56: Cloth Diapers for Beginners with April Duffy
Pregnancy Podcast – Episode 56: Cloth Diapers for Beginners with April Duffy
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April Duffy is the owner of Cloth Diapers for Beginners. Cloth Diapers for Beginners is dedicated to providing a positive and understanding place where parents and guardians, who want to know how to do the cloth diaper thing can get information, help, and support. To do that, Cloth Diapers for Beginners has a website, a Facebook group community, a YouTube channel, and now a wash and care handbook.
April started it all with just a simple blog in 2015 after the birth of her daughter. She wanted to cloth diaper her daughter but like so many moms who choose cloth, she knew no one who cloth diapered and even got plenty of criticism and negativity thrown at her by family and friends when she shared her decision to cloth diaper. Turning to her computer, April found she couldn’t get a straight answer to her simple questions online either. The answers she could get didn’t seem well thought out or researched well.
Since she’s a trained journalist and publisher, she saw the lack of reliable information online not as a roadblock but as an opportunity and got to work researching.
Today, literally tens of thousands of parents have joined her and helped her create one of the more positive and open-minded cloth diaper communities available online right now.
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Show Notes
Benefits of cloth vs disposable
How to perfect your wash routine.
How does hard vs soft water change your routine?
Can you wash cloth diapers with other clothes?
What different types of cloth diapers are out there and how do you decide what will be best for your family?
How many diapers do you need to start out?
What size does one-size actually fit, and is it worth it to buy newborn diapers? Will meconium ruin newborn diapers?
Can you buy used diapers and how do you treat them before use?
What products can and can’t you use with cloth diapers? Eg: diaper creams
Any other tips for parents thinking about starting cloth?
April’s Recommended Mommy Item:
Travel Wet Bags: https://amzn.to/2B2Y9Xq
Where to find April:
Website: https://clothdiapersforbeginners.com/
Cloth Diapers for Beginners Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/clothdiapersforbeginners/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVgRdZ23mUz5iOwgPlajJPA/
Intro Song courtesy of:
I dunno by grapes (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 Ft: J Lang, Morusque
