Cloth Diapers

Cloth Diapers

I decided when I got pregnant that I was going to cloth diaper. I have been on this money saving kick for a while and after MANY hours and internet searching I figured out that cloth diapers would save us a bundle. I looked at a lot of different types of diapers and decided to go with a lady I found on Facebook. The name of her company is Diapeze. I really liked that she was her own company and she handmade everything. Tim and I picked out the colors we wanted and I sent in my order! I couldn't be happier with the choice and company we went with! I LOVE her products! Emmett loves them too! I am sure he feels like he is peeing & pooping on a cloud! : )

So here is a run down of what I do:

I have 10 diapeze and 6 bumGenius (that I got from a friend). I washed them Saturday and again Monday. So every other day it takes me to go through them. When Emmett poops in them I just take them and put them in the bucket, the bucket is filled with water and a tsp of Arm & Hammer Washing Soap. I let it sit over night and then when I go to wash everything I take the bucket to the bath tub and just run water into it the bucket and spray the "fully loaded" diapers out with a sprayer. Then I run a hot load. I hang all my diapers to try and preserve the elastic. If there is a stain I lay them in the sun and it gets the stain out. I also use cloth wipes. Which I love!!! Anyways, this is our system and so far it seems to work perfectly!! 

The solution for the baby wipes:

2 cups of water, 2tbs of baby wash. I put my wipes into a pop up container and fold them so they pop out and then I pour the mix into it. 

Baby Emmett's Arrival

Now that Emmett is FINALLY here.. and I have been able to recoup from the birth I am ready to "share my story."

Emmett decided to make his arrival on 6-29-12. This is a VERY special day to me. This was my daddy's birthday. Now Emmett shares something VERY special with someone who was VERY special to me. Tim & I named Emmett after my dad in his memory, Emmett Edward Jaxon. So to his birth. We knew going into this Emmett was going to be a big boy.. but we had no idea just how big. My midwife kept telling me he was going to be around 8lbs and Tim kept telling me he was going to be at least 9lbs. I thought I was just carrying big as I did with my other two. Emma was 7lb 11oz and Ethan was 7lb 2oz. I figured Emmett would be around those numbers. Labor started around 11 AM that morning. Soon enough I was ready to push... My midwife came in and I told her I was ready. Labor seemed really hard and long this time. I remember pushing REALLY hard with all my might, actually I don't know where all that strength came from. He finally entered the world and they laid him on my stomach and I looked at his sweet face. He was pretty big! I decided to do the delay of the clamping of the cord, after that was finished the nurse took him to weigh him. DRUM ROLL PLEASE... TADA.. Emmett was a whopping 10lbs 9oz!!! 

WOOWEE! No wonder my body felt like it had been in a car accident! After finishing all the tests and checking him out we finally got to hold him again. He was so big! I could hardly move I was so sore. After staying in the hospital for a full 24 hours we were ready to go home! When they were releasing us they told us we needed to return to the pediatric's office on Monday morning and we needed to get an x-ray of Emmett's shoulder. They thought he had dislocated it during birth. So Monday came around, we went into the doctor and had the x-ray. Come to find out, my poor little baby actually had a broken clavicle. 

We needed to go to Kansas City on Friday to determine if there was any nerve damage. At the end of the week we made the trip to KC to get checked out again. Praise the Lord above Emmett was given a clean bill of health and we were told he was going to heal perfectly and never know anything ever happened!  

Welcome to the world Emmett Edward Jaxon, Mommy, Daddy, Emma, & Ethan love you VERY much!