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I CD both my girls, and Jo is now 4 years old. With her, I used a diaper service. OH MY GOSH. You're telling me that I could have investing in goodmamas, or bumgenious and then I wouldn't have had to buy any for Vi? *Smacks forehead several times.*
You see, I'm afraid of poop. Well, not just poop, but most bodily fluids. Throw up, spit, blood, you name it, it pretty much grosses me out. I mean it. If a toilet is about to overflow, I run and hide. I didn't even change my first diaper until after Jo was 5 weeks old. (Yeah, my hubby IS that great.)
But, if I would have know how E A S Y it is to wash cloth diapers, I could have saved hundreds of dollars on new diapers for #2. I hung on to the diaper covers, and they are still in great shape. And I washed those. Seriously, what was I thinking?
I was thinking: I can't do this. No one has time to wash cloth diapers. I don't have the room to store them. I don't know what I'm doing.
Ha! Now I have two kids, and it's really easy to have Vi in cloth. It's even easier than a service. Besides, I get to pick out the cutest diapers for her and I get to use them again and again. (And they don't feel like they were baked by an industrial cleaning solution!)
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You know with my first I pretty much thought like that too. I thought the only way to do cloth was to use a diaper service and since that was the same price and I had read that the chemical a service uses to clean the diapers is as environmentally unfriendly as disposables I figured why bother? If I only knew.
ReplyDeleteI think the idea of having to wash poopy diapers was one of the main things that kept me from trying cloth diapers sooner, amazing how much easier it is than I ever thought it would be.
ReplyDeleteHaha! Great story. :) Some of my friends told me to go the diaper service route, but it never appealed to me. Your story is so upbeat and happy, and it makes me glad I didn't go there. :) And I love that cloth diapers can be good for the environment AND cost effective AND stinking ADORABLE!
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