G Diapers: Not for the Faint of Heart
In the interest of trying to be green, we bought a G Diaper starter kit at Whole Paycheck for $22.99. It's essentially a maxi pad for a baby inside cotton velcro pants. The green part is -- wet diapers are compostable and poopy ones can be flushed. And the little cotton pants can be quite trendy.
The part where GDiapers may not be for you is:
1) It is NOT cheap. Each flushable liner costs 50 cents. That is at least twice the cost of disposable diapers. If you buy extra pants online, it's $16.99 per pant. (This makes the starter kit a great deal -- for the aforementioned price of $22.99, you get two pairs of pants, four snap in liners, and 10 flushable cores.)
2) Are you okay touching poo? There's no way around it. You have to unsnap the plasticky non-plastic liner, yank out the flushable core, tear the core to drop the cotton lining into the toilet, swish it around with a plastic swish stick, THEN drop the flushable outer cotton lining before flushing. If you had an explosive first diaper (don't think we velcroed Sam enough) THEN you have to clean the plasticky non-plastic liner AND the cotton pant before throwing it all into the wash.
*SIGH*
That being said, I think it may be worth it. Even if we GDiaper Sam half the time, it might not be the most cost effective way to go about it, but I feel like I'm doing my part in some small way. That and the apartment doesn't steam with the hot summery stench of Sam's poops. Flush! And it all goes away. We'll probably still have to use disposables when we're out though ... maybe. You decide if it's worth it to you.
In other news, Sam is officially on bottle strike. I'm freaked out about starving him -- whether it's having it out with him now, or in August when I go back to work. Working mums out there -- if you have any suggestions, I am open! VERY open! Apparently, skipping him to a sippy cup is not an option yet. Do tell.
posted by Unknown @ 9:25 AM
2 Comments:
Oh Alinna, I remember going through the same thing with Abby. Bottle strike. Just keep at it. Try everything from frozen, to fresh from the breast, to warmed, etc. (I found out that the milk I left in the fridge was just getting rotten too fast, so I just froze everything.) It's way harder to train the bottle later than earlier. I don't think Sam will suffer much if he decides to strike for a couple of feedings. He's got good chunks. Books say for the daddy to feed, but I found that Abby took the bottle better from me. Also, I just prayed for a period of two weeks, to PLEASE please let Abby not reject the bottle. That seemed to work above all else. :) I would even pray that Abby would not wake up as I transferred her over from the carseat to the crib. Let me know what happens!
I sympathize COMPLETELY. We have had a long and torturous journey with the bottle. In our case (though I don't know how helpful it will be since we totally failed to introduce the bottle early enough), the 'bee would only take the bottle if really sleepy and really hungry, but not cranky...or from my mother in law. We also tried several types of bottles until we found one that worked. At one point she was refusing because she wasn't getting enough from the stage one nipple so we had to go to the stage two.
We didn't really worry too much about her starving since we were nursing at night...if you are nursing other times I think he'll find a way to make up the calories :)
We use tiny tots' cloth diaper service, which we love. Cost-wise it is also a bit to start (the covers start at ~$8) but for us it's <$75/month. We use disposables when on vacation and sometimes at night to help her sleep longer, but rarely otherwise.
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