Pollution from the trucks, mostly, and industrial-sized washing machines use more water than home models.

(Truthfully, the numbers can be rigged either way -- cloth diapers use more water, disposables create more landfill waste. Personally, I fall down on the less-landfill-waste-is-good side of the equation, plus I just spent a ridiculous amount of money on a washer & dryer, so paying someone else to wash my diapers is just not going to happen.)

Thanks, Jessica.

The FuzziBunz never fit Lillian quite right. We use them, but they're my last-in-the-bunch diapers.

I like Happy Heiny's and Swaddlebees for pockets, and we have one DryBees (large, so it doesn't quite fit her yet), and it looks to be nice. Same suedecloth as the bumGenius, fit similar to a Happy Heiny's.

In good news, I am wearing my new shoes today and they ROCK MY WORLD. Here is a glimpse of the awesometude:

Dang. I mean, the shoes are very cool but when I see a Robin link, I want to see a Robin face!

It's funny how the baby really does matter when choosing your diaper. I think I got lucky with the FuzziBunz - OTD on the first try.

Although now that I think about it, there was a phase in between the small FBs and the M FBs that we used the bumGenius a lot. I think with pocket diapers, the stuff you stuff the diaper with matters a lot. I've never used my pre-folds - they looked so bulky on Ellie - but I have switched from hemp to microfiber liners as time went by.

The ones that require a cover were always too complicated/too much work for me. That's probably because I started out with the pocket and it worked so well.

Anyway, I got tons of tips and ideas from Plei since she's tried everything.

no pain~ma Tep! I hope it's nothing to worry about.

Love the shoes Robin.

I had more to say, but I'm hungover so the clanging in my head keeps shooing the thoughts away.

I do remember drunk-texting juliana over shots of Chartreuse though.

(Truthfully, the numbers can be rigged either way -- cloth diapers use more water, disposables create more landfill waste. Personally, I fall down on the less-landfill-waste-is-good side of the equation, plus I just spent a ridiculous amount of money on a washer & dryer, so paying someone else to wash my diapers is just not going to happen.)

When I was looking into it, the choice most people made depended on where they were. If water was an issue but landfill space wasn't (in the West and Southwest, mostly) disposables were recommended but if water and power weren't big issues, cloth was rated higher.

If you want to go hardcore, there is also infant toilet training but that just strikes me as a little craxy--although that is probably an unenlightened opinion since a lot of cultures (without the modern convenience of washers, electricity, running water or expensive disposables) manage just fine.

If you want to go hardcore, there is also infant toilet training but that just strikes me as a little craxy

hah! Yeah we used to joke about doing that with my best friend's twins. Mostly it involved miming holding baby over the sink and going, "pss pss pss"

Now I'm trying to get the twins to learn how to change each other's diapers. They like taking things away from each other so it just might work!

I'd bet there's a correlation between education level and lack of enthusiasm for having your parents choose your spouse.

Once you're in the States I'd figure all bets were off. As people say, PC, make friends. Why not? Don't bargain on a wife or an ally or anything. Just do what you do.

At the very least you'll have effort to show your parents next time you get into a senseless argument.

Xanthan gum isn't, as far as I know, a preservative. At least when I use it, it's about texture--it figures in gluten-free baking because in combination with gluten-free flour it has a similar structural effect to gluten without the health issues.

I think if I were in PC's shoes, I might meet Girl Picked Out By Parents and then say something like, "Howdy! Nicetameetcha!.....Um.... well..... wanna complain about our parents for awhile?"

If that doesn't get you two on the same page, well, then you know there's not much compatability there, right?

I went to my doctor yesterday and he switched my perscription from Adderall to Adderall Extended release. So far today, I love it. I don't feel that sped up feeling when I first take it, just a steady sense of being able to focus. Hopefully I won't feel the crashing feeling as it wears off either.