The Plunge
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Well, after much debate Phil and I decided to take the
plunge and switch to cloth diapers. If you would have asked me a few
years ago if I would have breastfed, made my own baby food and used cloth
diapers I would have laughed at you. I had little to no interest in
breastfeeding, no interest in making baby food and definitely no interest in
cloth diapers. Well, obviously my tune has changed. There are
obvious benefits to breastfeeding and making your own baby food – good for baby
and not to mention the savings! Cloth
diapers were a little harder to get on board with. When I was pregnant I was all for disposables
and even after I had Remy I was all for them.
We had a diaper kegger when I was pregnant and received a ton of
disposables from our awesome friends and we have just run out. After 6 months I finally had to purchase our
own disposables. I knew diapers were
expensive but I didn’t put much thought into it until I actually had to start
spending my own money on it. I hate,
hate, hate spending money on something that you just shit on (literally) throw
away. Call me cheap. So after debating for a few weeks and several
conversations, Phil and I decided to try cloth diapers. Phil got to say “I told you so” since he
wanted cloth from the start. This was a
very scary decision but less so because I have a friend who uses cloth so at
least I knew some about it. After some
advice from her and some others I took the plunge and bought my own. I bought 6 used Charlie Bananas from the
friend who already uses cloth, 12 Bum Genius (2 were free!), 3 Kawaii
Goodnights and 3 Blueberry. I bought a
few different brands because I didn’t want to spend a ton of money on one brand
and hate it. Every baby is different so
diapers fit differently. It was a spendy
investment but it will save us thousands of dollars in the end. From all of my reading, lots of people say
that they started with disposables and switched to cloth and wish they would
have started with cloth because they loved it so much. Hopefully I can be one of those people! I’ll let you know what I think!
