cloth diapering

So I've totally recommitted to cloth diapering. Today some of the moms were emailing about it and I went to the website of our diaper service motherherbdiaperservice.com and went to her section why cloth and was totally shocked by how awful disposables are. I mean, obviously I know they are terrible, or I wouldn't be using cloth in the first place. We are using cloth more for the environmental impact, but I hadn't realized how hazardous to the health disposables are. I have even gotten Raviv's daycare to agree to "try" the cloth diapers. I think it has taken a while because at first they were so bulky for such a little baby they didn't work. And, I didn't have covers I liked. Now I use the g diaper cover with the pre-fold insert instead of their inserts. Though the g diaper inserts are flushable, compostable, or tossable they are still bleached and full of not so great stuff. Plus, one of my favorite parts of the service is that the pedal people deliver! For those of you who don't live in Northampton, the pedal people provide delivery/courier service in the town by bike. I took this picture off of their website. This is Ruthy, she is our pedal person.


When Raviv was really little, and pooped 10 times a day, I would often lay him on a cloth diaper and let him "free ball" it for a while. This prevented diaper rash, and he would poop on the diaper, and I wouldn't even have to change him!

We were also discussing teething today. When I was in Seattle, I got Raviv a new teething toy. Someone gave us a crate of organic teething vegetables that he LOVES.While in Seattle, I got him a broccoli to go with the set.
Unfortunately, if you turn it upside down, it takes on a whole new look. It is fun to watch Raviv go to town on this toy though. We also got him an eggplant in Northampton. The eggplant, mushroom and tomato are too hard for him to hold, and we lost the string bean, so I think the broccoli will have to remain in active rotation. I think I was trying to compensate for not wanting to feed him real food by purchasing fake food. It is so easy to just pop him on the boob when he is hungry, and his poops are really easy to clean and not stinky. I'm a bit nervous for big-boy poops. At least children tend to toilet train up to a year earlier with cloth diapers! Raviv has started eating though. He LOVES to drink out of a cup. At daycare he now drinks breast milk out of a cup instead of a bottle. And if I am holding him while trying to drink water, he gets way too excited and grabs the glass.

At some point I will upload my own pictures.

It is so hot today. We have a little gadget from Brookstone that someone must have gotten as a gift, because I don't know why anyone would buy it on purpose. It looks like an egg and has the date, time and temperature on it. Our rule today is if your office reaches 82 degrees, you can go home. Ken thought he had the hottest office at 80.2, but mine has officially reached 82.2. So I am going to go home. It isn't too exciting though because I would have left in 7 minutes anyway to go pick up Raviv.