A Bum Wrap

Waiting for baby seemed to be a great time to jump into cloth diapering. I want to do cloth diapers with the Sprout so I bought sizes to fit Small Son, thinking I could get into the swing with him to prepare me for her. I have some Happy Heineys and some new and used Fuzzibunz. I thought that pocket diapers were the top of convenience these days. It wasn't until after I'd purchased them that I found out about the all in one diapers by Bum Genius. They look awesome.

Anyhow, so far cloth diapering is not working AT ALL. The first day I did two cloth diapers in the mix of disposables. Both soaked all the way through EVERYTHING. Today I'm giving it another go around and twice, SOAKED. I thought my mistake the other day was leaving them on too long so today I changed them much more frequently...or I was going to when I saw the wet pants walking around. What is the deal? Why isn't this working? The moisture is soaking right through the "waterproof" outer of both kinds of diapers. I mean, they are drenched. How is that possible if they are waterproof? One thing is certain, I am starting to admire the amount my son pees. I'm pretty sure it's more than he drinks. Those disposables with the gel inside don't really convey the true amount of liquid.

They say that when there's a poopy diaper you just "shake it off into the toilet" - voila! I think I even heard some asinine phrase like "with a flick of the wrist" or something like that. Well today I'm sitting there with rubber gloves scrubbing some nasty poop in the toilet. I had to flush again to get some clean water going after it gunked up the first bowl. THEN I had to clean out the brush that was all stuck with kidney bean skins! Why do people do this? I know disposables take, like, five billion years to decompose in the landfills but at this point I think I'd happily dig a hole in my backyard and start shoving them in! I'm not giving up yet but so far I think I'd be just as well off wrapping a towel around Small Son's waist. Any advice?

Oh, and yea, still pregnant.

Comments

[sster]

Ick. That sounds like no fun at all! Maybe some more research is warranted. Are you using doublers inside the diapers?

The learning curve is precisely the reason we're going disposable. I'm just not that coordinated.

By the way--you have to have the BEST post title of the week. It made me giggle (giggling makes you go into labor, right?? right?)

[Bethany]

Unfortunately no cloth diapering advice here. I'm currently trying to decide which way we'll go and now it's not looking so good for Fuzzibunz.

I just "ran into" your son on the AF website! It is a strange feeling running into someone on the world wide web. Congrats to the Grand Prize Candid Winner! (I know one of the 0-11 mo "runner ups" from my Taiwan yahoo groups)

I hope you'll see that small sprout soon!

[cloudscome]

Sorry but I am laughing my head off here.