Cloth diapering – What about the poop?

Like I said in my review of AppleCheeks diapers I have been cloth diapering for about 9-10 months now and love it. I love it so much that I just added some new diapers to my stash – in fact I’m sitting here waiting anxiously for the UPS man, but I’ll talk more about these later. Right now I want to talk about a Mom’s favorite subject, POOP. I swear I have never in my 34 years talked about or thought about poop as much as I have in the last 14 months. When was the last time she pooped? Is she pooping too much or little? Is it to solid or runny? The questions go on and on but the most pressing one for a cloth diaperer is what do you do with it once it’s in a diaper?

Diaper sprayer

See the silver thing attached to the toilet? It’s a diaper sprayer. Do me a favor and don’t look at the dirty floor, I cleaned it right after I took the shot. That sprayer is what makes poopy cloth diapers a non-issue. You hold the diaper over the toilet and use the sprayer to knock the poop off. The sprayer eliminates the need to dunk and swish the diaper in the toilet. The diaper sprayer takes just a couple of minutes to install and take out if necessary and best of all requires no tools.

My diaper sprayer started leaking a few months ago so Waldo unhooked it. I contacted the manufacture through their website, they responded by the next day and asked me what the problem was. Well by this time I had forgotten where the leak was coming from so Waldo hooked the sprayer back up. When he turned it on the little handle shot off and water sprayed Waldo, the walls and the floor. It was pretty funny and I’m really glad that he’s such a good sport. I emailed Gene from Mini Shower and let them know, they asked for pictures because it wasn’t something they had heard of before. I sent the pictures and they shipped a replacement that day. I hooked the new sprayer up right after it got delivered and Lily put it to the test because she’s helpful like that. During the month or two that my sprayer was broken (because I’m a professional procrastinator and it took me forever to figure out what to do about it) I almost quit cloth diapering because it was so frustrating to deal with the poop.

**This isn’t a sponsored post, I just really believe in the diaper sprayer and want other people to know how cool they are.

More pantry potions

I stole the term Pantry Potions from C of Random Thought and Musing from the Island, I hope she doesn’t mind.  C let me know if you do and I’ll come up with something else, but it won’t be as good.

People were so interested in baking soda from my last Mama time (pantry potion) post that I thought I’d throw a few more things out there.

I took a bath last night and figured I’d try to do something nice for my skin while I was shaving so I dumped about a cup of baking soda into the warm water. It’s such a small thing but really makes me feel nice and soft when I get out. If I had any of my essential oils handy I would have added a few drops of lavender for relaxation.

Before I took my bath I sprinkled baking soda all over the tub and got my sponge wet and scrubbed. It worked really well to clean my tub. I am going to see how it handles the sink tomorrow. I’m on the look out for good working safe non-toxic cleaners and so far haven’t liked the one I see more often; vinegar in a spray bottle with some water.

If your hair is a little greasy but you don’t have time to wash it right away you can sprinkle a little baking soda in it and then shake it out and brush it well and you should be good to go. the baking soda will absorb the grease. It’s a really good cheap alternative to expensive dry shampoos. I’ve used this a few times when I had extremely long hair and it worked pretty well. As I have darker hair I had to make sure I got it all out so I shook it and then toweled it off too.

Time is speading up

I swear that time must be on fastforward or something because I swear I have a teenager all of the sudden.

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Big girl

Seriously I had just gotten Lily dressed in a outfit that hadn’t fit before and it was finally warm enough for her to wear, I put her on the bed so she could play with my old phone and when I turned around she just looked so damn grown up. Look at those pictures, she’s not a baby anymore. I don’t know when this happened.

Big girl

She is darn cute though.

Kitty's eye

Kitty has to get in on the action

Kitty giving Lily kisses

Kitty loving on Lil

Lily giving Kitty kisses

She’s giving Kitty her kissy face. I had to check for my pulse after this one, she kills me with the cuteness.

15 month old feet

I realized I hadn’t taken any baby feet pictures in a long time.

I always (as I’m sure all of you have too) heard that time flies but I just didn’t realize that I couldn’t close my eyes for a millisecond.

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