Post contains parenting & poop content. If it’s not your thing, do not move forward, do not pass go, do not collect $200. Hey, $200 is actually about what we spent on all our cloth diapers. Anyway, you’ve been warned :)

A couple people have asked how it’s going so I figured I’d write about it. We started using cloth diapers when Ben was 2 months and he’s almost 16 months now (so I suppose that’s a little longer than a year). The big question I get is “what about the poop?” especially after he started eating solids. Now he just eats what we eat and I’m not sure if the ick factor has changed any. Poo is still poo and diapers are gross whether cloth or disposable. Andy attached a kitchen sink sprayer to our toilet and I hold dirty diapers over the bowl and spray them out. Then I chuck them in the garbage can we’ve designated as a diaper pail. It has a pail liner that serves as a ‘garbage bag’ and I just dump the bag and diapers all in the washer together.

Pee diapers don’t need to be sprayed out like the poo ones. I still wash every 2 days (I just use Purex Free & Clear) and bleach things about once a month. The diapers paid for themselves at 6 months and now they’re “free” to use (just factoring in the cost of water, which is about $1/week). They passed the test as swim diapers too, which is really nice because we don’t have to buy the expensive disposable ones.

A nice little product demonstration from when Ben was learning to crawl. We use disposables for weekends away, but I’m still lovin’ the cloth. And yes, the truth is out…he does have pink ones :-P They were on sale, I couldn’t pass up a good sale!