Companies that market items as chlorine free may infact be using chlorine dioxide which creates dioxin rated the most toxic compound ever produced by man. Make sure you and your family are protected look for the Marks of Sustainability.

We are *SO* getting an apartment with an in-unit washer/dryer! It’s just here in Somerville that we will be using the laundromat.

Another decision making factor in cloth vs. disposable is that I tend to get a heat rash under pads in the summer. If our baby is anything like me, using cloth and changing often is the best option for a not-red bottom.

However! I wouldn’t recommend it if you haven’t got on-site laundry. You two might be real laundromat pros, I dunno. But I would definitely try to get a place in Rochester with on-site laundry.

I’m bummed to learn that the diaper service run by some coop customers I knew back in the day has gone under. It’s not really surprising. But Rochester has some great natural parenting community resources; there is definitely breastfeeding, cloth diaper, and that kind of hippie toilet training whose catchphrase I know longer remember communities.

Gotta recommend the hippie toilet training too; my Sufi pseudo-nephew usually knows when he has to go, at 16 months, and being able to hear “pee…peeee” and take off the diaper and pee in the sand at the beach DEFINITELY cuts down on diaper labor and costs.

And the thing about cloth is that you can always supplement with disposables. If you have the infrastructure for cloth you’re giving yourself options, so if Sara Jr. starts having a terrifically messy week, you can just switch rather than have to worry about disinfecting your washer.

You are so big and beautiful, honey! It’s almost time, huh? Gaddam.