We are so excited to have Melissa Durango as a guest blogger today. She knows a lot about cloth diapering! She is a mother of two cute little boys ages 2 1/2 and 9 months, and is Katey's little sis! Not to mention Sarah has known her since she was a little girl in elementary school. Today Melissa is going to share tidbits of information that she has found useful in her cloth diapering journey! Enjoy!!!
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| Lissy's Two Cents! |
A lot of time is invested when shopping for diapers.
Even after months of cloth diapering religiously, it still
took me days and days to decide on which diapers I would like to purchase and
where to purchase them from. I thought that maybe it was just this way in the
beginning when deciding on which type of diaper was the biggest decision, but I
have been proven wrong. It doesn’t help that whenever I have money to spend on
new diapers I have to make sure I get the BEST deal for the most diapers. It is
actually rather pathetic. I hear a voice telling me JUST BUY IT but I can’t!
What if there is a better deal somewhere else?! What if they are not what I
expect?! I admit that I have never in my life spent the amount of time shopping
for items like I do for cloth diapers or any related must have (like BabyLegs!).
Not everyone accepts your decision.
More often than not most people are respectful when they
become aware of your decision to use cloth diapers. I usually get a “good for
you!” or “that’s great!” But this is not always the case. I have run into a
fair share of people who are downright disgusted, and they even have the guts
tell me this to my face like I am some sort of nutcase. This is usually because
they are close-minded and clueless to how clean and easy it is to use cloth diapers. Given at how rude they are, I
secretly wish to start a fight about it, but I refrain from a public outburst
that might land me in big trouble. You do your thing, I will do mine. Thank you
very much.
You will know when you need to strip diapers.
If you cloth diaper or have been contemplating using cloth
diapers, then you probably have come across the process known as stripping.
This is done once in a while (every few months for me) usually to rid the
diapers of detergent build up. When I first began, I kept wondering if it was
time to strip and I learned that I was not alone. I read various forums and
articles online and found out that others were often worried about the same
thing. With my oldest I began to notice a funny smell when he wet his diaper,
then one day I was changing him and it was like a bomb of lethal substances was
thrown right in my face. Ammonia = uncontrollable tears...worse than the onion
slicing ones. From then on I never
worried about it…if I notice that same odor then I knew it was time.
Before I had a diaper sprayer I got rid of the poop on the
diapers the gross way, scraping, dunking, whatever I could do to get it semi
clean. Diaper sprayers are known to be one of the best cloth diapering
accessories I was tired of dealing with mush poop and decided to get one.
Although I am grateful (soooo grateful!) at how much easier dealing with yucky diapers, it still
is messy. When you spray the diaper, the water ricochets off of it on to the
toilet and anything close by. No one told me this. Lowering the water pressure
helps, but doesn’t do anything to get the yuckies off. Needless to say, each
time I spray a diaper the potty gets cleaned.
That pretty much sums it up. For the moment anyway, since
there is so much that can be said (thought too) about the loveliness that is cloth diapers!
Love, Melissa
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