• Family & Community

    DIY Stay Dry Liners for Cloth Diapers

    Not all cloth diapers have a stay dry layer. Pocket diapers do, but not prefolds, fitteds and some AI2. Therefore, it’s necessary to add another thin layer normally made of micro fleece or micro suede material so that baby’s bum stay’s dry and the urine is absorbed through it into the inner layers. In the market, stay dry liners cost around RM3-4 per piece or more. For a simple piece like that it is pretty pricey. So I decided to make my own. I bought a half meter piece of microsuede cloth from Niceclothdiaper.com for RM15 and went about my cutting project tonight. I measured using an Anakku disposable liner…

  • Family & Community,  Wellness & Vitality

    My cloth diapering system

    Last time, I did not cloth diaper until way into the 2-3 month, and I did not cloth diaper at nights as I didn’t know any diapers that can be thick enough for night use. Well, I am much more informed now with the various types of diapers and even cloth diapers that are suitable for newborns. I used to think newborns can’t use any cloth diapers yet due to the amount of times they poo and pee and also their tiny size. This week, I finally got the time to dig into the old stash of cloth diapers I accumulated for Josiah and also read up which ones are…

  • Family & Community

    Cloth Diapering, GO GREEN!

    Cloth diapering is like an adverb now. There are so many reasons to cloth diaper, I can’t begin to tell you why. Just google it. Personally, I wanted to cloth diaper for the sack of the environment and for baby’s bum sake. There are so many terrible chemicals found in disposables that can cause long term side effects. Should I give up my baby’s health for my own convenience? Besides, cloth diapering can be super convenient nowadays. Anyways, I was actually using cloth diaper from beginning, after baby’s myconium passed, the black icky poo that cannot be washed off. This happens in the first few days, and that time I…