About Diapering

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We diapered @ in cloth diapers (nappys) for about the first 18 months of his life. Well 18 months minus the first 2. When we were in the states, diapers are cheap and everybody and their aunt is giving you diaper coupons, we used disposables. When we got home to Africa, disposables (what we called Arabic diapers, because they came out of the middle east) were about 40$/ package of 30. So we only used those at nights when @ was sleeping a good 6 or 7 hour stretch. We didn't want him waking up at night when we all needed the sleep just because he had a wet nappy. We kept a bucket next to his diaper pail with a tight lid and put the wets in there. We discovered a brilliant little item that made using nappies loads more pleasant, the nappy liner. The nappy liner is essentially like a paper towel that wicks away moisture but also makes cleaning out #2 easier. They are flushable so you can throw nappy liner and # 2 all away at the same time. Super nice invention the nappy liner. But all in all I loved using Nappies. We had the nice ones from the states made by the gerber people. They were "prefolded". My mom told me this "prefolded" thing would save my life because folding diapers is a pain. They were actually stitched rectangles that were super easy to use. @ never complained once about his cloth nappy. I guess it is just what a kid gets used to and how adaptable they are. I have a super adaptable kid, very unlike me, so cloth nappys aren't a big deal.

By the by, if you are thinking on cloth diapering, check around with some of your friends. People are always thinking they will use cloth diapers, they get loads of them at the baby shower and then use them once. I had girlfriends that had them and didn't use them so I think I can about 30 of my 60 from them. Yeah, I had 60 cloth diapers because I lived in forgotten Africa. I wouldn't say that a normal US family needs anything like 60. We also dried them on the close line because it was normally sunny and warm. There is nothing like a load of fresh clean white nappys on the clothesline.