Excellent book for big brothers and sisters with a baby in the house, when said baby is doing it every hour or so. My sister-in-law used to keep this book decoratively displayed on her guest toilet.
As I mentioned in my last post, I detest plastic diapers. Detest, detest, detest. I tried to use some newborn diapers on Ivy (fancy chlorine-free ones someone gave me), but her sensitive newborn skin couldn't handle it. Plus, she's a heavy wetter and leaked outta those things in a single pee.
Luckily, we've got the cotton.
Here are some of Ivy's cloth diapers:
Ivy has some random diapers to make it to laundry day, but these organic hemp/ cotton PooPockets are my fave. I have more cut out and I'm hoping to get them sewn up soon.
See the squishy softness of the velour?
Some PooPockets made from birdseye that belonged to Rosie and John Paul:
These have been loaned to other mums several times, but they still work.
Some others, made from recycled turtlenecks, with snaps added:
For using beneath wool covers, you'll need to use a Snappi or pins:
This is tricky at first, but eventually you get good at it and (usually) you can keep poop off your wool covers. While you can sew your own prefolds, it usually works out more cheaply to buy them. Unless you have tons of flannel in your fabric stash, or you want to use a luxury fabric like hemp fleece or cotton velour, in which case, sew away!
~Kathy Norris
yay! I'm gald you posted about a diaper pattern..I have sooo much fabric laying around that I need to use. I'm having issues w/ the hemp prefolds that I use. I can't get a snappy to really stay on them under the loose fitting Disana wool cover...so I've been toying w/ the idea of creating some hemp fitted prefolds that have cotton on the tabs so they grab easier...or something like that.
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