I lasted 9 months but feel like a quitter

While I was pregnant, Nathan and I discussed using cloth diapers. I agreed to try it out and see how it goes. We picked a diaper service to use because I had no intention of washing the dirty diapers myself - I barely have time to do our normal laundry and I did not want poo floating around my washing machine. It was an adjustment and took some getting used to but we consistently used cloth diapers for the first 9 months of Rocco's life. (We would use diposable if we went out of town so we didn't have to carry around dirty diapers.)

As of this week, we've made the decision to switch to disposable diapers. Rather, I should say that I made the decision to switch. After a few nasty poos where I had to dip the cloth diaper in the toilet to get rid of the poo while Rocco was at my feet and trying to pull up on the toilet and then I had to get the soaking wet diaper back to his room to put in the diaper pail, I declared that I am through with cloth diapers. In addition, they were making it hard for him to fit into some daytime and bedtime clothes because he's so long as it is and then he need extra lenght to fit over the diaper and diaper cover. I felt like this 9 month old child should not be needing 18 month old clothes already! The bulky butt contributed to that a lot.

Some of the cons of switching: Disposable diapers will cost us a little bit more each month. Disposable diapers wick away the moisture so Rocco can't tell when he's wet and therefore may be a little more difficult to potty train. Dispoable diapers are not good for the environment and may cause Rocco to get diaper rash - something he's never really had up to this point. Disposable diapers are not what Nathan wants to use and his comments plus my own guilt about the whole thing sucks!

But I've made this decision and I'm going to stick with it for now. We can always go back to cloth diapers, right? It has made diaper changes a little bit easier already so we'll see. . .

-Dawn