Posts Tagged ‘caring for FuzziBunz diapers’
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013
Once you’ve settled into a routine, using cloth diapers is pretty no-brainer. Wash. Rinse. Rinse. Dry. Use. Repeat.
In that challenging period before I figured out not to over-think things, mistakes were made. My No. 1 mistake? Trusting that the other people changing my baby’s diaper would know everything I do. Will someone else be changing your baby in cloth diapers? Be especially cautious. It’s one thing when mom is the rookie. We still read, research, and, well, over-think. Dads, grandmas, and nursery workers might do things, however, that we never even dreamed they would.
Putting On the Diaper
- The best thing you can do if you’re about to leave your baby and your cloth stash in the hands of someone else is have the diapers pre-stuffed and ready to put on. If you don’t it’s quite possible you’ll come home at some point to a baby wearing a diaper with no insert. Even when the diaper is completely assembled, you still might find a rookie is apt to put the diaper on backwards. Something about the snaps throws them off, I think. A FuzziBunz diaper might be more fool-proof than others. I’ve had people put other diaper brands on inside out, too.
What Else They’ll Put On
- There’s something about a day care provider and butt cream. They just love the stuff. There must be some comfort for them in slathering it on generously. But beware: most widely available diaper creams can wreak havoc on your cloth diapers. This happened to me soon after my day care agreed to use cloth for my first son. I’d left his tube of zinc oxide cream with them even after he started wearing cloth. I knew it wasn’t “cloth approved” but didn’t think about them wanting to use it since he was usually pretty clear down there, but boy did they use it. That day’s diapers, though they still function, to this day have some staining left from that incident. Keep the stuff away from your diapers at all costs.
Laundry
- It’s best that anyone who’s going to wash your cloth diapers gets a full explanation of the proper way to do it. A simple laundry mistake can take lots of re-washing to undo. After the rash cream got used with a few of my cloth diapers, I made the mistake of thinking outside the box for ways to wash it out. I ended up trying a degreaser cream from Lowe’s. I have to rinse my diapers countless times to get the orange smell out. My advice? When you’re a rookie, don’t add anything weird to your diaper laundry. It seems simple enough, but it’s important. Also, think carefully about where you wash. I once did laundry at a campground laundromat and ended up with immediate repelling issues.
You’ve done the research and read all the directions (along with a few hundred blog entries!), but make sure anyone else changing your baby gets all the little details, too. You’ll make things easier on your baby that way – and your diapers!
Jessica Wiant is now a stay-at-home mom of two who was once a working mom with a (cloth diapered!) son in daycare.
Tags: award-winning diapers, babies, baby laundry, babysitters, caring for FuzziBunz diapers, cloth diaper, Cloth Diaper Accessories, cloth diaper benefits, cloth diaper detergent, cloth diapering, cloth diapers, daycare, eco-friendly, eco-friendly diapers, fashionable diapers, favorite baby gear, fleece diapers, FuzziBunz, fuzzibunz cloth diapers, FuzziBunz diapers, green living, how to clean a cloth diaper, How To Use FuzziBunz Diapers, parenting, pocket diapers, potty training, prevent diaper rash, reusable diapers, traveling with cloth diapers, washing FuzziBunz diapers
Posted in FuzziBunz Blog, Jessica Wiant | No Comments »
Friday, January 25th, 2013
Welcome to 2013 everyone! With the New year comes a lot of new goals and resolutions. Whether you are trying to lose weight, get in shape, or eat more healthfully, everyone tends to think about things they want to change. But how about cloth diapers? How can they fit into your New year’s resolutions or goals? Let me give you a couple of ideas to spark your interest:
- Try cloth diapers. If you have never used cloth diapers before, maybe 2013 is your year to get on the bandwagon. Why not purchase a few and see what you think?!
- Use cloth diapers in day care or at least present the idea if you don’t already.
- Do you use cloth diapers at night? If not, why not start the process of finding a great night cloth diaper?
- Try a different style of cloth diaper. Fitteds, pockets, hybrids, flats, or prefolds. Change it up!
- Do you use cloth diapers part time? Why not focus on doing it full time?
- Introduce or even convert a friend to cloth diapers.
- Try out a new cloth diaper accessory: a diaper sprayer or cloth wipes. Try newborn cloth diapers if you are expecting.
- Having problems with your wash routine? Why not try to get it all figured out: change a detergent, add rinse, or try a new stripping technique.
- Add more to your stash, or destash from of your diapers!
- Did you use cloth diapers on any of your babies before? if not, make it a goal to use them on our next child!
Have you thought about making a fluffy resolution this year? If so, what would you like to try to accomplish?
 Julie Murphy is a stay-at-home mom who was thrown into the cloth diapers when her husband bet her she couldn’t last two months on cloth. 11 months later, she is still cloth diapering…and blogging about it at My Cloth Diaper Stash.
Tags: caring for FuzziBunz diapers, cloth diaper, Cloth Diaper Accessories, cloth diaper benefits, cloth diaper detergent, Cloth Diaper Troubleshooting, cloth diapering, cloth diapers, eco-friendly diapers, fashionable diapers, fleece diapers, FuzziBunz, fuzzibunz cloth diapers, FuzziBunz diapers, green living, new year, new year's resolutions, resolutions, reusable diapers, save money with cloth diapers, washing FuzziBunz diapers
Posted in FuzziBunz Blog, Julie Murphy | No Comments »
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
Being a working mom of two, it is necessary my boys go to daycare. I work a split shift from home for a large company, so I am able to be home with them from 12:30 until they go to bed around 7:30 pm. After they’re asleep, I finish my shift. Because of this, I only need 13 hours a week for daycare, which is great. I have a lot of time with my boys and still get to work full-time. However, I didn’t want to give up my cloth diapers because my boys were in daycare.
I did a lot of research on health codes and asked a lot of advice from my cloth diaper community. I wanted to be sure I had all my information ready. At the time we decided to start, I had two in diapers and the boys were going through at least three diapers a session at daycare – if not more. I knew it was going to be a lot more “wallet-friendly” to have the boys in cloth during their daycare time as well as at home. The cost of daycare for two boys is expensive enough! Our daycare was very accepting of our choice, which made the process a lot easier for us. I am pretty sure we were the first family at our daycare to try this out.
It was determined that (in the state of Connecticut, at least) the soiled diapers needed to be placed in a sealed container, which was to be taken home each night and cleaned for use the next day. For this, we used a shoebox-sized plastic bin from the storage container section of our local “super-store”. This size bin nicely held three cloth diapers, which was typically perfect. We did keep a few disposable diapers on hand at the daycare in case there were a few extra “stinky” ones which required more than three diapers in one day.
My biggest concern was the use of diaper cream. Prior to cloth, diaper cream was applied regularly at daycare, providing we had given permission. Obviously, diaper cream is not to be used with cloth diapers, but I came up with a solution. I only asked that that it be used if he had some redness. Cole especially has really sensitive skin, so we do periodically coat him with a little cream on occasion to keep any skin irritation away. I purchased flushable liners to be used at daycare and bought a cloth diaper-friendly cream just in case some accidentally got on the diapers. The flushable liners also helped with the poop diapers, too, since it make it easier to dump in the toilet.
I came in and demonstrated the diapers, which I pre-stuffed for the staff every day. This way, they were able to ask me questions and be comfortable with using them. I think some of the staff was pretty surprised as to how easy they were. Over the last two years or so, cloth diapering at daycare has gone smoothly.
 - Cole on his birthday.
On January 5th of this year, Cole turned three years old. A few days after his birthday, he actually transitioned out of daycare and the early intervention program (an at home program for kids with delays or special needs) and into the public school system. He now attends a 3-5 year old program through our local kindergarten that is for children with special needs and “typical” peers. At first, I was afraid we would have to go to disposable diapers. I actually was a little nervous to bring it up with all of the formal meetings. When we starting visiting the classroom, I decided to give it a go and ask. What was the worst that could happen? They say no? So I asked. At first, they said we would have to buy disposables for school, but after I showed them the diapers and how similar they are to a disposable diaper, they agreed to give it a go! And so far, it seems to also be going well!
I know some people decide not to cloth diaper because they send their kids to daycare. I can tell you that with the right center, and the right research, you can successfully cloth diaper and have child care!
Jenn Kubicza is a mom of two little boys, one of whom has a neuro-genetic disorder called Angelman’s Syndrome and will require extended diapering.
Tags: caring for FuzziBunz diapers, child care, cloth diaper, cloth diaper benefits, cloth diapering, cloth diapering at daycare, cloth diapers, daycare, easy, eco-friendly, eco-friendly diapers, fashionable diapers, FuzziBunz diapers, sahm, save money with cloth diapers, school, wahm, working dads, working moms, working parents
Posted in FuzziBunz Blog, FuzziBunz Press Releases, Jenn Kubicza | No Comments »
Thursday, January 10th, 2013
There’s more than one way to cloth diaper. In fact, this fall I learned that there are many ways.
With names like “Frankenstorm” and “superstorm” being floated in the forecast around Halloween, my husband and I started to think it might be a good thing to be prepared for a few days without electricity. He stocked up on jugs of water and propane, and I weighed my options for dealing with dirty diapers.
To help me decide, I checked in with a group of fellow cloth users I’m acquainted with and was shocked to hear some of the other ways mamas were getting prepared. Namely, some were gathering up T-shirts, burp cloths or rags to stretch out their stashes enough so that they wouldn’t have to resort to paper diapers even if the worst happened. In the end, I’m not that dedicated. I washed everything up, stuffed it in the drawer and used disposables until I was sure I wouldn’t be stuck without the means to do laundry.
Luckily, the worst of Superstorm sandy at my house was a night spend in the basement listening to the wind howl. But the experience got me to thinking about how many different approaches people take to cloth diapering. Some would rather use old T-shirts or handwash their diapers than ever put a disposable diaper on their baby. Other people I know only use cloth when it’s convenient, taking disposables with them any time they’re on the road and never using cloth at night.
At different points in my time as a mom I’ve taken slightly different approaches, but I – probably like most moms – usually fall somewhere in the middle. When I first started, I used a single, solitary diaper for a few days to give it a try. Next, I bought enough diapers so that I used cloth at home in the evenings and on weekends, but my son was in disposables during the weekdays at day care. Eventually, I upped my stash again and used cloth full-time. I’ve taken cloth diapers on trips and vacations, and I’ve left them at home, too. If I at all have a choice, I stick with cloth.
Every single time I avoid putting a diaper in the trash can, I feel like I’m doing something good. And when I can’t use cloth, I try not to beat myself up too much. However we work cloth diapers into our lives as parents, every little bit is worth it.
Jessica Wiant is now a stay-at-home mom of two who was once a working mom with a (cloth diapered!) son in daycare.
Tags: caring for FuzziBunz diapers, cloth diaper, cloth diaper benefits, cloth diapering, cloth diapers, eco-friendly diapers, FuzziBunz, fuzzibunz cloth diapers, FuzziBunz diapers, green living, reusable diapers, traveling with cloth diapers, washing FuzziBunz diapers
Posted in FuzziBunz Blog, Jessica Wiant | No Comments »
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013
If you were to have asked me two years ago what a diaper sprayer was, I would have looked at you like you were crazy and said “a what”. Ask me now, and it is my favorite cloth diaper accessory, something that I use each day. While I could live without my diaper sprayer, and have while traveling, I prefer not to because it makes cleaning and rinsing out my diapers super easy! In this article, I will give you a few reasons why you should take the plunge (no pun intended) and get your own diaper sprayer, as well as tips on buying a diaper sprayer.
Why do I need a diaper sprayer?
- It makes rinsing poopy diapers very easy. Simply spray the poop into the toilet and flush away. End of story. I even used my diaper sprayer on breastfeeding poop, as well. Works like a charm! Thoroughly rinsing your diapers after poop will also help to prevent staining.
- It is easily attached to the side of your toilet and does not stick out like a sore thumb. The design is sleek and smooth, yet practical.
- It’s a conversation starter! While I mentioned above that it is sleek and trim hanging on your toilet, I am sure people will still wonder what the beautiful piece of chrome hanging on your toilet is. This is when you introduce them to cloth diapers and just how “fun” it is to use the sprayer!
- It can act as a multipurpose tool. My diaper sprayer is in reach of the bath tub. I have used it on multiple occasions to clean my tub and even my dog. Never underestimate the power of creativity with your diaper sprayer!
Tips on buying a diaper sprayer:
- Don’t skimp out when buying a diaper sprayer! This is an item you will be using on a daily basis for the next 2+ years if you cloth diaper 1 child. Invest in a quality one that will last.
- Make sure you get a diaper sprayer that has an adjustable pressure valve. This adjustable spray allows for even some of the most stubborn poops to be lifted off the diaper at its highest setting. I have seen sprayers that barely trickle out at their highest setting, and this does not help to get the diapers clean!
- I prefer a diaper sprayer that is made of durable materials such as chrome. Not only does it look stylish, but it will hold up to the everyday use.
So what about you? Do you own a diaper sprayer? Why or why not have you chosen to use one? Do you find it as helpful as I have?
Buy a FuzziBunz Chrome Diaper Sprayer – click here.
Julie Murphy is a stay-at-home mom who was thrown into the cloth diapers when her husband bet her she couldn’t last two months on cloth. 11 months later, she is still cloth diapering…and blogging about it at My Cloth Diaper Stash.
Tags: caring for FuzziBunz diapers, cloth diaper, Cloth Diaper Accessories, cloth diapering, cloth diapers, diaper sprayer, FuzziBunz, fuzzibunz cloth diapers, FuzziBunz diapers, how to clean a cloth diaper, How To Use FuzziBunz Diapers, multipurpose, reusable diapers, washing FuzziBunz diapers
Posted in FuzziBunz Press Releases, How To Cloth Diaper, Julie Murphy | No Comments »
Friday, May 20th, 2011
As we get ready to celebrate a long Memorial Day weekend and kick-off the start of summer, FuzziBunz cordially invites you to attend our Red, White and Blue Twitter Party!
Join our resident mom blogger, Sarah, and cloth-diapering expert, Ashley, as they dish on summertime cloth diapering! Tune in for tips, talk, trivia and tons of great prizes!
When: Monday, May 23rd, 8:30 P.M. – 9:30 P.M. (EST)
Where: Twitter (follow @FuzziBunz) and use the hashtag #redwhiteandbunz
Participate for a chance to win FuzziBunz diapers and accessories!
Get a jump-start and visit the discussion section of the FuzziBunz Facebook page to post any potential questions you’d like answered during the party.
We will bring the fun and games and you bring your summertime cloth diapering questions!
Tags: caring for FuzziBunz diapers, cloth diapers, FuzziBunz promotions
Posted in FuzziBunz Blog | No Comments »
Monday, May 9th, 2011
 Mary Alice "aces" motherhood by using FuzziBunz cloth diapers Mary Alice Yeskey is the Director of Marketing at Charm City Cakes (she appears on the Food Network’s Ace of Cakes because she works for Chef Duff Goldman at Charm City Cakes (any fans of the show?). When she’s not making cameo appearances on TV, she is a busy mom of a 4 month old son, Spencer. She has been cloth diapering since her son was 3 weeks old and she loves bragging about her son’s FuzziBunz!
Here are our five questions with this week’s Monday Mama:
1. How did you first hear about FuzziBunz and modern cloth diapers?
I am lucky to live in Baltimore, which is home to Soft and Cozy Baby – an actual bricks and mortar cloth diaper shop. A dear friend of mine registered there for her baby shower a couple years ago, which introduced me to the concept. It wasn’t until I got pregnant that I really started researching, investigating and thinking I would follow the same path. I knew I wanted to cloth diaper, but the choices were overwhelming. I started out with prefolds and covers that I got prior to Spencer being born, but quickly found that they didn’t fit snugly and were rather hard to manage on an actual live baby (it seemed so easy in the store!). After reading more reviews online, I came upon so many raves about FuzziBunz that I bought a couple to see how they would work for us. I loved them immediately – the custom size-ability of the one-size diapers is perfect for our chunky monkey and they really do feel like an investment since they will grow with him. My husband is a mega die hard FB fan – he won’t use any of the other brand diapers in my stash, it’s so cute.
2. Why do you cloth diaper?
We have been cloth diapering since Spencer was three weeks old and I honestly can’t imagine ever going back. Three main reasons:
- They’re cheaper (it may not seem so at first, but do the math! It will blow your mind.);
- They’re better for the environment (the 3 weeks we used disposables we generated more full trash bags than we had in probably the entire 3 months prior. It was gross.); and
- They’re better on our son’s skin (no diaper rash to speak of, at all).
3. Please share with us your best CD washing/caring tip.
Behold the power of the sun! Even though my FuzziBunz get pretty fantastically clean in the wash, sometimes they do have a residual stain on them. At first I just chalked that up to heavy use and figured that’s how it would be, but then I read about sunning diapers. My husband tied up a laundry line for me in our backyard, and the next wash I pinned up the diapers and inserts that had stains. It was AMAZING. They literally looked like they’d been bleached white after only a couple hours. And I didn’t use any electricity to do so! Hooray! I’ve even put them out on the line on really cloudy grey days and they still get totally white. It’s like magic. Plus, there’s something really charmingly old school about pinning diapers on the line, and it’s so nice to get outside if even for 2 minutes to hang them up or take them down.
4. What one word describes your parenting style?
How about “newbie”? As Spencer is only four months old I am still definitely learning as I go. I am very grateful to have a group of close friends who are all new parents and/or expecting now as well, so I feel like our little tribe of nears and dears is working as a village to learn from each other and help each other out.
5. If you could be any TV or movie mom (real or character), who would it be and why?
This one’s easy : Sarah Connor. Specifically, Sarah Conner in Terminator 2: Judgement Day. I want those biceps. And any mom that would go up against the Terminator to protect her son cannot be trifled with. I could do without all the machines taking over apocalypse unpleasantries, but in terms of just shear mama-bear fierceness, you can’t touch Sarah Connor.
Do you want to be a featured Monday Mama on the FuzziBunz blog? Please send us an email at press at fuzzibunz dot com and write “Monday Mama” in subject line. Due to the many emails we get, we are not able to respond to them all (but we try, I promise!)
Tags: caring for FuzziBunz diapers, Monday Mama
Posted in FuzziBunz Blog | No Comments »
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
 FuzziBunz Wonder Wipes are perfect for making diaper changes completely reusable Every mom and dad has a system in place for handling dirty diaper changes – including how they handle the wiping action that goes along with the diaper changing deed. Awhile back we asked our fans to tell us how they use, store and clean reusable cloth wipes. We got some great tips. If you’re using resusable wipes, these tips are likely core knowledge to you, but for newbies, we think you’ll find it very useful. Here are some highlights:
Using: To use cloth wipes, most moms say they dip the wipes in warm water and then wipe. Simple enough. Some moms run the wipes under warm tap water, while others use a basin stored near their diaper station. Some moms even use the squirt bottle and spray warm water directly on baby’s bottom and then wipe. The overall verdict is a little warm water makes wiping duty easier!
Storing: Most moms say they simply store their clean wipes at their diaper changing station and then store dirty wipes with their dirty diapers – in the dry diaper pail. For on the go changes, moms simply store the dirty wipes in their wet tote bag alongside the diaper. Both the diaper and wipes can be later transferred into your diaper pail for washing.
Cleaning: To clean the reusable wipes, simply wash them alongside your diaper stash. There is no need to do a separate wash or follow a different washing cycle. Easy, right?
If you use disposable wipes and cloth diaper, you’ll want to have a separate trash can nearby to dispose of them in. In our opinion, having to keep a separate trash can makes for more clutter – so why not make the whole system reusable? Give it a go, why not? You’re doing laundry anyway!
For veteran reusable wipe users, what other tips do you have for newbie wipers?
Tags: caring for FuzziBunz diapers, Cloth Diaper Accessories, Reusable Wipes
Posted in FuzziBunz Blog, FuzziBunz Press Releases | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
 Sarah's diapers soaking in the sun and getting gleaming white I’ve read a lot about “sunning” your diapers to both dry them naturally and eliminate stains. I have to admit, when I was doing cloth diaper research, I was skeptical that putting diapers out in the sun for a couple hours would actually work these wonders, but since almost everyone knows more about cloth diapers than I do, I was willing to give it a shot…
…oh wait, I had a baby in December and I live in Illinois. Everyone knows, the sun don’t shine here until at least April. No trying that out for at least a few months.
I spent the first three months I cloth diapered really just figuring out what worked for our family: our washing routine, favorite diapers, troubleshooting, etc. And just as we were hitting our groove with diapering, we headed south for a beautiful couple of weeks in Florida… A-ha! The more adventurous cloth-diaperer I was becoming saw a great opportunity to try out some new techniques, namely incorporate line drying and sunshine into our routine.
The first time I washed diapers in Florida, I stood by the washing machine until they were finished, promptly scooped them out and headed outside to get them, still wet, into the sun. No clothesline or drying rack in sight, so I just hung my diapers and inserts over a deck chair not expecting much and we headed out to check out a butterfly house (very cool for both my preschooler and his mama!). When we returned, I was pleasantly surprised to see that, by golly…it had worked. Really worked!
I was actually pretty awed by how well sunning your diapers does work. I had some staining – not bad, just some yellowish stains on most of my inserts from breastmilk poop – and when I brought them inside after about 6 hours in the sun, they were literally put-on-your-sunglasses, gleaming white. I wish I had a before and after photo of the diapers, because the difference really was stunning.
Not only were they beautifully, perfectly white, but I am told they were now disinfected as well. Apparently, the sun kills germs, zaps stained diapers and gives them a fresh, outdoorsy scent (really makes you think about what it does to your skin, doesn’t it?). What a natural way to deep clean the things that touch my baby’s precious skin. I am not exactly sure how it works (a brightly colored towel also left in the sun was not harmed, so it’s not like the sun will bleach anything in its path), but I am so super-duper glad it does!
Now that we are back to reality, I have added a new skill to my washing routine and I am anxiously awaiting the day I can sun my diapers outside on a regular basis! I have already purchased a sunning rack for my back yard…now I am just waiting for a sunny day that’s above 50 degrees.
Yes, this skeptic’s mind has been changed.
Sarah is a mom of two and blogs about her adventures in motherhood, cloth diapering and everything in between. Catch her “Cloth Diapering Unwrapped” series on the FuzziBunz blog every Tuesday. Learn more about Sarah here.
Tags: caring for FuzziBunz diapers, Cloth Diapering Unwrapped
Posted in FuzziBunz Blog | No Comments »
|
|
