If you read our blog, you will know that for the last few years Mike and I have tried to live as green and as organically as possible. We recycle, we use cloth bags at the grocery store instead of plastic, we use cloth napkins instead of paper towels, all of our cleaning products are non-toxic and environmentally safe, and even our toiletry products are organic.
Once I found out I was pregnant I knew that I wanted to try to do the same thing with our little one. We researched and picked a Pediatrician that would support our lifestyle, I chose to breastfeed instead of using formula, and I wanted to use cloth diapers. You can see my post on cloth diapers
here.
There is a myriad of reasons we decided to go cloth: Environmentally friendly, cost effective, better for baby. Once I made the decision to use cloth diapers, it never occurred to me to think about what I wanted to use for wipes. I just figured that I was doing great just by using cloth diapers, so throwing away a few wipes each day wasn't a big deal.
When Baby McKinley finally arrived we had to use disposable diapers the first few weeks of her life. It hated watching Mike take a bag of trash out every other day, especially when we are used to setting one bag of trash out each week. Finally the day came when we could start using the cloth diapers. Even though I wasn't necessarily looking forward to doing a little extra laundry, I was just glad that we weren't filling up a trashcan and making emergency runs to the store to get disposable diapers. Besides the cloth diapers a just too cute:)
Thankfully, the cloth diaper routine was easy. After a couple weeks of cloth diapering I started doing research on cloth wipes. It didn't take me long to decide to ditch the disposables. I realized that by using cloth wipes, it wasn't going to add anymore to my work load and it was just one more way to live cleaner & greener for both baby & the environment.
While online I found several sites with instructions on making your own cloth wipes. Most of the cloth wipes are made from fleece and I just happened to have a ton of fleece fabric left over from a sewing project. In an effort to save some money I decided to make our own wipes. I already had the material, now I just needed the time:)
The finished products:
Once I finished sewing the wipes I needed a wipes solution. I found tons of homemade solution recipes online, but I ended up ordering a pre-made solution from Lusa Organics. It is called Baby Wipe Juice and I absolutely LOVE it! It smells so good and it is super concentrated so a little goes a long way. It will take me several months to use up the bottle of solution. I am so impressed with their Baby Wipe Juice, I can't wait to try some of their other products.
Also, the company that I order my cloth diapers from, Jack Be Natural, posted this video that shows how to fold your cloth wipes so when you pull one wipe out of a wipe warmer or bin, the next wipe pops out the top ready to go. It makes the diaper change so much easier.
