I heart cloth diapers

The first, and just about only, purchase I made for Baby Wyatt was cloth diapers. A few weeks after we moved to Colorado, we started our research with a “seminar,” if you will. Some store hosted a “class” on cloth diapers, knowing full well that most people around these parts want to save the world but can only picture ratty, gray slits of cloth and sticking our babies with pins by mistake and need some education. Truth.  We attended said class and learned about the new generation of amazing baby booty protection—no pins involved! Then we oohed and aahed around the store yet resisted buying anything from them, ha. So, you can still get your granny’s old school style cloth dipes, but they are updated and have safe, catchy pin-together-without-pointy-parts contraptions and obviously newer, better fabric options. With those, you have to get cute little waterproof cover so your baby’s tinkle doesn’t run through onto…well, everything. The latest and greatest styles, however, involve no pin-like contraptions whatsoever and come with diaper and cover combed into one. They are magical. You rip the whole thing off and wash it as such. Done and done. The ones Hubby and I are into have a “pocket” in which you slide extra inserts of pee and poo-absorbing goodness, if you want. You can even double up when you have a “heavy wetter.” We’ll see if Nugget wants to be one of those, oh boy. This type is the same as the all-in-one deals but I guess they wash and dry easier/quicker because they can be taken apart a little. Easier washing and drying? Win!

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Let’s discuss the idea that perhaps using cloth diapers is not as eco-friendly as it may at first seem. After all you have to wash and dry those puppies, and detergent is bad for the earth and water is a precious resource. Well, friends, it doesn’t matter. Studies show you still make less waste; in places like sunny Colorado you don’t even have to use the dryer. So there. Also, if you are like me, you seriously consider cash flow as a very close second to not using plastic. This is why you should really use cloth diapers: you can get as many as you need for $600. Maybe I’ll spend more because I like them so much. Compare that to the $1500 or $2000 you will spend on ONE child’s crappy disposable diapers and you really cannot argue.

Because there are now so many companies making these amazing plastic-reducing, landfill helping, wallet-friendly diapers, I can spend hours online shopping for the cutest ones and reading all the reviews. It is unfortunate I did not get shopping sooner, but it is fun that I still have to work on our collection. Can you say procrastination? I can! And I do.