Grovia Bamboo Prefolds

Let me first say that these prefolds are so soft! They are much softer than any other prefold I have touched. They are 55% bamboo and 45% unbleached organic cotton. I ordered size two with the baby blue edging thinking these would fit my 9 month old 22 pound son. Way too small! So beware, they shrink a lot! The prefolds started out measuring 14"x15.5". After prepping they measure 12"x13".

While they are too small for my little man to wear with pins or a Snappie, they fit very nicely in a cover with a newspaper fold.

These Grovia Bamboo prefolds are very absorbent tri-folded and also work great inside a pocket diaper as an insert. My photos show it folded inside a fully unsnapped one size Blueberry cover (amazing cover btw) in the giraffe print and also inside a blue Bummis Super Lite cover in a size medium.


I am so happy that these work for us tri folded! I would be so heartbroken if they didn't! They are a bit pricy-I think I paid $4 a piece for them. I had won a gift card to Simplebaby.com from the EcoSprout Twitter party so that really helped!

Overall, I recommend these and would buy them again. Spoil your baby's bottom with softness and treat yourself to a pack!

Wordologies!

I won these awesome notepads and journals in a giveaway from accordingtojenny.com.

These note pads are so cute and I love the journals! The journals were a total surprise-I didn't realize that the prize included both the notepads and journals! The journals are really cool. Each one has a different type of paper inside. One has plain white paper, one has ruled pages like a notebook, and one has graph paper inside.

The notepads are great too-there is quite a but of paper on each pad. I love the inspirational sayings on them also. Thank you to Wordologies and According to Jenny! Win them on Momma T and Baby E! www.mommatandbabye.com/

I recently received a sample of Sheepish Grins Lanolin Wool Soap in Pink Sugar with my order from Simple Baby. It smells AWESOME! It is so yummy smelling that I keep going back to it just to smell it! I cannot wait to use this product. My son has not been wearing any wool to bed lately so it might be a bit before I get around to lanolizing any covers. I will follow up with a review when I do wash them. You can check out Sheepish Grins online at sheepishgrins.com.

http://www.sheepishgrins.com/pages/LanolinSoap.php

Here is my receipe for homemade CLOTH DIAPER SAFE laundry detergent. I use this on ALL of my famlies laundry and it is fantastic! 2 parts Borax, 2 parts washing soda, 1 part Oxyclean free and clear. I use 2 bumgenius scoops per load (I'm guessing 2 TBS) These are the same ingredients in the major cloth diaper detergents MINUS the filler. Every few loads of cloth diapers I add 5 drops of Tea Tree Oil to my cold prewash. Then hot wash cold rinse with 2 BG scoops of my detergent. Sometime I also add 5-10 drops of lavender oil for fun to the wash cycle. I have NO build up or stink issues and my diapers are SPOTLESS. (I always rinse solids off as they occur). I have NEVER stripped my diapers. Once a month I use 1/3 cup bleach on my flats, prefolds and inserts in the cold prewash ( I add the covers in after prewash for the hot/cold wash cycle). This detergent has saved my family so much money!

I just ran out of fabric softner! Then I remembered that I had been wanting to try to make my own. Well I guess now is a good time! i already make my own laundry soap so this had to be easy! Here is the formula i used: 1 part suave apple scent conditioner 2 parts WHITE vinegar 3 parts hot water I mixed these ingredients in a picture and dumped them into the aforementioned empty fabric softner jug. I cannot wait to see how this formula works!


UPDATE!

So we have been using the homemade softner and I think it works great! I so love not having to buy fabric softner all time. Now if I could just get those dryer balls made....