Waving the white flag
I think we are coming to the end of cloth diapers. They have been great and I feel like using them has been a gift to the environment but I have to tell you, diapering the baby is like roping a calf.
He hits the changing pad and rolls and crawls away. By the time you get him back on his back, he's up again. And with cloth diapers there are many steps, getting diaper folded, on him, snappi in place and then the diaper cover. By the time he's got a diaper on, we are sweating and exhausted from all the wrestling. I've finally resorted to giving him the bottle of his favorite fruity treat -- tylen*l -- to play with. And I'm aware that his gnawing on the rubbery part of the dropper could end with a call to poison control -- plus it only works as a distraction some of the time.
If we do abandon the cloth we'll use chlorine bleach free dipes to keep some of the liberal guilt at bay.
He hits the changing pad and rolls and crawls away. By the time you get him back on his back, he's up again. And with cloth diapers there are many steps, getting diaper folded, on him, snappi in place and then the diaper cover. By the time he's got a diaper on, we are sweating and exhausted from all the wrestling. I've finally resorted to giving him the bottle of his favorite fruity treat -- tylen*l -- to play with. And I'm aware that his gnawing on the rubbery part of the dropper could end with a call to poison control -- plus it only works as a distraction some of the time.
If we do abandon the cloth we'll use chlorine bleach free dipes to keep some of the liberal guilt at bay.
posted by Sarah at
1:51 PM
2 Comments:
You could try 'pocket dipes" like fuzzi bunz. They are much easier to put on and you can stuff your prefolds in the fuzzi bunz covers so there is a smaller investment.
or all in ones, with aplix it's just like sposies.
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