Liberty - 9 Months Old

Liberty Noel is 9 months old! She weighs 19lb 3oz and is 27 1/2" tall.  Her hair is lighter now and her eyes still change, but are a greenish brown.  She has five teeth, one coming in the night before her doctor appointment.  She is a fast crawler, so much so, that she gets her feet ahead of her arms and bumps her head on the floor.  She claps and is stepping from one toy to another.

She is full of so much joy, and is so tough.  Even after bumping her head, she recovers pretty quickly and gets right back to trying to keep up with those brothers.  She does not like to wear bows on head wraps, and will pull them off.

Her schedule consists of waking up at 7am, nursing, eat baby food about 8:30am, nap from 9-10:30am. She nurses at 11am, plays, naps 12:30-2:30pm, nurses at 3pm, baby food at 5pm, bath at 6pm (which she LOVES), nurses at 7pm and then bed.  We are so thankful she is still doing well with nursing and doesn't need formula, yet she will take a bottle.

Cloth diapers are going well, besides some BMs that I wish had been in a disposable.  I'm used to it now though. We have saved $30 already and it has been a month, so that will end up being $360 a year.  That is just crazy.

Until next month.....

Cloth Diapers

***WARNING - This post has poop talk in it.  Put your food down or come back later.***

At 6 months old Liberty started on baby food.  After 2 weeks her poop was becoming more solid.  Sometimes it was just a chunk that could easily be picked up and put in the trash, and the diaper reused.  I still put a new diaper on, thinking she may get diaper rash, or that she did pee a little, but it made me start thinking about cloth diapers.  I was never interested in them, mainly for the thought of having to wash (and deal with) messy poop.  I did not want to think about washing diapers with a newborn.  I wanted a quick change and off we go back to bed.  But since the poop wasn't messy now I started to investigate cloth.

Thankfully I have a very knowledgeable cousin that uses cloth.  She told me she used prefolds and then a cover for those prefolds.  The brand was called Flipz.  Prefolds are like the cloth used in the Little House on the Prairie.  (Notice our clothesline pic at the top.) The cover holds the prefold in place.  I decided to give it a try.  Since I stay at home there was really no reason not to use them, even if its just while we are home.  I placed my order online, including a special cloth diaper only detergent, and we have been into it 3 weeks now.    The basic process is put poop in trash, drop prefold in lidded trash can that has a wetbag in it, put on new prefold and put cover over it.  We then change out her trash daily.  For girls we fold the prefold so more cushion is in the back to hold the extra pee.  (For boys you put more cushion in front.)

 I wish I done this with the boys as well, when their poop became solid.  We could have saved a ton.  To do cloth this way was not expensive either, only $1.75 a prefold!  Some cloth diapers you change out the whole diaper, so those being around $12 or more each, I can see why some think it is expensive.

We are chugging along.  I have already ordered more so we don't have to wash everyday.  We still use disposable if we go out somewhere, but so far it is pretty easy and we are especially enjoying the savings!