License to SHOP!

Well now that we have had our baby shower, I am now free to shop for what we still need! The past few weeks I have wanted to go baby stuff shopping but was told I had to wait until after the shower.... So YAY for me and my shopping spree!

As you all know we decided to go the cloth diaper route, ironically, this is the one area where we didn't get anything for at the baby showers. I think this is because most of cloth diapering supplies are best found online and buying cloth diapers doesn't sound like fun... Luckily... I love online shopping and I have really loved picking out cloth diapers!! They are like another accessory.

We have been saving up for our cloth diaper investment and boy am I glad we did! I decided to go with gently used diapers as they are half the price of new ones, and I shopped around to make sure I wasn't over paying for all the additional supplies... Even then I spent almost $500.00 on getting all the diapering supplies!!!

It seems like a lot but these supplies will cover the first 6 months of our little one's life. It ends up being cheaper than going disposable over time! Plus if we maintain them well, they have resell value!

Here are the items I bought:

24- Kissaluvs Fitted Size 0

8- Newborn Prorap Covers

1- Baby Bits Wipes Solution (3 oz box which makes 50 cups of wipes solution)

24-Kissaluvs Cotton Cloth Wipes

2-Kissaluvs Antibacterial Diaper Pail Liners

1-Kushies "On the Go" Wet Bag Large (2-pack)

1-Mini-Shower- Bidet & Multi Use Hand Held Sprayer (this is attaches to your toilet so you can spray off poo before you put the diapers in the wash)

1-Allen's Naturally Laundry Detergent (1 Gallon= 512 loads)

1-Dispensing Pump Allen's Naturally Laundry Detergent (it measures for you!!!)

I also got these which are not related to diapering...

2-Bravado Washable Breast Pads (6 pack)

A photo of the swag!!

Now I just need to finish refinishing our changing table so I have a place to put all this!

Cloth Diapers It Is

I had been going back and forth about disposables or gDiapers... I didn't think I could handle cloth. My girl suggested researching a cloth diaper service, that seemed reasonable, at least that way Im not doing all the work.

So I researched, and like research goes you end up on a website you didn't knew existed that gives you a plethora of great information.

This website for me was:

http://www.jilliansdrawers.com/

It is a retail site that sells you guessed it cloth diapers. But they have a very helpful tool on the site which is a cloth diaper tutorial...

Just so you know this tutorial is not a video... it is a guide that you read filled with a lot of helpful information.

The big seller was the money comparison tool that compares the cost of cloth to disposable. Cloth is cheaper WAY cheaper. The downside is upfront cost, you haver to buy a good amount of your diapering supplies up front... but the savings over 3 years is between 1300 and 1900 dollars depending on the type of cloth diaper you go with!

Cloth Diapers have come a long way, they still have the prefolds with covers, but they also have fitted diapers, pocket diapers, all in one, and one size diapers. Like cars they have low end economical and high end better than a disposable could ever dream to be.

In addition to cloth diapers, your diapering accessories are also reusable like cloth wipes! They have special detergent that is eco friendly! And you can make your own wipe solutions!

Yay to doing our part to make our earth a better one for our kiddos!!

Lastly, how can you go wrong with cute marketing... they have names like kissaluvs, happy heiny's, fuzzibunz and Bumgenius! So cute!

So we are gonna do it! No diaper service here I will handle the brunt of poopyness!! And oddly enough Im excited about it!