Do you talk about CDing with just anyone?

stoneycakes · October 2012

The "Reactions" post below made me think of this. I suppose you would say we run a somewhat "green" or "natural" household. For instance, we CD, breastfeed, use real towels instead of paper towels, make most of our food from scratch, etc. We're definitely not over the top with anything, but I feel like most of our friends consider us crazy tree-hugging hippies.

Anyway, I tend to keep quiet about those kinds of things (don't even get me started on wanting to have a med-free birth, haha) because I don't like most people's reactions. My husband is just the opposite and he wants to share with everyone because he gets so passionate about those things. What do you guys do?

AliciaS1411 · October 2012

If someone asks or seems curious about our "green lifestyle" choices, then by all means I share with them. I don't run around telling everyone and their grandmother though. =P I do get a lot of questions about unpaper towels, making my own detergent, and diapering though.

bdbelladonna · October 2012

I get slot of comments about LO being a little chunky, so I tell alot of people about cd. I get a mix of responses but I will share my experience with anyone so they know its not like it was 20 years ago.

veruca5839 · October 2012

If someone asks or it comes up in conversation, I'm happy to talk about it. I don't bring it up randomly though.

DaisyJanie · October 2012

Sure, if it comes up. I've had people say things like "well you're probably spending all your money on diapers these days" and I'll say "Oh we use cloth so I don't buy them much anymore" (I won't mention that I took advantage of the BG seconds sale just recently) I just like to throw it out there like it's no big deal.

I actually am more reticent about the natural birth thing. It seems like every conversation I'm in where it would be applicable, there's always another mom there who said she tried to go natural but ended up getting the epidural, and I feel like anything I say on the topic will sound like, "oh you must have done it wrong because I didn't need the drugs". Most recently, a coworker was saying that she had to get the epi because her body got stuck at 7 cm and once she got the pain meds her body stopped fighting it. I feel like I should have brought up the fear-tension-pain cycle, and how a lot of natural birth classes give you techniques to break that cycle. But, I didn't.

brachysira · October 2012

It's not like environmental reasons are the only reasons why. Maybe you like the patterns or maybe you want to save $. When my greener friends do some really hard environmentally good thing (like biking to work in the snow), I'm interested in hearing the exciting stories that go with it. But if they act like they're so superior because of this, that is when they get a less nice response.

hispenguin · October 2012

veruca5839:
If someone asks or it comes up in conversation, I'm happy to talk about it. I don't bring it up randomly though.

Same with me.

oliversmommy32912 · October 2012

Same here. My husband however... He gets a little obnoxious. Lol. He will tell anyone and everyone how awesome cloth diapers are. If anyone scoffs at him he basically tells them have fun spending over 2000 dollars on poop. It does shut them up pretty fast lol. I usually only talk about it if someone asks but then I talk about how much we love it.

Eta:whoops meant to quote veruca

Lennongirl · October 2012

oliversmommy32912:
Same here. My husband however... He gets a little obnoxious. Lol. He will tell anyone and everyone how awesome cloth diapers are. If anyone scoffs at him he basically tells them have fun spending over 2000 dollars on poop. It does shut them up pretty fast lol. I usually only talk about it if someone asks but then I talk about how much we love it. Eta:whoops meant to quote veruca

This! My husband is a BIG cloth diaper advocate. Haha. I don't specifically bring up topics like bfing, cloth, babywearing etc, because its easy to come off all holier-than-thou.

RJM050705 · October 2012

I don't think I'll be bringing it up at random, but if someone asks. Though I would be more likely to be the one raving about how awesome CDing is, while DH would prefer to stay quiet about it.

pukanecz · October 2012

My baby will be born in March, and I always knew I would CD, because my mother CD'rd all of her children even her twins, and she loved it. Now telling my husband's family was a totally different story lol! My husband loves the idea of cloth diapers because they are so much cheaper, but his family thinks I am crazy! My MIL told me not to tell anyone on her side because it would make them feel uncomfortable! Isn't that insane?

LER091811 · October 2012

I mean, we are out and about living life, so anyone spending any significant time with us will notice we use cloth diapers when it comes time for a diaper change. I am open about it, and most people are curious and interested in hearing about it, and I'll tell them about it if they are. I have never had a "bad" reaction past people saying they themselves could never do it, or people thinking it's gross. That doesn't bother me.

austenreader85 · October 2012

If someone asks or notices his CD then I talk about it. I don't make it sound preachy though. I mostly CD because it saves me money and I get that others might not be into that. He had a random growth spurt and now his size larges don't fit and I won't be able to order the next set for a week or two, so he's in sposies. And I definitely do hate how much trash it's creating.

One time I did go into details with a friend that was interested in CDing about how even with sposies you should dump the poop because feces doesn't belong in a landfill and she definitely looked at me like I needed to back off about that.

ETA: Oh, and I told DH's niece at her baby shower that the sun gets rid of poop stains and she said "Oh really?" very doubtfully so I reminded her that I CD and definitely know. There was a definite awkward moment filled with some gasps and things like "eww" by others, but I don't really what they think. I sometimes get comments that it's probably hard to deal with the poop and I do try to set people straight on that.

emhernandez · October 2012

I kind of stopped talking about it after a few "ew" responses. Until I convinced a pregnant woman who noticed my son's diaper to try them. Now I feel like all the negative responses were worth that one positive one.

brittas · October 2012

I shout it to the rooftop! I am a teacher, and when we learn about synthetic vs. natural substances, I bring in some CDs and tell my 8th graders all about it! They actually listen and are interested because it involves poop!

allinmyhead · October 2012

I'm more than happy to talk about it if the conversation goes that way, but I don't typically bring it up at random. Most of my friends think it's only slightly weird, but then again, they know me, lol.

velazquezk1 · October 2012

I married a city boy. Purebred NY style buy everything from the store city boy. He laughs and says he doesn't know how he married such a "hippie". I made our laundry detergent for a while. I make our own startch for uniforms, pledge for shining our shoes. I have finally got him 100 on board for CD. He used to stick his nose up at me but when he realized that organic milk taste like how milk should. And our laundry detergent bill I quit making when I got pregnant went way down, as well as a lot of our cleaning supplies bill, he started to catch on and encouraged it.

I have ONE friend who thinks I'm crazy. She's very hotty totty and sticks her nose up at stuff that isn't modern and conventional. My other two were 18 month EBF moms and one is actually a LC for WIC so she's so supportive with my BF.

My sisters thought I was crazy but one is a closet mini version of me and the othe is uppity. Sweet, but very high maintenance.

I don't go around preaching BF or CD or any of that but if people wanna ask questions I'll answer.

jess9802 · October 2012

If someone makes a comment about how much money we're spending on diapers I will say, "Oh, we're using cloth, so fortunately we don't have to worry about that." And when I've changed DS in front of someone who's not familiar with modern cloth diapers, I will explain how we're using them - people are curious about them. But I don't make comments or post links to articles on FB about cloth diapering (or breastfeeding), because I don't want to be that tedious and annoying FB friend.

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