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I have lived without a diaper sprayer for 18 months which in cloth diapering terms is a freaking eternity… With Addison getting older and eating a diet with far more solid foods, and my toddler still burdening me with gross diapers I dreaded cleaning… I knew it was time to invest in one.

I put in an order on Kelly’s Closet last week for the spayer and of course a couple odds and ends I needed — Some Rockin’ Green, a bigger wet bag – all that fun stuff. The best part was the kick ass coupon code: CLOVER which scored me a free FuzziBunz Elite as my mystery one size diaper for spending $69+!

It was a win all around! (more…)

Photo courtesy Kelly Wels; Author-Changing Diapers

Blow outs… It is something we have all heard in the world of parenting and when you would typically think about a tire blowing, but once you are a parent you know this kind of blow out involves poop — a lot of it!

With my older children I always just thought it was part of diapering a baby or toddler. And it wasn’t until I switched over to cloth diapers that I realized the world of difference the type of diaper actually makes when it comes to those nasty blow outs.

The difference? With cloth diapers we have never had a blow out that landed in poop inside an outfit and all over the place. I find that the cloth diapers themselves keep the poop contained to the inside of the diaper, where as the disposable diapers just let it flow right up the back.

You can see the difference in a cloth Vs. disposable waistband. (more…)

People never cease to amaze me with idiotic comments on cloth diapering, but recently I saw something -somewhere with step-by-step instructions on how to  change a cloth diaper without getting poop on your hands. Yes, I am serious.

I had to stop for a minute and think if there was much validity to the posting itself before I compared changing a disposable diaper and the difficulty of avoiding poop to actually changing a cloth diaper. (more…)

Before I had kids of my own I always thought diapers just went into the trash. Poop, pee… whatever ended up in them… off to the landfill they went!

Yup, I realized it was a lot of garbage… and I never really took the time to actually read the packaging the diapers came in. Do any of us?

I mean, once we know how to actually change a diaper why bother? It is not like there are step by step directions teaching us how to not end up with a swipe of shit on our pinky finger right? (more…)