OMG, I feel like I just fell into the rabbit's hole! I started out as a typical mainstream teenager. Then I got pregnant and a switch went off to want to do the best for my dd. I went through the progression from birth with midwife to up/uc to breastfeeding to cloth diapering. None of those things seemed crazy to me, just made sense... Until I stumbled into this forum. My mind is whirling. No pooing? Cloth tp? No deoderant? Homemade cleaning products? All of a sudden I realized that the one curiosity I had about what was the best way to give birth turned into a complete life changing plunge into this "other realm". Reading through these threads, I got excited and now I can't wait til the morning to see what it's like washing my hair with baking soda and vinegar. Then it hit me that I'm not even a shadow of the person I was just a year ago. That person would have looked at you like a bunch of weirdos (really I mean that word in the utmost respect), now I AM a weirdo and I've never been happier. Just wanted to say thanks to all of you for making me acknowledge the inner weirdo in me. I better go to bed so I can go make some cleaning solutions and wash my hair with baking soda tomorrow 
(sposies irritate me I never really realised until Ds was born now I could never imagine myself in another sposie 
) and use as little medicine as possible we use mostly herbal remedies and or just ride out the illness. This site also helped bring out the inner weirdo in me even more than what was already there 
