Cloth Diapers

So I thought I would write about cloth diapers. Almost everyone I spoke to during my pregnancy thought I was nuts to want to cloth diaper. But it seemed like such a money save and ... being the hippie that I am, it seemed like a good choice for the environment to. It has been even easier and better than I thought it would be. I did some, though not much, research before hand and settled on a system called gdiapers. It is considered a hybrid diaper because it has a shell that can either contain a cloth or disposable insert. The first few weeks I used the disposable inserts because I thought it would be easier and I didn't want to do all the wash with my c-section. In retrospect I don't think it would have been that bad to use cloth inserts from the beginning. I have a diaper pail next to the changing table that has a wet bag in it and I just toss the soiled diaper into it. Since he is still exclusively breast fed (EBF) i don't even bother rinsing the poopy diapers. I wash the diapers every 3 days or so. No worry about running out to the store if i'm getting low, i just toss a load of laundry in. I do have a second wet bag that i swap during wash time. For cloth inserts I use regular gerber prefolds and have a few gflappers that i got from the nappyshoppe. One big bonus to all of this is the cuteness of the diapers - it does become and addiction - i just want to by more and different ones! Bonus - you can get used diapers and save even more. Plus they have great resale value when you are done.

• More than 3 million tons of diapers go into US landfills each year
• Disposable diapers take 1 cup of crude oil each to make and will sit in our landfills for 500+ years.
• Families using disposable diapers will spend $2500-3000 diapering one child, compared to $500-600 using cloth diapers. ) Multiply that by THREE for us, or even FIVE. Yikes!
• The average cloth diaper stash cost around $350. Total.
• You can expect to change your babys' diaper up to 4700 times from birth to potty learning.

farmers market

The weather is still warm (90 yesterday!) So rowan and i packed up early to head to the farmers market. We made off with a great haul. Lamb, beef,chicken, mushrooms, apples, pears, melon, broccoli rabe, eggplant, basil, argula, heirloom tomatos and or coarse berliners to go with our lattes. Should make for some great meals this week.

Aaron spent the day finishing up the house so that we can put it on the market.