The Sprayberries

New Gear!

[jordanna]

Anyone who has watched us prepare to go snowshoeing, hiking or camping knows that we are addicted to gear (I don't know where Ty gets it from; as for me, I'm looking at you Dad!). The most entertaining aspects of having a new kid is all the new gear. Our decision to eschew disposable diapers has led to more conversations on diaper technology than I ever could have imagined. At one point I thought the options were: disposable or cloth. Then, I learned the options were: disposable, cloth, or flushables (g-diapers). Then I learned there are approximately a MILLION different ways to cloth diaper your baby. We don't think day care providers will go for flushables, and the flushables are fairly expensive (30-40% more than huggies) so we are going to do a trial run where we combine diapering technologies: flushables inside the g-diapers, cloth inserts inside g-diapers, and pocket diapers. What is a pocket diaper you ask? Check these out! We figure we should be able to use the same inserts inside the BumGenius and the g-diaper pants. The pocket diapers go on like a regular diaper, so we have hopes that child care providers will use them, and just stow the dirties inside our diaper bag (I am making a bunch of individual water proof bags). We bought two pocket diapers of a different brand (Swaddlebees) than the BumGenius just to try out the concept, since Twitchy won't be in daycare until August. I am having a hard time resisting buying the BumGenius now, because I think they are a little too adorable and they get better reviews than the swaddlebees. In the end, I don't know if it is my environmental morals that have led me away from disposables, or the fact that all the alternatives are so much cuter.