Happy 3-month Birthday, Baby E

Baby E is 3 months old today.



She is holding her head and upper body up with ease. She tries very hard to crawl or roll over--she wants so badly to be mobile and communicative. I think she's teething; she chews on everything and drools a river lately.





Here she is modeling her new cloth diapers and proraps. I'm so happy with the change to cloth so far. The cloth diapers are much softer and more aesthetically pleasing, which I didn't really expect. I actually enjoy washing and folding them and putting a clean one on her.

She seems to like them just fine, although a wet diaper bothers her more with the cloth--which just means we notice more quickly when she's wet.



We got a great price on seconds from Pro Diaper on ProRaps and some really nice diaper service quality prefolds, and added some flat diapers and a Bummi Super Whisper Wrap to try also. The Bummi is a bit softer than the proraps, and the inside is fabric rather than PUL (polyurethane laminate), which is softer but can't be as easily wiped clean, and seems like it would stain more easily. Both seem to work equally well. We haven't had any blowouts or leaking through with the prefold cloth diapers, and we were having those problems constantly with the disposables.

I ordered the Bummi wrap, a snappi and some Baby Bits for making wipe solution from Granola Babies, and was happy with the products and service. They were having a 15% off sale and free shipping. I was also thrilled with my experience buying a pair of snappis, fleece diaper liners and a few other things from Abby's Lane, with free (and fast) shipping and excellent service. She was just about to start a new 10% off promotion, so the owner of Abby's Lane actually refunded me 10% of my payment!



I highly recommend the Snappi fasteners instead of pins with the cloth diapers. They make it so easy, and keep the diaper snugly in place inside the wraps. We have had no leaks so far using the snappi/cover combination, even at night without doubling diapers.

The whole setup cost us the equivalent of just a few months' worth of disposable diapers, especially with getting prorap seconds for $4 each from the manufacturer (they're seconds because they had a smudge of dirt on them!). I'm very pleased.

On another note, I wanted to share the sculptures the older girls made yesterday.





They are porcupines made of dry spaghetti and beads with a playdough base. Actually, MM's is a "porky-pine" and AJ's is a "prickly-pine." AJ thinks they must eat prickles to make themselves prickly.