Ask my wife: it can take me an hour to work myself up to buying a cleaning product, only to put it back on the shelf before leaving the store. Like Yossarian, I'm convinced that they're all out to kill me (think about it for a second, and you'll notice it's true) - and on top of that, I don't really enjoy spending money.
I didn't have time to get around to ordering any cloth diaper stuff before the baby was born, so the boy was in disposables when we took him home. Left on my own, it would have probably taken me an eye-bulging month on the internet to buy anything to put the poop in.
Luckily for me, I have great friends. The kick-ass folks at Dogwood Bread Company pitched in and bought me my first cloth diapering rig (you'll see these referred to elsewhere as your "stash". Not sure where these cats grew up, but around my house as a kid your "stash" was small green and smelly and generally kept in your sock drawer.)
The diapering gear was shipped to our house and got there maybe a week after the boy. We got 6 Thirsties Duo diaper covers (made in USA), 24 pre-fold organic cotton unbleached small diapers, and 12 big ones. They came from punkinbutt.com.
We also got a wicked-cool object called a Snappi - which was really fun, until I figured out a better way to use the covers and diapers without it. The Snappi is still pretty fun - I used it to put a diaper on the cat.
The boy was born 6lbs 5oz, and by the time we got home from the hospital, he was 6lbs. He is what they call a "banana baby" - meaning long and lean. He's also breastfed, which keeps him pretty lean as he grows. The Thirsties Duo cover has a pretty nifty system for adjusting the size, so you can technically use one set until about 9 months and another until potty training. (By-the-by - I hate measuring babies by age. Who's stupid idea is that? Measure them by weight.)
Unfortunately for us, the banana boy's spindly legs weren't fat enough to fill up the inner gusset in the cover - which is the levy for the whole system - no gusset, no containment.
So, we used the disposables until he was four weeks old, and then the covers fit. We had to buy one more full box of the disposables before we got into the cloth. Could we have figured out a way to do cloth the whole time? Probably.
But, you know, I was really damn tired, and my wife was sore, and we had no general idea what the hell we were doing. Give yourself a break every now and then. You're going to make up the difference in the long haul.
Up Next: Containment!
I didn't have time to get around to ordering any cloth diaper stuff before the baby was born, so the boy was in disposables when we took him home. Left on my own, it would have probably taken me an eye-bulging month on the internet to buy anything to put the poop in.
Luckily for me, I have great friends. The kick-ass folks at Dogwood Bread Company pitched in and bought me my first cloth diapering rig (you'll see these referred to elsewhere as your "stash". Not sure where these cats grew up, but around my house as a kid your "stash" was small green and smelly and generally kept in your sock drawer.)
The diapering gear was shipped to our house and got there maybe a week after the boy. We got 6 Thirsties Duo diaper covers (made in USA), 24 pre-fold organic cotton unbleached small diapers, and 12 big ones. They came from punkinbutt.com.
We also got a wicked-cool object called a Snappi - which was really fun, until I figured out a better way to use the covers and diapers without it. The Snappi is still pretty fun - I used it to put a diaper on the cat.
The boy was born 6lbs 5oz, and by the time we got home from the hospital, he was 6lbs. He is what they call a "banana baby" - meaning long and lean. He's also breastfed, which keeps him pretty lean as he grows. The Thirsties Duo cover has a pretty nifty system for adjusting the size, so you can technically use one set until about 9 months and another until potty training. (By-the-by - I hate measuring babies by age. Who's stupid idea is that? Measure them by weight.)
Unfortunately for us, the banana boy's spindly legs weren't fat enough to fill up the inner gusset in the cover - which is the levy for the whole system - no gusset, no containment.
So, we used the disposables until he was four weeks old, and then the covers fit. We had to buy one more full box of the disposables before we got into the cloth. Could we have figured out a way to do cloth the whole time? Probably.
But, you know, I was really damn tired, and my wife was sore, and we had no general idea what the hell we were doing. Give yourself a break every now and then. You're going to make up the difference in the long haul.
Up Next: Containment!
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