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Thursday, June 3, 2010


yesterday afternoon, bean and i were playing in his room, reading stories and enjoying tummy time, when i had this thought, today will be the day that we make the move to cloth diapers. there was no real reasoning behind it.  i noticed earlier in the day that we were getting low on diapers and bean had had his  daily poop that morning. so why not try it now, i thought to myself. so, i grabbed a bum genius diaper out of the closet and put it on bean. so far, so good.

i was feeling pretty good about myself and how we were helping the environment with this diapering decision. thirty minutes later, we are sitting downstairs waiting for ph to get home from work when bean makes a face i know too well ( see picture above). it is the poop face. no, no, no, i say out loud. you were not supposed to poop in the cloth diapers, only pee in them! see my thought process was since bean poops every morning after he eats, i could use the cloth diapers after that point and never really have to deal with a poopy diaper in my washing machine. so much for my thought process. before i knew what hit me, bean had filled the diaper to the brim.

luckily, ph was pulling in the drive way just as bean was finishing up his business. i promptly walked outside, told ph about the switch and handed the bean over to his papa for diaper duty. we weren't really sure how the whole poop mixed with cloth diaper was going to work. ph tried to wash it out by pouring water on it, but that made the whole situation worse. we both looked at each other and ph said, "i think this maybe more trouble than its worth." besides he said, "we can find another way to help the environment."

so, with one poopy diaper our adventure in cloth diapers came to a screeching halt. i felt guilty for a brief moment, but was secretly relieved i didn't have to do more loads of laundry.

10 comments:

  1. As someone who raised 2 boys with cloth diapers, plastic pants over those, no washer or dryer for the first and no dryer for the 2nd, I love the disposable diapers my grandson has! There are other ways
    to save the environment and your sanity!

    SGWC

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  2. Thank goodness for wise Wallace women...amen to SGWC...XOXO

    It will be a good gift for Sam and Liz!

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  3. Get the spray hose toilet attachment that Bum Genius sells and your problem is solved. Or, if it's not solid, just throw the dirty in your wetbag and wash it with the others. It will come right out, except for maybe a slight stain.

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  4. my new mom friend loves her baby bum geniuses but to each their own.

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  5. Hold the poopy diaper(Firmly!) in the toilet, shake and flush. Put diaper in the wet pail- you're done- just wash your hands!

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  6. Bean, no poop out of schedule please!

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  7. Ok with Tayler(19 yrs ago) we had the joy of plastic pants over the diaper, that was fun. so the "new" diapers are amazing in comparison. sorry it didnt work but they are really nice!

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  8. As you are finding out babies and and children in general never do what you expect. Just when you think you have things figured out- they will do something different. I'm all for saving the earth - but cloth diapers sound like way too much work to me! Teach the Bean to recycle and don't guilty about using Pampers.

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  9. I'm having the hardest time making the switch. Mostly because her bottom is so sensitive I don't want her to be wet in a cloth diaper! And truthfully because disposables are so easy :) We have the bum genuis sprayer and it does kick butt!

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  10. I had two in diapers at the same time and could not afford disposables except for traveling. Diaper pail mess, lots of laundry (consider the water, electricity, detergent, etc. that is used to maintain cloth diapers!), and the more frequent diaper rash. Plastic pants never prevented leakage onto clothes and whatever babies were sitting on at the moment. Much more time-consuming to change diapers. With baby #3, I insisted on making my life and the baby's easier and happier with disposables. Considering we were living on borrowed money at the time, it was a sacrifice but well worth it. Don't feel guilty.

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