We're Upgrading To Cloth Diapering!

So! In case no one's noticed by my excited status', we've decided to move to using cloth diapers this time around!!!! I am SO freaking excited!!!!! We just finished ordering our first set. We ordered 6 size small gDiapers! We will have them in blue, green and brown. They arrive today!!!! I can't wait! I've realized a few things thanks to a blog site my friend told me about! If you wanna read up on it, it's here..... http://www.younghouselove.com/2010/08/the-much-requested-cloth-diaper-post/ It's been SUPER helpful! Anyways, I realized that we have made the right choice! I know we haven't actually tried it yet, still waiting for Collin to make his apperance, but I know this is going to work out so well for us. Also, I do appreciate saving the environment and all, but the MAIN reason for us doing this is to save ourselves some money. If you have a baby, you know how expensive buying diapers every 2ish weeks can be! It'll make you go broke alone! LOL I do appreciate saving my planet in all, but I will not save my planet at the expense of me having to put out more energy then neccesary. My family comes first. If I'm so busy saving the planet I'm runing out of energy to tend to my family, there's a problem. LOL Cloth diapers have NOT seemed energy friendly to me, up until I discovered the WONDERFUL Bum Genius diapers! The SPECIFIC Bum Genius diapers that are the 4.0 version with snaps and are....*drum roll please*....ONE SIZE FITS ALL!!! WHAT?!?!?! This was a HUGE bonus to me! Being that I tend to have little porker babies, I dreamed of a day that my son didn't outgrow a diaper over night and we lost out on almost a whole box of disposable diapers. Oh sure we were able to give it to someone who could use them...but uhm...where does that save us any money?! Yea...it doesn't! When I found Bum Genius diapers I fell in LOVE! I knew I could make these work! Also.....there are these VERY handy little things called DISPOSABLE LINERS! OMG! What?! And they're eco friendly! Biodegradable, flushable....amazing basically. So....even if I got a bit overwhelmed by cloth diapering full on....there was a bonus! The disposable liners were still cheaper than buying disposable diapers! Also, I'd have to say.....another obsticle I foresaw was....dun dun dun....THE HUSBAND! lol What would he say? Can he do it? Will he understand why it's a good option? etc etc. I one day exclaimed to him out of pure excitment "I've decided I'm going to do cloth diapering!" with pure shock on his face he replied "PSHT! You're on your own!" Sent my world crumbling. "What?!" lol He explained he did not want anything to do with it. He had heard from a friend that it really doesn't save all that much money and it's stinky and gross and he wanted nothing to do with it. Well! What was I supposed to do? Thankfully we had a friend who was currently nannying a cloth diapered baby! HALLELUJAH! My husband was remembering the old days where you used one cloth and pins for cloth diapering. Well....little did he knw the cloth diapering would had moved up! After having a demonstration show (using cloth diapers and a baby doll) he then became converted. "I didn't know they were like that!" he replied. lol Yes! It really IS that easy! So now that we had hubby on board the next thing to tackle was "How do we afford all of this?!" For anyone who might have done even the slightest bit of research, you know right off....cloth diapers are EXPENSIVE! Right now Bum Genius 4.0 One Size Fits All with snaps run at $18 a piece. Not too bad...but to buy at least 12 of them? And really....our goal number is 18-24 because we do NOT want to wash diapers ever 2 days. Our goal is to wash clothes/diapers every 3-4 days. Well in order to do that we need about 18-24. I'd LOVE 24...but I'll settle with 18. Well since deciding all of this I have religiously stalked any cloth diapering site I could find. Looking for sales. These sales also needed to coincide with pay day. Well FINALLY there was a sale that I could take part in. Off of Diapers.com. BUT...they were for the gDiapers. Now....I've mentioned I'm in LOVE with the Bum Genius diapers. But, through my extensive research, another diaper I thought I could get into were the gDiapers. The gDiapers did have velcro (which I'm not a fan of, cause velcro wears out) and were NOT one size fits all. However....gDiapers are the easiest to access. For example, they are sold IN STORES at Babies R Us! Everything you need for them is right there. So I was able to go in and get my hands on them. Also...they get some of THE best reviews. I hardly hear any problems with them. So I thought...Mmmm...these I could do! Well Diapers.com was having a great sale on them. 3 for $39 and FREE SHIPPING! So we ordered 6 smalls. Now, I really want to buy the rest in Bum Genius. But....if Bum Genius doesn't start having a sale I'm going to have to figure something else out. So because my husband and I can't afford a huge one time expensive, we've decided to slowly edge into it. That's why we chose to buy the smalls. Now, with Collin more than likely making his apperance early, there is major doubt that he will be a 10lb baby. LOL however if I go full term I'm pretty sure we won't be able to use the smalls at all. BUT this is the plan. If Collin is born too early we'll have to temporarily use disposable's. He has to be at least 7lbs for the cloth diapers to fit correctly. That's fine with us. Meanwhile....we will continue to watch sales and slowly build up our supply. I'm so eager to cloth diaper I want it all now. But funds say "no" lol We also need to buy a wet bag (you can read about those in the blog) and a trash pail for the disposable wipes. I do not want to use re-usable wipes. I have absolutely no desiere to. Maybe one day. But not today. lol So, I thought I would put out a short note/blog (I'm publishing this in my blog too!) to share my excitment and maybe convert some of you pregnant women/women with little babies, to the cloth diapering side! Oh! I would have to say....another motivation to do this...we HAVE a washer dryer. If we were still in an apartment with no washer/dryer...there's NO way I would even consider this! Not one bit! NO way! So! I if anyone would like to donate any used cloth diapers/liners/pails/wet bags/money to the "Hannah And Theo Take On Cloth Diapering" feel free!!! Also....if you happen to hear of a sale...or a friend trying to get rid of theres.....think of me! :) Let us know! You can guy the Bum Genius Diapers online at Target as well (That's convienant) Babies R Us Sells the gDiapers. Soooo.....any donation for us to cloth diaper will be SO greatly appreciated! :) Thanks for reading! OH! If you have any questions, let me know! :)