Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Cloth diapering dilemma

So, I dunno if you guys know this but I love cloth diapers. I know, I know....EWWWWW! I have my reasons and I am proud to say I do. Here's a quick list of my reasons:

  • $MONEY$-it saves us a lot, especially because my initial investment was on the cheaper side
  • better for my kids as far as avoiding chemicals
  • I researched it and figured out an option that works for me, I am proud of that fact.
  • better for environment-I am not a tree hugger but my Hubby has called me a hippie a time or two
These are the biggest reasons I can think of, most of all, money, since given that I am a SAHM...cutting corners on money is a big deal for us. With having another baby, needing a larger mode of transportation, I figure since I am home anyways, using cloth isn't such a big deal, just an extra load of laundry. It has in fact saved us money and I might do a blog about that later. Right now, I am going to talk about something else...my dilemma: 
Morning ammonia! It is horrible, terrible. I loathe morning diapers. It burns our eyes!!!
At this point, I can't decide if I should use disposables overnight, and which to use for that matter. Since its been awhile since I used sposies and at night I cannot remember if sposies had the ammonia morning stink too? All i CAN remember is that they did leak at night for us. We used Huggies organic I think, and regular Huggies. I know that the "stay dry" and "overnights" have certain chemicals in them I'd like to stay away from. The other morning Caden had a blister on his weeter...NOT COOL! I suspect it was ammonia burn. I have tried "stripping"and using less detergent, extra rinsing, TBS of bleach during cycle, using borax, using RLR...nothing has really made a difference in the overnight ammonia stink. At about 3 AM I can start to smell it. UGHH! I also suspect it is what makes Caden wake up a lot at night. I know that one option is to wake up and change them...but that means changing 3 of them (I'll have to change Scarlett anyways, but I know that the ammonia issues doesn't start happening until u introduce solids), and risk waking them and getting them all back to sleep....Really not interested in waking them up.
Should I make night time more pleasant and spend the money on diapers to use at night? I feel like if I use regular diapers with chemicals its kinda defeating my reason to cloth diaper and since the stores around here do not sell the non toxic brands I'd have to order them on amazon by the case...not so bad since Ill only use them at night AND won't go through a case until 2-3 months. So if anyone reads this and uses the chemical free brands...Can you give me pointers on what brand works for you overnight? Does anyone else get ammonia stink in the morning regardless of what diaper you use?

Stinky morning diaper love to you, Jenn*

P.S. I found spell check...WHOA...blogger is high speed. How many mistakes did I have, TO MANY! I am sure there is a lot of grammar mistakes in there too. 

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