Have cloth diapers? Have breasts? What more do you need?

Have extra cloth diapers? Consider freecycling your stash to a family that needs some cloth diapers!

Having had more than one child, I remember a time when preparing the nursery meant more than checking my cloth diaper stash and purchasing a bit more Lansinoh for that first month of sore nipples. In fact, it meant MUCH MORE. First, there was the rush to purchase an ungodly amount of "things", the stress of finding the right "this" and "that", and building a registry for everyone asking me what our nursery colors were and what did we want/need. I fell right into the trap of "Oh my, there is … [Read more...]

Full time cloth diapering costs too much?

Thirsties Fab Fitted Diapers

When I ran my own online cloth diaper store, I would often listen to parents and caregivers voice arguments against cloth diapering their children. For instance, they would say, "I really want to cloth diaper full-time, but that's a lot more money than I want to spend." I never felt it was my job to coerce them into the decision, so I encouraged them to sit down and figure out what diapering their baby would cost over the duration of that baby's diapering years; reminding them to consider (if … [Read more...]