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 so much to BUY!” with my first child.

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…
