aunty em diapers

why not try cloth diapers.. or expand your stash.

All cloth diapers, covers and wash clothes are 20% in the shop this Earth Week. Enter promo code: earthweek

thanks for choosing cloth. you have decided to reuse your stash of diapers again & again. you’ve also chosen to use natural fibers. did you know you have chosen to keep more than 8,000 disposable diapers out of landfills? yep! and that’s just one kid!

sale ends: april 25th, 2009

If you have seen the Save Handmade button in the side bar, or watched the news video clip on this site, you have heard about CPSIA and the affects it will take on handmade, small business, and the world of children’s products. Needless to say, this has been a concern of mine. after asking around (and not hearing back from as many people as i would have liked) and following a whole lot of Tweets, i had a solution literally find me. You know the saying, ‘it just fell in my lap’? For me it was, ‘the solution just fell ‘in’ my lap-top.” I was invited to be part of a group of small businesses getting XFR testing (with GCC’s good until August 2009) all on the same day. The Event (and it was an Event) was hosted by the wonderful women of  Congrats From Colorado.

I got all the components of a cloth diaper and a wool diaper cover tested and surprise, surprise there is NO LEAD found in these cloth diapers! General Conformity Certificates are coming soon!

You can now purchase Aunty Em Diapers at Childish Things in Boulder, CO

Childish Things is located at 2071 30th St., Boulder, CO 80301. Between Pearl St. and Walnut St. on 30th, sort of behind Target. Childish Things is open Monday 10-5, Tuesday 10-5, Wednesday 10-6, Thursday 10-5, Friday 10-5, Saturday 10-5, and Sunday 11-5. I hope you will stop by and take a look in person and help support local small business.

i have a had my very first diaper order generated from auntyemdiapers.com! it has been very exciting. so exciting in fact, that i went to denver to meet the women who was buying them (and we had cloth diapering 101). i loved every minute of it.

the website has been seeing some traffic, but i haven’t been getting many emails with requests or questions. I’m sure people are looking for a way to order them. That is in the works and i have some creative ideas for doing it.

but i really should be sewing at the moment. i have another order to fulfill. yipee!

how many diapers do i need?

this is a very good question and if you are new to cloth diapers or cloth diapering it is certainly one you will need to answer. the best way to figure out how many diapers you need to to ask yourself, “How often do I want to do diaper laundry?” If you don’t mind doing it every other day, you will fewer diapers. If you want to do it every three days, you will need a larger stash. It is generally recommended that you have about 12 diapers per day. So if you are going to do laundry every other day, you’ll want around 24 diapers. Remember, you’ll need to have a few diapers on hand for your baby while you do the laundry.

Another factor to consider while determining what size stash you need is the age of your child, and now often they need to be changed. Younger infants often need changed more frequently than older babies & toddlers. Some babies are heavier wetters than others. And some babies are simply more sensitive to wetness than others and require more frequent changes.

So what is the optimimal number? We suggest you start with 1 or 2 dozen. While 3-4 dozen is certainly plently.