Absolute Favorite Teether

This is a teether I could not live without! I love it almost as much as Tempe does. Poor baby girl has all sorts of tooth buds but non popping through yet. She is pretty miserable at night. She holds on to this thing and chomps away. Really helps her it seems. 

It is from Discovery Toys Here

I will admit when I got it as a baby shower gift I thought it was a little strange looking. But what did I know!? Tempe is my first! Thank goodness at the first sign of teething I whipped it out. 

 She generally chews on it like this if she holds it herself. 

She really likes it at bed time. 

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This is by far the best I've found for teething. I'm not one to use medications, I try to stick to all natural things. She does wear an amber necklace, but that is for another post. 

Thanks for reading! 

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Iron On- Fail, hot glue gun win!

*This was an iron on fail.... Just to warn you. I was not happy but not surprised. I cant Iron on anything! So maybe it would work for you...

Ergo Baby make-over  

I baby wear my four month old daughter. I have a Moby wrap and an Ergo carrier. I tend to use the Ergo the most when we go out shopping and places like that. And lately with the cold weather and lots of germs I have been getting really grumpy when random strangers think its ok to touch my baby! I step away or turn and say no touching but it always happens at least once. And one of these days someone is going to lose a hand for it. So I thought I need a giant neon sign over my head reading "Dont touch my baby!" Seeing as that wasn't really possible I decided to go with this. 

(Dont mind my wonderful clashing shirt. This was midnight trying to put baby to sleep!)

I got these wonderful flocked iron on letters. They were a major fail in the IRON ON department. Oh well.

Here is my precious Ergo 

I tried and tried to iron on the letters the way the directions said. It just wouldn't stick at all! So I thought maybe it was the fabric of the ergo, so I tried it out on a cotton t-shirt. I still couldn't get it so I gave up! I put the tiniest hot glue on the back of each letter and pressed them down where I wanted. Once that was all laid out I put a cotton t-shirt over it and ironed over all the letters to make sure they were really on there. Seems to have worked! Now to see if people can read... Either way at least I've put it out there that I dont want people touching her. She bites everything that gets close enough, and I really dont want some strangers fingers in her mouth. Even if they didn't mean for their fingers to end up there! 

So simple but I like it. 

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It really works, who knew

I'm a skeptic sometimes. When I was looking into how to get stains out of my diapers I kept reading "Sun them!". Ok really? How is sun going to get this HUGE baby poop stain out of my diapers!? Yeah right, it can t be that easy. But as always I decided to test it. So I put my favorite dipe that got a huge stain on it out to sun... I brought it in a few hours later and looked at it. Oh! Its gone! So I thought next time, I would take pictures. Maybe I had been fooled some how. Right? Maybe it didn't actually work... So Today I tried it again. let the following pictures be the proof in the pudding... Or in the baby poop... Sorry if this is gross. But hey when you cloth diaper sometimes you have to embrace the baby poop. (Well not literally ew) 

BEFORE 

And 

AFTER 

White again! I am no longer skeptical of this method of stain removal. It really works! 

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My Wipe Solution

I tend to be lazy about some things, I like to use things I have on hand. I knew I wanted to use my own wipe solution, but it had to be cheap... And stuff I generally have on hand. So this is what I came up with after reading some recipes online and deciding I could tweak them with what I happened to have in my bathroom. 

 First I use my Peri bottle from the hospital when I had my daughter. Makes sense right!? I used it for my under-carriage why not hers? 

So there are all my ingredients. I fill the bottle a little more than half way with water. Then fill it the rest of the way with witch hazel. I love the way witch hazel smells, maybe I'm strange. Then I add about five squirts of aloe (I know very scientific aren't I?) Then a few drops of the baby soap, and shake it up. 

Then I spray it on top of the wipes as I need it. I keep my wipes in an old disposable wipe container. 

 My wipes are just pieces of flannel cut with pinking shears. They work great and were SUPER cheap. And since I use them to save money that was a must. 

See easy. Then when they are used I toss them in the dirty dipe and toss it all in the wet bag. 

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Diaper shortage!?

Not for me! With this recent chemical plant fire in Japan, it is forecast that diaper prices will rise, or there could even be a shortage. Not for me! This brings up yet another reason I cloth diaper. The words chemical plant, and diaper just shouldn't go in the same sentence. Can you imagine that those chemicals go up against your baby's pretty little bum? I cant. And imagine the effects on the environment  I believe there is a place in the world for disposable diapers, I will admit I've used them! But I do not use those chemical filled diapers that scare me. Frankly I just don't think there is a possible way for that to be healthy! I believe that maybe this will shed some light on either cloth diapers, or all natural diapers such as Seventh Generation. I will step off my soap box now. I will admit that I'm not 100% super green and crunchy, I may drive a Prius but that doesn't make me a total hippy. I don't eat just organic foods, and I shop at Walmart. But hey, that's me. This is my opinion. I'm just happy with my decision to cloth diaper. 

Plus, how stinking cute is that! 

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