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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Cloth Diaper Experience Concludes!

Wow! February flew by, and in addition to the new fluffy fun I've discovered, I'm thrilled to complete my first event here -- thank you so much for helping to make it successful! I met some new friends and was also introduced to great businesses with excellent products and production methods.

So where am I at in my Cloth Diaper Experience?!? I detailed how I came from the world of disposables into my fair-weather cloth diaper stage, and now, after making more purchases, I'm pretty much 100% into the fluff -- I still use disposables when we send the little one to the nursery, until I can get a feel of how the staff would react to cloth!

Many moms have their favorites, but I really do like most of the ones I've tried! I really like my FuzziBunz, Knickernappies, Monkey Toe, Thirsties, and Mother-ease diapers that I reviewed. I've also spent quite some time and money at Diaper Swappers (by the way, this is a great place to frugally try various brands and also sell when you're ready to de-stash. I also realized a lot of moms on there were using their 20% off or $10 off Amazon codes to get an excellent deal on cloth diapers!) to find that I also like the Blueberries and Bum Genius -- I still have a few more to wash and try, including fitteds! I bought a Flip because I loved the concept, but that's my least favorite right now -- little one soaks it up quickly!

And our final winners!

Super Skivvies Winner

Michelle_B

Wahmies Wet Bag Winner

Tandy and Jeff

And **Updated*** the Knickernappies winner

lisad33611

Sunday, February 27, 2011

My Cloth Diaper Experience -- Part 2

My Cloth Diaper Experience is coming to an end, but my cloth journey is just beginning! My first cloth diaper was a Fuzzibunz Perfect Fit, and I think that it can persuade anyone to try cloth. From that point, I was intrigued and you can read more of my initial cloth diapering thoughts.

For the past 2 weeks, I've been mulling over what would go into this post, and up until that time, I was the Fair-Weather-Cloth-Diaperer because I hated dealing with poop! So I (close your eyes, those of you who are devout cloth mommies) would put a disposable on my little one at night because most of the times, she'd do her business in her early waking moments, and if she didn't take care of business then, I'd keep her in disposables until she went! Slowly I got more and more brave; she made an extra special christening in a couple of diapers, and I managed to deal with the poop. Amazing how poop seemed to roll of suede and sometimes fleece. So I decided to jump in 100% and go full throttle into cloth --- and she decided to go full throttle in return, when one morning, I had a loaded diaper full of pee and poop in my dear Fuzzibunz, and we had plans that morning! Yuck. I was extremely inefficient, trying to figure out how to get the poop off without touching it. It was massive. . . and smelled massive. . .how could I go on with this?!?

You'll find out in a couple of days! In the meantime, make sure you've entered to join in my very first event! Share about the event and cloth diapering!

Saturday, January 29, 2011

I wish I'd known...Cloth Diapers!

When I was pregnant, I debated about whether to use disposable or cloth diapers and asked around for different opinions. Most everyone I knew used or uses disposables because it's plain convenient -- disposables are frequently advertised on tv and can be purchased at the grocery store, drug store, and online with so many coupons available for use! And the ones that had any experience with cloth discouraged me from it because they said it was troublesome and about the same cost as disposables. Unfortunately, I had no friends with recent experience with cloth diapers -- because now cloth is more simple and efficient than years past, and I didn't know about the wealth of information in the blogosphere from veteran moms!

I happily used disposables for several months, only recently reconsidering the debate again when our beloved FuzziBunz Perfect Fit moved into our home. I was so surprised at the ease of use and how my daughter didn't seem to notice a difference -- it never leaked, no matter how wet or stinky it got! And cleaning it wasn't much of an issue as I was able to rinse it out (since I don't have a diaper sprayer) and throw it into the wash; I was so impressed when it came out of the wash looking brand new again! I rested a bit more comfortably knowing that her diapered areas got a break from all the processed material of a disposable too.

So many people tout about its cost effectiveness, but I never sat down to figure it out. . . until today. In my estimation, purchasing 20 cloth diapers at $18, doing laundry every other day, would be a total of $360. I normally purchase my disposables for around $6 a Jumbo pack which lasts about a week, now that my daughter's older. Attempting to factor in the lower amount of diaper changes as babies grow, I think cloth diapers would pay for themselves in one year. For a lot more investment upfront and a little more investment in cleaning and washing off poop, that's a good investment even if you had one child, and a great investment if you have more than one child!

As I did more investigating, I was blown away with the many companies and their many types of cloth diapers and decided to request samples. As it turns out, many of these businesses have also allowed me to present giveaways here! So coming soon (maybe even next week) will be my series of my Cloth Diapering Experience, with a Mother-Ease system, Thirsties Duo, Knickernappies, and Super Skivvies for you!

Please help me spread my excitement of this event by posting this event button on your blog -- you'll also earn extra entries by ! (I'm also excited that after a few hours, I learned how to create the button myself!)