I realized last week that Camden needed a new nighttime cloth diaper system. No big surprise, he’s 3 months old and everything seems to change at that mark. Up to this point we have been using a Bum Genius AIO (discontinued but you can still snag some here and there) stuffed with either 2 Hemp [...]
April 8, 2011
Oh no, I’ve become my mother!
by Tara Dukaczewicz The decision to cloth diaper was such a natural one for me. It started long ago when I was just a child with a baby brother. My mother has always been so environmentally conscious, today she would have definitely been called “crunchy” back then she was called weird. She was the mother [...]
April 5, 2011
Only Hippies With Hairy Armpits Use Cloth Diapers
How I Was Introduced To Fluff by Anna Wixom When I became pregnant with my son a year ago I started researching everything…….except cloth diapers. If someone would have told me last year I would be using cloth diapers I would have told them to go take their hairy armpits on a hike. Other than [...]
April 1, 2011
Change 3 Things Pushes Cyndie to Cloth Diaper
My cloth diapering story began not too long ago-kinda. It was kind of a perfect storm of events that got us going on cloth diapers. In September, I found out my husband and I were going to have another baby. It was a shock and we had been planning on waiting until he had a [...]
March 29, 2011
Kelly’s Cloth Diaper Story Became a Project
I’ll tell you in one word why I started cloth diapering my (now 9 year old) daughter. Money. We were broke. We were so broke we couldn’t afford to order diaper wraps or even the good prefolds online because that required a) money and b) a debit or credit card, which we didn’t have. I [...]
March 25, 2011
Why I Cloth Diaper by Britanie
Why I Cloth Diaper by Britanie Myers Before I became a mom I never thought I would have a passion for diapers. The thought had never even crossed my mind but it has been nearly 9 months since my son was born and I am in LOVE with cloth diapers. I started doing some research [...]
March 24, 2011
I Chose Five Winners! Did you win?
Infertility, poverty, adoption, bleeding rashes, stubbornness, Earth lovers, haters of waste…these are the themes running through the 65 cloth diaper stories you sent me. You poured your heart out in these stories. I could feel the heartbreak of years of trying to conceive, the agony of watching you baby suffer through months of persistent rashes [...]
March 20, 2011
Should You Shop at Franklin Goose?
Franklin Goose is a newer company (launched in 2010, I believe). In the beginning they seemed to do all the right things to get their name out and bring in customers. In the end (or what very well seems like their end) they’ve done all the wrong things. Cheating customers, “stealing” money and playing the [...]
March 18, 2011
Your Cloth Diaper Stories Inspire Me!
You guys are amazing! Things have been crazy around my house this week… First, Sterling began potty training. Unexpectedly, which left me feeling a little overwhelmed by his “bigness”. Day one went as you might expect, a few successes and a few messes. Day two was going awesome and then the stomach bug hit him. [...]
March 14, 2011
Tell Me Your Cloth Diaper Story
Thank you for all your submissions!! I have read through most of them but still have 14 left to go (there were 65 entries!). I will announce the winners in the next couple of days! You’ve read my story: Why Choose Cloth Diapers: Health Reasons, Why I Blog About Cloth Diapers and 3 Reasons Why [...]
April 11, 2011
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