A few weeks ago I finally made a decision on diapers. To start off, we’re gonna go with the bumGenius one-size pocket diapers. The biggest deciding factor was that it’s supposed to grow with the baby, therefore reducing the need to buy new sizes as the little one gets bigger. The hook & loop tabs are also supposed to make securing the diaper super easy (if you have Windows Media, click here to watch a short demo clip of someone putting on one of these diapers on a squirmy baby).

My mom and her two sisters ordered a few of these for us for our baby registry, and I received them yesterday. I’ve been playing around with them this morning and am generally excited to see them in action. However, snapping the thing up to the smallest setting, it still seems a little big for most average-sized newborns. (Then again, who knows, ours could turn out to be bigger than average.) I think the key to making their use very easy is to pre-stuff the inserts and not wait until a diaper is needed. That way, just grab one just like you’d grab a disposable! Can’t get easier than that!

Of course, then there’s laundry. At the beginning, the choice was which was a lesser evil: adding waste to landfills that’ll take hundreds of years to decompose or increasing water and power consumption at home for laundry? Obviously, I decided that increasing our water and power consumption is less evil than contributing (more) to landfills. This will be an interesting test for me. For those of you who know me, you might know that laundry isn’t one of my favorite household chores. It’s not so much the washing part, it’s the folding and putting away. However, when pressed, I will suck it up and get the job done (as evidenced last week when I laundered, folded, and put away THREE LOADS of hand-me-down baby clothes). Will D help in washing diapers? I doubt it, but that’s OK. I know I’m anal enough that I’ll figure out a way that I like them done, and anything else would be forbidden. Besides, we’re also asking for some Seventh Generation disposables for those times I’m not around and D has to do all the diapering himself.

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