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(okay, so the title of this post is solely a nod to the fact that my iPod has shuffled its way to vintage Elton John... btw, love that random Elton video with Robert Downey, Jr. but I digress....)
So a friend from high school is 3 1/2 weeks away from her due date. She looks great and she's been posting some baby stuff on her blog recently.
One of her last posts was about how she's been doing research on using cloth diapers.
Yes. Cloth Diapers.
Hey, you know, more power to you for all of you green-planet, hybrid driving, hippie gypsy folks out there, but what I found most funny about my friend's post was that she made a statement to the effect that she thinks she's got enough of a starter stash of cloth diapers so that she can accomodate doing laundry every 2-3 days and is allowing for 10-12 diaper changes per day.
I had to laugh at the idea of anyone with a baby, let alone anyone with a baby using cloth diapers only doing laundry every 2-3 days. I don't know about you, but with my fam I'm usually doing 2-3 loads of laundry PER DAY, and hell we've only got three people!
All I can say to my soon-to-be cloth diaper using friend? Godspeed and peace be with you. (Oh and ps. invest in that covered bucket with bleach solution from now).
(Oh, one more thing-- one reason why I'm stuck doing so much laundry is because my goofy Whirpool Duets take at least 90 minutes per dryer cycle to dry anything. Hence, I'm doing multiple smaller loads, but at the end of the day I still have a phenomenal amount of stuff to wash. Little people will do that to you.)
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I must admit that I used cloth diapers on my son. I don't drive a hybrid, wear Birkenstocks and I so shave both my legs and armpits.
I couldn't use them when he was in day care for the year that I worked after he was born, but I used them until I went back to work after he was born, on weekends and after I stopped working. I used one disposable at night, but during the day, it was cloth. He was potty trained day and night by 2 1/2 since he didn't like the wet feeling.
It only made one extra load of laundry a week - and when they hung on the line to dry we called it Flag Day.
Really, it's not bad.
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