The Dirtiest Diaper

So some of you know that we have begun cloth diapering.  Emily has extremely sensitive skin and so we have switched over to cloth in hopes that the lack of chemicals and bleaches in disposable diapers would clear up her chronic diaper rash.  I made the purchase on Amazon--the cheapest diapers I could find at about 6 bucks a piece.  I bought twelve and since for some silly reason they wouldn't ship to Spain, my mom brought them to me when she came.  So it's been about a month and a half with the cloth diapers and so far so good.  I wish I could say they worked miracles and her diaper rash went away for good, but alas, that isn't so.  We still struggle with a pretty nasty rash although for nearly a week now her little bottom is looking better than ever--not even a red spot!

Anyway, it's been a month and a half of diaper washing for me.  Being nearly 100% breastfed still, her diapers are pretty easy to wash and not really even too stinky.  I liken it to when your dog licks you: you don't mind, 'cause it's your dog...but someone else's dog kinda grosses you out.  Same with poop, it turns out.  I don't really mind washing her diapers, but I'm sure most of you can't even stand the thought! ;)

Spaghetti selfie! Bon appetit!

Things have become interesting on the diaper front since we've begun introducing solid foods.  And by solid I mean actually solid.  We are not giving Emily blended baby foods at all.  She eats what we eat, or a version of what we eat.  The interesting thing is that it seems as though nearly all of what she eats passes through unchanged!  I find bits of carrot, pepper, tomato, etc. in her diapers daily and I am amazed that her little digestive system doesn't do a more effective job of breaking this stuff down!  It turns out that teeth and chewing really are an important part of digestion!

But I'm getting off track.  Except for bananas, it seems as though most everything else changes very little on it's trip through her intestines and therefore her stool has continued to be the trademark liquid yellow of a breastfed baby.

Yesterday she had spaghetti.  She loved it!  I will post a video in a minute.  It was adorable how she sucked down the noodles!  Angelines, of course, was worried she'd choke and wanted to pull the noodles back out, but I insisted that she leave her be--I am an expert at swallowing whole noodles (see Ramen post from a few weeks back!) and know that there's no harm done so long as it's going down the right pipe.  Sure enough, Em was fine and slurpped down noodle after noodle. :)

It was all fun and games until she went to the bathroom today!  I haven't washed a dirtier diaper in my short experience of cloth diapering.  Talk about full!  I will spare the details...but let's just say I won't be smiling quite so much the next time spaghetti's on the menu.

...But the pictures are pretty cute, right?  This family certainly knows how to have fun with food!

For some reason Bela has begun taking more of an interest in the baby lately... ;)