I love gdiapers

 My husband came home the other day and while we were talking about how his day was he told me that he and the guys were talking about diapers. Yes, the same men that put others’ lives before their own and spend months away from their families at time talk about diapers and daddy duty. My husband busted out with “I have bought all the diapers my kids need, we do cloth.” I could not have been prouder.

Rewind, about two years when I told my husband that I wanted to use cloth diapers he looked at me like I had five heads all of which were on fire. It took me four months after Lime was born to finally convince him. It was a money thing with him; spending almost 150 dollars a month is insane! Especially when you can spend 200-300 dollars and not have to buy diapers again (for most even less)! (Not until, they come out with new prints and styles, then they really are needed) I was so excited to finally order my gdiapers sweet bundle and a package of the refills. I actually told my husband it’s what I wanted wait, it’s what I needed for my first mother’s day gift.

      My first reason to love any cloth diaper is I am not throwing money away; parents that use disposables are literally throwing 14-25 cents away with each diaper. The only money I am using with my diapers now is for laundry detergent. Which is MAYBE three dollars every 4 months, what parent using disposables can say that?

      I don’t even want to mention (but I will) the chemicals in the typical disposable diapers. Most of them I can’t pronounce. One of the biggest ones is Dioxins which have been known to cause skin reactions, altered liver function, and cause impairments to the immune system, nervous system, endocrine system and reproductive functions. That’s scary! The scariest part, parents are putting these on their babies! Lime, had a horrible diaper rash his first four months, and we weren’t even using the run of the mill diapers. As soon as we switched to the gdiapers his rash cleared up, a noticeable difference in 24 hours and completely gone in three days. Only to return when he is teething or drinks juice.

      Besides gdiapers being way cuter than normal diapers, you have to ask yourself. What would you rather wear, cotton underpants that breath or some plastic crap that crunches and makes noises every time you move? Enough said? I think so too.

My only con with cloth diapering is that gdiapers are way too cute and even though I do have an adequate number of diapers in my stash, but when they come out with their prints, just like the name says, it’s a printed diaper instead of just a solid color, or their style, which is a matching diaper and shirt or dress for a little girl. They also have separate prints and styles for boys and girls. I NEED those, but it’s hard to convince my husband of the need.

       

Fast forward a year and half later, I am still in love with my gdiapers. Get ready for it; my life has been made EASIER with cloth diapers. No more late night runs which is especially hard when your husband has duty and takes him away for 24 hours. No more worries if the diapers I am putting on my kids going to do serious damage later in life, only an hour or so less sleep at night or one.

      I could go on and on about how gdiapers are a company started with a young couple about to have their first baby, or their amazing truly amazing company, or that even though they making it big, they still are considered a “mom and pop” shop, or that they are making cloth diapering more accessible by having their products in the “big box” stores, or that other gmums are the most helpful cloth diapering mommas ever. I could go on about those but instead I will leave you with gdiapers philosophy Fair Dinkum is an Australian expression that means being genuine and real with everyone you encounter. Which is exactly what they do!