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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!




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