We were cleaning out the garage this past weekend and found these--diaper pins! I have no idea why we would have put them in a bucket of screws but I quickly rescued them! They are probably the only remnants left of my cloth diapering past. Quickly approaching their teen years my children now speak of sex, pubic hair, hair removal, tampons and why testicles don't flow through to the other side of the sack! Ugh! I have no answer for that last question; any advice would be helpful there!
It seems like a life time ago since my days of young motherhood. Following in my mother's footsteps, I made the choice to cloth diaper all my children. Some of the benefits included financial savings, reducing waste in landfills, no nasty smelling garbage can and a healthy child's bottom! In fact, Dana had rashes quite often from the perfumes in disposables and cloth diapers where about the only diaper possible for her delicate skin! I used a diaper pail from a garage sale, Gerber prefold diapers, rubber/vinyl pants, and pins all from Wal-mart. I also bought pink and later blue package of wash clothes that were specifically for diaper clean ups. This probably is still the cheapest method for today.
Even though I had two children in diapers at once, I didn't feel that it was that much work. Wet diapers would go directly into the dry diaper pail and poopies where rinsed or plopped out in the toilet. Kirk never found the rinsing out part tolerable and so he would leave poopies for me. Sigh. I washed diapers and wash clothes together at least every other day and used the outdoor line for drying. When the diaper pail was empty, it too was washed and air dried. Oh, and it wasn't unusual to find a pile of clean diapers lying on my couch waiting to be folded.
Modern cloth diapering has come along way. Wow, you don't even need pins anymore! A quick Google will show you a list of modern cloth diapers websites. I am no longer an expert on cloth diapering however I thought this site offers many choices so you don't have to cloth diaper the way mom (or I) used to! www.greenmountaindiapers.com/
I wouldn't change my cloth diaper past and if blessed with another baby today, I would do it all again. So enjoy your diaper years with your young child because time slips by so fast...
