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Celebrity Cloth Diaper Users

I was reading some celebrity baby blogs the other day (I know I know…) and couldn’t believe now many celebs that either used or are still using cloth on their babies!  Not really for any paticular reason was I surprised, but I guess I assumed that it would be too much work or viewed as inconvenient (although we all know better!)

Among favorites of the celebs are actually 2 of our favorite brands - Happy Heiny’s and Fuzzi Bunz.  I was surprised that none of them were using any fancy-shmancy ones, like Goodmama – but nope (or atleast they didn’t admit it!)  After doing a bit of searching I came up with a pretty impressive list of celebrity cloth diaperers….

Dave Mathews

Tori Spelling

Matthew McConaughey

Melissa Joan Hart

Ming Na

Scott Baio

Brooke Shields

Denise Richards

Terri and Steve Irwin

…and those were just the Major celebs that really jumped out at me (there were about 3 times as many on different sites that I found.)  I know I used to hear it on pretty much a weekly if not daily basis from other moms (sometimes people I knew and other times even nosey ladies in a public restroom) – “Oh wow, that must be so much work!” or “Ya, I am just too busy for that, I just can’t bother with the hassle.”  Others who just looked at me like I was fresh out of a Laura Ingall’s story book!

Although I know that very few, if not none of our readers cloth diaper because of trend – perhaps this celebrity serge in cloth diapering will make it “hip” to use cloth thus getting more parents to give it a try.  I know I am defnitely going to drop some of these names next time I am having a discussion about how awesome it is to use cloth with those that are hesitant!!  Happy diapering

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Dry Max….huh?

So has everyone heard about the buzz surrounding the new Pamper’s Dry Max Diaper?  We were talking about it around the store – definitely not in a good way though.  Supposedly they have been able to improve upon the “core” of the diaper so that it absorbs so well that they were able to remove all of the wood pulp and a few of the extra cushiony layers, including the mesh.  After having a few conversations with other cloth diapering moms, I decided to surf around the net to find out exactly what they did to this “magic core”.

Well to my surprise, but I am not sure why….I can hardly find a thing!!  They have definitely done a great job of saturating the google organic search results with mommy bloggers that they have either paid or offered free product to who are doing so-called “reviews” and “giveaways”……after scrolling through 15+ pages of search results I still had not found one thing that talked about exactly how they improved the absorbancy.  I can only image some crazy souped-up version of those toxic polyacrylate gel pieces – making these beasts even more toxic then the rest of the disposable diapers on the market.

The only negative things that I could find were irrate parents who were mad that the first batches of this new diaper were marketed in the same packaging as their old diapers as well as an overwhelming number of parents claiming that their child had gotten terrible diaper rash and blisters from these “miracle diapers”.  How sad…  Many parents said that they came to realize that what appeared to be their same old pampers had changed, when their child developed the rash and they took a closer look at their most recent pack of diapers and contacted Pampers.  The other note from many of the blog comments I read was the overwhelming chemical scent, which only makes me think my original theory is probably correct.

I hate to judge, but if something smells THAT bad, do you really put it on your baby?  I certainly wouldn’t and think its tragic that people have come to trust big business so much that they would.  Every day I read or hear something that makes me even more proud to say that I cloth diapered my daughter – I only hope to be able to encourage others see the light.  We welcome your comments and thoughts!

Tags: cloth diaper, cloth diapering, disposable diapers, pampers cause rash, pampers dry max, pampers polyacrylate, poyacrylate gel
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A Great Mom Review

A close friend and cloth diaperer of one (and soon to be two!) called me the other day asking my WHY I hadn’t told her she needed a diaper sprayer a year and a half ago when I helped her choose her newborn stash!  I guess my asnwer should have been because I’m crazy, but the fact of the matter is that my daughter just wasn’t the super pooper that her son is.

Her husband had actually just recently told her that the poop scraping and the dunking were really getting to him.  I told her that she didn’t have to dunk but she insists that this poop is…well….you get the point.  Anyway, with their second on the way and the prospect of having two under the age of two in cloth and all that poop was really daunting for him and he was thinking about switching to disposables <<gasp>>. 

Well diaper sprayer to the rescue.  They got one, installed it in a jiffy and presto – one more family saved from disposable diapers.  She tells me its her new best friend

Just thought I would share, another happy cloth diaperer!

Tags: cloth diaper, cloth diapering, diaper sprayer, dunking cloth diapers, switching to cloth diapers
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Triumph Over Montessori!

I am so excited that I was able to talk our Montessori into using cloth!!  After researching and writing the article on the gel in disposables, I was kinda freaking out… I had done some research on the Tushies brand of disposables, since they are the ONLY sposie that does not contain the gel – they are quite pricey (especially coming from a woman that has never had to buy sposies period!)  I was looking at probably close to $50 a month for them just for the 3 days a week, 3.5 hrs each day – WOW! 

So I reapproached the school. I decided to talk to her teachers the day of the open house for new students.  I brought with me an old Happy Heiny Pocket that was all worn out and probably too small, since that was the easiest diaper I could find without opening my storage boxes.  I planned to order 6 XL of them if the school agreed, since Amelia is so tall, the LG fit her, but they droop in the front no matter how tight I fasten them since she really needs an extra inch or 2 in the rise.  So the teachers were very receptive – they had never seen anything like it and were surprised how easy cloth diapers actually are!  One of the teachers is young, may not have any of her own kids, the other is older and told me her kids were all grown up, so she probably atleast has seen the old birdseye, plastic headed pin and pull on cover method, even if she never personally used them (not that this is a bad system, just a bit more difficult for the novice!)  They both agreed that it was fine with them. I went out to talk to the owner who seemed to be nowhere around, which surprised me, although I was aware that she had been due to give birth in June I still expected to see her.  I found a frazzled lady with a rather angry disposition in the owner’s office and after asking for the owner I was informed (in a not so nice tone actually) that she wasn’t there and that if I had concerns I could speak with this woman in front of me. 

Well the conversation went a bit like this

me: My daughter gets rashes from disposables (yes I lied) these cloth diapers are quite easy, I spoke with her teachers who are alright with it…

mean woman: Well I don’t know if the state licensure allows this.

me: I have asked around to people that do daycare and they tell me it is.

I think its pretty obvious that she wanted to say no.  I told her I could get a Drs. note (we have the BEST NP that we see at our homeopath’s office) and she told me she would call the person that does their licensure and call me back.  Well Monday I had still not heard from her and managed to get my hands on a document by the state of the childcare/school age rules and regs which made it clear that it was indeed allowed, I emailed it to her with an ”oh-so-super nice” note and PRESTO – cloth at school. 

I had to share my triumph!  Thanks for listening and happy diapering!

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Traveling with Cloth

This is a big decision for some families with youngsters. You really want to buy sposies, but that voice in the back of your head is telling you not too. Think of all that trash, the extra cash etc etc. Well as a person who has been there and done that I can tell you, its totally possible! We went and stayed at a resort at the Cape for about a week when Amelia was about 4 mos old. At that time we were strictly prefolds and covers. She still was only wearing the infant size but for the trip I decided to break out the 2 dozen premiums I had waiting in the closet. I believe I had around 4-5 dozen all total and I took 2 large wet bags. Once the first was full (about 3 days) I sprinkled it with a bit of baking soda and put it out in the trunk of the car. Then we filled the second. The most annoying thing for me was rinsing the covers in the sink so often as I believe we only had 4 at the time. In hindsight, more covers is what I would have done differently.

Last summer, we went to the beach in RI for about a week. Being older now, we were using mostly pocket diapers but only had about 18 of them and were washing every other day. I had a couple dozen toddler prefolds that we had received as a gift and I broke those out and splurged on a couple Lg Thirsties wraps to accompany them. Being that we were going to be at the beach a lot, I had planned to let her go diaperless a lot and hope for the best. We realized a few days before the end of the trip that we were going to indeed run out and when I realized there were no stores nearby that sold chlorine free sposies, I decided to stop in at a local laundromat, purchased a small box of tide (which I used about half of) and washed the whole lot of them in a super sized washer – we dried and were on our way about an hour later.

Perhaps my kid doesn’t have the stinkiest diapers, but I really was surprised that the smell of the older wet bag wasn’t that offending! We have just always done cloth and don’t know much different. We have yet to fly with her, so I cannot comment, but my instinct is that I would probably attempt to do cloth either way. Most hotels have laundry service and there are always laundromats, right?? I dunno, call me hardcore Happy diapering!

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