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They really are genius!

When I was pregnant, I was intrigued by the idea of cloth diapering honestly because the thought of having to keep track of yet another thing — like the number of diapers left in the house — was not very appealing. My wonderful husband, bless his heart, rarely points out that we are getting low on [...]

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Cloth Diapering Diaries

Note: This is not the post to read if you want to know the right way to select, use, or clean cloth diapers. (Fortunately for you, Hellobee has posts on all these topics!) But if you are wondering what it is like to transition from disposables to cloth when you are a complete newbie, perhaps [...]

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Cloth Diaper Styles

This was one area that confused me to no end while I was pregnant. Every time I went online to try and decide which diapers to buy, I was completely overwhelmed with the now endless choices I was given! It is crazy to me how just sixty years ago, cloth diapers were the only option [...]

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How to choose a cloth diapering system

I remember being in grade 11 and having a speaker talk to our class about the environment. I don’t remember the details, but that was when I decided to cloth diaper. Sometime after we got married, but before deciding to have kids, I said to my husband “You know we’re cloth diapering once we have [...]

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Easy Cloth Diapering

I’m sure you’ve heard all the reasons why people cloth diaper (the environment, money, health, cuteness), but I know a lot of people who are interested and feel very intimidated.  There’s a lot of information out there and a million choices.  Some people love this — my best friend has a ton of different brands [...]

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Confessions of an (Ex) Cloth-Diapering Mom

Once upon a time, in a land not too far away… there was a mom who dreamed of fitting her daughter in the plushest, cutest cloth diapers imaginable.  She wanted her daughter’s bum to live on diapers as soft as clouds, in prefolds as white as snow. Alas, it was not to be…

Once diapers were washed on a regular basis, manufacturers began targeting laundry soap to specifically for the purpose, as seen in this 1925 advertisement for Lux laundry soap.

A History of Diapers

Cloth diapering is so prevalent on places like Hellobee that I didn’t think of it as one of those “alternative” decisions, but we’re learning that outside of pregnancy boards, cloth diapers are still kind of weird. I thought a little research was in order to understand the evolution of the modern cloth diaper, so here’s [...]

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