So many people have remarked “You are so brave” or “I know I couldn’t do it” when they hear our plans to cloth diaper. People really don’t understand how modern and improved cloth diapers are these days. Everyone seems to need the low down on them, even N and I had trouble understanding all their features until we held one in our hands.

Here is how the diaper was all packaged when it arrived:

The velcro makes the width of the diaper totally adjustable. The outer pink material is super soft on the outside but on the inside it is a plasticy waterproof material made of polyurethane laminate waterproof fabric (or PUL).

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Then their are 3 snaps that run along the front. Those are to adjust the height of the diaper, which is helpful for accommodating an infant and their healing umbilical cord. Plus it is one of the features that makes this diaper truly all in one, it’s size and shape grows with baby.

When you look at the inside of the diaper you’ll see the white inner lining, it is suede cloth. This is what comes in to contact with baby’s skin and gets pooped on. It is super soft and way absorbent.

Between the inner liner and the outer cover there is a nifty pocket where the inserts are placed to absorb liquid and moisture. When you look inside the pocket you can see the shiny, polyurethane laminate side of the outer fabric.

Here are the two inserts that come with the diaper. One is the infant size, the other is a size adjustable (via the snaps) regular insert. The inserts can be used individually or can be used together for more absorbency. They are also made with super absorbent suede cloth.

Here is what infant the pocket looks like with an insert inside. You just slide it right in the pocket and fold the flap closed keeping the insert inside and hidden.

And there you have it, the BumGenius 3.0 cloth diaper. I think they are pretty darn nifty, don’t you?

In other news yesterday marked the start of my 32nd week of pregnancy. N went in to work early to cover a fun story and make some extra money. We succeeded in getting all our crap (including the motor home) off the premisis of the old place.

We’ve still not heard back from the slumloards about a walk though inspection time and thus haven’t returned the keys to them. We’ve also kept posession of the garage door openers to intice them to actually contact us so we can officially end this madness. It looks like they wont though.

Tomorrow is the date of the Arizona baby shower being thrown in our honor. We are both excited and also a bit nervous that the turn out wont be great. We’ll see… I’ve got Tater’s nursery all spiffied up as best as possible for the video conference we’ll be doing during the shower.

That is pretty much all there is to report right now. It’s supposed to be a rainy weekend and we don’t have that many errands planned to tackle so hopefully it will be a somewhat calm and quiet time. Probably not though

Hopefully the sun is shining and you are going to have a nice spring weekend in your neck of the woods.

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Yesterday I was delighted to find a $25.00 gift certificate to Cotton Babies in my email box. Cotton Babies emailed me the gift code so I have no idea who it came from… Either I won a contest or someone was thinking of Tater and bought us the gift certificate. Either way it was a huge blessing and it made my freaking day!

I spent it on Tater’s very first BumGenius 3.0 cloth diaper and am super excited! I was so giddy I even ordered it in Zinnia (which is the bright ass pink one, LOL). Apparently the pictured 4 “new colors” are limited edition for Easter so I thought I would just give in and get the pink one.

I love all the new colors they have so it was a toss up choosing just one. I would take one of each if we had the cash flow right now, LOL. I figure eventually we will add more diapers to the stash and I know many have expressed an interest in buying them for us so we might just end up with one of each.

I am just so excited that we have our very first cloth diaper ordered and in the mail to us right now! N is also excited for it to come so I can show him how it all works. I’ve tried explaining it too him, he just smiles and nods. When I told him our first one was on the way he said:

“I can’t wait to get it and see it so I can fully understand the BumGenius-ness. :-)”

LOL, I guess hands on learning would make it all more understandable huh? I too can’t wait to get it and check out all the nifty features! Cloth diapering rocks, read about why here!

Now, we just need like a bazillion more huh… How many diaper changes are typical for a 0-3 month old anyway? I am trying to figure how many we will need to buy to cover us for a days worth of diaper changes.

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