna cost us in water/detergent/time etc.  Well yeah stuffing pockets is a time suck, as is the actual laundering of said fluff.  But after a few months in cloth I noticed that our water bill has only gone up  an average of $4 for a month.

Life after baby

Wow, time has flown by!  It seems like yesterday that I was posting about being pregnant, and then she was here!  It's hard to believe my little baby is almost 2 months old already!

My Sleeping Beauty

Looking back I can see how much my life has changed...for the better...or worse!

Hard water & a Dr's visit

Part of cloth diapering, is knowing how to correctly wash the diapers, the other part is knowing how to put them on which is I think is simpler than the washing part.  I posted my wash routine back in December (read that post here). When I got this routine last month I didn't know my water hardness level so today we went out and bought a water testing kit.  Besides the hardness level we needed to check the pH and if there was any iron in the water.  Iron in the water doesn't sound like a big deal.  But if you use bleach to disinfect the inserts and covers it can/will turn whites a shade of orange when if you have iron in the water.  Which is not what bleach is supposed to do...whites whiter and all..

Water test

More about cloth diapers

I want to start out and say....man pocket diapers are addicting!!! I mean Guppy isn't even here yet and I want to buy ALL THE POCKETS!!!  I have had to reign myself in and be content just putting some pockets and other cloth diapering supplies on my registry.  I have come across some excellent deals that I just couldn't pass up....Because these pockets and inserts are pre-loved I need to make sure they are clean and ready for Guppy when she gets here in April.  Fortunately for a newbie like me I have the Fluff Love group on facebook!  There are two steps in getting the pre-loved diapers ready for a new little bottom!  I want to point out that if you know and trust the person you are getting your diapers from you don't have to strip them, you can just bleach and then wash.

A cloth adventure!

I'm always up for a new adventure!  Life is more fun that way!  So today while perusing Facebook I came across a post in one of the Swaps for cloth diapers and inserts.  It got me thinking.  Why not?  If it saves us money, and saves the environment...why not try it!  So after some discussion with the hubbs we decided to go for it!

The start of my stash