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Cloth Diaper Accessories, Go beyond cloth diapering!
Cloth Diaper Accessories, Go beyond cloth diapering and get more bang for your buck! As you know with cloth diapers come the need for various accessories. Often some of the accessories seem like things you can and should live without, especially in the name of trying to save money. After all, many of the reasons families choose cloth to begin with is in order to save over the cost of disposable diaper use. This post is to make you feel a little better about some of the cloth diaper accessories that you may have been considering in investing in. Several cloth diaper accessories actually have multiple uses and just because your little one is no longer in diapers doesn’t mean you’ll no longer have a need for them. Here are a few of the accessories that I’ve found have uses beyond cloth diapering. Diaper Sprayers -As you know, they attach to your toilet and can be used to spray soiled diapers. But they also have some other great practical uses as well. Diaper Sprayers can be used in the post-partum healing process as a sprayer. They can be used to … Continue reading
The One Item You Must Have In Your House
If you want the best cornbread around, desire to fry an egg the healthy way, need to cure cracked hands or feet, condition your hair or cure a rash of any kind then you’d better have some coconut oil in your house. Coconut oil is the MacGyver of household products. You can use it for anything. You could even fix a squeaky door with it. I didn’t always understand the full scope of uses for coconut oil until recently. Sure, I knew it was the healthier oil to have in your kitchen but kill fungus off toes?? Organicfacts.net says (click the link for more great info): The health benefits of coconut oil include hair care, skin care, stress relief, maintaining cholesterol levels, weight loss, increased immunity, proper digestion and metabolism, relief from kidney problems, heart diseases, high blood pressure, diabetes, HIV and cancer, dental care, and bone strength. These benefits of coconut oil can be attributed to the presence of lauric acid, capric acid and caprylic acid, and its properties such as antimicrobial, antioxidant, antifungal, antibacterial, soothing, etc. If you’ve shopped for coconut oil before you have no doubt tried … Continue reading
KellyWels.com Giveaway #69- Win a Lambie Love Wool Wrap
KellyWels.com Giveaway: 1-Lambie Love One-Size Wool Wrap Sponsored by: Lambie Love
Lambie Love Wool Soaker Product Review
Once upon a time, I used wool for two babies for a year… full-time. I used wool covers, wool shorties, wool longies. I used interlock wool, recycled wool, knit and crocheted wool. I know wool. I received my Lambie Love wool soaker in the mail, and when I opened the package- even before taking the wool out- I loved it. It smelled so nice! Oh, how I adore wool that comes washed and ready to use!!! <3 Well, I took the wool out and petted it. Oh, the softness. And this recycled wool has one of my required features- interlock waist/legs! It also has the reinforced wet zone I look for. AND, she hand-dyes the interlock to match the wool. Interlock is soft and stretchy, and creates a great fit around the legs and the waist. My daughter is now 27 pounds, and the medium fits her perfectly- and I tried it over her bulky trainer. The soaker is soft all around- no rough-sewn edges at the legs or waist to cause irritation. Heather, the owner and creator of Lambie Love, makes the wool cloth diaper covers out of repurposed/upcycled … Continue reading
Overcoming Cold Feet: My First Cloth Diaper Change Was Easy Peasy!
I had spent some time getting acquainted and admiring my cloth diapers. I had washed and prepped my cloth diapers and lovingly put them in the changing table drawer for easy access. But I hadn’t used them yet. I don’t know what I was waiting for. I kept thinking there should be an exact time to start. None of my research had uncovered when you should put the diapers on your newborn baby. I was nervous. I kept putting it off thinking tomorrow would be a better day to try. Here I am 5 weeks after my newborn arrived and I’m still having cold feet. It was a Saturday morning and because we would be hanging out at the house for the whole weekend with no plans to go anywhere, I decided it was as good a time as any to pop on a cloth diaper and give it a whirl. I realized I was actually looking forward to experiencing a wet diaper change (and dare I say it – a poopy diaper too). I let my baby girl hang out for a while in her new, fluffy diaper; after … Continue reading
KellyWels.com Sponsored Giveaway at Crappy Pictures (Ends TODAY)
A few weeks ago I discovered a site called Crappy Pictures. Crappy Pictures you say? Well..you just have to head on over to visit this site. I guarantee you will smile and/or laugh once you are there. Also, I have never seen so many “shares” of pictures and links from this site anywhere online. So what is Crappy Pictures ? (Information taken from ‘About Me’ page) “Yep, I’m the mama. These are my parenting stories. And my drawings. My name is Amber Dusick and I have two boys, a husband and two black cats. My husband is really, really amazing. And my kids are fabulous. The cats are just okay. I started this whole thing because I was going crazy and needed a place to vent. Since I don’t have a photographer following me around* I wound up drawing some crappy pictures to illustrate the day to day things that happen as a parent. Apparently these things happen to other parents too! I’m just as shocked as anyone. And very relieved.” I discovered Crappy Pictures when Amber did a blog post about cloth diapering and put up … Continue reading
KellyWels.com Giveaway #68- Win FuzziBunz Cloth Diapers Package**EXTENDED**
KellyWels.com Giveaway: (Giveaway extended until May 11th) 1-FuzziBunz One-Size Elite Cloth Diaper in Apple Green 1-FuzziBunz Perfect Size Cloth Diaper Medium in Apple Green
Mother’s Day Cloth Diaper Giveaway Hop!
Re-posted with permission from Daily Mothering! Are you a mom? Do you love cloth diapers? (OF COURSE YOU DO!) Here’s your chance to win $1300 of cloth diapers for Mother’s Day! Plus, enter nearly 100 other fluffy giveaways for many more chances to win cloth diapers and accessories! Welcome to the Mother’s Day Cloth Diaper Giveaway Hop hosted by Daily Mothering! Nearly 100 blogs have linked up for this event to bring you dozens and dozens of exciting cloth diaper giveaways. Enter the GRAND PRIZE giveaway and then hop to the other blogs listed at the bottom of the post at Daily Mothering to enter their fluffy giveaways too! Each blog has a cloth diaper prize valued at $15 or more, and many blogs have prize packs worth over $100. The Grand Prize is $1350 worth of cloth diapers and accessories, including 37 Cloth Diapers, a Beco Gemini Baby Carrier, a Maggie Recycled Seatbelt Diaper Bag, a Thirty-One Retro Metro Bag, 2 pairs of Project Pomona Jeans (made to fit over cloth diapers), Babylegs Legwarmers and Socks, an organic baby outfit and many cloth diaper accessories! Head on over NOW!
Three Generations of Cloth Diapers in my Family
Can you imagine what it was like to diaper a baby before the invention of fabric? It’s hard to fathom a time when early humans had to use plants and animal skins around their baby’s bottom! Eventually, with spinning and weaving of fabric, diapering little ones had to seem like a breeze compared to earlier times. The flat fold was the main source of diapering for over a hundred years until the prefold was constructed in the 50′s. My grandmother talked about being so poor in the 50′s that she would carry my dad around on her back in a potato sack as she worked the cotton fields. Of course, she used flat fold cloth diapers (with no cover) that she would buy or use from old dresses, because they were too poor to afford the new-fangled prefolded diapers and water proof covers. Even though the first disposable diaper was created in the 40′s, they didn’t really resemble what we like to think of as modern diapers. As time went by, disposable diapers pretty much looked like chucks pads with some type of adhesive closure on them, so they were … Continue reading
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Can a Germaphobe Cloth Diaper?
It was last fall that, as always, cloth diapers came up in a discussion with a new friend. After all, you cannot know me without being exposed to cloth diapers in some way, shape or form. I was out on a walk with a couple of friends and one was very curious about exploring the possibility of cloth diapering to save money and the other friend had basically written it off saying that she could not do it because she even threw away her son’s underwear if it had the smallest stain on it. “I just potty train my kids early”. They both have three children and plan on having very large families. That is tens or hundreds of thousands of diapers in a landfill and tens of thousands of dollars that are going towards garbage. Environmentalist would cringe at the tons of waste taking hundreds of years to decompose and the budget conscious would surely wave money saving equations before their eyes…and I do not personally consider three (or almost three) years old early potty training. 18 months, perhaps, but potty training a few months earlier than the general … Continue reading
