27 Weeks Pregnant (just about...)

Tomorrow is the last day of the 2nd trimester. The "honeymoon" phase of pregnancy has escaped me until recently but it is turning out to be glorious nonetheless. My skin is clearing up (finally!) and my newly-cut hair is thick and shiny and awesome. My weight gain is distributing itself nice and more evenly, even if my thighs are a bit more jiggly than before... Days that I feel good I feel really good and don't puke, but sometimes I still have really rough days or mornings where I just ralph my face off. It's a trade, I guess.
I am happy and so, so in love with Shawn. I cried on my way to work yesterday thinking about handing him the baby for the first time... I cry a lot lately (hormones!) but that really choked me up!

This next week or two will be really busy! Monday we get our taxes done, Friday I have an appointment with the Midwife, and Saturday the winner of the Belly Cast competition will be announced! PLEASE, PLEASE vote for mine! Simply go here and "like" the photo to "vote!"
Sunday we are going to a Baby Fair to try and win lots of good stuff and mingle with other Omaha parents/parents-to-be. It should be fun!
This week in the mail we received baby's first all-in-two diaper from Cherry Blossom Babies turned out! It's so tiny!!!

I got my diaper cover making supplies the other day for our own diaper covers so after my friend's hoodie is finished I will start on those as well.

Hope your week goes by nicely; take care!

Cloth Diaper Stash: Started

$70
That is all we need to diaper our baby from newborn to about 5 months old.

$400+
That is what we would need to disposable-diaper our baby for the same amount of time with the bulk-packs (best deal) of Target's store-brand up&up diapers.

Yeah. I'm stupid for cloth diapering. Riiight.
The first half of costs are for prefolds, which are actual diapers. You fold these up and onto the baby, securing with pins and then cover baby with a diaper cover. Locally I can purchase prefolds for $1.49 each and I need 20, so that's about $30. And I'm supporting local mothers.
The second half of expenses are for covers. Covers can make or break the budget for cloth diapering because there's a lot of variety. Parents can become addicted to the different prints on covers and end up spending more on covers than disposables would ever cost. It just varies family-to-family. For our family, I plan to use about 6 covers on rotation. 3 white, 1 checked, 1 elephant print and one I have already ordered with foxes on them. All but the foxy cover I will make with PUL fabric (coated with plastic on one side).

from Diaper Sewing Supplies

OK, since I just have a feeling, I bought a girly printed piece of PUL. If I can't use it, I'll sellit ;o)

Along with the pieces of PUL for covers, I bought elastic to trim the diaper and cinch in the leg holes as well as TouchTape hook-and-loop tape for the closure on the cover. A lot of parents who cloth diaper don't prefer TouchTape or Velcro because it picks up lint and wears out quicker than snaps. I only plan to use the newborn-size diapers for 5 months so I don't care to buy a snap-setter just yet. I will when the baby can wear one-sized covers.
All of this including shipping cost me $34.00

So total is actually $64, but I rounded up to give disposables a fair shot ;o)

If you're curious to see what the cost is for cloth vs. disposable, I used this calculator from Diaper Pin. Kind of interesting!