Going green

In an effort to be 'green' (see how cool I am with my hip terms?) I am going to cloth diaper this kid. The unfortunate thing about this is that I doubt anyone else will attempt to change my baby's diaper. If you think about how many diapers get thrown away per child it really is pretty disgusting. Lets just say an average of 8 diapers a day for 3 years is 8760 diapers!!! Blech, I've added enough to diaper hill I think.

The last few days I have been perusing cloth diaper message boards (oh yes there is such a thing) and diapers are not what they used to be. They are really stinking (hee hee) cute! When the baby is itty bitty, I am going to get old school and use cloth prefolds and covers because they are so tiny that most fitted diapers are much to big. Yep, my baby will be rocking out baby Jesus style, like this (picture courtesy of www.greenmountaindiapers.com):
In an effort to keep myself and my furniture protected from pee and newborn explosive poop, I will cover the above Jesus style with something like this: It is cotton on the outside but the inside is plastic (PUL) and you can wipe it out and reuse it all day long without having to toss it in the washing machine. Very economical!


When the baby get a little more chub on them, then...THEN, Oh this is the exciting part! I will get to put the baby in this. It is called a pocket diaper and on the inside it has a pocket inside that you can stuff with either old prefold cloth diapers or the microfiber/hemp inserts that it comes with. You use it one time then wash it:


If I am feeling like it is a particularly fancy day, then I will use something like this:



And when I am breastfeeding for the twelfth time in one day, I will put the baby in this so I wont feel like the only cow in the room: