It is a gorgeous spring day in Missouri. It's so nice to hear the birds chirping and sun shining!
As you know, I am a big fan of new moms staying home with their children and finding creative ways to be frugal and resourceful. One cost that I think is unneccesary is diapers. My daughter is 15 months and we've never purchased diaposable diapers (except one small package when we were traveling the Oregon coast and no laundromat was avalailable.)With that said, I would like to take the fear and worry out of the daunting idea, to many, of cloth diapering, by offering you a few tips and tricks.
One of the biggest reasons people choose to not take advantage of cloth diapering is that they are worried about clean up. I had my doubts as well, but once I got the hang of it, it was neither messy nor time consuming.
The clean up method will change as your child transitions from newborn to infant and when your child moves up from breast milk or formula to solid foods. When the child first comes home from the hospital, I found that the best method of clean up, for solids, was to use the little peri-bottle they gave me, after giving birth, to spray off solids into the toilet. You can also hold the diaper by one end and swish it around and lush the toilet. The swirling action of the toilet gets them really clean! There is no clean-up requirement for a diaper that is only wet.
One key thing to remember is, the diapers do not have to be clean when you throw them in the pail. You can simply smear the poo with some tp into the toilet and your washer will do the ret of the job. I was nervous about this concept at first, but now I seriously just throw them in the pail dirty, with the bulk of the mess off. They come out really clean anyway!
As my daughter got older, I noticed she made bowel movements much less frequently, so after the first couple of months cloth diapering was smooth sailing. When the child gets to be about 6 months, and is on a diet of a variety of solid foods, the clean up becomes easiest of all, because, if your child is like mine, the solids will just plop into the toilet. After removing the solids, you simply remove the liners and throw everything together into the wash. (I usually wash every other day.) It is best to use a detergent that is free of dyes and perfumes, so that your child's skin will not be irritated.
It seriously is way easier than you are expecting.
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