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I'm planning on cloth diapering from my baby's very first diaper. Please don't say I'll give up because I am extremely against disposables for my baby. I feel very strongly about cloth diapering. How many diapers do newborns use in a 24 hour long period? I plan on doing the cloth diaper laundry daily (again I feel so strongly about cloth diapering I am willing) I'm also doing cloth wipes so how many cloth wipes will I Need? How many wipes do you use? Thank you
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10-12 diapers per day in the newborn sizes. I would budget 14 per day because sometimes you have those days. Don't need quite as many for older babies, especially once they start sleeping long stretches at night (I recommend using well-stuffed pocket diapers w coconut oil for rash protection overnight.) I cloth diaper too, so I certainly won't try to talk you out of it, but some thoughts to help:
1) Doing laundry every single day really isn't rational. It's just not. Every two days is doable. Every single day-- wait until you have the baby at home and then see how you feel about doing it every single day. I can totally swing every two days, but especially the early days with a newborn, no way was a one-day turn-around possible. No way. Besides which, if you're going the CD'ing route at all to be more conservative, well, it's really wasteful to run a load of laundry for a mere 12 diapers. At least save up for a slightly bigger load (and hopefully you have a HE machine and can set it for a small load). So I would recommend getting two days' worth of diapers for several reasons.
2) General recommendation: Do a lot of research first, buy a few different types of diapers in a few different brands in newborn sizes. Not a good idea to buy an entire set of one kind. Then, after you've had a chance to try them all out on baby, you'll know which ones really are your favorites-- and it probably won't be the ones you thought you wanted. But after trying them all out, you can then buy your entire size one stock in your favorite brands. I would generally recommend using one-size adjustable diapers of some kind since they last so long, but make sure you spend the extra buck for them to be really sturdy brands, and you definitely have to start with newborn sizes since one-size won't fit well until really around 10 pounds or so.
3) I get your philosophy. But the baby's VERY FIRST diapers well include meconium, aka "road tar." Yes, you can wash it out, but not easily at all. The hospital provided a pack of diapers when my son was born, and we basically went through that pack and then switched to cloth diapers when his poop was finally normal after the first week or so. Also, are you planning to deliver at hospital, at a birthing center, or at home? If you deliver away from home, you'll need to take along some method to store the dirty diapers until you are released to go home. This can be a few days' worth of dirties, so just a wet bag won't do (nor would a one-day supply of diapers like you're planning on having). You'd need a diaper pail to go along with you to the delivery place. Totally fine if you want to start with cloth at the very beginning, but at least think about it thoroughly and know what you're getting into. After you really think about it all, a week of disposables at the beginning isn't an unforgivable sin.
4) Cloth wipes, I would budget 1.5 per diaper. If it's a wet diaper, you just need one wipe. But if your baby saves up poop and has disastrous dirty diapers like mine does, you may need three or more cloth wipes to take care of the haz-mat. So overall, I would say it averages out to 1.5 per diaper change.
Cheers and good luck!
10-12 diapers per day in the newborn sizes. I would budget 14 per day because sometimes you have those days. Don't need quite as many for older babies, especially once they start sleeping long stretches at night (I recommend using well-stuffed pocket diapers w coconut oil for rash protection overnight.) I cloth diaper too, so I certainly won't try to talk you out of it, but some thoughts to help:
1) Doing laundry every single day really isn't rational. It's just not. Every two days is doable. Every single day-- wait until you have the baby at home and then see how you feel about doing it every single day. I can totally swing every two days, but especially the early days with a newborn, no way was a one-day turn-around possible. No way. Besides which, if you're going the CD'ing route at all to be more conservative, well, it's really wasteful to run a load of laundry for a mere 12 diapers. At least save up for a slightly bigger load (and hopefully you have a HE machine and can set it for a small load). So I would recommend getting two days' worth of diapers for several reasons.
2) General recommendation: Do a lot of research first, buy a few different types of diapers in a few different brands in newborn sizes. Not a good idea to buy an entire set of one kind. Then, after you've had a chance to try them all out on baby, you'll know which ones really are your favorites-- and it probably won't be the ones you thought you wanted. But after trying them all out, you can then buy your entire size one stock in your favorite brands. I would generally recommend using one-size adjustable diapers of some kind since they last so long, but make sure you spend the extra buck for them to be really sturdy brands, and you definitely have to start with newborn sizes since one-size won't fit well until really around 10 pounds or so.
3) I get your philosophy. But the baby's VERY FIRST diapers well include meconium, aka "road tar." Yes, you can wash it out, but not easily at all. The hospital provided a pack of diapers when my son was born, and we basically went through that pack and then switched to cloth diapers when his poop was finally normal after the first week or so. Also, are you planning to deliver at hospital, at a birthing center, or at home? If you deliver away from home, you'll need to take along some method to store the dirty diapers until you are released to go home. This can be a few days' worth of dirties, so just a wet bag won't do (nor would a one-day supply of diapers like you're planning on having). You'd need a diaper pail to go along with you to the delivery place. Totally fine if you want to start with cloth at the very beginning, but at least think about it thoroughly and know what you're getting into. After you really think about it all, a week of disposables at the beginning isn't an unforgivable sin.
4) Cloth wipes, I would budget 1.5 per diaper. If it's a wet diaper, you just need one wipe. But if your baby saves up poop and has disastrous dirty diapers like mine does, you may need three or more cloth wipes to take care of the haz-mat. So overall, I would say it averages out to 1.5 per diaper change.
Cheers and good luck!
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Hi, I'm wondering if you would feed a packaged food with these ingredients to a newborn or older baby? Do you think this is ok for me to feed my 6 week old?
Enzymatically hydrolyzed reduced minerals, whey protein concentrate, palm olein, soy, coconut, high-oleic safflower oils, lactose, maltodextrin, patoassium citrate, calcium phosphate, calcium chloride, salt, potassium chloride, magnesium chloride, ferrous sulfate, zinc sulfate, copper sulfate, manganese sulfate, potassium iodide, soy lecithin, mono and diglycerides, inositol, choline bitartrate
sodium ascorbate, alpha tocophyeryl acetate, naicinamide, calcum pantothenate, riboflavin, pyridoxine hydrochloride, thiamine mononitrate, folic acid, phylloquinone, biotin, vitamin D3, vitamin B12, taurine,
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Its just that I saw this on the can of formula they gave me in the hospital and it didn't sound safe to give a new baby...
Jaker Maker - That's a good point. Dirt and rocks are natural then, and so is plastic. So I'll feed that to my baby instead. Thanks. I'm gonna give you best answer!!! :)
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You have WAY too much time on your hands!
You have WAY too much time on your hands!
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