so yesterday (sunday), mark and i attended a cloth diapering class at nicki's diapers in madison, wi. it was a super fun event! my parents watched the children for us so we could be free to take our time. and take our time we did because we were there for a few hours! nicki, the business owner, walked the bunch of us attending the class through her vision for the store, all about the evolution of cloth diapering, and washing instructions. we got to check things out with our eyes and hands and ask all the questions we wanted. kendra and val, you would love the place!!! sometime you'll have to come and visit so we can all have a momma diaper date!
nicki also announced that this week her own creation of cloth diapers will be available to purchase. those were our favorite-called best bottoms. the salesladies there told us that they expected the new line of diapers to sell fast and to order them online if we were interested. so i guess we're gonna try to get some of that style! i'd also like to try out a couple of other brands because the all in one pocket diapers, fuzzibuns and mother's touch, interested me. kendra and val - could you tell me again what you like and give me some details of how you make cloth diapering work for your families? i would love your input because i'm easily overwhelmed about such things. thus why i'm finally getting started with child #6! thank you so much for directing me to nicki's! and thanks a bunch for letting me learn from you - your help is invaluable to me!!!
i guess my goal is to get up and running with the cloth diapering stuff by shiloh's 1st birthday - february 23. a funny birthday present, huh?! but hey, we're homeschoolers, so we're expected to be funny about such things. did i mention that mark is experimenting with making his own homemade sourdough bread? and he wants to try milling our own flour! to top it off, this winter i'm planning on ordering heirloom garden seeds so i can collect our own seeds for future gardens! yep, we're on our way to planet weirdo.
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Both boys have been given diapers for birthdays (and Christmas) :) :)
I really like Mommy's Touch All-in-Ones and Fuzzi Bunz (both Nicki's has) and Rumparooz. Fuzzi and Rumpa are both pocket diapers.
The class sounds awesome. I'm glad you were able to go!
Kendra
kim!! that sounds like so much fun!! milo has gotten diapers for his birthday and Christmas, too! =) your other adventures sound like fun, too.
i have mostly fuzzi buns and bum genius--but i hate the bum genius! they work okay, but the velcro looks all ratty and they just are not cute anymore.
it hasn't seemed like a ton of work to do cloth. i wash them about every other day at that seems to work out okay. i hang them up to dry and it only takes a minute to stuff the inserts back in the diapers and put them back in milo's room. it really doesn't seem like a lot of extra work, once you've got a system going.
love ya,
val
Ooh, I forgot about our system
We have a wet bag that we hang on one of our doors and just toss the diapers in there. We had gotten enough diapers for both boys, so now that Aaron is the only one in diapers we wash every 3-4 days. I hate laundry period, so a lot of times they just sit in the basket waiting to be stuffed and put away, but when I do get to it, it takes about 30 minutes.
We do a cold rinse, a wash with Charlies soap, another wash, and a rinse before tossing them in the dryer
During the summer, we sit them out on our deck to sun dry and then toss them in the dryer.
It's really not hard. We travel with them when we only have one in cloth and it's a day or two trip.
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