Once Alexa reach 7 months (yes 7 months!! :S), my husband, Shawn, and I figured we were ready to venture into having another little one (Some days I really wonder what we were thinking). Well, it didn’t take long and we were expecting again! On March 14th, 2011, we had a little boy Casey Ezekiel, and we now had 2 little sweet cheeks in diapers. And what-do-you-know, Casey had Daddy’s sensitive skin too!
The cost of diapers was starting to drown us! We were spending over $100 in diapers every month!! (And that was a good month for us). When Casey was only 5 months old a friend of mine suggested that I try cloth diapers and I laughed at her thinking “Yah, right, just what this Mama needs ~ more to do, and as if I want to clean caca-poo outta the diapers! YUK!!”
And that was that. I had made up my mind; there was NO WAY I was going to give a second thought about stinky cloth diapers!
Then in May, just after Casey turned one, I had another friend, who happens to own a fantastic little store called ‘Tiny TreeHugger’ message me about them and me not wanting to be rude figured I’d try to be polite and open-minded, and it went something like this:
May 28th
Pam: Hey Krystal,
Just thought I would send a note and see if you were interested in cloth diapering to save some $$.
Me: I might be interested, but I don't think that we would have money to invest into cloth diapers right now, and Casey will only be in them for about 9 months or so.....although I wouldn't mind getting a little more info on the cost of cloth diapers!
Pam: So right now I have Sweet Pea Diapers on for about $12. They are a one size diaper that come with absorbent inserts. Even if you started with 6-8 and went from there, you could be washing every day [or every other if you diaper part time], then you would just need a wetbag for putting the dirties in. Voila! Just imagine if you diapered for like $100 - $150 bucks until Casey was potty trained?!? Then sold them after or even gave them to a mamma who couldn't afford to diaper! Let me know your thoughts.
Well, that was the end of that. But I started thinking, and thinking, and thinking....how bad could it really be??
I started looking into it a little bit more, and it started to sound a bit better. One fact I learned was that EVERY disposable diaper we use will sit in our landfills for 550 YEARS!! So I decided to get a little more information. Next thing you know my conversation with my friend went something like this:
July 17th
Me: Ok, I have a thousand questions about it. Would I be able to meet with you sometime and actually see they product and what you have to offer?
Well, I went down and checked them out. I spent only
$200.00 and got a ton of diapers and fell IN LOVE! It has been such a great
experience! It has been so much simpler then I thought it would be.
Shawn is totally good with the cloth diapers too, which has been a
blessing. I got the flushable liners, so when Casey ‘number twos’ in
them I just take the liner out and into the toilet it goes! We have
less leaks and WAY less bum rashes! We are helping the environment for
our kids and our kids' kids and our kids' kids' kids, and ... well 550
years is a lot of generations! And on top of all that we are saving BIG
bucks!!! We have even been able to put extra ‘diaper money’ to the side
and take a trip to the States just Shawn and I! How great is that!??! If you are still using disposable diapers, let me tell you, from a girl who would NEVER have considered it, I’m telling you, “YOU ARE MISSING OUT ON SO MUCH!”.
Pam with Tiny TreeHugger has been fantastic and there for me every step and with every question! It has been overall an unbelievable experience for us and I now am wanting #3 just so I can use my cloth diapers again!
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Thank you Krystal for your blog contribution and sharing your journey with us! We know that if your babe is in diapers, you're never too late to start cloth diapering...
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