In my quest to save you from buying piles of baby stuff you won’t use, I’ve been outlining the essential baby basics on a budget. You will change a lot of diapers. Elimination is one of those baby needs you meet one way or another. As with baby carriers, you save money when you buy diapers that … Read more
A sweaty baby bottom in the hot summer heat is more likely to get not just diaper rash but heat rash. Keep your baby’s bottom clear and dry by choosing cloth diapers carefully when it’s hot outside. The main concern in extreme heat is air circulation. This should be a concern in all weather, but … Read more
We often get questions about charcoal bamboo rayon and its emerging trend as a cloth diapering fabric. We don’t carry charcoal bamboo, and we want you to know why. You may have seen charcoal bamboo rayon used for cloth diaper inserts or the absorbent inner layer of a diaper. You will notice because the fabric … Read more
Uh-oh. Baby in the pool! Do you worry that your baby will leave a mess in the pool? The answer is easy: use a swim diaper. The idea of a reusable swim diaper is very simple: catch poop and let the pee flow through. A soggy, leaking mess of a plastic or paper diaper leaks … Read more
Infant pottying, or elimination communication, has entered the mainstream conversation several times recently. It’s easy to laugh, unless you’ve seen it work. Every day my children, both teenagers now, come to me to talk about the news. They get their news from Stephen Colbert’s The Colbert Report (which, I tell them often, is only a start. “You … Read more