Helpful cloth diapering reference page

• This is a good reference page I made. Its to help you see what diapers I use or have used and liked. How they are used and what they look like on a baby. Mostly I wrote it for my friends who are looking into CD but need to know where to start.
  
  Here is the BGE (bumgenius elementals): BGE- check out the photos you can see the inside, outside, and what it looks like on a baby.

  
  

  
  

  
  
• Here is the OS Simplex:  OS Simplex Still all cotton on the inside. and it also has a attached piece of fleece that you can put against babies skin for a stay dry effect. Love that part... plus its a pocket interior to put a doubler in if you needed to for a heavy wetter

  
  
  

  
  

  
  

  Here are prefolds: You can use them two ways you can: trifold them into a cover. or wrap around baby for a better fit and snappi/pin it then cover it.

  Prefolds

  For all colors Id get 24 of each color, orange (newborn) yellow, red, brown, not all babies need green. You can get these on Spots corner a lot as well. I love the organic ones though- they absorb a lot more
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  Then these ones are Workhorse fitted:WH its a fitted prefold basically. For a younger immobile baby Id go with snapless using a snappi or pins. (orange edge, yellow and red) Then when buying brown edge Id get snaps because baby can snag the snappi right off when they crawl.
  
  Here are Flats: FLATS.
  These are a staple in any stash. So versatile and inexpensive. You can double them up for more absorbancy or just add a doubler to it.
  
  Covers:
  

  
  

  • Motherease Airflow: (not restricting at all on babies waist-better for a wide diaper)

  Airflow covers
  

  • Thirsties Duo: Comes in two sizes (Aplix for younger babies, snaps for older)

  Thirsties 
  

  • Thirsties Sized Covers: Very nice fit. I loved it on my little babies.   

  Thirsties
  

  • Econobum: nice and light weight and stretchy

  Econobum
  

  • Bummis Super Lite: (lightweight, not as restricting. Only comes in Aplix)

  Bummis
  

  • Diaper Safari Covers: I LOVE THESE and I recommend them over FLIPS

  Diaper Safari
  

  • Rumparooz Newborn

   Rumparooz
  

  •  One Size cover

  Rarz

  • FLIPS 

  FLIPS

  • Blueberry Mini cover for newborns

  Blueberry mini
  
  Wool Covers:  
  
  Some of my favorite brands of interlock wool are:
  

  • Bumby!!!!  Stephanie has a plethora of things that she makes and she and her team are outstanding.

  Make sure you go to follow her facebook page! Bumby FB page
  You can order from her what you need and in the size you need. Shes always been so great to work with. Or you can go to her facebook BST page that her admins run for her to buy things that are previously loved. Bumby B/S/T

   

  • EweBgreen  Heather is another WAHM by herself. DO not let this fool you. Her work is excellent. Shes always willing to make something specific to your needs. So again go follow her facebook page. Ewebgreen FB page or her bst page that is run as well by her admins. EweBgreen b/s/t

  
  

  • Loveybums: These are my FAVORITE wool cover for a newborn. So soft and comfy. No restricting PUL or plastic cover. Just cotton and wool! I prefer the Jersey.

  • Wollybottoms: I love their soakers both recycled and interlock and footies for days AND night 

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Accessories: 
  
  This is a snappi fastener. snappi

  Green Mountain Diapers: Snappi Fasteners 

  Doublers: A lot of people rely on extra doublers for extra absorbancy doublers

  
  

   How to store when wet/soiled:
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  Pail Liner:pail liner
  

  
  

  
  
• Or a wet bag:wet bag

  
  

  
  
• Newborn:
  

  
  As for Newborn if you don't do the orange GMD prefolds or orange workhorse diapers you will want to get at a few newborn sized diapers...
  
  Motherease makes newborn diapers: its a fitted that requires a cover
  newborn sandys
  Kissaluvs are great as well- this is also a fitted that requires a cover
  KLO.
  Little Joeys: this one doesn't require a cover its an AIO
  LIL JOEYS
  Grovia: doesnt require a cover
  NB GROVIA
  Blueberry Newborn Simplex
  NEWBORN SIMPLEX 

  
  

  
  

  
  
• If your wondering how long a baby will fit into newborn diapers and how long until they can fit in a one sized diaper every baby is different.
  

  He grew out of his newborn diapers at one month old. I think he was 14 lbs. He moved into yellow edged WH/ and PF.
  

  At 2 months he fit into his one sized bumgenius elementals along with his yellow edge WH and PF.
  

  
  
• Night time solutions:
  

  You have a couple options:

  You can do the prefolds, workhorse, flats or whatever- and just use doublers. Being its all cotton it soaks faster overnight. You can also use a pocket diaper without the microfiber insert- use a prefold and a hemp doubler, this will give one fluffy butt- but the inner fleece lined they feel dry at least.

  Motherease One Size organic with doubler
  MEOS

  
  

  Motherease Sandys also works great for nightime.
  

  ME SANDYS
  Sbish: (expensive but they are very absorbant diapers for nights)
  sbish snapless
  Bububebe nightime
  
  Wash Routine:
  

  1. I start with a cold wash/cold rinse (no soap, don't dry when cycle done)
  2. Restart wash on Hot wash/rinse. Add in your soap that you choose. I used ALL Free and Clear before I started making my own- this recipe can be found in my previous blog posts as well. (not the best on diaper cleaning so I went back to ALL F&C)
  3.  I have occasionally used 1/4 bleach.. this would go in now with the hot wash
  4. When I put it in for a hot wash/rinse, and press extra rinse (if using bleach)
  5. Dry (I dry for one cycle and air dry the rest of the way
  6. Sun is a great way to get stains out so get them freshly cleaned wet diapers out to the line to dry!

  
  I hope this helps! Remember this is not your only option for cloth diapering. Its just showing what I use and what I use looks like. If you want to see more I have a post on my favorite CD stores up in the toolbar above. 
  
  FEEL FREE TO ADD A COMMENT WITH YOUR FAVORITE NEWBORN DIAPERS OR A GREAT NATURAL FIBER DIAPER THAT IS BUDGET FRIENDLY~!

So they call me supermama????

Here is my latest FB post that I wanted to share so you can all read what a day in a life a mother of 5 is like... when the husband is gone for awhile. Well...

okay my husband spoils us with his good food and helping hands around the house ( a lot 

more than most men I know) Well tonight I was a BUSY "solo" mama. I was fixing supper. 

Just Tomato basil soup and grilled tuna sandwiches. Who can screw that up right? Well I 

was helping Jax eat some peaches... Vienna, was talking my ear off a mile a minute as she 

was "doing dishes" (filling the pots up with water and dumping it out over and over) my cats 

were all at my feet as they smelt tuna.. ugh.. tripped over them maybe 10 times.. My soup 

overflowed, my sandwiches got a little extra crispy. Jax was screaming for more... Vienna is 

still talking lol. Boys are setting the table, horsing around like lil boys do. OH MY WORD! 

this is just one night of my awesome busy home... BUT we sat down together and Lucas was 

the one who said the prayer tonight.. and he prayed for my efforts, said "thank you for my 

mom who worked her butt off tonight, our burnt toast and all." lol Thanks Guys! Through 

the  chaos of it-theyre my family and Im happy to call them mine.

Wearing my baby!

 I do love babywearing. It works when Jax is fussy or not letting me leave the room for any reason. Which he has been doing a lot lately. I can teach school while I wear him. Cook, clean. pay bills onling all because hes on my back. I used to carry him on my front. Then in my Sleeping Baby Productions Ring sling I wear him on my hip. Hec I even wear him in my mesh fabric ring sling in the shower. (bought it for pool use) Cause I have that phobia where you always think you hear your baby crying when your in the shower. ( I cant stand that)

 I just got a Didymos Natural Linen Indio 6 to add to our collection. (shown on the right) I have to say its been a little difficult to get on by myself but with daddy spotting we have gotten it a few times. Hes been so silly when hes on my back. I truly think he likes when I bring them out. BUT he can be a leg straightener so we are finding some certain carries that will be "leg straightening proof!"

This one is my Ergo soft structured wrap. I do like this one a lot for when I go to stores, library and such. (shown in left)

 This is my friends Didymos Ecru Pfau  6 that she lent me. This one was very pretty! I liked it a lot. Jax liked it too!! (shown on right)

<Here is Jax and I doing laundry. As you see he likes to leg straighten. Yes Yes we will cut that habit! lol. BUT we got our diaper laundry folded up.

Here is Jax in> upper right

 the Sleeping Baby Productions woven ring sling.

here again is the Natural Linen Indio size 6. I like to watch Babywearing Faith on youtube. Such a sweet knowledgable mama with different wraps.

Babyhawk Mei Tai- this one is okay but I find that its tougher for me to get used to.

Girasol Garden! This is a Girsaol Snow Diamond size 6. I got this one from Pinkletinkbaby.

Eco Green Moms

I want to be a little bird in your ear that tells you about this neat website that my friend has produced.


If you are interested in natural products, and love organic in your home, and you want to know whats HOT these days in the natural world, you need to check out this page.


She has gathered a bunch of reviews on a lot of amazing products. Unpaper towels, Cuppow cup, reusable sandwich bags, reusable bags, Lunchbots, Silli Squeeze, the Diva cup, doTERRA oils, Green Mountain Diapers to name a few. If you want to learn about more natural products she has conducted neat reviews by the public for many of them. She also does a lot of giveaways which are always fun.

If your reading this go over to her facebook and give her a "like" to stay up to date on her newest posts- "Eco Green Moms" http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/EcoGreenMoms?fref=ts and her webpage- make sure you read through all her product reviews and then under her giveaways tab she has her latest products to giveaway, leave her a comment and you can be entered! http://ecogreenmoms.com/  

You wont want to miss out!!

 

Surgery Day for our Noly Poly~

Yes, I should have posted earlier to update that Nolans surgery went as hoped. He had a hard time waking up this am, "I dont want to have surgery" overall he hopped up left his jammies on, brushed his teeth and got our stuff on to leave. We left at 6:25 and got there at 6:45.  We checked in, got settled into "114" and immediatly had our nurse come in.. which was one of our friends moms and his little buddies grandma- so that helped Nolan hear stories of his friends. Broke the ice so to speak. Then an anestesiologist came in and told us the game plan and asked him some questions. He too was very focused on Nolan which helped him. Then the whole crew arrived at about 7:55 to take him back to the surgical suite. This made him very nervous and official, he tearts up-"I want you to come with me, why cant you come with me" So we went over again step by step of whats happening (as we have done at least 10 times already). Your going to go with them, they are going to put you to sleep with the silly mask, then when they are done they will take you to a quiet room til you wake up, and when you wake up you will come right back in here to mama. I gave him all sorts of kisses and squeezed him, trying myself not to cry. This helped him calm down, they came in and gently got him unhooked and wheeled the bed away. Hes sitting up in the bed with this little smirk half smile. Hes wheeling away through the doors, and thats where I lost it, no more being the strong mama- I lost it. No matter how routine a procedure can be, no matter how many times a dr can conduct this procedure a part of me still was scared to death of any unknown possibilities. My mom left to a dr appt, she was probably late but she wanted too to see him off. So it was me and this room just waiting. My room was right by the big double doors that they enter back in at, I swear everyone was coming through but none of them were him... ugh how long must I wait. 9:52 he was finally back!! Crying and lethargic, trying to come out of that funky feeling of anestesia. He kept crying, "It hurts, it hurts really bad" Of course thats not what I wanted to hear I just want to take that all away from him. I rubbed his head and encouraged him to go with the sleep that his body wanted him to do. So he slept, and because he was still waking in and out in pain they gave him another dose of Morphine, well that did the trick, he finally slept for about 15 minutes. He wakes up, "Im done sleeping Im not tired anymore, can we go home now" lol hes funny good try buddy, but lets wait a little while. He got to have some water and some juice, and grandma went and got him a donut. That made him wake up, cant miss out on a donut, right? We stayed there til 1150, got ready to be go. The sitting up, and getting dressed was a little more difficult for him. We slowly got it with mamas help of course, and got him into wheelchair to go! Agh! going home! Its over! Lets hit the road! So we are now home, and hes bounched back great, but we have kept ahead of the pain too which is crucial.

So thanks to everyone for the support, Thank you to grandma Hagen and grandma Rouse for helping out!!! We appreciate it all!!!

Surgery Day tomorrow bright and early

Tomorrow is Nolan's surgery. We just got the call that its at 645am and scheduled for 750am. Please keep this in your prayers. Pray for his courage and for a smooth recovery, the doctors wisdom and skilled hands.

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