1/17/13
Wanted to start today off by saying how happy I am that I
finally had NO LEAKS with Myka’s cloth diapers AT ALL last night! The downside
is that I had to use so much “padding” that the diaper was ridiculously bulky
and probably not all that comfortable for her either. :/
Starting about a month, maybe a little less, ago, my now 3
month old daughter’s diapers starting leaking at night. Since then, I have been
having a trial and error battle in trying to find something that works at
night. As I mentioned previously, we don’t exactly have all the money in the
world right now, so I had been trying to use inserts and pre-folds I already
had to try and fix the problem. (Also I HATE spending money on something if I
don’t know for absolute sure that it’s going to work!) So anyways, last night
was the first night we had no leaks at the “middle of the night” change and
late morning change when she seems to pee the most. Yay! (Just to clarify, I
haven’t been changing and washing jammies and crib sheets every day. There were
several nights when I said, “screw it” and just stuck disposables on her. You
will find out I am a person of little patience most of the time and messing
around with diaper inserts in the middle of the night and changing crib sheets
4 times in a week gets old quickly. Those things are evil!) I did give in last
night and ordered some hemp inserts and doublers to try after reading how
awesome they are supposed to be with heavy wetters and overnight protection.
Can’t hurt, right?
This actually, in a way, brings me to today’s topic.
Homemade items. As I mentioned last time, my husband and I (Ok, so my husband
does more of the actual work than I do, but I’m working on it. ;) are getting
really into just making every day items at home. It started out with baby
stuff, like her wipes and detergent to clean her cloth diaper inserts with
before actually washing in the machine. Now we are starting to get into “big
people” things as well, like laundry detergent, hand soap, and my husband is
wanting to try deodorant and shampoo in the near future as well. (To be honest,
I’m a little leery about the shampoo because I am VERY, uh, overprotective, I
guess is the word I’m looking for, of my hair. But when you get down to it,
there are less chemicals in homemade shampoo than the store bought kind, so
shouldn’t I be more worried about that ginormous bottle of Suave in the
shower?)
I am loving the homemade baby wipes! We had decided before
Myka was even born that we were going to try to make our own wipes because again,
less chemicals, less money! Gotta love win/win situations! Well, we never got
around to trying them before she arrived, so we went ahead and tried using the
buttload of Walmart brand wipes that I received at my baby shower. Lo and
behold, her poor little booty did NOT take well to those, so we tried the
Pampers Sensitive, I believe. She was still getting diaper rash, just not
nearly as bad as with the off brand wipes. I actually had to call the
pediatrician at one point and get prescription cream. L Well, the store bought
wipes finally ran out, we made our own, and I think I’ve used diaper cream on
her MAYBE three times in the last 2 ½ months. And the times I did use it she
really didn’t have a bad rash, it was just kind of red and I was trying to prevent
it from getting any worse. Anyways, I feel like I’m rambling. :D The wipes are
SO easy to make on top of not hurting her booty! If interested in trying these
for yourselves you can find our recipe here: http://www.facebook.com/notes/parents-paradise/how-to-make-your-own-homemade-baby-wipes-not-as-hard-as-you-may-think/513491492007059
And while you’re there and happen to have a Facebook
account, I would greatly appreciate it if you liked my page! It’s new too, but
there are a lot of helpful things for parents there!
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