Cloth Diapers

We've decided to use cloth for this little one, so I've been doing as much research as I can. I go to all sorts of websites, I price them, I look at them, I fantasize about how cute they'll look on a newborn bottom...they are much more fun than disposables!

I've been very back and forth on what diapers to use, and I suppose over time I'll try them all. Right now I'm leaning towards prefolds/covers for the first few weeks, and then one size all-in-one Bum Genius' after that. But I don't know. I may try some other options, too. The prefolds just seem to be the easiest choice for a tiny newborn, PLUS those can be used as doublers in bigger diapers later. The AIOs (all-in-ones) seem to be the least "scary" when it comes to converting my husband, and the rest of the family, to my I-wanna-cloth-diaper ways. They're seriously like using a disposable--snap 'em on, take 'em off, throw them in the pail and Mom will deal with the stinkies...nobody's life is gonna change.

I think my excitement in this is because it's "new". I did all the "new" stuff with Ian...tiny clothes, learning to breastfeed, learning to bathe, getting over the fear of breaking the itsy-bitsy person I was holding, etc. There is nothing "new" about the second baby, not really. I'm not nervous about the things that scared me before, I know that as hard as the first weeks (months...) are, we'll get through them and my precious newborn will be a 4-year-old before I even realize what happened. But cloth diapers...those are new. And kinda scary. And they give me something to research and figure out and fall in love with. So they're exciting.

I'm planning on getting almost completely neutral colors, but I'm sure some pink or blue will find it's way in there once we find out what this baby is...13 days to go!