Awhile ago I mentioned that we had decided to give cloth diapers a try. It's been about a month now and so far, so good. I was able to collect the "supplies" we needed to get started over the course of a few weeks then spent another day or two getting them ready for action. Once we actually started diapering Tyler up with cloth, it was amazingly easy which is actually what everyone I talked to about it said but I totally didn't believe.
Here's what we do:
1. put the diaper on him
2. when it needs to be changed, take the diaper off of him
3. put it in the diaper pail (no lid, no special methods, nothing but tossing it in)
4. put a new one on
5. repeat.
Then wash them after 2-3 days. Then put them in the sun to dry (f it happens to be sunny, if not, dry in the house).
There's definitely a learning curve- how to fold, how to put on, how to adjust the sizes/tightening/etc, how to wash- but even that isn't so bad. Kevin and our daycare provider are definitely on board, I am learning as I go and there's nothing better than thinking during every diaper change how we aren't sending yet another diaper to the landfill along with another quarter to the garbage truck!
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