Today we have come home with a ton of washing to do. Yes, that entire bag is filled with diapers, and diaper paraphenalia.
Who would have thought that diapering.... or rather diapering _systems_ would be so complicated?
We just spent an hour and a half considering cloth diapering options with Sara, our local distributer of Fuzzi Bunz (
www.fuzzibunz.com) and other cloth diaper alternatives. Even after spending considerable time on Sara's website and others devoted to The Cloth Diaper, it was still rather overwhelming to find out just how many options are out there. You can have standard cloth diapers with plastic pant covers on the cheap end, "all in one" diapers on the high end (read you don't have to stuff them with extra padding), and "pocket" diapers that are only good for one changing, but have the benefit of being stuffable so that you can ostensibly go for longer periods without changing the diaper. Unless, of course, the baby poops (and as I'm sure you've heard, Everyone Poops), in which case all bets are off, and so is the diaper.
After much consideration, we finally settled on a mix of options -- velcro-closing small pocket diapers both for early days and I'm-too-tired-to-find-snaps changes, and Fuzzi Bunz pocket diapers for when parents are slightly more awake to deal with snaps, baby gets old enough that she figures out how to disconnect the velcro, and/or baby wants to be colorful. Trust me, these are very vivid diapers -- and -- hurray -- not a pink or orange one in the bunch!
We also went with a handful of highly absorbent hemp liners, which when used in conjunction with the microfiber liners can help to prevent 2am changings in addition to the feeding you're probably doing. Prior to using these or the burping cloths we bought, however, we apparently have to wash them about 6 times to get all of the oils out. So... we've got a lot of washing to do. Good thing we're starting now.
In other news:
We finally cleared out the spare bedroom last weekend, gifting the box spring and frame to some new neighbors and the mattress to Santa Clara County Recycling. Now it's just a matter of shuffling furniture, hanging blackout curtains and drapes, and organizing baby stuff. Or so we hope.
We now have a membership at Day One Center (www.dayonecenter.com), which is essentially a one-stop shop for all baby and parenting needs. One of the trainers at Axis (our gym) does post-natal mom-and-baby classes, and as a new mom herself, she highly recommended it. We have our first class a week from today to find out just how nervous we should be about childbirth. Goody.
The bassinet/crib contraption is due to arrive sometime this week, so I guess we've got some assembly to do in addition to laundry!
That's the news that's mostly fit to print these days. Hope all is well. Robin kicks and squirms hello.
Repeatedly.
Kristiana & Michael
Kristiana Kincaid
415.990.5123
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