Showing posts with label cloth diapers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cloth diapers. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Everything Must Go at Crazy Mama's


I have put the whole of my cloth diaper collection up for sale on the internet. Resale was just one more reason why we chose to cloth diaper our darling daughter. No one can say that about disposables! You can't even keep the too small extras laying around to pass on to someone else, because they expire. You laugh, but they actually go bad. The sodium polyacrylate (super absorbent polymer) that they put in 'sposies will eventually succumb to the normal humidity in the air and get crunchy inside the plastic. I am no authority on the subject, but crunchy undies does not sound like fun to me. But, I digress. My diaper collection can be viewed and bid upon at www.myuseddiapers.com This site was born from the ashes of the eBay cloth diaper community. eBay decided that they didn't need revenue from people peddling anything that once touched a wee-wee or a hoo-hoo. That's right! Never mind that people looking for used diapers are completely aware that someone else's poop once dropped into the garment up for sale. eBay has a duty to protect all the suckers out there, who aren't looking for pre-worn undies, but can't seem to judge properly for themselves what they should and should not bid on. I assume that this also put an end to the thriving used dildo market, but I can't be certain.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Heathen Potty Training


Phase One: Naked
Cloth diapers promised us many things as a family; ease of eco-guilt, thrift, reduced diaper rash and easy/early potty training. These promises were more or less fulfilled, with one glaring exception. Toilet learning has eluded us for the most part. Our daughter never caught on to the fact that having a soggy bottom is no way to live. The bulky diapers totally prevented her from exploring her options as a nudist. Other mothers worried about spontaneous strip shows. I found myself encouraging them. Even prescribed naked time didn't seem to make her want to shed her diaper full time. The inability to undress herself has been my constant discouragement from starting the training process. All the books, the pundits and experts say that this is an important milestone, an indication of readiness. I had allowed myself to be sucked into the baby-rearing machine. I was checking my every move against the internet and driving myself crazy. I kept saying, I'll wait until summer and just let her run naked. I started fantasizing about summer. We are a busy family from the moment it gets warm enough to go to the park until it's time to pick the pumpkins. After the holidays we settle in for a period of hibernation until the temperature rises once again. I find myself in that period of isolation right now and I am bored. The pieces start to come together now and I realize that I do not want to be struggling with the worst part of potty training right when we are ready to emerge from the chrysalis of winter. How much fun will we have at the park or the pool if I am constantly nagging an increasingly resistant child to make a pit stop? Do I have anything better to do right now, besides baking and eating too many cookies? I woke up as if from a terrible dream and remembered that I am the decider! Off came the diapers and lo and behold the miracle of mindful peeing was born. The road ahead of us is long, but I am confident that by summer we will be in a place where we can go on our adventures without too much trauma. I can see that warm temperatures would make this phase easier. I would not hesitate to take my child to the park without panties on under her skirt, but she is 2.5 NOW and we'll just deal with the time table we've been given. I have no idea when we will be able to begin Phase Two: Panties, but it will come eventually. Stay tuned.

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