Cloth Diapers — a BumGenius 3.0 could be yours!
So, you’ve been thinking about making the switch to cloth? It’s intimidating, right? Oh, and expensive too! Well, not it isn’t. The switch can be made cheaply and easily, and cloth is just as easy as disposable, with the added bonus of no-guilt.
So what’s the hold up?
Oh, you don’t have any cloth diapers?
Well, we can fix all that! We’re going to get you on your way with a free, yes free, BumGenius 3.0 one-size diaper. This top-of-the-line diaper, courtesy of Cotton Babies, can be yours!
How you ask?
Just leave us a comment. Tell us your worst diapering story. Or pregnancy story. Or heck, any story at all. The funniest anecdote will be the winner!
Everyone has a story, but to break the ice, here goes:
My little Miss M was 2 months old, and we had just moved into our new house. As in the day before “just”. So, in addition to “new mom tired”, I had “just moved every frigging thing we own tired”.
I struggled into the nursery for the 3 a.m. feeding, a regular part of our routine at this point, and managed to find the crib and get us both settled into the rocking chair. I nursed our little girl, and didn’t even fall asleep in the process! I was so proud. I then changed her diaper, put her back to bed, and stumbled back to my own wonderful pillows.
Or so I thought.
In the morning, I awoke to a screaming baby, and a laughing husband. He was already up and had beaten me to the nursery, where he found M’s clean diaper — on the changing table! I had removed the dirty diaper, and zipped her back up into her blanket sleeper without putting the new diaper on!
Needless to say, there was a very wet and unhappy baby, and a mom facing an extra load of laundry that day.
I know you can beat my lame story, so lets hear it!
The winner will be the story that makes Jen and I laugh the most. Our decision is final. One entry per person, you have until 3 p.m. Wednesday to enter. The contest is open to residents of the U.S., and those the U.S. mailing addresses. The prize is one pink BumGenius 3.0 one-size diaper, Go ahead, make us laugh!
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I am really interested in trying cloth diapering, and am fearful…and intimidated as you mention above. So, why not try to win one to try it out.:) Well, here goes my story:
Hubby took our 22 month old daughter to a friend’s for a cookout. I recently had baby #2, so I was still in the midst of cluster feeding and didn’t feel like venturing out. I was asleep by the time they got home and didn’t get a chance to ask how it was.
I emailed my friend who had the cookout and told her I was sorry I didn’t make it and asked if she had any left-overs.
She said that everything was eaten, but that my daughter was hysterical. I was thinking, what the heck did she do? Come to find out she just disappeared and everyone was wondering where the heck she was. When they looked in the kitchen they saw her, pulling her pants down and dancing to the music.
I thought it was funny, but not really funny, until I looked at our camera and hubby had video-taped it. It was hysterical. She was just dancing away with her pants at her ankles. If you want to see the video I posted it on my blog here: http://glassofwhine.blogspot.com/2008/03/drop-your-pants-and-boogie.html
Thanks for the consideration,
Kristin
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Oh! I would love to win this
So, my eldest is way past ready to be potty trained, but does NOT want to use the potty because that would involve moving away from her toys. Well, one day she decided it would be a good idea to cut corners and just take off her diaper and poop where she stood(or crouched..rather). Soo, she just up and pooped in the middle of the living room floor!
My son likes to stick his hand into the back of his diaper when he poops and then run over to me saying “ewwww!! Pooped!! Disgusting!!” and then shove said poopy hand in my face.
Ah the joys of parenthood
I’m pregnant with baby #4 and I hate to admit I have never taken the leap to cloth but I am considering it! I try to block out diaper disasters but after 3 kids they even have started to enter my dreams. I had a super vivid and COLORFUL dream that one of the boys ate a bag of balloons and as I changed his diaper he started to have some gas and one by one different colored balloons started to be inflated and then would fly around the room making that whizzing sound as they deflated. I guess his tush wasn’t talented enough to tie them off after inflating! Luckily this dream didn’t involve any poop like real life. Our latest gross out was our 23 month old little girl taking off her diaper and then pooping on my pillow. I would rather have the dream diapers any day!
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Well, my story doesn’t beat Peyton shaking her little diapered booty, and actually doesn’t have to do with diapers exactly, but I’ll share anyways because I could sure use another bumgenius for when someone else watches my cloth diapered kiddo. (we usually use prefolds and wraps)
Ru is only 2.5 months old, and it was daddy’s turn to give her a bath. I put out a couple outfits and told him he could pick his fave. He said I’d better pick since he was just a guy. (he also is horribly indecisive) I pointed out even daddy can’t screw things up too badly when she’s just wearing one piece snapsuit type outfits.
He picked a cute little speghetti strap sundress. I took Ru to visit a friend. The friend was holding her when I noticed the little crocheted flower embellishment. On her butt. Hmm…. Upon futher investigation we found Daddy had put the sundress on backwards!
The sad thing is lazy mommy didn’t want to wake her up, so she went thru a few more diaper changes before I got around to turning around the dress.
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When my now 9 year old son was a newborn, he had a little trouble pooping the first few days at home. He was a breastfed baby and well they tend to do get a little constipated until all the black stool is done with. When that episode was done with, he was going naturally as a breastfed baby should… just about after each feeding. Well I had went to change him and I didn’t expect to get a rocket show. While I was changing him with his little bum up in the air and his legs bent toward his head a little to clean him good, he poo’d again and this time, his poo shot clear across the room off the changing table. What a mess to clean up. It was disgusting but hilarious at the same time.
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This morning, my husband was missing his pay check.( Yeah, you can guess where this is headed!) He assumed he left it at work because he’s terrible about losing things. I was helping him look around the house just in case. We found half of his pay check. Not, one minute later I smelled poop in my daughter’s diaper. And amongst the nastiness was the other half of daddy’s paycheck!
Don’t worry, she’s feeling much better with that money out of her!
My daughter was a few weeks old and we were changing her diaper after her going poopoo. I guess she wasn’t done because it squirted out and got all over the playpen. Totally gross, I’ll never forget it. Great giveaway, thanks!
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We do use cloth diapers and I LOVE the bumgenius. My best baby story is that when my first was 7 weeks old we moved to Asia. That first week we were walking around in an outdoor market and he was crying a lot. I took all his clothes off down to the diaper (it was soooo hot he was sweating…at age 7 weeks!) Nothing worked so I resolved to kneel down in an alley to nurse him. A lady working in the market saw me and invited me to sit on a stool next to a wall where she was selling CD’s. I sat there and tried to discretely nurse but my son wouldn’t latch on. The CD lady decided to “help” me by pulling my shirt WAYY up, like up to my shoulders! There was a small crowd gathering to see what the white lady’s breast looked like. I was getting freaked out…my baby still wouldn’t latch on! Finally the CD lady picked him up and he stopped crying and went right to sleep. The whole “exposed breast” thing was all for nothing! It was stressful at the time but now it is one of my favorite stories. I haven’t taken my child back to that market and he is almost 4.
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well, i dont think we have any stories quite as funny as you ladies. ours are just dirty and disgusting. I used to take care of lots of babies. One time a boy had a poop that looked like bird poop.. really odd, green on the outside with a small pile of orangish color on top. Then there was one toddler girl i changed and about half an hour later I see that she has wet overalls.. the other lady i worked with went to change her and said the girl was not wearing a diaper, and I kept swearing that i put a new one on the kid. Turns out the kid had undone the diaper and it had fallen into her pant leg.
Now that I have my own son I know to keep things covered, but we still have our own occasional leaks and landfills.
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I’d love to try a 3.0. We’re cloth converts and tell everyone how easy it is.
I’ve had great luck with my son and no major poop-splosions. Knock on wood!
In the first trimester, I started having strange dreams – weird since I rarely dream when not pregnant… Anyways, I was napping on the couch on a Sunday afternoon when I woke up and bolted outside to figure out what was going on – I KNEW that my dog had just run away and been hit by a car and that my husband needed help. What I couldn’t figure out was why he wasn’t outside and there didn’t appear to be a dog out there either… I came inside (confused) and found my hubby standing there saying “are you okay? I heard you yelling”. OOPS – too bad even the neighbors were out enjoying the weather that day…
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I was changing my son when I forgot to cover him and got the spray in the face. Yikes!
I have wanted to try cloth diapers since I had our second baby. I would love to win this one.
My story is not really about diapering. Although it’s funny now At the time It really wasn’t. When my first son was 2 we had stopped off at Burger King for lunch. We were inside eating and out of now where my son got sick…I did’nt have time to react and he threw up all over me. I was gross and i had to walk out of there with my jeans covered in it.Needless to say I didn’t take him out to eat with us for about six months afterward…I was so afraid it would happen again.
Thanks for the giveaway!
My twins are working on potty training, and sometimes I forget to make sure they remember to put their undies back on after one of our thousands of bathroom trips (which result in a tbs or so of “product”, of course…). This was made abundantly obvious in church last weekend. We don’t have pews, and the girls were sitting on the floor up front listening to my father (our priest) making some announcements after the service. Well, one twin was not, shall we say, sitting in a ladylike fashion, and my father leaned towards me and stage-whispered, “Did you know she doesn’t have any thing on her bottom??” Well, no, I hadn’t, but now everyone in church did, and they all laughed. And I turned bright red and hustled her out to fix that.
The funniest diaper changing story actually happened to my husband . . . and I was a witness. He was changing our son early in the morning while I sat in the rocker waiting for him to hand him to me (I was all gimped up in a knee brace due to martial arts shenanigans…so I couldn’t walk/stand/change a diaper very well).
Anyway, my husband wiped our son down and was just about to put on a clean diaper when Calvin shot out poop 4 feet across the room. Most people don’t believe it was a 4′ projectile range, but there are faint stains on the carpet to prove it. Not only did it hit the carpet, but it covered my husband’s pajama pants. Bright yellow, liquidy, breastmilk producing poop. SPLAT every where.
It’s hard to remember if that was the day when we went through 3 diapers in one changing (it kept oozing, and oozing…even when we thought he was done pooping….MORE came out!).
It was at that moment we decided we REALLY and TRULY needed to get crackin on potty training. Proud to say that since 7 months, my son holds his poop until we sit him on his potty. it’s no longer the liquid, splattery mess that it used to be, but it’s so pleasant to save some diapers. and, since we use cloth, that’s a huge savings on some serious laundry time and loads!
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My husband and I were both in grad school when our oldest daughter was born. We worked out our schedules so that we could bring our daughter up to campus with us instead of hiring a sitter. One day I was trying to do some research at the library with my five month-old in tow. She had a very nasty diaper which needed to be changed immediately, but of course there were no changing tables in the library bathroom, so I entered the handicapped stall with a clean diaper, some wipes, and no idea how how I was going to pull off this diaper change. It took about 10 minutes, but I managed to get the diaper off and her little bottom cleaned up with one hand while I held her with the other hand. I was feeling pretty good about my diapering skills at this point, when suddenly I heard my daughter start grunting and that runny yellow breastmilk poop starting squirting out everywhere, including onto my pale pink skirt. I didn’t have time to go home and change, so when I taught my class that afternoon I told them that I had spilled a bowl of cheese soup on myself at lunch.
I was a regular babysitter for my next door neighbor (basicly their nanny) and they had two boys at the time. I was so close to the family that they would let me just walk in no knocking. Well their youngest was just over a year old and was the defiant one. I came over to babysit just as their poor mom was wiping down poop smeared walls, carpet, clothes and the one-year-old. That would be bad enough (because it was everywhere), but this unfortunately became a reqular occurance at their house. If I looked out my window and saw the Stanley Steemer truck at their house I knew to stay far away!
Megan
Worst thing to happen while cloth diapering… probably when I left about ten diapers in a wet bag in the corner of the laundry room and then had to go to the ER and spent the next two weeks hospitalized (cancer). When I got out all the diapers had black mold all over them…ruined.
I would love to win this one!
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How did we know that our daughter was really ready for solids? She was making a “chewing” motion with her mouth for quite a while and stared at us while we were eating. One day she was sitting in her bouncy chair in the kitchen when my husband put a plate on the floor for the dog to lick. DD stared at the dog as he cleaned the plate and burst into tears when she realized that he wasn’t going to share, either. Later that week we introduced solid food and we haven’t looked back!
We were on a trip and my daughter had a “blow-out” in her infant carrier. There was black baby poop everywhere. Luckily I was at a relative’s home so we were able to do the wash but what a mess. I had to clean her, the clothes, the seat and myself by the time it was over with
My daughter was 3 days old. Middle of the night, she wakes up crying & Daddy goes to change her. he pulls up her legs & whoooosh, she shoots out a stream of yellow, breastfed baby poop. it shot out 4 feet!
Well, no funny poop stories yet, but I think the funniest story is about my oldest nephew, he has two younger sibings. Then I got pregnant with our first. He was very interested in me being pregnant for some reason. One day driving home in the car he asks my sister all serious, ‘mama, is aunt J’s & uncle M’s baby going to live with aunt J & uncle M? Or live with us?’ I guess he thought that all babies in our family live at his house!
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Well, this actually happened to my mother-in-law. So far, my 7 month old hasn’t provided any laugh-out-loud stories (though her bum would definitely love a pink BG 3.0!)
She was on a long international flight a little over 20 years ago with my husband (then five) and my sister-in-law (then 8 months). The baby was nursing away mid way through the flight. Both mom and baby fell fast asleep. The steward was making his meal rounds and needed to find out what my mother-in-law wanted to eat. He thought he was putting his hand on my mother-in-law’s shoulder…except it wasn’t a shoulder he touched. As my mother-in-law bolted awake, the airline steward quaked in embarrassment at touching the missionary’s breast. But my mother-in-law–a seasoned LLL extended breastfeeder, just laughed.
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Ha ha ha ha ha.. I love funny stories. So, we’re pretty new to the entire cloth diapering thing – I think it’s been about seven months now. My funny story involves my hubby who actually put the cloth diaper on backwards! LOL!! We use the fuzzy bunz, so how does that happen? Hey, they work good, no leaks but I really laughed hard when I went to change her later and I had to turn her on her belly to undo the snaps on her back. Quite the adventure we’ve had with these clothe diapers. Thanks for this opportunity.
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I was working in the nursery at church and had we took the children to the bathroom. One boy jumped into the toilet…later we found out from his visiting parents that we wasn’t even potty trained yet.
Oooh! I love BumGenius.
We went to my cousin’s house twice in one week – for the holidays and then for my niece’s birthday party. Both times my son decided to let loose with a outfit-ruining poopsplosion in the car just prior to arriving. We went through all of her changing table covers – and she walked in and said “I’ve never seen a diaper like that before!”
The worst part? We accidentally left the bag with his poopy clothes in it at their house. We haven’t been invited over since…
My story is actually from a friend’s experience, but since she no longer has any in diapers she’s letting me “borrow” her story.
My dear friend’s husband (we’ll call him Joe) was changing the insert in the diaper genie. For those of you who don’t know, the diaper genie wraps disposable diapers in plastic like sausages. “Joe” decided to swing the diaper sausages in the air while singing “diaper genie, diaper genie” when the bag hit the ceiling fan showering the room in poop. So literally the
&*$% hit the fan!
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Well, I don’t have one of my own yet, but I have seen pictures of a friend’s baby who pretty much destroyed all of her crib bedding in one triumphant, um, explosion(?) when the mom turned around for 1 SECOND to grab a baby wipe.
The pictures were totally gross, but on the other hand, they were really impressive, too!
When my baby was an infant, she was constantly moving, never still, even when asleep. I got these “bags” for her to sleep in, like a blanket sleeper without legs. She was about 10 weeks old, so her crib was still in our room.
I was half awake, like I always was when she slept in our room, and I thought I saw some light flashing. A few minutes later, a few more flashes, then it got brighter and more frequent. By the time I got up and over to the crib, that sleeper was lit up like the fourth of July! Her kicking had created so much static electricity that it was popping and crackling. Of course I freaked out, screamed “She’s gonna catch on fire!!” and stripped that baby faster than I ever have. She was not injured in any way, and I seriously doubt she would burst into flames.
heh, anyway, it’s funny now.
When my first child was a baby, she had gone a couple of days without pooping. I know now that this is completely normal. But at the time I was started to get a little worried.
I talked with the nurse and she said to dip the end of the thermometer in vaseline and gently put the end up my daughters’ butt.
I couldn’t bare to do this. My mom was there. We put the baby on the changing table and I held the top half of my daughter while my mom did the dirty deed at the other end.
Well needless to say, the thermometer barely went in and out came the poop. It SPRAYED all over my mother! I have never laughed so hard.
I would love this diaper as we are in the process of changing to cloth.
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I hope you are sitting for this one:) When my baby was a month old, she was severely constipated. The doctor said to give her half of a suppository, and it should take about an hour to work. So, I had her little butt a little elevated off of the diaper as I inserted the suppository, and it instantly shot back at me followed by poop which, because of the angle of her butt, hit me from the chin down. And all I could do was stand there and stare because I could not believe that had just happened. My husband just stood there laughing his butt off, and the baby was quite happy because she was no longer constipated
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Needless to say as a firt time mom,I was not prepared for the “4th trimester”! I had just given birth to my first baby and none of my clothes fit me. My maternity pants were so stretched out that they actually fell down in the grocery store as I set my infant carrier down. So I thought it was time to buy some interim pants to get me through the weight loss until I could fit into prepregnancy clothes.
So, off I went with baby in tow to the local Old Navy to buy some jeans. I didn’t know what size I was so I brought several in to the dressing room to try on. There I was crammed into the dressing room with my stroller and 3 sizes each of their various styles of jeans. I had worked my way through about half of them and was getting discouraged about my “new”body, when my sweetly sleeping newborn of 8 days, started to scream.
Me, being a first time mom with little experience, paniced at this screeching coming from my baby. I franticly started to undo the million bindings holding him into his carrier and scooped him up to console him- certain this was life or death!! As soon as I held him, I heard a louder than life explosion of poo- followed by a warming sensation on my leg. I took a deep breath and looked down. I felt my heart drop when I saw the amazing amount of soft stool that had come out of my baby, even more amazing was that the cloth diaper & cover had done little to contain the large disaster.
So, there I was, with my 8 day old infant, screaming, both of us covered in poo, and I was wearing a pair of Old Navy jeans, that did not fit and that I didn’t own.
I stood there for a minute contemplating my option. Finally I took off the messy diaper and secured(?) a new one. Then I removed the messy jeans and folded them creatively. I then noticed that durring the explosion, poo had run onto a few other pairs that I had laid on the bench. I sighed and got dressed.
I then navigated my way to the cashier with 3 pairs of poop covered jeans in various sizes/styles and prayed the cashier wouldn’t unfold them! Thankfully she didn’t and I paid for my new jeans and quickly departed the scene.
Once safely in my car, with my now sleeping peacefully baby, I thought I could give way to my emotions and have a good cry. Instead, I burst out laughing and thought- welcome to parenthood! Fiction isn’t this entertating!
Hi, first time mom here – oh yeah! Of course, as a first time mom I had to have newborn pictures of my son, Creed. So my husband and I schedule a shoot with these two excellent female photographers, both mothers – THANK GOODNESS! Leave it to me, I wanted nudie shots (just Creed) of my little guy, so I’m sitting there with him in my lap – he’s been backed up for at least a week and all of a sudden — whammo — I get a lap full of poop! The photographers are saying “Oh, what an angelic expression!” I’m saying “Oh, sh–!” And the pictures were terrific. Just wait ’til my guy starts dating and I break out the photo album — I will have revenge!
My son is 18 months old, so he gets into things. The other day, he was walking around with a diaper and I thought, “Weird. I don’t remember having any diapers out. He must have gotten into the diaper bag.” A few minutes later, he wanted up on the bed, so I picked him up, and realized he had taken off his diaper (somehow) without unsnapping his clothes… had slid it out the leg. Fortunately, it was clean.