Cloth Diapering Tips & Baby Talks

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Have you ever wonder ever since you started with cloth diapering you have detergent build up problem in your cloth diapers?

Have you ever tried to reduce the amount of the detergent but still you will have leaky diapers?

I understand fully how frustrated it is as I have personally gone through this MYSELF.

I have hair standing up, waking up in the middle of the night to have a night change on my baby wetting my bed. Ouch! That’s really disturbing, especially when I was just in the middle of my sweetest dream after a tiring day.

Here is I solve this problem, once and for all:

ECO LAUNDRY BALL —- YES! this is how i substitute all my laundry detergent!

Now with this laundry solution I don’t have to worry about detergent build up problem again!

And the diapers — DONT SMELL at all!

What i need to do is just to soak the laundry balls with water and the stinky inserts , but not the diapers, coz diapers has the elastic part. Soaking diapers like in the wet pail method will make its life span shorter. I usually soak them in a separate pail. But you may soak them in the washing machine if you like it this way.

After 1-2 hours, or overnight, if you like it, just toss all the diapers in and washed together with the inserts and the laundry balls.

Immediately after the wash, you can spot the difference — the diapers and inserts are as clean and fresh! Plus NO FRAGRANCE (A.K.A. Chemicals) from the detergent!

More info in the ECO LAUNDRY BALL.

Now that the girls are ready for poo-poo training, I am more ready to go for pee-pee training.

By the time they reached 1 year plus and started to walk, i would always bring them to potty to pee, every 30-45 minutes or so.

If they don’t pee, it was always ok, and if they don’t pee and pee on the nappy only after they were just out from the potty, it was always ok too.

Eventually when I noticed that they would try to walk to potty to pee themselves when they have the urge to pee, i would change them to pant, not training pants, but just normal pant, coz this will help them to pull down their pants easily to pee.

It’s so cute to see them puling down pants. At first the timing is out — they pull the pant but pee-pee already overflow, but it was already a great attempt! Bravo!

Then,  they learnt to pull down their pants and sit on potty to pee.

Once day time pee-pee training is done, this is consider as day time diaper off, except for night time.

Night time toilet train is as easy too. Usually by the time they reach about 2 years old, they would know how to mumble words to show that they were comfortable with the cloth diapers or not. If not, I would also help them to walk through this process. As usual, i would still empty the bowel before putting on the diapers, but to add on to that, i would adventurously take off one insert, and left with only 1 insert. About 1-2 hours after the girl fell asleep, i would say in her ears ” Mummy is going to pee you ya.” And slowly pull down her pyjamas and brought her to the potty which was just beside the bed. For the first few nights she may crying, but after that she will settle into that routine. With that pee which is going to empty her bowel again, she can last for the whole night already.

But since she was already used to peeing in the early morning, she would do that when she opened her eyes.

And that’s how the whole process of toilet training of my toddler.

One Size Pocket Diaper

Training Pant

When my 2 girlies were small, as small as 4-5 months old, i would always wore them with traditional nappy during day time and night time with cloth diaper.

This being that i had always soaked the whole pail of nappy and waited till the end of the day then only i started washing all of them in one short….using the washing machine la, of course, else i will be full-dead. Washing in this mode is already half dead, haha!

During night time, before they were changed to cloth diaper,  I would always pee them in the potty so that they would learn to empty their bowel before putting on cloth diaper. Then immediately they woke up in the early morning, i would put them on the potty again to pee. Never, never, let them play in the baby cot and pee one large amount of urine in the diaper ….coz that will end up being a HEAVY WETTER, as we always put it.

During the second month, I would always say ‘ngggg’ (a long one…to resemble the sound of making poo-poo, while lifting the baby’s legs. This is done with my baby lying down. Poo poo always came out at a ‘shootting style. haha! Sometimes ‘spraying’ on my clothes!

But this didn’t went long, coz by 3-4 months, I will be holding little one and let them poo on the little S size potty.

That way, little baby would learn to poo only on potty and eliminate the chance of messing the nappies. Though on some occasions, they did, when bowel calling was too strong and mummy just too slow to bring the potty. haha!

But soon after that, before 1 year old, smart little ones would know that, potty is for poo-poo and poo-poo on nappy is a no-no.

Not that anyone would scold them, but they just disliked the feeling of getting mess all around….just like we adults.