Diaper station set up.

Well, I have everything ready for little one when she arrives. I even have a basket with 12 diapers ready for the first day. (Second photo)

The other basket is for extras and the second shelf has extra covers.

I found the coolest boutique in my neighborhood! It's called Lollibeans Boutique. They have tons of cloth diaper essentials and lots of cool organic stuff. I'm so excited. I'll for sure be back to shop. I left them my number to call me when they get the snap-eez in. I love that I'll be able to support a local small business.

Oh...I have her things ready for the big day! The drive home from the hospital. Of course I've included a cute newborn size cloth diaper. :-) She will come home in the Harley Davidson outfit my hubby bought, a blanket I made for her, and the ruffle-butt diaper cover. Yay. I'm in the nesting mode and trying to control it a little bit, so I'm not packing just yet...but I have it ready. Maybe tomorrow I'll ready my things. :-)

Getting so incredibly excited!

I find it funny...

It's funny to me that when I or my husband mention that we're going to use cloth diapers, the response is almost always, "good luck with the cloth diapers." The tone is not genuine, but somewhat condescending...as if the whole experience will be horrible and we are naive new parents who have an idealized view of baby diapering.

However, anyone who has ever diapered a baby, including myself knows that besides the washing, disposables come with their own slew of issues...at least they did for me.

1. They take hundreds of years to decompose. Diapers I wore as a baby are still in the landfills. That's completely horrible.

2. With my boys, I can't tell you how many time the fronts of their clothes were soaked because they peed straight up and out of their diapers...and there is no way to adjust the absorbency of the front of a disposable diaper to prevent this.

3. Disposable diapers leak...contrary to popular belief, this is not a problem of the cloth diaper alone. They leak. Poop will burst forth from the seams of a disposable diaper just as easily as it will from cloth. You will get pooped on. Cloth or disposable. Period. Sorry.

4. Many babies are allergic to the ingredients in disposable diapers. Case in point, my nephew. My sister wrestled with a terrible, angry red bottom with blisters pretty much the entire time her son was in diapers. :( Cloth wasn't considered, so the only alternative was to switch back and forth between diapers to deal with varying degrees of diaper rash. thankfully he was potty trained fairly early.

5. Diaper rash occurs with either type of diaper. (obviously from #4)

Yay! New shipment!

We are all set now. With this addition to our stash, we have a great start and all the diapers we *need* for a while. :-) So excited to get these prepped and ready for my little girl.

My stash of covers

So far we have 6 covers.
5 are KaWaii Heavywetters and one is by a brand called Cocala...or something like that. I know nothing about this brand. Just thought it was cute and worth a shot. It's the only sized one we have so far. It's for 6-13 lbs.
I know the KaWaii ones are great for sure.
As far as inserts go, we have 22 MF inserts and one tri-fold insert which came with the pink ruffled cover.
We also ordered a set last night. It had 2 one-size covers and 24 cotton inserts. They were from luvyourbaby.com and I think they were bumgenius.
Once we get those, I think we'll be set.

Cloth diaper folds

I'm collecting these resources for myself so I don't have to bookmark a bunch of pages. This way, I have one place for all my resources. :) This source is for a few different folds for prefolds.

http://babycottonbottoms.com/cloth_diaper_folding.htm

Resources for Cloth Diapering 101

We just ordered a bunch of pre-folds and covers. I found these great resources for prepping and other CD related information.

Cloth diapering at night:
http://www.diaperpincorner.com/2001/09/cloth-diapers-at-night/

Cloth diapering FAQ:
http://www.diaperpin.com/howto.asp#wetdry

A cool link I found about pre-folds

I want to use prefolds and cute covers for sure, along with my KaWaii Heavywetters.
The following link is pretty helpful for first-timers like me. :-)

http://www.diaperpincorner.com/2003/06/prefolds-101-understanding-the-differences/