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@beverend Honesty I just wouldn’t bother bringing it up with them. I sometimes find that cloth diapering is like veganism or crossfit, where people (my included!) talk about it all the time. But if you just don’t bring it up unless directly asked, your family doesn’t have a chance to be judgey...

@gypsysoule I could have written this, just different locations. We just moved to SoCal from Australia, where we moved 6y ago. We loved it in Aus, but we didn’t get as frequent visits from my east coast family as I imagined. One of my brothers who I really thought would visit actually never did...

@alexhunting I live in Aus and I don’t know a single person who has ever been tested for lead poisoning here. In countries with socialized medicine, there’s a push away from mass testing for things, so maybe that’s why Aus and Canada don’t? All my American friends’ kids have been tested, and...

@sachin0990 Please don’t feel embarrassed about this or bad whatsoever! You can try to weed out good vs shaming clinics by asking directly when you call “hi, my 9mo is behind on her vaccine schedule, and we’d like to speak with a dr about catching up. Is that something you can help with?” If...

@inspiredsaint Ugh, it’s so hard! With my toddler we had a potty pause from 8-10 months. I’d heard/read about others’ potty pauses which were like a few days or a week or two. After 2m I was almost ready to give up, but then he just did it again one day, and by 12m he wasn’t using his diaps for...

@jugghead Oh man, I feel this so much! We had our second just as our first turned 2, and I am SO grateful we get to have her. But I look at the parents of my eldest’s friends, who are only children, and I’m like wow that seems nice, to have only one kiddo, and one who’s old enough to be out of...

@jugghead Yes thank you! There was a poll once about why do you do EC, and for me I said it was to give my child dignity. Of course a lot of non-EC people took that to mean I was implying they didn’t care about their kids’ dignity, and that I wasn’t possibly giving them dignity by helping them...

@damon50 Lol tell then you’re doing elimination communication too, so you won’t actually have any/many poopy diaps. Then watch them glitch as they try to process that

@malleeboy Technically you can put a wool cover over just about anything. If you’re looking for economical, and want to just invest in/knit 1-2 wool covers (and lanolize them, as has been pointed out to you already), then you would be best served by using flour sack towels or thin terrycloth...

@malleeboy You don’t have to use cloth overnight if it’s not working for you. For my first child I tried a few things and it didn’t work so we did 1 single disposable every night. (For my second we use cloth overnight, sometimes 1 disposable, but our cloth solution works.) I realize you don’t...

@cathya Just a warning about using coconut oil, or other food based oils on skin, especially broken skin, is associated with significantly higher incidences of eczema and food allergies. Ingesting food is much different than food entering broken skin, and in young babies who haven’t eaten those...