WHOA! Honey! There is POOP in this One!
Daddy, Meet Poop in Cloth!
It seems like we have been cloth-diapering Addie full time for a really long time, but it has only been a few weeks of exclusive cloth butt. This time around, I have a secret weapon that I never had before when cloth diapering.
My husband.
When I made the choice with my middle son, he was not on board at all. He wanted nothing to do with cloth diapers. At all! It was like pulling teeth to even get him to look at them!
This time around he has been much better about getting involved, heck he even watched a demo of how to wash them. More like I forced him to watch me load the washer, what soap to use, etc.
But something is better than nothing, especially when it comes to changing diapers!
He has been really floating through the diaper changes with ease, and then the other night I was getting our older sons ready for bed, and his task was getting Addie into her PJ’s and, of course, a new diaper for overnight.
Then all of a sudden I hear …
OH MY GOD! WHAT THE HELL?
Coming from Addison’s bedroom. I yelled to him and asked him what the problem was and he told me she pooped. DUN DUN DUN — his first poop in a cloth diaper.
This interaction was followed by …
What the hell am I supposed to do? How do I do this?
I had to giggle! But I told him … just change her like you normally would. I mean, that really is what you do. And when when I came into the nursery to flush the solid and put the diaper into our wet bag, it was nothing more than a tiny little wet, fart-type poop. I cracked up even harder because of the way he reacted.
It was cute.
Big props to dads who get into cloth diapering, I seriously fall in love with my DH over and over again with these little parenting things that he jumps on board with.
photo: flickr.com/simplyla
My hubby is TOTALLY on board….since the beginning! He even helped shop for them and picked out the brand and colors we should use. He’s a SAHD so he changes lots of all types of dipes!
HEHE so funny!! My husband was really on board from day one because of the cost savings. We had some challenges when my second cloth diaper baby became allergic to synthetics and we had to reevaluate the use of pins when he go the deer in the headlights look about him. but Overall he is awesome.
Haha! This reminds me of my husband not so long ago. It took me 6 months to get my baby into cloth because I could tell that he wasn’t receptive to the idea AT ALL. Finally I just started buying CDs and forcing it upon him. He would still only put the disposables on him, but it was usually only at night. Finally the disposables ran out and he had to deal with the cloth. Now he’s totally cool with it, now deals with the poop like a pro (even though he has the over-dramatic “Ugh! Oh! Ugh!!” like he got the worst poop EVER (he did this with sposies, too) and he was actually excited to try out his new DIY diaper sprayer
Yay!
So happy that my husband is totally on board! He gets a little confused about how to stuff the pockets for daycare (we use prefolds and covers at home) but otherwise he’s totally awesome about it!
My husband was totally on board from day one. In fact, he was the one who suggested it and had to convince me to use them! He’ll change diapers with no issue and occasionally will wash them. It’s just that I wash diapers during the day, while he’s at work….lucky him.