now I must AW my stash

My entire 'big girl' stash!!!
See earlier posts for my newborn stash.

our nighttime fitted diapers: (L-R): Bububebe, four Goodmamas, Piddle Poddle. All one size. I love the B4 and the GMs. I am not a fan of the PP. Not a good fit for Charlotte.

Charlotte's wool: two soakers (made by me and sold in my etsy shop), upcycled skirty/longies and ruffled longies (made by me)

Charlotte's fitted diapers: twelve Muttaqin baby OS 3SR diapers. I LOVE them.

covers for my fitted diapers: Thirsties Duos size 2.

supposed pockets: three KCKones. I like the concept and the style, but the first two pictured - the PUL leaks so I have to use a cover. The PUL works great on the blue one.

pockets (L-R): OS yellow fuzzibunz, purple is a OS Swaddlebees organic cotton pocket, pink is a OS Wonderoos pocket (hate this diaper), the yellow is a medium Happy Heiny's pocket and the cow print is a OS Happy Heiny's pocket
I like these pockets, but I don't like that sometimes the insert sticks out of the back if you're not careful.

bumGenius galore!!!!! (L-R):
2 bumGenius OS 2.0 pockets. The PUL leaks on these also, so I use them without an insert for swim diapers
5 bumGenius OS 3.0 pockets (aplix). I *thought* these were my favourite pocket diapers. I love the way they fit and they're so easy!!!
2 bumGenius OS 4.0 pockets (snap). THESE are my favourite pocket diapers.
2 bumGenius OS Organic AIOs - just converted to snaps!!!

HEMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! on the left are 8 inserts by ArtsyFartsyFooFoo. On the right are two overnight inserts (I lost my third one), 1 insert and 1 doubler by sweetbottoms.etsy.com The overnight inserts are AMAZING!!!!

my entire stash!!! so girly

wetbags: Fuzzibunz (I don't like this one for diapers - it wicks moisture and it's just not big enough). Planetwise wet/dry bag (one of my faves - I like the dry pocket on the front). Wahmies wetbag. Jumbo size is nice for an all-day outing.

cloth!!!!!!

I talked to Charlotte's daycare today, seeing as in the past two months I've spent about $30 on disposables. $30 on trash. Bleh. Do you know how many cute diapers I could have bought with that?!
I think I'm going to just send the easiest diapers with her first - the aplix bumGenius diapers, and then go from there. I hope it works out - it would be so much easier/cheaper for us!!!

diaper exchange! :)

I signed up to do a diaper exchange on my EF forum ...
Soooo excited. I planned to make a soaker for my person if she wanted wool (which she does) and since I'm an etsy shop, I'm sure that counts since etsy shops are allowed!

I got my diapers yesterday and I am SOOOOO excited! I got not one but TWO of the NEW bumgenius 4.0 pocket diapers (in snaps no less). She read my mind and I love them!

A comparison on Charlotte:

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BG 3.0 she's on the tallest rise . BG 4.0 she's only on the medium rise

anyone else want to nom those hammies?!

boo to sposies

Charlotte is starting daycare today and they don't do cloth (yet). I'm not going to worry about fighting the cloth/disposable thing yet --- I'd like to get to know the staff a bit and make sure it's a place that I want her to stay.
We're using Target's Up&Up disposables. I debated getting more EF ones, but in the end, I decided not to. If we're REALLY going to be doing disposables part-time, my wallet can't take the cost of the Nature Babycare ones. Unfortunately. Plus we had so many blowout problems with the NBC sposies, I just don't want to deal.
I'm hoping to talk to the staff in a couple months to see if they'll consider trying cloth. *fingers crossed*

etsy business

I knit Charlotte a soaker a couple months ago from a pattern that looked super easy, and liked it so much, I decided to start knitting them for money! I love knitting and I love being able to share it with others - and they're so cute!
I decided on a name after much deliberation: Carrot Patch Knits. Seeing as my other blog is: thecarr0ttpatch and it's a spin off of our last name (rhymes with Carrot) and I often refer to my hubby as "carrot" I thought it would be a cute link.

It's going to take me awhile to get up enough stock to actually 'open' the store, especially as I don't really know how to market it. I frequent a EF forum, but it's taboo to promote your own etsy shop on there, so I'm not sure how to start doing it. I might need to make testers and send them out.

I'm excited to get this up and running! I think I'll make hats too. :)

carrotpatchknits.etsy.com

back to cloth

I was going to wait a couple days to put Charlotte back in cloth ... I was going to keep going with the Nystatin ointment a bit longer, but we had an atomic blowout in a restaurant tonight, that soaked through all of her clothes, and I decided I'd had it with disposables that leak all the time.

I have gotten loads of advice on how to wash to prevent yeast, so I will be doing that from now on:

washing every 2-3 days max
cold rinse
hot wash with 50 drops GSE
cold rinse
cold rinse
dry

Hopefully it works.
If I EVER have to deal with yeast again - it will be too soon.

yeast

I had been curious for a few days if the persistent white patch on Charlotte's tongue was milk or thrush. I haven't had any symptoms of thrush myself, so I dismissed it as milk. Probably my first mistake, but we'll leave that there.

My ever-rashy daughter started getting worse yesterday. I kept switching back and forth between creams to try and get it figured it out. No luck. I had been told that putting expressed breastmilk on a rash can help. I tried that last night.

This morning the rash looked exceptionally worse. I debated waiting until after her nap, but I didn't. I went ahead and put her in a disposable with some Butt Paste. An hour later with her diaper change, the rash was worse. Even worse, it looked like yeast. I slathered her with Desitin and put her down for her nap. When she woke up, her entire groin area had erupted with yeast.

I called the pediatrician's office and they prescribed a cream for her. Later this evening I recognized the thrush, and called back. Apparently it wasn't anything urgent in their eyes, so a note was left for the doctor. I am guessing/hoping that they prescribe something for Charlotte, and I'm guessing I'll need something as well.

Now, even though the rash looked so bad it made me cry ... I am thinking we have that part under control. But, the next issue is ... getting the yeast out of the diapers.

*sigh* I read for a couple hours and got suggestions from SEVERAL girls from the bump board. Before I really knew what to do ... I filled the washing machine with hot water. Then, I read you shouldn't do that because the heat can make yeast grow.
Next, I filled it with cold water, and put about a cup of vinegar in the machine. After that I was told I should use bleach instead, so I drained the machine and rinsed twice.
I sent James out to get regular bleach, and put a quarter cup of bleach in the machine (no detergent) ... did a double agitation in a hot wash. I will probably rinse a few times to make sure that there is no bleach still on the diapers.
I rinsed three times after the bleach wash and then did a wash with a sample packet of Country Save followed by two rinses.

I am going to get some Grapeseed Extract Oil to drip in the rinse cycle to hopefully combat the yeast from coming back.

I am sooooooo hoping that this diligence will pay off. I am so distraught that this has happened, but I should be grateful that I recognized the yeast rash as early as I did, even though it erupted super quickly.

Only time will tell ...

At least I bought eco-friendly disposables.