Two boys into it, using disposable diapers. It was the best way to go- a defective dryer vent in a wretched apartment. Literally four hours to dry one load of laundry. Any savings would have gone to the electric company.
Now: in a house, can build a drying line, dryer works in twenty to forty minutes flat.
Having a girl in a few months.
I don't want her blistered.
Have one cloth diaper and two cloth night time underwears for when the boys were potty training. Worked great. They prefer them. They say they want "sister" in fuzzy diapers.
Husband doesn't want "washing machine turned into a sewer."
Would the dollar saving sway him at all? When dh and I figured out the cost difference based on the cloth diapers we chose, at 5 months we would be even with what it would have cost to use disposables. After the 5 months if we continued to use them it was a savings!
We didn't learn about cloth diapers until our dd was a year old, but it was still a savings as she was in them until around age 2.5 years. If you start from the beginning it would obviously be an even bigger savings.
Of course it depends what the cost of the cloth diapers that you choose. There is definitely a huge price range. We chose something middle of the road costwise.
I know there are articles out there talking about the toxic stuff that is in disposables. Maybe that would be another route if the $ doesn't phase him. Good luck!
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Mama to Ainsley Grace (7/01), Finley Paul and Jade Aurora (10/06)
maybe he'll change his mind once you have her? Daddy's are softies for taking good care of those girls
My dh is all for it because they are in cotton. He loves cotton and when he sees me put a sposie on one of the girls he comments "I thought we were using just soft cloth for the girls". It really cuts down on the rashes for babies. plus with newborns it prevents most blowouts unlike disposables that allow everything up the babies back.
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my dh originally thought i was nuts with cloth. I actually called the Kenmore people and asked them if our washing machine could handle cloth diapers. If it would hurt the machine etc. They got on the phone with him and told him that with older children the feces is dumped in the toilet first, but with breastfed baby poop it just washes clean away and any residue does as well. The guy went on to explain that heavy duty machines made today are well equipped to handle all kinds of dirt, grime, grease, blood etc and that it would do no damage to the machine.
Then I showed him a cloth diaper and how soft they were. I got alot of happy heineys for him cuz they go on just like a disposable. and we used fuzzibunz too. I would prestuff so he just had to put them on and wasn't m essing around with diapers and covers and liners etc.
He ended up loving cloth diapering. We diapered Zoey from 4 months old til she potty learned. Roman was in cloth from 12 hours old til recently when we went to disposables after several months of fighting rashes (he has extremely sensitive skin and we could not find anything to work even with different creams and liners)
Anyway, good luck mama. But my dh tells his friends how I "saved us thousands of dollars" by using cloth diapers and "helped the landfills" . He's upset that we've gone to disposables, so I bought a potty to start some potty learning in the hopes we won't be using them long.
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Mama to Chelsey,19, Zoey,8 and Roman, 5
Happy Holidays from my family to yours!
My dh thought I was goofy for all the cloth changes I've made...from cloth diapers, to cloth pads, to now cloth toilet tissue. I think guys just don't understand as we do....at least, many guys.
My dh agreed to cloth (this was 12 years ago now) because of the price savings. We were in college back then and cloth was so much cheaper and we were broke all the time. He also knew I felt strongly about the environmental aspect and he respected that....so he agreed. I did all the washing of the diapers as we had coin-operated laundry and it was a pain to do. At first, I even told him I'd change all the diapers until he felt OK changing cloth.
He came around quickly. I was always the one who washed and dried the cloth diapers....it was that way with all of our children who came after our oldest dd. But that was OK with me.
Maybe convince him to try based on the money savings, the blisters you mentioned on the little bottoms, and maybe say you'll wash them all the time and even change your little one also. Also the impact on the environment. (but my dh is not that into that aspect) I'd also ask him how he'd like to wear paper underware all the time?? Make him think a bit.
Edited to add: His concern about the washing machine becoming a sewer. You can rinse each poopy diaper in the toilet and use the soaking method in the pail rather than dry method. Less poop that way going into the machine.
My husband too was not too thrilled at first. He didn't want his clothes washed in the machine after the diapers. I had to do a load of towels w/ bleach then, his laundry. Now after 3 kids in cloth he doesn't care. Let him know it will be best for the little ones to be in cloth because it will make potty training easier and the whole chemical thing in disposables as well. Especially them being boys...maybe that will apeal to him.
Hokay. I think the wet method thing, and calling Sears will work. We have a Kenmore machine.
He doesn't do laundry, but he does do diapers.
I am going to get the HoneyBoy pattern, and sew some diapers. That's how I found Amity's in the first place- I saw a Sew and Show of the cutest diapers EVER, and had to meet the person making them. I don't know if I've "met" her, but I have met all of ya'll, so it's been a total positive---
You would think the money thing would persuade him- he's a banker, and we are so financially tight everywhere, but this is one thing where he's willing to spend. HMMMMMMMMmmmmm
This will take some doing.Thank you for helping me persuade him
Well, how often does he do laundry or change diapers?
*snort*. EXACTLY!
My dh was less than thrilled when we first went to CD. I just did it anyway (like I usually do. LOL!). He is totally into it now, though after he has seen the obvious benefits. And as for the sewer thing... totally a non-issue. Let him take a deep whiff of a freshly (properly) laundered CD and he will see how clean they are. If they are that clean, the machine apparently isn't dirty by the end of the wash.
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Also you can check out the diaper pin www.diaperpin.com for reviews etc.
Other recommendations: get a mini shower to spray off poopy diapers. Wet pails (where you fill the pail with water and detergent) suck, IMO.
Also, when you wash the diapers, you are ensuring that waste matter actually is ending up in the sewer, WHERE IT BELONGS, as opposed to in landfills where it can leach live viruses into the groundwater (yes, it has been documented) and where it is actually illegal for fecal matter to be.
Good luck! My husband was resistant to the idea at first, and now he is the boldest in trying to talk people into using cloth.
So, it can totally happen.
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Ainsley Grace (7/01), Finley Paul 
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; Josephine, 3 
and Luna, 7~5~08 
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