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Diapering The Bonzai Bum – Part II | Bonzai Aphrodite — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 07:07:34 +0000

[...] . . continued from Part I . . . So I’m sure you’ve figured out that there’s more to diapering than just diapers! For [...]

By: I’m taking this as a sign… | The Practically Green Mom

I’m taking this as a sign… | The Practically Green Mom — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 04:02:47 +0000

[...] My friend Denae at New Mom Survival Adventure recently did a post about cloth diapers. Since then, the same topic has come up on several other blogs I read, including The Eco-Friendly Family and Bonzai Aphrodite. [...]

By: Sayward Rebhal

Sayward Rebhal — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:46:00 +0000

Yup, hopefully this is the new standard (for questions at least).

Oh LJ, I have such a love/hate relationship . . . anyway, I love the arms reach BUT, if I had the room on the side of the bed, I would probably get a convertible crib -> toddler bed and side car it for as long as we were co-sleeping, then transitioning it to the kid’s bed when they were ready. Just takes out the step of having to eventually go out and buy a toddler bed. =)

By: Meghan

Meghan — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:32:00 +0000

WOW, you responded FAST! (result of the MMM?)

I kept meaning to check out the cloth diapering lj scene, I don’t know why I hadn’t yet! Good idea! (As if my lj world were not newly full-enough with breastfeeding, baby wearing, attachment parenting, natural birth… eeeek!)

I’m feeling pretty generally prepared for having a baby at this point, aside from the diaper situation. And possibly the sleeping situation. We were going to get an Arm’s Reach, but now we’re thinking about side-carring a crib… I guess I still have 12 weeks, give or take, to figure it out!

By: Sayward Rebhal

Sayward Rebhal — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:51:00 +0000

Haha, I SO remember that feeling! How about some good old Livejournal? – http://clothdiapering.livejournal.com/

Especially in the memories –> “just getting started”

By: Meghan

Meghan — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:46:00 +0000

Do you know of a good place to go for SUPER BASIC info on cloth diapering? I have recently realized that I have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE WHAT I’M DOING. Like… you write, “From prefolds to pocket diapers, all-in-ones to ‘longies’…” I don’t know what any of these words even MEAN!!!

By: Sayward

Sayward — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 05:55:27 +0000

@ windycityvegan – Awesome, thanks for the info. And yeah, I’ve heard cloth babies have a much easier time toilet training, which is very awesome!

By: windycityvegan

windycityvegan — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:04:44 +0000

We loved loved LOVED the Fuzzi Bunz! We only needed two sizes, and have been able to pass them on to friends and family, so the financial investment was well worth it. The adjustable one-size FB came out shortly after she started wearing mediums.

More importantly, Nina loved her FB…she initiated toilet training at 18 months, but dragged it out until she was three because she didn’t want to give up her diapers for undies. Basically, she would pull her wet diapers off herself (which was no problem, we didn’t mind her being bare-bottomed most of the time) and then ask us for a new one if she needed to go. (And then she would hand it right back to us, the little stinker.)

Once she was ready to actually use the toilet, though, she went from 0 to 90% in the first day, and the whole process/learning curve took less than two weeks.

By: Sayward

Sayward — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:03:42 +0000

@ Sarah – Yeah, I love the idea of bamboo but you’d still need something waterproof and I’m thinking it would have to be synthetic.

@ Eden – Whoops! Haha, brain fart, I was thinking microfiber = PUL. Don’t mind me . . .

By: Eden

Eden — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:34:06 +0000

The microfiber is what constitutes the inserts of most pockets like BumGenius and FuzziBunz. We have well water where I live and even though I use that Calgon water softener in addition to it being mega filtered through the whole-house system, I still find that some of my inserts hold the minerals on them. I’ve heard tale that the issues are not as pronounced with cotton since cotton is the superfabric! If you need to waterproof them, you still need a cover (Bummis Whisper Wrap and Thirsties are two of the more popular ones), but when Mai trucks around the house, we just leave her in a snappi’d prefold. Even if she wets, it takes about 20-40 minutes for it to soak completely through the prefold layers.