WHY?!?! Do you do that?!?!? (insert scrunched up judgemental face here)

I have had alot of people ask me about our decision to cloth diaper. So I thought I would talk about it here :) We were "late" cloth diaperers since we didnt actually commit completely to full time cloth diapering until Mason was 16 months old. The only regret that I have had since then is that we didnt start sooner (like at birth).  Before that we used huggies brand diapers which we had no problems with until he suddenly developed a scary welt/burn on the backs of his legs where the diaper would rub his skin. We tried switching brands, but nothing seemed to work...except when we used the few cloth diapers that I had at home. So after stating my case with lots of facts, charts and graphs I finally had jake on board and I ordered our stash of cloth diapers!

Fact #1: While the initial cost of cloth diapers is high you will save a substantial amount of money in the long run. I will put the ROUGH amounts based on OUR situation below. This is based on huggies brand diapers using 7 diapers per day and spending about $45.00 per month on disposables. Now, if you were to cloth diaper a newborn you would save TONS of money because you would be using about 12 diapers per day!
The approximate cost to use disposable diapers until your child is potty trained is anywhere from $1350.00-$1700.00 depending on the brand and how many diapers your child goes through at a time. 
Here is the break down of what I spent to cloth diaper full time...

Starter Pack (included 18 fuzzibunz cloth diapers, wet bag, diaper sprayer and 12 cloth wipes)...$385.00
Additional wet bag...$15.50
Pail liner...$18.00
5 Additional diapers (purchased so that diaper laundry could be done every 3 days)...$80.00

TOTAL: $498.50

Also, the diapers I purchased are fuzzibunz one size diapers that have replaceable elastic. These diapers will fit babies from 7-40lbs. So I can just replace the elastic and use them all again for our next child AND they are already paid for! yay!

FACT#2: Environmentally friendly :)

FACT #3: I LOVE THEM! They are SO cute!

I purchased the majority of my cloth stuff from kellycloset.com and gogonatural.com. These sites also have TONS of info on getting started! There is also a great collab channel on youtube called ClothDiaperChannel which is a bunch of cloth diapering mommys who post vidoes about their experiences.

So go there if you think I am the only wacko in the world who uses these crazy things!

This is a wet bag if you had no idea what I was talking about...it has a plastic liner on the inside and its where you put the stanky diapers when youre out and about!

Model is wearing Fuzzibunz onesize diaper in Mac N Cheese :)