Make your own cloth wipe solution

In our house we use cloth diapers. Since before I was pregnant with Moira, I knew I wanted to use them. I did tons of research and got lots of help from friends and some great websites. I worked on my stash of diapers for her and I couldn't wait to use them! When Charlotte came around, my long awaited cloth diapers were now going to be used! I couldn't wait! I also decided to try out cloth wipes.

I found this a woman on Diaper Swappers who makes wonderful wipes. I am not creative in any way, so Eli's Wipes are great for me. What I like about her wipes, as opposed to just flannel wipes, is she backs them with sherpa, velour, and a few other types of materials. These make the wipes thicker and nicer when wiping that wonderful breastmilk poo! I have a mixed variety of velour and sherpa. I have decided that I prefer the sherpa over the velour, so when I placed my last order from her I ordered all flannel/sherpa wipes. I only started out with about 30 wipes and now that we are using them on a regular basis I need more to get through a few days. I just placed an order for 45 more wipes! I am hoping that these will last us a little longer.
After doing a lot of research online for a good wipe solution to use with my cloth wipes, I decided on a combination of Burt's Bees baby wash, water, and Burt's Bees baby oil. I use the handy dandy squirt bottles that I swiped while we were in the hospital and they work great!!


After I have assembled my supplies, the first thing I do is fill the squirt bottle halfway with water. Then I add a few drops of baby oil and a few squirts of baby wash.



Then I fill the squirt bottle up and shake to mix. Before each use, I give the bottle a shake to mix it up before I squirt some on the wipe!


So, that's what I do for my cloth wipes and wiping my baby's bum! We've had no diaper rashes since using cloth diapers and her bum smells fresh and clean after she's wiped up! Now I'll leave you with a bit of cuteness!!

Cloth diapers!!

Awhile back a friend asked to see some pics of my cloth diaper stash. At the time I wasn't ready to go and take pictures. I think I wanted to wait until we were pregnant and we knew what we were having. Now that we know both of those, today I decided to take some pictures. I spent some time in the nursery taking pics of my fluff. I also spent some time looking around, looking through the clothes, and just sitting in the room. I kept thinking, we are having a baby, we are having a baby that we get to bring home, we are having a baby girl. I get to use everything in this room. Sigh....I love the nursery. I have to get used to calling it Charlotte's room and not Moira's room. I don't really like that, but it is what it is right?

Anyway, here are my fluffy pictures!


My prefolds with XS and S covers


XS/NB AIO's and Pockets

Small AIO's and Pockets

All of the smalls, extra smalls/newborns

My kind of yucky looking Kissaluv's fitted diapers.



Cloth wipes

Cloth wipes

All of them! :)

My fluff....

My extra smalls and newborn sizes


The smalls


All of my dipes.

Took some pictures of all of my cloth diapers that I have bought so far. I love them!!:) Still need some more. I love buying them.

stuff

We have our nephew Josh here with us this weekend. He will be 10 at the end of February. He was going to stay one night but because of the snow we are getting, he will also be here tonight too. We have tomorrow off of work, so that's good. I am being a total bum so far today. I REALLY need to take down my Christmas tree. Yes, you heard that right, I still have it up and it's real!! We had it cut down fresh, so it will stay alive forever. I have just been so lazy in getting it down. I think I will do it today.

I have been looking at a bunch of different cloth diaper sites last night and today. I have decided I am also going to do some prefold diapers with the covers as well as the AIO and pockets that I have already. It is just more economical and better on my wallet as well. I have about 19 size small AIO and pockets and I have about 10 xs/nb AIO and pockets too. I do have about 10 Kissaluv fitteds, which I bought pretty early on. The person who sold them to me told me they were in good shape and they looked good in the picture, but when I got them they were more worn than I thought. They are size small and will probably be back ups. I have to get some covers for them as well.
So, I have been looking at going with either the Chinese prefolds or the Indian prefolds, can't decide. I found that green mountain diapers has the best deals for buying them seperately, but that Nicki's diapers has good package deals. I am also going to get the snappis too to try out as well. I am thinking I will get the prorap covers for newborn sizes and infant sizes. They are really affordable. I might buy a few other kinds that are colorful and pretty but they are expensive new, so I will have to find those used on DS or somewhere.

Our cat Ozy, he is the youngest of the 5, got pink eye or something. We noticed on Thursday his eye was swollen when we got home from work. We decided to wait and see how it was Friday, it was still swollen in the morning so I figured if it was when I got home on Friday I would call the vet. Our cats get stuff in their eyes all of the time, but they usually don't last too long. So, I called the vet when I got home and took him in on Saturday morning. He didn't have a scratch on his eye, which was good, but it was red and swollen. So I got eye drops and ointment for him. One is an antibiotic and the other is an anti-inflammatory. His eye already looks way better today, but we have to give him the meds. all week to make sure. He was so good at the vet, way more alert and social than the other cats. He is just so funny.

That's about it. Snowing here again. I really don't mind though!!:)

Have a good day!

diapers

YAY! I just ordered the 8 Bum Genius pink diapers from the woman on diaperswappers. They look so nice from the pictures!! I am also going to buy some VERY cute diapers from my friend Jen! She has 3 more xs and 3 more smalls! I have no idea if I am going to need xs with Moira or not, but I figure it doesn't hurt. I already have 5 xs/nb sizes right now, so I figure a few more of those and then the rest I will buy smalls. I am hoping I can buy a few mediums too after I get a good stash of smalls. I want to have a few med. on hand. Yay for diapers!!:) I don't have that many right now, so I am getting nervous!!! Only 4 months, 122 days, until my little Moira is born. I can't believe it and there is just so much to do!!We started cleaning out the junk room this weekend. There were so many boxes and crap in there that we haven't touched since we moved here. We got rid of so much stuff, just junk!! Three large trash bags and about 4 or 5 smaller trash bags. Yesterday Dave went out back and burned close to 20 empty boxes in our fire pit. We were so proud of ourselves. There is still a lot more to do, but we are making progress!!

Back to work tomorrow. I feel ready to go though. It will be nice to get back into a routine.

Much better.....

I finally went to sleep and then we slept until almost 11am!! YAY! It wasn't the best sleep, but it was sleep at least. I just found a woman selling 8 pink Bum Genius diapers for $65, not sure if that includes shipping or not, but I think it does. Way better than the other woman I was dealing with!! She was going to sell me 5 for $40 plus $10 shipping, so $50 for 5 and I will pay this woman $65 for 8. I think that sounds like a better deal than the first! I just have to hear back from the woman to make sure, but I will probably buy them!!:) Below is the link to the diapers. They look like they are in really good shape too!!:)

http://www.diaperswappers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=634968

It's 2am......

I woke up around 12:30 and I can't get back to sleep. I had only been a asleep a few hours. Now I am awake and sitting on the couch with my computer. UGH! Oh well....I am sure I will fall asleep again soon.
I am pissed at this woman on diaper swappers. I have been e-mailing her for the last two days about some bum genius dipes I really wanted. I asked her about shipping, she wasn't sure, then she started talking about some fuzzi bunz she had, did I want any, etc. etc. I told her I wanted to see the pictures of the Fuzzi Bunz, but that I was still interested in the Bum Genius. She was taking forever to get back to me on the FB and the shipping costs. We went and had dinner with our neighbors around 5:30ish and hung out there. When we got home around 10pm, she had e-mailed me twice saying she had someone else interested in them, do I want them, blah blah. I said I wanted the ones but also wanted to see the pictures. I didn't want to pay her for them and then have to pay for the FB. Anyway, I went to bed after that. Just now when I woke up, I had 4 e-mails from her saying she needed an answer, blah blah. Because I went to bed and didn't get back to her, she sold them!! Everyone I have dealt with on DS has been awesome and has never once sold something I was interested in right from under me like that. I wrote back and I was a little mad because I told her I didn't realize she was going to sell them so quickly like that and that I would have paid her for them yesterday if I would have known. I told her I was going to pass on the FB. I was already feeling like she was charging a little too much for the dipes anyway. She originally wanted 10 per dipe and I asked her if she would take 8 per dipe if I bought more than one. I have bought from a few people who will take that and it includes shipping. She started talking about more for shipping and I was realizing it was going to get more expensive. AHHH!! Oh well!! I will look for some more. They were so cute though!!
Am I being unreasonable here? Is this normal? Like I said, everyone else I have dealt with has been nice! I even dealt with a woman who waited 3 days for my money to clear in paypal, with me not realizing that if I would have just used the savings account attached to my paypal, that would have been funded paypal as well. I figured it out after that, but still the woman waited for my money to clear and didn't sell the dipes from under me. I kept in contact with her the whole time!!
Ok, not worth it to dwell on it now. I am so tired anyway and a bit hormonal, no big deal!!

UGH!