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Cloth Diaper Chat #13-- with Rebecca of Cuddle Baby
6/22/05

4 mamas in attendance

19:22:08 mod_Cuddlebaby hello!!
19:22:14 mod_Cuddlebaby lilangelsfc
19:22:22 lilangelsfc hi, thought I would stop in while dd is sleeping
19:22:28 mod_Cuddlebaby great!!!!
19:22:35 mod_Cuddlebaby I can't believe no one else is in here!
19:22:40 mod_Cuddlebaby how old is your daughter?
19:22:51 lilangelsfc I thought there would be more since you put a post on the board
19:23:04 mod_Cuddlebaby yeah, no kidding!
19:23:07 lilangelsfc I have 3 dd's 8 1/2 - 6- and 3 weeks
19:23:15 lilangelsfc how old are your kids?
19:23:17 mod_Cuddlebaby so are you from the cloth diapering board?
19:23:25 lilangelsfc yep, I mostly lurk
19:23:35 lilangelsfc I have learned a ton though
19:23:48 mod_Cuddlebaby actually that was my first post there, I'm usually on the april 05 board but need to not be!
19:23:59 mod_Cuddlebaby mine are 9, 7, 2 and 8 weeks.
19:24:18 lilangelsfc I figured since we were having another girl I would try cloth.  We didn't need to buy anything for #3 lol
19:24:36 lilangelsfc lol thats ok
19:24:51 lilangelsfc you must be a busy lady
19:24:54 mod_Cuddlebaby so this is the first one you've cloth diapered?
19:25:00 mod_Cuddlebaby I AM!!
19:25:06 mod_Cuddlebaby homeschooling too.
19:25:10 lilangelsfc yep, it didn't even cross my mind with the first two
19:25:12 lilangelsfc oh wow
19:25:22 mod_Cuddlebaby kewl.
19:25:24 lilangelsfc I am an inhome childcare provider so I can empathize
19:25:30 mod_Cuddlebaby how did you first learn about cloth diapering?
19:25:54 mod_Cuddlebaby I was a licensed day care provider for 5 years....well still am but don't do it anymore.
19:25:58 lilangelsfc I happened across the cloth board on bbc while I was cruising around on the June birth club
19:26:14 lilangelsfc me too, I am going on 6 years now
19:26:15 mod_Cuddlebaby on baby center?
19:26:19 mod_Cuddlebaby that's cool.
19:26:19 lilangelsfc yep
19:26:31 mod_Cuddlebaby have you found lots of great wahm made cloth diapers?
19:26:43 lilangelsfc Iam looking to get out of childcare now though, I have had some real dead beat parents lately
19:26:53 lilangelsfc I bought some from ebay that I love
19:27:00 mod_Cuddlebaby it's always the parents isn't it?
19:27:05 lilangelsfc I believe it was sweet dreams dipes
19:27:12 lilangelsfc love the kids, the parents are rough
19:27:20 mod_Cuddlebaby yup
19:27:33 mod_Cuddlebaby so, a three week old huh?  how was birth?
19:27:38 lilangelsfc I live in a really small town so it makes it harder to fill
19:27:48 mod_Cuddlebaby 352 in my town.
19:27:51 lilangelsfc birth was rough, I was induced again.  20 hrs
19:27:58 mod_Cuddlebaby UGH!!!'
19:28:09 lilangelsfc lol we have around 800 including country people
19:28:28 mod_Cuddlebaby the town where I grew up and recently moved *from* is 800.,
19:28:52 lilangelsfc my first dd was 24 hrs, 2nd was 3 days before she finally appeared" so I guess this baby couldn't be shown up"
19:29:00 mod_Cuddlebaby but it is more of a bedroom community, I'd say a third are farmers, rest just sleep there and work in the BIG city of 30,000
19:29:09 lilangelsfc wow that must have been a huge change for you
19:29:29 lilangelsfc the closest city to us is 45 minutes away
19:29:54 mod_Cuddlebaby well it is, i guess you figured out that I had been in that town all of my life (since I was six), I'm now 36 and moved for the first time in my life.
19:30:08 lilangelsfc wow that would be hard
19:30:21 mod_Cuddlebaby it was!  It was just last fall.
19:30:26 mod_Cuddlebaby you have difficult births...
19:30:30 lilangelsfc ugh, mother in law just showed up, gotta run
19:30:35 lilangelsfc nice meeting you!
19:30:46 mod_Cuddlebaby I did too for the first two, last two were easy cheesy as my 9 yo would say.
19:30:55 mod_Cuddlebaby oh no!
19:30:59 mod_Cuddlebaby thanks for stopping in
19:31:14 lilangelsfc I hope someone else shows up!  bye bye
19:32:45 reese hello?
19:40:37 mod_Cuddlebaby hello
19:40:46 mod_Cuddlebaby sorry my computer locked up just as you entered!
19:41:15 mod_Cuddlebaby *doorbell*
19:41:24 mod_Cuddlebaby hello Reese
19:41:48 mod_Cuddlebaby I'm Rebecca, mom to four, 9, 7, 2 and 8 weeks.
19:42:09 reese sorry thought nobody was here so wasn't watching
19:42:16 mod_Cuddlebaby welcome!!
19:42:20 reese lands lady you are busy
19:42:25 mod_Cuddlebaby Im sorry no one else is in here..."
19:42:35 reese i'm reeseccup on most diaper forums
19:43:05 mod_Cuddlebaby must have drawnyou from the cloth diapering boards at babycenter
19:43:07 reese my kids are 13, 6 and 3
19:43:23 mod_Cuddlebaby ?
19:43:28 mod_Cuddlebaby cool
19:43:32 reese yea i knew it was here, i'm bounce around bc diaper/holistic and mothering
19:43:44 mod_Cuddlebaby my kind of mommy!
19:43:54 mod_Cuddlebaby who makes your favorite wahm diaper?
19:44:19 mod_Cuddlebaby I assume you natural birthed them too then....
19:44:37 reese lol uhhhhhhhh i made most of my own, but the few i have that are wahm are sugarpeas, and my personal fave just cause a friend and a great fit is recyclebees
19:45:00 mod_Cuddlebaby and a fellow sewer!!
19:45:04 reese ;) yes natural births
19:45:29 reese oh yes a fellow fabric addict LOL
19:45:46 mod_Cuddlebaby you silly tree hugging, breastfeeding, natural birthing (edcuated) mommy!!
19:45:57 mod_Cuddlebaby she who dies with the most fabric WINS!
19:46:24 mod_Cuddlebaby what's your favorite diaper making fabric?
19:46:56 reese well my dh thinks i have entirely too much
19:47:00 reese wool
19:47:01 mod_Cuddlebaby they all do
19:47:06 reese i'm addicted to wool
19:47:07 mod_Cuddlebaby really?
19:47:17 mod_Cuddlebaby that's one area to which I have not ventured.
19:47:24 mod_Cuddlebaby you mean for soakers?
19:47:27 mod_Cuddlebaby or absorbency?
19:47:41 reese that and i love velours, i wish i could get my hands on that ov
19:47:48 mod_Cuddlebaby ov?
19:47:55 mod_Cuddlebaby something velour?
19:48:01 reese oh i love wool as a cover but in general i love sewing with wool
19:48:09 mod_Cuddlebaby organic velour?
19:48:14 reese organic velour
19:48:34 mod_Cuddlebaby yeah, I guess that's hard to come by (according to terri of fmbg)
19:48:35 reese i use either bkt or hemp/cotton fleece or terry for soaker
19:48:37 reese s
19:49:09 mod_Cuddlebaby yeah, absorbency right?  I say soakers are the absorbent part of the diaper but some call the wool covers soakers.
19:49:29 mod_Cuddlebaby would wool be good to make the body of the diaper with though?
19:49:33 reese the hand knitted are soakers, so it does get confusing lol
19:49:46 mod_Cuddlebaby yeah, do you knit or crochet?
19:50:23 reese hm im not sure, i 've used wool as a liner" as an experiment, that worked well"
19:50:45 reese no i suck with the hooks and needles, i'm a sewing machine freak LOL
19:51:06 mod_Cuddlebaby hmmm, have you used the knitted wool soakers?
19:51:28 mod_Cuddlebaby yeah me too.  I can crochet but by comparison sewing with teh machine is MUCH faster.
19:51:39 mod_Cuddlebaby I'll leave the crocheting to my sisters and mother.
19:51:54 reese no i can't afford much so never spent the money on a soaker
19:52:11 mod_Cuddlebaby yeah, that's my problem, don't want to part with the $$ for wool
19:52:20 reese lol in my case not only faster but much nicer
19:52:21 mod_Cuddlebaby have you used wool jersey or other mixes?
19:52:44 reese i like both wool jersey and flannel marino is very dreamy
19:53:07 mod_Cuddlebaby never heard of flannel marino
19:53:13 mod_Cuddlebaby