We will be cloth diapering Zoe.
I'll give you a minute or two to get over the shock.
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Better now?
I'm really not that crazy. I've used them before. Maybe I'm fooling myself, but I think it will be entirely managable and better for us (financially), for Zoe (health-wise), and for the evironment, (duh!) But I know many a mother who thinks I'll try and revert to disposables in no time. Maybe, but those women never tried it themselves. And for day-care and babysitters and outtings, they have such cool diapers as Fuzzi Bunz, Happy Heinys, and Bumkins AIO's....as easy as disposables...sort of.
But as I was searching cloth diaper sites, I came across the idea of "elimination communication." Whoa! Have you heard of this? Parents learn their babies elimination patterns and begin potty training almost from birth. There are babies out there who go diaperless and make it to the toilet, potty chair, sink, or bowl over 80% of the time. Preverbal babies are learning to make sounds like "ssssss" or use hand signals to mean they gotta go.
This explains the Chinese split pants concept.
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I didn't cloth diaper Leah, but I just met parents who are doing it with their beautiful daughter who was recently adopted daughter. They seem to be having an ok time with it, so why not give it a try!
You go girl!!! Good luck!!! But when be sure Zoe is properly diapered when she comes over to my house. Our two have tinkled on most things in sight. And that was in disposable diapers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ug7WEUxH68
Toilet trained kitty, so why not babies.
Hi.
This is random, but I'm a new mom of a 5 month old, and I just made a livejournal post about Elimination Communication.
I hope it helps.
http://crimson-musing.livejournal.com/56934.html
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