Pockets and inserts. Prefolds and covers. AIOs, FSTs, and a plethora of other abbreviations that were at the time foreign to me, surrounded us as we sat on her living room floor. I was overwhelmed. I was in awe. I was in love. The colors. The designs. The simplicity of it all! How could I say no?
A little less than a year later, I found myself pregnant with my first daughter. When she was born, I put in my first order of diapers. I was hooked. They were adorable.The flowers, polka-dots, and eye-catching colors called out to me. I found myself picking diapers to match her outfits, and shopping for outfits to match her diapers. Whenever we strolled through the baby section of the store, I was appalled at the cost of a case of diapers. In fact, I realized that we wouldn't have been able to afford disposable diapers without major lifestyle changes. I was very thankful for the affordability of cloth diapers.
Then I got pregnant with our second child. Now, when our first was born, I did not do enough research, and wound up purchasing a few dozen cheap pocket diapers with microfiber inserts. You know the kind. The ones that look like all the others made over-seas, bearing a slightly different tag sewn on the side. Those ones. I understand that they work for some families. And they worked for ours. For a little over a year.
But then they started to leak. And reek! Yuk!
When I had begun my journey, I was hoping the diapers would last through at least two children, and these barely lasted long enough to get my oldest to potty-training age. Then I got pregnant with my second child, and realized something had to change. I had to find a better cloth diapering solution, or (gasp!) thrown in the towel, and use disposables. Like I mentioned before, disposable diapers just weren't in out budget. I Googled. I Facebooked. I Youtubed. In short, I did my homework. That's when I discovered the ease and customizability of prefolds.
And I discovered Rumparooz covers. Their colors and prints were to die for. And the double gussets. Oh, don't get me started. They saved many an outfit from newborn poop-splosions. They fit perfectly over my little one's tiny butt and chunky thighs. Now, please understand that I am not one of those obsessive types, who must have a complete "rainbow" of diapers put out by Rumparooz. I don't need to have one in every style. I just want the colors and styles that I like. Which happens to be pretty much all of them. So excuse me, as I need to go and stay up well past my bedtime, nursing a cup of coffee, just so I can get my hands on that new print.
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