Cloth....The New Frontier

Last week I made a major move towards a greener world,
and started ......

CLOTH DIAPERS!!!!

First off do you have any idea how many advancements there have been in cloth diapers over the years?
Its like shopping for a car; you could go with the economical compact (prefolds) to the luxury sports car (all in ones), and all types in between, not to mention all of this fancy lingo and abbreviations, and guilt thrown in for good measure.

Its huge!

Its mind numbing!

Its a even a bit scary!

But with advice from my mama's group, countless internet searches, penny pinching, and lots of back and forth on the issue I made the plunge, and dived in.

So this is my "3 part system"

A regular "prefold" - basically a rectangle of heavy cotton fabric
A vinyl like cover with easy to use velcro
A flushable liner

The fabric gets folded into thirds, and since the cover wraps around Xander like a dispoasble there is no need for the scary pins of the "old days"

I then place the liner on - lets just say this makes the cleaning up after a "2" a lot easier and a lot less gross. And since its flushable I'm not adding more "2" into a landfill where it doesn't belong.

And then we apply to the baby!

Alex doesn't seem to mind the change, even if it does give him a "Daffy Duck Butt"

(we know how much his looks concern him)

Going to cloth does take longer to put on than a disposable and we've had a lot more "fountains" happen while trying to get all the layers together.

(but I like to think of that as Alex's way of "saving" a diaper )

FYI: I'm starting out with 36 inserts, 5 covers, and 1 roll of liners for an investment cost of 105.00. I realize now that I could have just bought 24 inserts and been fine, therefore saving 20.00. I know this seems like a lot of money - and it is - but overall they say you can save close to TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS if you decide to go cloth over disposable.

I will admit that I am far from going totally cloth - I do like him in a disposable for over nights and when going on trips outside of the house. However since going cloth I have cut my waste from three bags of diapers a week down to maybe one!

And that makes me feel really good!

Like maybe my little part will actually help the world out!

I could go on and on more about cloth diapers, but I have a feeling that I've already bored many of you anyways. I just felt like sharing my little story,
and isn't this what this blog is all about?

Oh yeah, I even saved some energy costs and line dried them .

makes you wanna puke how green I am sometimes