Cloth Diapering Diaries

The adoption has been a little intense the last couple of days so I thought I would write about something fun.  Since we are going to be getting a two month old and one year old baby, I had to figure out how to not spend a fortune on diapers.  I buy organic diapers for Irelyn so they are very expensive.  With two or three kids in diapers, I decided to start cloth diapering!  So here is how its going.

Day 1:  EW!  This is yuckier than I thought.  I have a neat toilet sprayer that my hubby installed for me which makes the poopy diapers easier to handle.  I also have an awesome stain and odor fighting spray called bac-out.  We had to make a trip down to Phoenix where I discovered that it is not more difficult to take clothe diapers on the go than disposable.  I did,  however discover that using cloth diapers and disposable wipes is a pain.  I am going to use cloth wipes as well.  That way, everything just goes into my diaper pail.  I chose to use Oeko Popo diapers.  This is not one of the huge names but I researched like crazy trying to find the diapers I wanted to use and these are them.  They are working out well. They seem to fit a little funny but I think it is just because my little angel is so tiny.  They absorb very well and are so cute!

Day 2:  I am figuring things out....like how the diaper pail needs to be in the bathroom so that I can throw poopy diapers that I spray off directly in the pail and how cloth wipes are much easier to use.  I got a cloth wipe solution that I love and cut up some receiving blankets to use as wipes.  They smell amazing!  I put it all in my wipe warmer and it is easy as can be!  I did laundry for the first time today and to my surprise, everything came out clean and smelling fresh!

I am contemplating whether I should use disposable diapers when I drop Irelyn off at the church nursery.  I will just have to see what the nursery helpers have to say about it.

The diapers and inserts drying on the fence.