March 30, 2011
If like me, you are clueless about cloth diapering and how many to start with, this post might be able to give you an idea of the quantity you may need.
- For full-time diapering, and IF you are doing your laundry daily, then 12 would be sufficient.
- However, if you are washing every 2-3 days, then minimum 20-2 5 are needed.
I got the above tips in an email none other from the owner of Mommy Knows Best. Those words of wisdom certainly helped me loads in terms of budgeting as well as having some idea as to how many of those we would need.
The thing is, they do dry rather quickly, and if the sun is really strong, they usually are dry and ready for use within half a day!
I actually ended up buying 14 in total. As a part-time diaperer, the quantity is sufficient to tide me over 2-3 days if I wash them every other day (To be fair, our nanny does most of the washing and we do it only over the weekends. Well…sometimes. :p).
I’m thinking that even if I do cloth diapering only half the time, I am already saving some money as well as the environment (I hope!) in the long run.
For me, it helps to have a rough guideline when starting out, but as I found out along the way, like any other things associated with babies and parenting, it could simply be a matter of trial and error and what works best for you.
March 29, 2011
Two weeks on and the weather in Bangkok has remained rather chilly still!
These past few days, I have been coming home to a cool 23°C as registered by the temperature on our tower fan – and this is without having the air-conditioner or the fan on, too.
It definitely is much colder outside, and in the last few days there has been a little bit of rain as well. It has also been unnaturally windy, and as dusk hit, the horizon even appeared smoggy.
Chilly. Smoggy. Windy. Rainy. Hmmm…almost like the weather in Europe. Without the freezing temperatures and snow!
The only saving grace is that it is most definitely less dreary. Certainly not as cold, too.
My patooties are still freezing, but I really love the chilly Bangkok weather. It is the kind of weather just perfect for a delicious mug of hot chocolates and loads of snuggle ups, I’d say!
March 29, 2011
Spud got a little under the weather recently when I was out of town for a short weekend trip back in Singapore just a couple of weeks ago. It came out of nowhere, really and I reckon, the recent change in weather must have had contributed to that as quite a few people we know somehow caught a nasty cold (including our nanny!).
I came home on a Sunday morning to Spud who had her first cold — sneezing, coughing, blocked nose, runny nose, slight fever, projectile vomitting.Basically the works! She sounded raspy, lethargic and looked horridly miserable. She was, however, not at all too cranky and despite being a little under the weather, she was still pretty determined to continue playing! It was like she knew she was unwell, but as long as she was distracted enough, she just continued to charge on, giving her parents a weak smile along the way.
It was only towards the evening that she started to ger crankier as she raked up a slight fever when her cold worsened. Then, all she wanted to do was be held.
She gave us the saddest look she could muster that day; I’m sure she milked us up for what it was worth too!
With that, I guess we certainly has passed the first rite of passage in tending to a sick baby. My guess is, that was only one of the few firsts we have started to experience.
That weekend was certainly one of the rarest moments when Spud was docile, and Silver Bullet had candidly managed to capture a nice shot of the world’s saddest looking baby ever!
