The Scoop on the Poop

I hope you are interested in my adventure into cloth diapering, because I like sharing about it. If it doesn't interest you, feel free to not read these posts. You won't hurt my feelings a bit :)


If you are still reading, I must warn you this post is about poop and may contain some TMI. If you have a weak stomach regarding poop, please look away now.


Now, on to the poop. Last night I had to change my first poopy cloth diaper. It was EASY! Just as easy as disposables for sure! I removed the diaper just as usual. Wiped his wee bottom, just as usual. (We are still using disposable wipes for the moment. I plan to get some cloth wipes when I get more diapers.) I put a clean diaper on his bottom and threw the wipes in the trash. As Cooper went on his marry way, no doubt to go find something to make a mess of, I took the dirty diaper to the bathroom. I plan on getting a diaper sprayer soon, but right now I'm making due with what we have. What we have is one of those shower heads that you can move around because they are attached to a flexible hose. Something like this. So since our toilet is right by the bath tub, I sprayed off the poop into the toilet with the shower head. Cooper's poop resembles clay is sorta stubborn about sticking to the diaper so the help of the water was very useful. After I sprayed off the poop, I took the diaper to the pail. It just so happens that diaper was the last clean we had so it was time to do laundry!

I took pail liner (also known as a pillow case for now) full of diapers to the laundry room, dumped the diapers into the washer and threw in the pillow case pail liner after them. I did a cold rinse with no spin cycle so the diapers would be heavier during the next cycle and trick my HE washer into using more water. Since I don't have that many diapers, I also threw in a couple towels for the same reason. Next I put in a scoop of my Rockin Green into the place for the soap and did a warm/cold wash cycle with an extra rinse to avoid any build up that might cause irritation. The diapers came out spotless! And smelled so good! Because we were expecting rain last night, I hang the diapers and liners on several hangers to dry overnight in the laundry room. This morning the were waiting on me to stuff them with the liners!

I'm definitely addicted. This is way easier than I thought. I HATE laundry, but this laundry was NOTHING! If you are on the edge about trying cloth, just buy a few and give a shot! You will be surprised how much you like it :)

ETA:: This is my 100th post!!! Personally I love that I celebrated this milestone by writing about poop ;)

Cloth Diapering: An Update

Cloth diapering is going great! Cooper seems to really like it, and it hasn't been as gross as I thought it might. I had given myself a couple "outs" when I decided to try cloth. They were (1) I could use sposies when going out and (2) I could use sposies overnight. Well last night my brother took us out to eat and I decided to use my cloth. I put him in a shirt and just let him wear a matching diaper. It was ADORABLE! But it was not hard at all to use cloth on the go. They take up a little bit more room in my diaper bag, but that's ok. Just an excuse to buy a bigger bag ;) In regards to "out" number 2, we did use a sposie last night. We only have 6 cloth diapers right now,and therefore not enough to use them full time. When I get enough to go cloth full time, we will not be keeping sposies in the house anymore. (Well we might keep a few for "just in case") I LOVE this so far. I'm definately hooked. I really look forward to getting more and using cloth full time! My husband's sister is graduating tonight and we are going to use cloth at the graduation. I will let you know how it goes! So far, so good :)

Here is Cooper's cute tush and his Uncle Ty at dinner last night.

I've Never Been So Excited to Do Laundry!

My Rockin' Green Cloth Diaper Detergent came in the mail today! Time to wash the diapers!

Here is my detergent, pail refresher dtuff, cute little laundry scoop, and samples to try different fragrances

And here is my make-shift clothes line that I am using until someone makes me a real one :)
Bungie cords and speaker wire. Is that redneck or what??

As soon as they are dry we get to start using cloth! I'm sooo excited to get his little bottom out of all those chemicals!

Look What Came in the Mail!!

FLUFFY MAIL!!

Look at that fluffy butt :D