Venturing in to the world of cloth diapering....

Yes you read that right: cloth diapering. I know I know, yuck! When I had Sydney there is no way I would have thought about doing this and in fact I was quite grossed out. Maybe those first couple of years with her softened me to the idea though. There's something about cleaning up multiple messes of "waste" :), midnight sick sessions, boogers, being pooped on, peed on (those last two--thanks to Gavin!) etc. that makes you feel like you can tackle just about anything you previously considered "gross", "nasty", or "disgusting." So when my cousin Traci e-mailed me about these diapers she and her husband were thinking of trying with their new baby it reminded me of when I had first looked at the same diapers earlier in my pregnancy with Gavin. And that got the ball rolling. Every time I would buy a box of Pampers (each week!) I would cringe because I thought to myself how I very well could buy all of the diapers he would ever need in his diapering career in one fell swoop--initially for quite a cost, but over the course of just the next few months they would pay for themselves. I figured that in Gavin's not yet 3 months of life (I rounded up to 3 months just for kicks and grins) we had already spent roughly $250 on diapers....that is $50 shy of what it would take for us to buy all of the cloth diapers we would need to use until he is ready for potty training! I decided to give it a try and ordered a 3 pack of diapers just to try them out and get a feel for them. So far so good! I have been spending many naptimes researching different kinds and figuring out which ones I think I'd like to try. I'm pretty excited about it but Joe has pretty much told me he thinks I'm silly (in not so many words) but will still change these diapers--he just won't wash them!

I find I am trying some things that I didn't try when Sydney was a baby. For one reason or another I just feel like the stigma attached to a lot of things that I was afraid of has lifted. Was she my guinea pig baby? Because it seems more and more like Gavin is! :) Or is it because she was my first and I was scared to try anything new and seemingly more difficult? The new thing now is the cloth diapers and we shall see how it pans out. I'll keep you posted--rest assured though that if it doesn't work out you'll all be able to hear my husband yelling "I told you so!" :)