For 1 week my family will put away all of our "real" diapers and only use flats, snappis, and 5 diaper covers. The washer and dryer will get a much needed vacation because we will wash our diapers only by hand. Why on Earth would we do this??
--to raise awareness about how dangerous it is to let babies stay dirty to save diapers. This is a sad and dangerous trend happening right here in the US, in our towns, right in front of us.
--many families in this situation are unaware of cloth diaper options. They don't know how to use them or care for them or even where they can get them.
--to show the above families how easy cloth diapers can be even with very limited resources.
My personal reasons for taking the challenge:
--my family will be without a washer and dryer for 2 weeks for real- this is going to save countless trips back and forth between the new house and old house to wash diapers. We will do the challenge a bit longer than everyone else so that I am not making extra diaper wash trips across town.
--I am training to be an RDA circle leader- what an awesome hands on experience to have. I can relate to community members that might have very very limited resources and truly NEED to cloth diaper. I can show them how I did it, what worked and what did not.
--I want to get my cloth diaper service project off the ground. I want to diaper babies in my community that are in desperate need. I see this as an icebreaker to what I hope will be a very successful campaign someday!!
I will update my blog on a daily basis to document our trials and errors of flats and hand washing! I have never used a flat before other than stuffing a pocket diaper with it so this will be interesting!!
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