Cloth Diapers...yes, we really use them.

None of my stories will really go in order since I am already 2 months behind. I thought I could put a little thought up each day about what happened but that really isn't going to happen.

So while Michelle was on bed rest last summer she had a lot of time to think and one of those thinks turned into the cost of diapers. She made several phone calls to different places like Walmart, Costco, Babies R Us, Target and other retailers to find out the typical cost of diapers. She then call several family members, friends and neighbors to see how many diapers they went through a day at different stages. Anyway, it led to a few pages of notes and an explanation to why cloth diapers would fit our budget better. I took a look at the numbers and thought, this completely makes sense because my part-time work is definitely not going to be able to pay for disposables.


Michelle checked out a few dealers and found a person in American Fork called My Diaper Piper. She has a huge selection of brands, colors and sizes that she sells from home. After Maggie was born, Michelle went with her parents to go check them out. We found out Maggie was too small for the one size fits all so we had to spend a little extra than we had planned. But after a few weeks we realized that this whole saving money on diapers was really a

Pause...While in the middle of this sentence I saw something falling towards the computer and it was our lamp. Maggie had army crawled over to it and pulled on it and it almost smashed into the computer! Everyday is a new adventure

Resume...good idea.

Now that I am the one taking almost all of the responsibility at home I've found cloth diapers are more work than those first few weeks. First of all you're washing these things about 4 times per week. Because we don't pay our utilities we're still ahead on cost of disposables but if you forget to put them in the wash on time you have to use disposables while they're washing and drying. We always get a couple packages of disposables when we go on vacation and then use them when needed afterwards. It would be impossible to do cloth on vacation.

Well, the worst part of cloth diapers is that whatever goes in them has to be washed out. Most of the time if it's solid in there you can just dump it in the trash but sometimes it's not solid. What do you do then? You have to kind of rinse them out before putting them in the wash. Sometimes I just wish I could fold up the whole thing and throw it away but then I think of the money we're saving.

Maggie is now in the one-size-fits all and things are going great. The biggest problem now is trying to hold her still while changing her.