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February 2013 Moms
Any other crunchy preggos?
Anyone else live an organic/holistic lifestyle? Plan on clothe diapers? etc
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Re: Any other crunchy preggos?
I definitely want to cloth diaper while I'm at home. For me I'm more about the food. I'm very , very committed to making my own baby food and BFing for as long as possible. Food and cooking are my passions and I can't imagine feeding my baby something I would never touch on my own (i.e. canned, processed foods). That said, this is coming from a FTM and I don't really know how long those opinions will last when I'm massively sleep deprived with bleeding nipples :-)
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I use CDs with DD, made all of her food, etc. I don't consider myself organic or holistic, but sure, why not?
The CDs I did not start until she was about 10 weeks old. I exhausted every disposable option out there and she still got a rash. So, cloth it was! I had prepared DH that it was most likely to happen that way as my siblings and I were all in cloth because of sensitive skin. He rolled with it.
It can be easily (and economically) done. You just have to figure out what works for you. I highly suggest a cloth diaper trial.
It's totally possible to do it! I used Saturday or Sunday mornings, like 2 hours, to prep and make my DD enough food for 2 to 3 weeks at a time. It was definitely easier transitioning to whole foods with her, as well, because she recognized the tastes of the veggies, fruits, etc. She pics up veggies or fruits before the processed stuff without any coaxing!
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Good to see all your comments! We just moved from Seattle ( a VERY crunchy city) to NC, a not crunchy state. But we are very holistic and organic. I plan to bf as long as possible, CD, make baby food. No vacs (no drama for that please) homebirth. I plan to incorporate all our healthy eating and lifestyle into parenthood.
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When teething, my DD has gotten these horrible blisters and you are VERY limited as to what you can use with cloth diapers. Now, it's fine b/c she can go diaperless and tell me (we are starting PTing). Before, not so much. So, I started with the GroVia's because they had the disposable insert option with their cloth line. I love them! They definitely do not smell like the regular sposies do, I use a those with a cover until the rash/blisters are gone and we are good to go!
We love cloth diapers - we started when DS was 7 days old and we've sold all our pregnant friends on cloth
To this day, we haven't had one poop leak! I will say it's WAY easier (and more fun - NEVER thought I'd say that about diapers and laundry, ha!) than I thought it would be.
I will say you should check out Baby-led weaning to introduce solids, we really enjoyed it.
I ended up falling under the attachment parenting umbrella even though I never saw myself heading in that direction before I had kids. GL with all your decisions
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Which cloth diapers do you use?
If you click on the link in my siggy, I have a cloth diaper page on my blog - I have links to all our favorites
I hope it helps!
Lunasmom - she'll be 3 next month! She's not the typical gentle giant that most danes are...I always describe her as a giant skittish squirrel
We love her though
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I BFed DS#1 until he was 13 months and I buy quite a bit of organic food for him, but he is also no stranger to chick-fil-a. I did not co-sleep or babywear either.
I have had a lot of success with cloth diapers. We use Bum Genus pocket diapers and Gro-Via all-in-2 diapers. When he was a newborn, we used Kissaluv fitted diapers, prefolds and Thirsties covers. DH hated the prefolds, so I am going to sell those when I get my stash back out and get some all-in-ones for newborns.
I highly suggest getting several brands of diapers and finding out what works for your kid. We had Gro-Via all-in-one diapers, but sold them because he had so many poosplosions. Others love this brand though, so you never know. Cloth diapers have an incredible resale value.
It might work out great for you, which I really hope. On the other hand, you might run into unforeseen difficulties, and I would just encourage you to go in with an "I'm going to give it my best effort, but if it doesn't work, it's not the end of the world" attitude. DD was a preemie, and I was never able to pump enough for her, so we had to supplement from the beginning, then my supply tanked when we tried to transition and she never wanted to do more than drink a little bit from the breast before crying for a bottle. It was torture, and after two months I quit.
I had originally wanted to CD, but in the end I'm glad I didn't. We had so many issues at the beginning, and our laundry situation is a little difficult, that it would have been too much for me.
I started out making my own baby food using organic fruits and veggies. DD wouldn't eat it. I tried it several times over the course of a month and it didn't work. I tried store-bought, and she was ok with it. Tried then introducing what I made, she still wasn't really having it. In the end, her eating was more important to me than making my own food. And the store-bought stuff we buy is organic.
Co-sleeping, on the other hand, worked out really well for us, as did baby-wearing.
Again - I hope it works and you should definitely try it if that's what you want, but don't make your opinion of yourself as a mother dependent on those things.
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I`m not full on crunchy but I am crunchier than most of my friends. We CD since 3 days old. If you can get a trial from a local CD store or Jillian`s drawers. Some diapers work for some kids and not for others. This will be a cheaper way of figuring out what works for you. We use hemp and bamboo prefolds with covers and never had a problem. We do use disposables when travelling a lot because we had build up issues when using other people`s laundry machines.
I didn`t make my daughter`s food in the traditional sense. We did baby led weaning. So from 6 months on she ate exactly what we did. We never gave her puree`s and never spoon fed her. It was a great experience. She eats almost everything and is very good at using utensils (she is 14 months). I highly suggest looking into it. It has been great. I`ve never worried about her not getting enough food or the getting the right types of food. She has had total control, I just give her lots of healthy options.
We cloth diapered until DD was 18 months old (her urine was caustic and at the urging of her very pro-cloth diapering pediatrician, we went back to disposables) and will again. She co-slept with us until she was about eight months old and that was because I wasn't getting any sleep. I did extended breastfeeding and we mutually stopped at 28 months. I'm pretty sure that she lived in her Moby for the first year and then the Ergo from then on.
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This is pretty much what happened with us foodwise too.
I CD, but mostly because it's less expensive (I hope--I am not sure how expensive using the dryer here is yet, we may go sposie for this reason) as my sister has given me tons of hand-me-downs. My favorites by far that I really think would fit any baby body type are pop-ins, but I don't think they sell them in the US. I think the most similar to pop-ins are flip diapers so I'd look into those. I also like the g-diapers we have now that she's older, when she was younger we had a lot of fit issues and she was constantly leaking. Bah. TBH, I like cloth a lot, but now that I'm running into issues (stripping with hard water, leaking at night, a rash thanks to buildup in the diapers) I am starting to lean toward buying cheap disposables, BUT since I will have 2u2 I feel like cloth makes the most sense with two in diapers...gah, just not sure. I think a trial is a good idea if there is one in your area.
I also BF, but again that is something you need to be open to it not working out or your LO having some formula. DD was supplemented with formula in the hospital for her first 4 days of life, but later transitioned to just breast very well. It was hard though--lots of bleeding, crying, and frustration with nipple shield involved. I'm glad it's worked out now though and I'm trying to keep up EBFing DD (with solids of course) as long as I can this pregnancy.
Co-sleeping. Thought I would want DD in bed with me, or at least in the room with us as long as possible, but that was so wrong. I hated having DD in bed with me and the few times it has happened was because she wouldn't sleep without being next to me. Having her there made me sleep in an odd position and it just didn't work for us. I'm very glad I was open about it before she was born.
CIO or non-CIO: This is a huge one for me. I did not think we would ever do CIO, and if you have a child who sleeps (or at least goes to sleep) alright then you likely won't need to do it. However, DD stopped sleeping around 4 months and went about a month/month and a half where she fought every single nap and bedtime and would only fall asleep in my arms. It sucked a big one. So we did Ferber's method and we saw an immediate change. She was a much happier baby and I wasn't wanting to pull my hair out because I was rocking her to sleep 45 minutes just to get her to nap for 40 minutes. Keep an open mind.
Yeah, I think the jist is go into it with ideas of what you want to do and don't let others influence you too much, but keep an open mind and do things according to what works for your LO and your family as a whole.
Yikes! Sorry for the novel.
I'm not too crunchy (in my mind) but I do a lot of these things that are considered crunchy I guess. Or at least have tried them out.
Oh yeah, I forgot about CIO. I was one of those "I don't think I'll ever sleep train my baby" people, but I changed my mind when it was taking us 2 hours of rocking her while she screamed / putting her down only to have her eyes pop open to put her to bed at night. That was around 6 months. It was a nightmare, and Ferber (slightly modified) saved my marriage. I will never say never about sleep training again, and even on night 1, DD fell asleep faster and with less screaming than she did when we were rocking her and putting her down.
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I was anti Ferber until I actually read the book. I wish people would just read the book instead of doing what they 'think' is the Ferber method. I learned sooo much about my child's sleep patterns and habits from that book and we really did very little CIO to change her sleep habits completely.
For that, the CIO vs Non-CIO and all those sleep training, I swear by the book Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child. There is one for twins, infants, etc. He covers EVERYTHING and it was recommended to me 3x in a week by different people. Seriously - it's worth it. And it describes how to read it - if you are pregnant, read from page one, if you had the baby, read from Chapter whatever, etc. Huge- huge sanity saver.
ITA. Reading the book is necessary for trying to implement the method and really great to just understand sleep better in general even if you don't do a CIO version.
I have also heard good things about HSHHC but haven't read it yet. I may before the next one arrives.
The cups are AMAZING! I use instead cups. I have not touched a tampon or pad for about 3 years.
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A cup will CHANGE YOUR LIFE. I've been using a diva cup for almost 6 years and it sounds crazy, but it's true. My period is a complete non-issue with the cup. It's sooooo easy and so much cheaper than buying pads/tampons all the time (I also do cloth pads). I tried to sell all my friends/family on it, but they're stuck on "ick" factor and won't. Oh well, their loss. If you're open to the idea and not squeamish about it, you will love it. (Now, I hope you don't have use for a cup for many, many months of course!)
I use cloth pads and a menstrual cup, am determined to cloth diaper regardless of any "obstacles", plan to do lots of baby-wearing, co-sleeping, breastfeeding as long as possible, making the baby's food....hmm, I think that's it for my current plans. I'm certainly open to additional crunchy choices as they come up though.
We live in a very uncrunchy area right now but are moving to Boulder, CO in a few months and I am super psyched to be getting to become a parent where this stuff isn't seen as weird and freakish!
Cloth pads here too. I made mine out of old prefold diapers and flannel PJ pants. They are so comfy and soft. I'm not a fan of tampons, so I don't think I would like the cup either.
Cloth pads are so easy when you're already CDing. You just toss the pads into the diaper pail.
The cup is sooo different from a tampon. It's amazing.
I don't do cloth pads, but I do use a cup.
This is the kicker for me with cloth. I am liking it, but I am starting to think disposables might be cheaper considering high electricity costs in Germany. In Madrid it came out about the same, but I think electricity is cheaper there. Then again, since this is number two in diapers I don't know if it will be cheaper when he/she arrives to do cloth rather than buy sposies for two. Hmmmm.
LOL. That's what I am going to do. I think once he can see how easy it is, he will be on board.
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