Boo Hoo

I am sorry to say that we have hit a bump in the cloth diapering road. We use GMD unbleached prefolds, and although I love them almost as much as I love my own family, there is the age old draw back of wetness-on-babys-butt.
Normally, I wouldn't mind it. After all, that is the point of cloth diapering these days, isnt it? To not let baby sit in a wet dipe for hours on end. With cloth, you know when baby is wet, and change the dipe right away.
We have practiced this since day one of cloth diapering, but I have also noticed, since day one, that Gil would get "wetness" rashes in the folds of his skin. It started happening only when he would wake up in the morning, so I headed over to my local cloth diaper store (only fifteen minutes away, isnt it great?!) and bought some stay dry liners, and some stay dry hemp doublers just in case. They worked great at first, but day after day, Gil would wake up with the folds of his skin/butt red, then it would progress into an all over redness.
Since this was only a night thing, and since I dont have the money to spend on the AIOs with microfleece that I want, I gave in to my husbands urging and bought sposies. =(
We have been doing this for a week or so, and in the last few days, things have only gotten worse. Now I notice he has a rash ALL day long, and seeing as how I only have four stay dry liners, well, we go through those really quick.
So yesterday and today was a 50% sposie day, and I feel so ashamed. The only thing from making me run out and buying yards and yards of microfleece (hhmm...do they sell that at joannes? ive never actually *looked* for it) is that we are waiting on a paycheck.
So for now, my beautiful prefolds are sitting there next to my bed, weeping at the thought of being taken over by the earth-killing sposies ...

Sewing

Sometimes it is a curse to know how to sew. Why? Because of all the fun projects that can be done! But it all takes time, money, fabric, thread, patience, pattern making, space and on top of all that throw in a 8 1/2 month old baby .... and nothing ever gets done!!

I guess this is more for myself, but here is a list of future To-Do's:

-Make fitted diapers
-Make Breast Pads (because I have started leaking again!! Pregnancy related, maybe?)
-Research and/maybe make Mama Cloth ... for after giving birth since this woman is a Diva Cup user and I refuse to go back to regular pads!
-Make Baby Legs
-Throw self out of window for insisting on making stuff with the cutest fabric, therefore hiking up the fabric bill

Oh geez, how will i keep my sanity?

teaching little girls to breastfeed ... oh the horror!

Apparently, that what this doll does. A little girl (or possibly boy, never go by gender specific colors/actions) puts on a halter, and there are two flower patches that cover the nipple area. The child then brings the doll to her/his breast, and the baby suckles! I love this idea! Doing a real quick ebay search, I saw one for $96 =O

Again, just from doing really quick searches, I can tell lots of people are upset that this doll is imitating something "so personal." Maybe we should ban all potty training books then, too! And say goodbye to play diapers! Then we should just sand down Barbies boobs so girls *really* wont have a clue as to what to expect. Because icky, nasty personal stuff like that doesnt really happen, little Susie.

gggrrrr

my little boy just went to sleep...

im sitting here in the dark, wondering what to do. Clean our bathroom? Nah, he will wake up. Pump? Oh yeah, I forgot to pump.

::goes to get everything set up::

::adjusts self, resumes typing::

okay. I just ordered a cloth diaper pattern on Etsy from APerryPatterns and I am itching to start on it. I bought it to try out the AIOs, since I cant seem to make up my mind and actually BUY one. Dont ask why, I am just plain wierd. Looking at the instructions, though, Im thinking I should start with a fitted diaper, just to get the hang of it.

Oh, and by the way, I would *never* have picked out those fabrics that the seller picked out. Never.

Ever.




Anways, whenever it does get made, I will post it =)

the murder bottles

Look at these pictures. It makes me so sad to see these tiny, helpless babies sitting there all by themselves, drinking out of these bottles nicknamed "murder bottles" because of the dangers of bacteria and falling risks associated with them.





Can you just imagine a baby back in the day, lying there, hungry, maybe tired, maybe wet, yearning for human interaction ... and everybody around the baby is busy and working hard and has no time for the time consuming chore of feeding their own infant? Not everyone breastfeeds, I know that. I, myself, exclusively pump for my son. I even will say that formula is not poison. I was raised without a single drop of breastmilk. There are even those times, when Baby wants a bottle and you have *the worst case of diarreah ever* or you are an entire hour late to work and your just HAVE to prop that bottle up, just once! Just for that emergency. But to intentionally not hold a baby because it is "easier" ... ohmygosh, it almost makes me cry! Look at their eyes! Breaks my heart...

Merry Christmas!

and Happy Holidays everybody!!!

And a special Merry Christmas to my wonderful husband, Baby Gil and (Baby in the Belly)

I love you all <3

made some changes!

::big smile::