Now for the Babies

For anyone that has a child or has been around people and their babies you know there is an endless supply of poop, diapers, feeding and sleep talk. Now for me I was like oh I’m not going to be one of “those” moms. Well let me tell you, whether it’s the sleep deprivation or the fact that this child stole any brain cells I may have had left, I’m not sure but some of my best days are when her bio-liner catches the poop and I do not have to spray off her diaper.

Yes, we decided to go the cloth diaper route and I am so glad we did. There is a bit of an upfront cost, but then once you have your stash that is all you need.  That is if you can control yourself when it comes to the cutest diaper patterns ever.There’s so many fun options it starts to become a bit of an obsession!

If you use disposables the average cost is about $4000.00 for the entire time your child is in diapers. The average cost for cloth diapering is around $2000.00. Personally we haven’t even hit the $1000.00 mark yet and have 30 diapers which gives us at least 2 days before having to wash which is pretty good.

If you are like me the thought of cloth diapering was very overwhelming. All the different brands and types, I am just now figuring out what a pre-fold, flip and pocket are. To make our lives a bit easier we went to a local business that offered a cloth diapering workshop to help explain all options and styles. In our house the 2 main favorites are Freetimes, which are as about as easy as a disposable and Tots Bots which require a bit of prep but still very easy and have velcro, which I thought was going to be super until she learned how to undo them!

 Now if you are planning on cloth I highly recommend a diaper sprayer, this is a handy little sprayer that attaches to the side of your toilet that makes the cleanup WAAY easier. If you’re breastfeeding you don’t need to spray your diapers until you start solids, however if you are formula feeding you will need that bad boy from the get go because having to swish a poopy diaper in the toilet will ruin anyone’s day!

Overall it’s really not that much additional work vs. disposables, especially once you get the hang of it. Another awesome benefit cloth diapering has over disposables is you don’t need to store dozens of used stinky diapers in the garbage waiting for the next garbage day! I’ve heard a number of my fellow moms complaining about that hassle.

Resources:

http://www.nurtured.ca/

http://www.fluffybottombabies.ca/

http://well.ca/  this is an amazing website for everything and always has great deals!

http://www.theluvyourbaby.com/

Also check out your local facebook groups for Co-ops and Local Moms making diapers.