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Pinning self-consciousness

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In a fit of nesting instinct madness, I stopped at the fabric store this afternoon and bought a 4-pack of blue Dritz diaper pins. I have a large collection of diaper pins, some left over from the "sample stash" I put together before getting pregnant with dd, and quite a surprising number that my mother gave me from when I was a baby. However, my favorites are the ones from the fabric store. I only have 4, and they're all pink. I don't know the baby's gender and I think it's silly to color-code babies anyhow, and yet, I had the irresistible urge to buy some blue ones to balance out the pink.... :

I feel self-conscious about the fact that I prefer pinned prefolds. It's the only safe way to let a baby go coverless in a prefold, and I can't afford a stash of fitteds. I feel like explaining to people "you don't have to pin, most cloth diaper-ers don't pin, most have probably never even tried it, I'm just old school." Justifying my pinning preference is just one way of being defensive about parenting, I suppose.
post #2 of 6
I love a pinned diaper look and pride my self for my pinning skills Snappi are great for under covers but nothing beats a pinned coverless prefold no getting caught onto furniture and stuff.

Deanna
post #3 of 6
I love the "old school" look of a pinned diaper
post #4 of 6
Me too, me too!!!
post #5 of 6
I LOVE pins and prefolds (and flats). LOVE LOVE LOVE THEM!!! Last time someone commented when I was out and about it was actually a compliment...a woman about my mom's age said "wow, I haven't seen a REAL diaper in ages! Good for you!"
post #6 of 6
I bought some pins, but I haven't tried them yet. I just started CDing about 2 weeks ago, and so far it's been all about the snappi. I want to try using pins, but I'm a little nervous. And my DS has been particularly wiggly lately.
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