here's a point on the side of cloth diapering!

Ok - for all my goings on about the difficulties in cloth diapering.. I now share a story that is in favour of cloth.

As you all know - I frequently have what I call disposable days.  I think to myself, 'Self! you need a break so crack out the disposables!' however, what often happens (as though in some way I am being punished for forsaking my cloth) it backfires on me... LITERALLY!

The ONE thing I have NEVER had to deal with when cloth diapering is the explosions up the back.  I used to think that was just apart of diapering because my nephews are notorious for 'poop up the back'.  I never realized that that was an issue that, for the most part, was isolated to disposable diapers.

On one such sunny afternoon, I was indeed having a disposable day. We were have a big bbq, friends/family, and I just didn't want to have to be conscientious of diaper changes.  So I threw Jude into a disposable diaper (now before you disposable diapering Mama's get up in arms - granted I do use cheap disposables because why would I pay top dollar for something I rarely use - so I will hesitantly admit it is slightly possible this wouldn't have happened with a oh say a Pampers deluxe model!)

So there we are outside enjoying life. My son is sitting happily in his bumbo (LOVE the bumbo)  and eating his supper as we eat ours.  After a time, he starts to get fussy. I try distracting him, playing with him, talking etc. Nothing is working. So I go to lift him out of his bumbo chair, he has his back to most of the others at the table (who, I must add, are still eating) and surprise!  RIGHT up the back.. All over the bumbo. That child has succeeded in pooping out of his diaper, shorts, and onesie!  I heard quite a few gags :(.... So I try and quickly grab him and move him out of line of sight, as my husband goes to wash up the nasty bumbo chair.  Jude and I head into the house for a diaper change. But here's the thing. When the poop is all over the back of him where the heck do I lay him down!!!!!  As I take a few milliseconds (that feel like eternity - its like the intense part of a show in slow mode) to ponder what the heck I'm going to do, I finally say, 'forget it' lay him in his poop on the change table.

NEXT its taking the clothes off without getting the stuff on me or on my child's head! K. Has anyone see that movie Life as We Know it? - IF not you HAVE to see it.. but there's this one scene where Katherine Heigle and Josh Duhamel are changing the babies diaper. http://movieclips.com/AeHp-life-as-we-know-it-movie-changing-diapers/ It's hilarious - THIS is how I'm feeling at this moment. I want to pull out the gloves, mask and kitchen utensils to do what I have to do.

In this moment - I realize, the only good thing about disposables is you don't have to wash them. Had he been wearing a cloth diaper - yes it would have still been nasty. BUT the nastiness would have been contained! My friends would have been spared during their meal (which I'm not sure anyone enjoyed all that much after we left!) and most importantly I wouldn't have ended up needing a shower (along with my poo covered child)

So to those of you Mama's considering cloth heed my words (POOP UP THE BACK = NASTINESS!)

:)  Here's wishing you all a backfree day :)