Not you? No? Oh well. Here comes one anyway. (Don't worry; it's short.)I'm not doing too much in the way of cloth diapering yet. I have put cloth on the little guy here and there, but it's hard, getting into the swing of things. I don't want to do cloth at night because I don't want to be bothered with the poop. I don't want to do cloth when we go 'out' because I'm not comfortable enough with all the semantics to handle a blowout in public. I don't even really want to do cloth when we go over to Grandma and Grandpa's, yet, for the same reason. So you can see how this translates into doing a little here and a little there.
On my birthday, of all days, I decided I was going to go all cloth. I ended up changing Matt's entire outfit three times, and then I said forget it. I put him back in disposables, chalked it up to his size (meaning, when he gets a little bigger and the diapers fit a bit better, he won't leak or blow out as much), and went on my merry way. But I checked in with another cloth diapering mom recently (Hi, Laurel!), and she says her daughter was fine in the Bum Genius diapers at Matt's size or even smaller. I think I need to put in the heavier liner, not the newborn liner. So, take note, cloth diapering hopefuls - the newborn liner is basically useless. :) In the meantime we bought a big pack of disposables... so we'll see where this goes. The nice part is, the Bum Genius diapers will last till Matt is Ben's size, so there's no hurry to get him into them. I figure the amount of money we've spent on diapers SO FAR has already paid for four of the Bum Genius.
Not as short as I thought it'd be.
Matthew is wearing a Thirsties all-in-one, sized diaper in baby blue.
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It will work out soon enough! In the meantime, that's a cute model you've got there.
I sorry to admit I didn't READ the blog, but I think that Matt looks like Ben no? Anna is crying next to me and I have the boys in the tub. I am just 'checking' blogs. :)
I read it this time. :) I hear ya with the blowouts. When Anna was about a month old, she didn't go every day, like every other and they were TOTAL blowouts everytime. I knew I would have to change her outfit whenever she pooped it was that bad. And then for some reason, it just got better.
Hey Beth, I keep meaning to tell you that I don't rinse out Sophia's diapers, which is why I can change them at night with my eyes closed. ;0) The liners get a tiny bit stained, but I had read on a website from multiple BG users that rinsing isn't really necessary if you don't mind a little staining. So slightly stained, but they come clean every time! And I don't have to wake up.
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