Cloth Diaper Confessions Volume I
You guys! I couldn’t be more thrilled at the response to my call for your Cloth Diaper Confessions. Your honesty and sense of humor is refreshing and I hope will be a breath of fresh air to fellow cloth diapering mamas and papas. I don’t think we often realize that certain lifestyle choices can come with pressures and stresses. Cloth diapering is fun, whether you use one cloth diaper a week or nothing but cloth diapers for years.
Let’s laugh, commiserate and enjoy this first round of Cloth Diaper Confession responses. Have something to confess? Share your confession here.
Popular cloth diaper store employee sniffs YOUR diapers before shipping them.
I wonder what store she works at and what brand she thinks smells so good?
Cloth diapering mom is grossed out by poop and thinks diaper sprayers are ugly.
“I’ve been holding off on starting solids with my 6 month old because I’m not ready to start spraying or scraping diapers. I love cloth diapering, but that part secretly grosses me out and I don’t want an ugly sprayer on my toilet. “
Cloth diapering mom is OCD about staining and has stain anxiety.
“I panic when I think a diaper might stain. I baby my diapers and want to keep them in the best condition possible. The moment I notice my LO has poo’d, I immediately treat the diaper with a cloth safe stain solution and then wash it. I never just throw them in the pail. Not even the idea of sunning them keeps me from the stain anxiety.”
Closet cloth diapering mom keeps the fact that she uses cloth to herself.
“Sometimes I don’t tell people I cloth diaper because I’m afraid of the reaction I’ll get. After mentioning it to some of my close friends and seeing their grossed out expressions, I just keep it to myself.”
Cloth diapering mom attempts to save cute diapers from getting pooped in.
“I put my least favorite prints on my baby when I think it’s about poo time. I also save my favorite prints for last when going through my stash.”
First time cloth diapering mom gives up on cloth because of ill fitting pants. Regrets it.
“I tried to cloth diaper my first. I bought $200 worth of goodies and gave up because his pants didn’t fit! Now I have 3 in cloth and pants are not an issue!”
Cloth diapering mom shops til she drops when husband is out of town.
“I bought 20 pre-loved diapers this week because my husbands out of town and can’t stop me!”
These are just SOME of the amazing responses I received and continue to receive daily. Do you have something to share? Submit your CLOTH DIAPER CONFESSIONS here and then stop by next Friday to read even more confessions submitted by moms and dads like you!
I’m Julie, a former cloth diaper retailer who discovered a passion for the industry. Now, instead of selling cloth diapers, I advocate them and promote small businesses I love who sell and manufacture them.
I’m the wife of a fireman and mother of three. I have a daughter and identical twin sons.
