Cloth convert

As you may know Ive been cloth diapering now for 14 months (my son is 18 months.)  When I was pregnant my mother in law asked me if I planned on using cloth diapers (she used cloth for her kids) and I remember saying to my husband "WHY on earth would anyone choose to cloth diaper??!?!" I laugh looking back on that now. I get asked the same question all the time, or the more common one "What do you do with the poop?" well people what do you think I do with it? Keep it? No! Just in case you wondered when you breastfeed your baby and thats all they eat you dont really have to do anything with it, just throw it in the washer, some people prefer a diaper sprayer that you can hold your diaper over the toilet and spray the poop out, but its not really a necessity. When your baby gets to solid foods, their poop will become solid, so now I just dump it in the toilet, easy peasy! Also looking back I thought the only options were whats called prefolds (those diapers your great grandma used that look like a rag) and safety pins, and I thought how would anyone safety pin a diaper on a squirmy baby and what about all the leaks? Well now they have these awesome things called Snappis they are awesome and no poking your baby! And there are so many options now other then prefolds, they actually make diapers that look just like disposables. They are all pretty simple and will save you lots of money, not to mention they are really great for the earth (it takes one disposable diaper 400-500 years to decompose in a landfill, AND did you know the packaging from the company actually says you shouldnt be throwing the poo in the trash but should first flush it?! who would have thought!) If you ever want to know more about cloth diapering I will be more then happy to help you out, some of the terms and info can take a bit to get used to. I have a rather large stash of diapers that are all different and I plan on later on doing some reviews on diapers! Anyways around the time my son was about one or two months old I saw a friend post on her facebook that she had gotten enough cloth diapers for her son when he was born. This interested me. A girl my age using cloth? So I messaged her and asked for more info. I was now even more interested, saving money and the earth? How awesome is that! Not to mention these cloth diapers she showed me were adorable (and Im a sucker for anything cute!) So I found a store in Chattanooga that sold them. I went and bought one just to try out and LOVED IT! No leaks, no poop up the back of my sons shirt either! this thing was awesome! So I decided when we got our taxes back I would buy more and we would do away with the disposables! Im so glad I did too! Ive actually become quite the diaper shopper lol and I love the site Sew Crafty Baby (this is the site my friend showed me.) No matter how much Ive shopped around she always has the best prices, I havent found a single site that has cheaper then her, and if you like her facebook page shes always got great promos or discounts available! As you can see cloth diapering really excites me lol so the next thing that I heard of was cloth wipes. I was even more surprised at this! I mean come on wipes? I just dont see that working for me. I really realized about 2-3 months ago how many wipes we use for my son, and to think we have another one coming, that is alot of money in wipes every week! So the first thing I  did was test some wipe solution, its not something you have to have because you can just use some baby wash and water mixed together, but I didnt really care for that, you have to change it out every other day or so.I tested a brand when my son was around 6-9 months old called punkin booty bits. I got a wipe warmer and put some baby rags in it ( you can use these as cloth wipes, or you can buy some actual cloth wipes as well as make them if you can sew) and poured the solution in there. I did not like it at all, after a day it was smelling moldy, I then decided cloth wipes, definitely not for me. Later on after that, my now awesome friend Jen who runs sew crafty baby needed some testers for a wipe solution she had made called Bee Green Naturals so I volunteered. I thought it cant hurt right? Well I loved loved the solution! It didnt have a moldy smell after a day or so at all! This excited me! So next I was thinking "Im not really sure how to use the cloth wipes" and I just so happen to come across this video and it really helped me! So in the past few weeks I gathered up my remaining baby rags ( I never really used them for my son, we have a loofah) and bought a few cloth wipes and got out the rest of my bee green naturals wipe solutions and mixed it up. So far Im really loving it! They are much thicker so the clean alot better as well as are wider so you can get more off then he poops. I also have always had the problem with disposable wipes that after he pees his booty still kinda smells like pee, with the wipe solution it doesnt, it smells fresh like he just had a bath! I decided instead of keeping my wipes in the wipe warmer and wet like I tried before that I would get a squirt bottle and keep my solution in there and just spray his booty or the wipe, its simpler this way for me. On average with disposable wipes if he had a  really messy poop I would prolly have used 6-7 wipes, now with cloth I havenet used more then 3 on a really messy poop. The great thing is I can just throw them in the wash with my diapers and they are all clean! Saves a lot of money too. A large pack of disposable wipes that fills two wipe holders is about $5-6 every two weeks. Wipe solution cubes are $3.75 and they come with 20 cubes, I mix mine in a power aid bottle and pour it into my squirt bottle ($1 from the dollar tree) as I need it. My cloth wipes I have spent about $18 on and I have 25 and a handy little wet bag to keep them in as well, not to mention I have about a dozen baby rags I use as well. As you can see its pretty efficient. The last thing I did was yesterday I went to family dollar store and bought a little caddy (only a $1.50)  to keep my stuff in. I felt like it was cluttered laying all over my end table and my son likes to throw it around the house.

This little thing keeps it tidy and easy to move around for diaper changes! On the left there is a little green bag that I keep my snappis in and my cloth wipes, then on the top right my poweraid bottle of solution, wipe cubes (you can barely see them in the little zippi bag) my CJ's BUTTer sample and spray (its cloth diaper safe diaper cream) and baby brush, and then on the bottom right my sprayer filled with solution and a nose sucker (my son loves getting his nosed clean out, weird right lol!)

And here is my little diaper stacker (my awesome friend Vanessa got this for me as a shower gift for my son) The top shelf has our daytime diapers, second shelf on the left has diaper covers and a few diapers we rarely use (laundry day diapers!) and on the right are my nighttime diapers, bottom left are my prefolds and right are my newborn diapers for when this baby comes!

I would finally like to add to this post no one has ever asked me to promote any certain brands or websites, I simply love to share what I love! If you ever want to know more about cloth let me know! I would love to share more!