Cloth Diapering Whoops

Baby butt! This is such a hippy picture: cloth diaper and amber necklace :)

Yes, we are still cloth diapering! But of course, I just jumped right into it without really reading up on it so I've made some mistakes.

1. Do not use diaper cream with cloth diapers even if Dr. Google says you can use a little. It ruins them which creates more of a diaper rash. Now that we have most of the food allergies figured out (although occasionally we will still get a diaper rash from food), I started looking into the diapers.. and after researching (googling) I found out that I was creating a diaper rash from:
a. Using diaper cream
b. Using my HE washer to wash cloth diapers

Solution:
1. Strip the diapers (I would google this but basically you add Dawn soap and bleach with an extra rinse)
2. Use disposable diapers with diaper cream to get rid of the rash- VERY IMPORTANT! You might only need to use one disposable and it clears but it beats messing around and making everything worse. We do use disposables at night now and I put some cream on just for maintenance.
3. For HE washers:

• Add a wet towel to the wash
• Do an extra extra cycle (3 cycles)
• Add bleach to one cycle
• Wash less diapers in each load

*I'm still working with this one. I'm pretty consistent on the three cycles right now but I would rather just add a wet towel to the wash. And the second Jackson looks like he might be getting a rash I put bleach in the cycle. 

I will admit I was so ANNOYED that my cloth diapers were causing the rash.. until I figured out that I was causing it. Basically I took a week off messing around trying to figure it all out but now we are good. During that week off I did think wow disposables are so easy and then I though wow what I waste of $$$! hahah I would much rather spend that money on toys or clothes for Jackson! We are getting close to a year and I really think my new goal will be to use them until he is potty trained. I plan on potty training him early.. if possible. Right now we have at least broken even in our cloth diapering investment. Going forward we will be saving more and more with cloth diapering. 

*I should really say if you are working full time, I think cloth diapering would be really hard (time consuming). Now that I am only working two days it's extremely easy. And I started AFTER the newborn stage which I will probably do again with the next one.