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I love flat diapers. Don’t get me wrong. I also love the modern cloth diapers we have today, but there is a special place in my heart for flat cloth diapers. Flats were the only diapers I was wrapped in as a baby. Beyond that flats, as it turns out, have their place in modern [...]
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My family and I live in an apartment, and we cloth diaper. Yes, you can do both. So here are some of my tips about it. 1) Ask- If your unlucky enough not to have wash/dryer hook-ups in your snazzy apartment, then it’s common courtesy to ask if washing cloth diapers is okay. Some laundry [...]
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There’s a lot of talk in the news media about Attachment Parenting lately, especially with celebrity-turned-PhD Mayim Bialik’s new book, Beyond the Sling, in which she describes her brand of parenting, which does include Attachment Parenting (AP). And there are a lot of questions being asked. As a local Resource Leader for Attachment Parenting International, [...]
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Elimination Communication involves recognising when your baby needs to empty their bladder or bowels, and providing an appropriate place to do it. Rather than using nappies, parents who utilise Elimination Communication look for cues that signal elimination is immenant, and take their baby to a potty, sink, tree, etc. This cuts down on waste in [...]
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As my oldest child started sleeping longer stretches at night, I knew that I would have to come up with a long term nighttime solution. It’s taken me many months, trial and error, and disposable diaper usage to come up with a cloth diaper solution that worked for us. Here are some tips that may [...]
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My grandparents were cloth diapered, my parents were cloth diapered, my husband and I were cloth diapered, and my son is cloth diapered. But we are an unusual family. Somewhere shortly after my parents’ generation and during my generation disposable diapers became popular. That’s where we “lost” a generation of cloth diapered babies. Cloth diapers [...]
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Our grandmothers had only one or two kinds of cloth diapers to choose from. Today, we have so many styles that it can be hard to figure out which will work best for your family. Before you start making choices on which diapers to buy, here is an overview of what’s out there to choose [...]
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The most economical way I have found to get my cloth diapers clean is to make my own detergent by mixing a few basic ingredients together in a container to use in my HE washing machine. You should be able to find all these ingredients at local shopping centers, dollar stores, or grocery stores. The [...]
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Let me start this article series with a disclaimer. If you are looking into an HE washing machine to save money on washing cloth diapers- don’t bother. If you are looking at them for saving money on laundry in general (clothes, towels, etc), then by all means go forth. Washing dirty cloth diapers takes lots [...]
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