I could do better….

You would think after 13 months of doing this, I would have it mastered.

Not my best work.

Lets zoom in shall we:

Yep that side is clearly up his crack…

Given the difficulty rating of changing a super mobile toddler who hates getting his diaper changed, I’d give this a bronze medal for execution. I feel I definitely deserve to be on the podium for the simple fact that it is ON.

That’s all.

Love,

-Medal winner

I’m a cheap smack, what can I say?

Well the time I’ve dreaded is just about here. My diaper stock pile is dwindling quickly :( Waaaaah! Please allow a moment of silence so I can collect myself…
As you may or may not know, my friend Jac uses cloth diapers  (for Parker! Jeeze, sorry Jac, I just about sent the rumor mill into over drive  on that one! Forgive me) and she loves them. I was planning on doing the cloth route myself for Eli until I got a boat load of FREE diapers from my shower, then I didn’t see the need because for me, its about being cheap  frugal (hence the major reason I breast feed—free food, what, whaaat! But noooow that my stash is down to only 3 packages, I’m back to considering cloth again :/
Have any of you noticed that joannes has a”babyville boutique” section now with all the fixins to make your own cloth diapers, including a booklet on how??  I was like a kid in the candy store when I discovered this! My wonderful mom bought me the snap applicator and snaps for my birthday (giddy I tell ya!) and I had all the other supplies I needed in my stash so I bought the book and got to work.
Ta da! Eli’s first homemade cloth diaper:
 

The book recommended different fabrics to “wick” away the moisture and it said minky was a good choice for this so it’s super soft and I’m actually considering making ME a pair. If you felt this thing, YOU’D want one too, don’t judge.

A pocket to insert a soaker. I just folded and put in a cloth diaper I already had been using as a burp cloth

And my chunky monkey  muse modeling it :)

He’ll just need a size 2T pant is all while wearing this thing.

I think I’ll experiment with different fabrics to see which absorbs best and what not. We’ll see. So as cheap as I can make these things, I figure it’s worth a try! Check out their website here.

Toodles

-Linds

Makes me laugh every time…

Well on the eve of his 6 wk celebration of life he slept 6 straight hours! woo hoo! Still getting up usually once during the night if I put him to bed between 7:30-8:00pm. I have 2 more weeks to meet my goal of him sleeping through the night, although I’m not exactly sure what that’ll look like…meaning will I expect him to go down at 7:30pm and not get up until 6am which is his morning feeding time?? It sounds insane but my girlfriend Jac’s beautiful baby boy goes down at 6:30 pm (I guess that’s the time he hits his “wall”) and doesn’t get up until 7:30am!!!! I’m pretty sure he’s been doing that since the 8wk mark, so we shall see (He’s a Babywise baby…see previous post from a couple of weeks ago if you’re wondering what I mean by that). I won’t be able to sleep through the night uninterrupted though until my boobs adjust to that gap. I’ll definitely have to get up and pump once or twice for a while.
You can do it baby boy!
Now on to a diaper review, ha ha…
So thanks to my wonderful shower thrown by my sister and Jac, I have oodles of different types of diapers that should last me the first 6 months of Eli’s life (no joke). So far we’ve tried the huggies “naturals” which are just “so so”. We had a lot of leaks with those. I do believe he was wearing one of those both times mommy and daddy got peed on. Then came the Pampers swaddlers. LOVE.THEM. Not only are they soft and have a line that shows up to let you know the diaper is wet, it has a sweet baby scent to it! SOLD. I mourned the last diaper used **tear**. Now I have to wait until he moves up the “2” size diapers to see my beloved pampers again. Lately we are using “Luvs”. I opened the package all excited, hoping they would smell like my swaddlers but sadly they didn’t. In fact they are plastic-y :( Definitely not a love at first site experience. But, I’m happy to report it DOES have redeeming qualities. First off, we’ve had major Eli blow-outs (the kind where the poop shoots out to the sides and leaves the area near his pooper clean. It’s a phenomenon I’ll never understand) and still no leaks at all! The other thing that has sold me is that even though its plastic-y and absolutely NOT cuddly soft like my pampers, I just LOVE to hear the crinkle of his diaper when he wiggles. *sigh*. We will keep the Luvs around for a while :) I have a few target brand packages but I’ve heard they leak so I’ve saved them for last and I’m contemplating trading them in for Luvs or pampers, we will see. Anybody out there just absolutely love them?
Ok, that’s all for now. Nighty night.
-Linds