Things for baby?

[AlwayzOnDaMove]

BleeckerSt_Girl, speaking of breastfeeding, I am still amazed at the female body. We literally become cows and produce our own milk . I will always be amazed at that.
I've never payed attention to cloth diapers, but saw pictures of them recently and they look comfortable and cute. I saw the one with the snaps. There is a new product called mom to mom. Everything is made for moms by moms.
As for the organic things or the things that claim to be organic, I don't really trust any of that stuff. Since alot of people are going green...products are claiming they're green too.

[Natural Beauty]

yeah, like "simple green' and 'green clorox' what a crock. just like clorox burts bees....
i clean with microfibres called enjo. works pretty darn skippy.

to be certified organic or to use certified organic ingredients is a HUGE process.

Green Shreen, we need to read labels to be sure they are good ingredients.

What just kills me is for a product to be able to say they are Natural; they only have to have 1% natural ingredients. How scary is that!

ok...soapbox over.

[Tuckervill]

My DIl uses cloth diapers and wool outer pants. I don't know where you get them, but she does knit the wool pants herself. The lanolin in the wool keeps the outside dry. They're not any harder to deal with than regular diapers, but there is the washing that requires baking soda for the ammonia.

Karen

[Natural Beauty]

My DIl uses cloth diapers and wool outer pants. I don't know where you get them, but she does knit the wool pants herself. The lanolin in the wool keeps the outside dry. They're not any harder to deal with than regular diapers, but there is the washing that requires baking soda for the ammonia.

Karen

Karen, I had to laugh. My dad and I were just talking about this the other day. He has nightmares from the wool diapers his mom put him in from back in the day. I asked him why he didn't get cashmire nappies since he is so special. LOL!!!!!

[Tuckervill]

I think if he can remember his diapers he potty trained a LITTLE LATE! lol.

The diapers she uses are not wool on the inside. The liners are cotton or whatever--absorbent. The covers are wool, and it's the nice soft kind of wool that felts up really nice.

Karen

[xeney]

Our covers are just a waterproof plasticky surface under cotton, with velcro tabs. They rarely need to be washed but when they do it is very easy. The diapers themselves are cotton fleece with snaps. It's one more step than disposables, plus laundry, but the laundry is not bad at all -- we have sealed laundry bags that just go straight in the wash.

[Irulan]

My DIl uses cloth diapers and wool outer pants. I don't know where you get them, but she does knit the wool pants herself. The lanolin in the wool keeps the outside dry. They're not any harder to deal with than regular diapers, but there is the washing that requires baking soda for the ammonia.

Karen

I never used baking soda, just wash n dry. Is that something you are supposed to do with wool?

[Tuckervill]

I'm sure it depends on how long you go before you wash them. She always had lots of them and only washed them once a week. You know what a diaper pail smells like!

My other friend only started using baking soda after her baby got older and was eating real food. Things change.

Karen

[xeney]

My kid eats real food, and we don't use baking soda except for whatever is in the Arm & Hammer liquid detergent we use. I've never heard of baking soda for diapers -- vinegar is what is usually recommended. And we do use that.

The "real food" issue really isn't one for us. We shake or rinse feces off into the toilet and flush. (We have a sprayer attachment on the toilet for this purpose.) When she was just breastfed we did not bother because breastmilk feces are pretty much entirely water soluble. It's the urine that is most likely to leave long-term smells, and that is definitely a bigger issue now that she's older, but vinegar in the wash takes care of it. Baking soda probably would too.

Since I am home and have laundry on site, cloth diapers are a non-issue in terms of adding extra work, but I don't think they'd be reasonable if you worked full time outside of the home or had to go to a laundromat. Unless you used a service.

[sfa]

I always found cloth diapers way easier than disposable. It's easier to do a load of laundry when you're running low than it is to go to the store for more disposables. My oldest child is nearly ten and we STILL have a pile of the Chinese prefolds around that we use for cleaning things, soaking up messes, mopping floors, etc. I don't know how people live without them. We also used cloth wipes--a stack of cheap baby washcloths dunked in a mixture of water, baby soap, baby oil and a few drops of tea tree oil. When we used disposables, I liked Pampers best, but I've heard that a lot depends on how your baby is shaped--chubby legs do well with some brands and skinny legs do better with others. I can't remember which now, and they've all changed their designs so much that I don't know if it makes a difference anymore.

Boudreux's butt paste is the best diaper ointment I've ever used. Same zinc oxide as the active ingredient like most rash ointments, but much better smell and texture, and it washes out of cloth diapers easily. Makes a great anti-chafe lotion as well.

I liked the book "Super Baby Food"--has lots of instructions for making your own baby food as well as recipes for older babies/toddlers and some kitchen craft ideas.

Sarah