At just over 18 weeks, we found out that our third babe will be another little girl! After a not uncomplicated, extremely stressful start, it was a relief to see a healthy baby on the screen at our ultrasound. We feel incredibly blessed to welcome another little girl into our family. We are approaching the halfway mark (which, for me, is about 21 weeks!), which is completely thrilling. For some reason, I feel very little fear about adding one more to the brood. I know it will be challenging, but we will get through, and it will be so completely worth it.
So, we are thrilled to add one more. Are any of our readers expecting right now? I know there are a few of our fans on Facebook waiting to welcome babies. I would love to hear (and share) experiences as our families grow. ?
Our 10% off everything cloth diapering sale is winding down–it will end on the 26th. We are well stocked on Thirsties cloth diapers, and also have organic cotton prefolds and Planet Wise wet bags. If you spend over $60 on Thirsties products in the next 24 hours, I’ll include a free jar of Thirsties Booty Love bottom balm/rash cream! We also only have a handful of Tula Ergonomic baby carriers left in the standard size. Once they’re gone, they’re gone until at least the end of September, so get yours now if you’re planning to!
Congrats on your third little girl!! That is just SO AWESOME!! We are expecting (any day now!) our third boy and there is just really something special about raising children of the same gender!
Thank you! Best of luck with your impending delivery! Pre-congrats!
This is my first try at posting cotenmms, so I’m not sure this will go where I want-it may be lost in web space somewhere.When I began CDing, it was with the hope of early potty training. My daughter was 18mo old, and I used Gerber burp rag style cloth diapers . Which were not diapers, therefore absorbency was horrible. I didn’t use CD safe detergent, used a 5 gal bucket of water with 2oz bleach and washed every other day. Imagine the water bill, and all the heaving into a top loader. I must add, bleached wet pails made for very stinky loads, and did nothing for stains. So I then tried whatever off brand colorsafe bleach was cheap in place of bleach, and that did better for odors and stains, but still the absorbency was awful. Who knows what else I did wrong too that would have affected the outcome. And my baby’s skin-she had quite a few yeast infections, and poor baby had the moisture next to her skin all day long. =( I guess we just don’t know what we don’t know til we learn.One day while shopping in the Lee’s Summit store, I was picking Kevin’s brain about different ways to disinfect. He explained the effects of bleach, and told me about Bac-Out, and other alternatives. He seemed to genuinely care about encouraging me to get away from bleach, instead of just proposing another disinfecting option. Being new to CD, and natural parenting in general, I was skeptical about good bacteria actually killing the bad. So, after much research, and I must say personal wrestling with the idea of bleach (we all want to kill all the germs, but short of a medical necessity most of us cannot lead a completely sterilized life), I tried Bac-Out. It was fine, but it was a little expensive for me. And with the nondiapers, I quickly gave up CDing.So, fast forward to my son, who is now 8mo. When he was 2mo, I began using fitted diapers (oh the absorbency!), and decided to try the good bacteria idea. Thirsties Prewash and Superwash seemed the cheapest and frankly easiest option with the squeeze bottle that pre-measures for you, and I was very happily surprised. There were very few yellow stains from breastfed poop, and when there were I put them in the sun for an afternoon and they were gone. Since he’s grown, we now use the Flip system, and Thirsties still is awesome. There is no prewash cycle on my washer (the top loader gave out, so we got a front loader, and there is no quick wash on mine), so I do a full heavy duty cycle with Prewash in cold, followed by a normal cycle with Superwash in hot. I don’t soak (should I if he has no rashes or odors-not a rhetorical question, I really would like to know). I do wash diapers every day as the thought of bacteria -and the smell is too much for me to let sit. After going thru the whole yeast infection ordeal with my daughter, I change him probably more often than I need to. And I use cloth wipes, so by the end of the day my diaper load is pretty large. Minimal staining (I think blueberries and prunes just might make for unavoidable stains), but it seems to fade as I continue to wash, and I do put them in the sun every now and then. No bleach for my little guy, and his skin looks awesome. We only need a swipe with Magic Stick every now and then. Sometimes DD’s are handy for when we’re out and about ( I have become very dependent on my sprayer, and don’t want to rinse a poop out in a public toilet or let it sit in the wetbag til we get home), but mostly I prefer CD now. My washing system is simple, and has just become a part of my daily routine. This is not only doable, but I feel happy about doing something good for my baby, and my environment.