more cloth diapering: day 2

i washed all the diapers before bed last night. i did a cold rinse with no detergent, then a hot wash with detergent and a cold rinse. it will be great when we have enough diapers to only need to wash every 2 days and not every night. i hung everything up on the drying rack and stuck it in the bathroom so that cats wouldn't mess with it overnight.

in the morning, all of the inserts and diapers were dry.. except for the prefolds. they were still pretty damp. so i left them on the rack and moved it out to the back deck for some more drying time.

i decided to stick with the same order of diapers, so in the morning we went with the bum genius. today i used the same insert, but added a doubler. i also was extra careful to check the diaper and make sure everything was tucked in right and that madelyn's clothes weren't stuffed in anywhere. after our bottle, play time and nap we had dry sheets! and a dry baby! hooray!

we changed into the happy heiny, also with an insert and doubler. off we went for another bottle and play time. we had visitors today and madelyn got to play with kayley for awhile. they're 4 years apart (almost to the day) and it was really fun to watch madelyn stare, wide eyed, at kayley while she played. :-) the girls had fun. then it was time for a nap! when madelyn woke up again we had dry baby. :-)

when i started to change her i noticed her bum was a little red and i decided to give her some nakey time to air out. then she started getting really fussy and was scratching herself. on closer inspected, i realized we had the start of a yeast rash. so unfortunately we are taking a short break from the cloth diapering until we're done with her bum medicine. hopefully some major amounts of air time combined with some lotrimin/triple paste will clear it right up. there's a chance that the redness is from some residual detergent left in the diapers after washing so i will start adding an extra rinse from now on. this rash looks identical (but more mild) than her last yeast rash though so i'm pretty sure that's the problem. i don't have enough cloth diapers to last through a bunch of extra changes, and i don't want to fuss with stripping diapers that i've only had 2 days so i'm going to use some sposies until we get this cleared up and then start up again super soon!

i also need to get a retractable clothes line for the backyard. while i've been typing this the (light) breeze blew my rack over 3 times... lame.