cutie bum

 

so this is our stash. we went with the flips, and a few drybees- although, those have ended up being our laundry day diapers, it seems :) it's been a few weeks & it's going very well! we've invested in a sprayer, which andy hooked up to the toilet (for spraying out those icky diapers) we still wear gloves at this point, lol, but maybe someday we'll be brave enough to bare hand it.  

bathtime=awesome hair

 

sweet soaphawk!

 

funny face:)

6 months!

 

happy 6 month birthday baby girl!

21 lbs, 4 oz

28"

and now for something completely different

some intake! Cecelia is still dabbling in solids, we try to offer some at every meal we have. I've started making smoothies for breakfast, or a snack because those are easy to share. I give her a spoon and try to "help" her a little with as spoon of my own. It usually just ends up with her having two spoons :)

 

blueberry smoothie, a hit for sure.

 

she's getting pretty good with the spoon! you know for a baby. :)

 

food is fun!

Day. um. 7?

Cece is currently wearing the Flip diaper, with the organic insert. She's been in the Flip system since last night around 7-8 pm. I think we're currently looking at the winner for daily wear, for the time being at least.

We were liking the flip, but only had the one Stay dry and one organic insert, so we threw a couple more stay dry inserts into an online order we were making, so we've got three of those now. (we figured for $5 each, it wouldn't cost any more than buying them later, and if we didn't go with flips we could use them as inserts or doublers in any pocket diapers we went with.)

So last night, we put her in the Flip with two inserts (as recommended by the manufacturer for overnight use). She had a heck of a big butt, but other than that she made through the night just fine, it worked as well as anything else we've tried! she's now on her second change since then, having used the other stay-dry liner, and on to the organic liner. The shell is doing just fine, with a quick wipe with the baby wipe during the changing process. Best of all, the diaper pail is practically empty, and the stay dry inserts are always among the first things to dry (the shell air dries, and usually actually beats the rest of the diaper load that's in the dryer!)

Adventures in Cloth Diapering. Part 3 or 4? ;)

 Cecelia spent last night in her Drybees all in one, we had planned to put her in a fitted, but she passed out and we weren't going to wake her for that!  anyway, i am pleased to report she slept all night. well, i mean, she woke up once to eat, but there were no diaper changes involved. i didn't get up to change her until around 7? which means she was in that diaper over 12 hours and it was soaked, but she wasn't fussing and it didn't leak. it's a definite contender for night time diaper!
she then wore one of the fitteds, which was easy enough to use. maybe about 2 hours, no fussying- very wet when i went to change her but what i didn't like about that was because it is MADE out of the absorbant material, she was wet all around, on the sides & everything. :\ so that seemed a little icky.

now she's in a disposable again, because i wasn't organized to stock her room up. this 8 diapers thing is tough :) but she's due for a nap soon, so i shall lay out the supplies.

more thoughts

I finally put Cece in one of the fitted diapers this morning (the bamboo one, I think). That DID NOT last long. before I even got the cover on, she filled it with poop. AWESOME. The good news is it wasn't really that terrible to deal with. Alas, we still haven't managed to get her into a fitted diaper, we were planning to tonight, but she fell asleep in the drybees AIO (with a doubler, so hopefully it'll make it through the night!)

We're still liking the Flip diapers concept, but we were thinking we would like a better test, since she always seems to pee the minute we button that one on... so we ended up ordering a couple more inserts online, we'll be able to use them as doublers in any pocket style diaper we end up going with, if the flip doesn't work out, and it cost $10, seems worthwhile to get a better test before we buy in.

I did a little math this evening, and estimated that we'll spend $700+ on diapers for this poop machine kid before she's potty trained, and estimated $500 give or take for the flip system, followed by a pocket diaper (fuzzi bunz) or hybrid all in one (drybees) sized (large) for after she outgrows the Flips. a couple hundred dollars savings now, and being able to re-use them for the next kid? I call win on that one! (though of course this doesn't take into account the cost of laundry, but on the other hand I also didn't take into account the cost of disposing of the disposable ones @ $1 per town trash bag, nor does it take into account the environmental impact)