I think I am turning Green

[LadyShea]

godfry, you might get a kick out of this

While unpacking I cut up all ragged towels and old t-shirts and put them under my sink to use/reuse instead of paper towels

I actually started using all those cloth dinner napkins I had, that had never been touched

We use cloth diapers and cloth baby wipes for Cade at home. For travel I bought organic cotton filled disposable diapers.

I bought a houseful of phosphate and chlorine free plant-based cleaning products from Melaleuca

And I becoming crunchy?

[livius drusus]

Damn. It's like you're human granola, Shea. :grin:

[LadyShea]

Oh and I bought a Keeper feminine hygeine cup yesterday :hippie:

Seriously, the rags, diapers, and Keeper were partially motivated by the money savings since we're living "simpler" now (ie: we can't throw cash around like we did in Vegas) and the cotton disposables were because I didn't want that nasty disposable diaper gel crap on my baby

The cleaners were environmentally motivated, though. We are 100 yards from a river, which I love, and I don't want to dump phosphates into it. Also, they are less toxic so I feel better using them around the baby.

I got called a tree hugger the other day, and I just don't see myself that way, but when I list it all like this I do look like a Human Granola bar!

[Petra]

Yay!!! :D

You've given me hope, again, Lady Shea. :vibes:


(You're still going to shave, though, right? :wink: )

[LadyShea]

You're still going to shave, though, right?

If I am not shaved it's out of laziness...not on any principle of preferring au naturale in the body hair department...LOL

[SharonDee]

Oh and I bought a Keeper feminine hygeine cup yesterday.Good luck with that thing. I bought one years ago and haven't been able to use it. (It's too big. :stunned: )

[LadyShea]

Oh and I bought a Keeper feminine hygeine cup yesterday.Good luck with that thing. I bought one years ago and haven't been able to use it. (It's too big. :stunned: )

Or you just have a puny little vagina ;)

[Leesifer]

:foocl:

[SharonDee]

:giggles:

[Legs]

Okay, how does the 'keeper cup' work? would it hold a hamster (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showpost.php?p=127126&postcount=111) ?

[LadyShea]

Okay, how does the 'keeper cup' work? would it hold a hamster (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showpost.php?p=127126&postcount=111) ?

From the all official and stuff Keeper website (http://www.keeper.com/HTML/about_keeper.html)

Your KEEPER holds one full ounce of menstrual fluid. Since most women flow 2 to 4 ounces during their periods, emptying the cup a few times a day is usually sufficient.

Do you suppose a hamster sized clot is more than a fl oz?

[Legs]

If you don’t have access to clean water, believe it your not, you may use your own sterile urine to wash it! It is best, however, to use clean drinking water. :blink:

For my hamsters I would need something like this
http://images.hbpl.co.uk/hbi/site_old/plunger.gif

[godfry n. glad]

Uh... I was going to comment in this thread...but...uh...

WowgollyLadySheanowyou'recrunchierthanamI.

....hamsters?

:blink:

[LadyShea]

Sorry we got too far into the Talk Men Don't Wanna Hear Ever, godfry, you can ignore any posts referencing hamsters or Keepers

[Julie]

Now the question is do you have a Sling (http://www.mayawrap.com/) for Cade? And have you learned the joys of co-sleeping?

(Bah disposible diapers for going out! Wuss! hehe )

[LadyShea]

Now the question is do you have a Sling (http://www.mayawrap.com/) for Cade?

Roland98 sent me a sling that I had seen made and sold by one of the Sybermoms which was great when he was a newborn. Unfortunately he doesn't like it anymore; he is a curious thing and doesn't like his head buried in our chests. If we even lay him on our chest, he climbs us like Mt. Everest, scooting along, until his head is over our shoulder. He seems to like the new carrier that allows him to face out and look at the world, though.

He also doesn't sleep during the day. Nobody can believe how long he stays awake at a stretch and not even 3 months old yet.

And have you learned the joys of co-sleeping?

We tried to have him sleep in the cradle next to our futon (while still in the rental) for the first two nights, but he has slept with us ever since. It was cramped and uncomfortable, but now we have the ginormous bed and everyone is happy. I just read though, that co-sleeping is becoming one of the leading correlations with SIDS deaths. It scared me a bit.

(Bah disposible diapers for going out! Wuss! hehe )

I had to throw one of my cloth ones away because he decided to take an enormous poop at the airport, and I had no place to clean it in their restroom and no place to store a stinky diaper (formula poop is nothing like breast milk poop...be thankful if you never had to deal with it) except in the car with us and our visitors for an hour ride. Since then, yes, I am a wuss. Hey, at least I bought the cotton ones for chrissakes, give me some credit!

[godfry n. glad]

Now the question is do you have a Sling (http://www.mayawrap.com/) for Cade?

Yeah!

I bet Cade would think a sling was cool....

http://www.sirclisto.com/siege4.jpg

The manchillin' gots to have some fun somehow. :D

[godfry n. glad]

Oh, and LadyShea... Congrats on the green.

I'll bet you've got access to some wildlife there for Cade to run amongst. Turtles? Probably lots of birds, too. And, of course, the porpoises.

It's usually when you get to see it close up and see what the actual effects are, that it strikes home that it all starts with yourself.

I've gotten lazy and boojzwah in my old age. I've lost that ol' zealot edge.

[Julie]

Oh Fourmul poops are wonderful! Soy formula ones are even better!

Thankfully My Daughter only pooped every 11 days so we'd plan for that day to be an at home day. (And yes that is normal for breastfed babies, they do such a good job of absorbing everything they don't poop as often)

And I bet I know that study you read. If its the one Im thinking of it was sponcored by the people that regulate cribs and included things like babies sleeping on couches and with adults under the infulence of drugs and or alcohol and parents that smoke. All of which are HUGE no-nos to do if cosleeping. It was a very biased study.

I'm jealous actually. I had no where to buy the disposibles you get. No one was selling them in Canada at the time. I had to put my son in the regular kind.

As for the sling, from about 2 months on my daughter sat in it faceing either sideways or forwards. At 3-4 months old I just slung her on my hip. From about 7 months on she was on my back most of the time. Shes almost 5 now and still wants to be in the sling. Shes light enough to comfortable sling still, if I didnt have arthritis so bad in my knees.

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

Okay.

LadyShea becoming enviro-friendly, hamster clots, and baby poop?

[LadyShea]

Oh Fourmul poops are wonderful! Soy formula ones are even better!

Oh gawd. I decided not to assume allergies/intolerance and wanted to do milk-based formula first. Luckily he's doing well on it, I have heard horror stories about soy.

Thankfully My Daughter only pooped every 11 days so we'd plan for that day to be an at home day. (And yes that is normal for breastfed babies, they do such a good job of absorbing everything they don't poop as often)

Cade was on his birthmom's breastmilk for the first 6-8 weeks or so, and he pooped several times a day, but they were small, wet (easy to clean), and didn't stink. When we ran out of breast milk, the green, stinky, sticky, big balls of dough started. Gah!!

And I bet I know that study you read. If its the one Im thinking of it was sponcored by the people that regulate cribs and included things like babies sleeping on couches and with adults under the infulence of drugs and or alcohol and parents that smoke. All of which are HUGE no-nos to do if cosleeping. It was a very biased study.

I don't know who sponsored it. Seems I recall it was a UK study. The sofa thing sounds familiar though, I'll bet it was the same one.

I read in American Baby magazine that co-sleeping was recommeneded against by the AAP due to it being a big cfactor in SIDS, and I was all pissed and going to demand a retraction from the magazine, went to the AAP site and couldn't find any specific recommendations, but did find that study. They still need to retract as there is no AAP policy statement regarding it.

I'm jealous actually. I had no where to buy the disposibles you get. No one was selling them in Canada at the time. I had to put my son in the regular kind.

I thought you used cloth as well? Anyway, I buy these online as they aren't readily available in regular stores, they're called Tushies if you ever want to get them for a friend's shower or something.

As for the sling, from about 2 months on my daughter sat in it faceing either sideways or forwards. At 3-4 months old I just slung her on my hip. From about 7 months on she was on my back most of the time. Shes almost 5 now and still wants to be in the sling. Shes light enough to comfortable sling still, if I didnt have arthritis so bad in my knees.

Cade's already over 13lbs...I am getting a workout carrying him in-arms, might as well work out my back and legs too!

[LadyShea]

Okay.

LadyShea becoming enviro-friendly, hamster clots, and baby poop?

You got it...so uh...what's your point? :blush:

LOL

[HighOnHotSauce]

You are way cool LadyShea. That's always been clear to me.

[Lauri D]

It's not easy being green. Or so says my copilot Kermit, anyway. ;)

I've been doing the cut-up-old-teeshirts thing for some years now, but I always figured it was just for being cheap or something. In any case it's waaaay better than going the paper towel route, and now I can feel good about it again.

[Julie]

I did use cloth, but only after my second one was born. My First was in 'spoies for 23 months before that. Once I had two in diapers I switched to cloth. Saved myself a fortune.

Myson is my soy forumla baby. Poor guy has a big dairy allergy, he gets it from me. Even worse than soy poopies is soy spit up. There is nothing on earth to compare it to. It even gives a baby an all over smell. They don't have that sweet baby smell. I can smell a soy fed baby from 10-15 feet away.

Ahhh I remember the first 8-10 weeks of breastfeeding well, thats when they poop every single time they eat and they eat every few hours or more stage. Its at about 12 weeks that breastfed babies slow down with the poops. Formula babies never do and you don't want them to, they need to poop daily.

I didn't know Cade got breastmilk for that long! That rocks. What a wonderful birth Mom Cade has.

*Snicker* Soon you'll stop shaving and start wearing Tie-dyed only ;)