I am Regina.
We live in Sacramento CA. I am 26 years old, married to Todd (35y/o). Today is our 3 year anniversary. Zoe is 15 mo old. We have CDd since birth (partially at first while I found a system).
We're a pretty crunchy family and I love learning about more crunchy ways from MDC mamas
I CD for health, environmental, ethical, spiritual (??) reasons. Oh! I'm also a Hyena
My name is Kim and DH is Scott. We have been married for 4 years. Katie is 3 months old, born on April 21. We have been CDing since mid-June. I chose to CD because they are cheaper, healthier, better for the environment, and CUTER! I have been AP since the beginning, and MDC is making me more crunchy! :LOL
I have a PharmD (Doctor of Pharmacy) degree but prefer to stay home with Katie. Scott is a chemist. Our hearts belong in Christian missions, though. We were in missionary training school when we got pregnant, spent 2 months of my pregnancy in Mongolia, and returned to Texas to have Katie. We will resume missions in January.
I'm Heather, 32 y.o. wahm to two kids - Garrett, who is 12 and just hitting puberty, and Simone, who will be 2 in September and is just hitting the 'terrible twos'.
I am originally from British Columbia, but moved to southern California many years ago, and have yet to leave with the exception of brief 'hiatuses' to other areas for temporary reasons (work, etc.).
After many years in the corporate world, I started working from home a few months before Simone was born.
My husband Jason (30) and I have been together for 8 years, and married for two and a half of those.
My husband and I are both working full time (he is a construction supervisor) while working gradually toward our degrees - his in mathematics, and mine in fine arts / design with a strong early emphasis in mathematics and computer science (yes, I changed majors!).
I have bf both of my children, and cloth diapered Garrett part-time (not a lot available back then), and cd Simone full-time. I'm as crunchy as my time allows, and we are a fairly relaxed family as far as schedules, etc.
Hi! I'm Tina (8 years old - I've only had 8 birthdays so there! - can you figure out why?) I have been married to my DH, Bert (34) for 8 years, but we've been a couple for 14 years! We've cloth diapered Alexander since he was 15 months old and wish we had done it sooner. Even tho I prefer my boring stash of FuzziBunz and Honeyboys, I love hearing about everyone's hyena scores.
I've been a WAHM working on a database of transcripts from the tobacco trials since Alex was about 4 months old. Before that I was in charge of overseas training on North American products for one of the Big 3 automotive companies. Unfortunately I will be laid off on August 31 and I provide our family's bene's so I'm not sure what's going to happen.
I'll probably have to go back to the real world. Sigh. I hope to make another baby with DH for delivery in 2006 or 2007 and you can bet we'll CD from the start!
I am Vanessa (29) and married to my dh, Bryan (32). We have been married for 3.5 years. We have two beautiful Dds, Sai (28 months) and Zoey (3.5 months). I did not CD my first dd because, well, it did not cross my mind. Slowly with my first dd I started getting turned on to more natural ways like making organic baby food, EN, etc. The best of all of this was my natural water birth with Zoey. I am still ecstatic about it and wish to do it all over again although we are done making babies! We didn't start CDing Zoey until she was a around 2.5 months old. I got tired of her tush being red, the stinky "fragrant" diapers, and all of the waste. I felt so guilty piling our garbage with so many diapers!
I am kind of crunchy in certain ways (more the health aspects and APing my babies) but I also like nice things although we can't afford them so I love to look! I am a sahm and plan to go back to school to work on my PhD in clinical psych once my bambinos are in school.
While since I am really new...check out the post count I should go ahead and introduce myself in a little mreo detail.
I am Terri(26 yrs) and live with my better half Eric(33 yrs), in Montreal Quebec, Eric is French-Canadian so our son will learn to speak in French and English. I was born and raised in Nova Scotia and moved to Montreal for college. I am on maternity leave and hope not have to go back to my former job as a Travel Agent come Febuary.
We aimed for the natural midwife birth at a Birth House but alas ended up way overdue with my water being broken for almost 24 hours and no contractions in sight, so we ended up being induced in the hospital with a epidural vaccum birth...the whole ordeal sucked big time and the next baby we will go for the natural midwife birth again.
Hunter Clark was born March 24th 2004 weighing 8 lbs 10 ozs and 21.5 inches long.
After the rocky start we were able to sucessfully BF, we co-sleep, non-vax, non-circ, cd, baby wear and try to buy as much organic foods as our budget allows.
My new hobbies include buying diapers, looking at diapers, talking about diapers, lurking on diaper boards, anything to do with cloth diapers and hoping Eric does not notice the money missing out of the account... so far I haven`t recieved any fluufy mail from my purchases so we will see how he reacts when they arrive. Hunter and I are leaving for vacation in two weeks so am sure that they will all arrive then...gonna have some explaining to do!! I think I have a addiction...I felt the rush(I had to have them!!!!) yesterday and bought two eezi-gear limited edition fitteds. I have no fitteds so I need them to go under the soakers my grandma is knitting.
I also have bit of a sling thing but am trying not to buy anymore...for now.
We also live with a Pacific Lucinda Parrotlet named Pistache, small parrot with a big attitude and a blue budgie named Sky.
I'm Christina (23) and a single mommy to Hunter (2 on Sept 11th). I am a WAHM. We live in San Diego and might be moving to MO sometime in the next year. I have a design degree and a background in child development along with my teaching credentials for Montessori (Primary level) but will not "use" it until Hunter reaches school age (meaning whenever he is ready 3? 4? 5?)
We are crunchy but not in all things.. I use mama pads, we recycle, buy organic when we can afford it, use as little or no medications as possible (which has been extremely hard lately
) and we started CD'ing after I couldn't handle another rash. Hunter was 7 months old when I bought my first stash and we haven't looked back! (I'm a hyena too
I am Danielle, age 27, wife to Peter, age 32. We have two CDed kiddos: Pietey who just turned 3, and Aubrey who just turned 1. We started CDing in January this year for financial reasons and kept at it for the cutness factor and for enviromental and trash reasons.
I guess you could call me a WAHM as I started my own tiny business just to fund out cloth purchases. We're moderately crunchy and I sometimes fit in here at MDC and sometimes don't. But I do fit here on the cloth board and I have found it a great place for lots of info.
Oh, and dh works for Xerox as a computer engineer (as of MOnday) yay!
My turn.
I am KyleAnn, 25 sahm and married to my best friend/love Michael, 28. We have a wonderful, adorable little prince named Colin, 16 months. I strongly believe in ap and nfl. Colin and I are the crunchy ones, dh is the most opposite of crunchy that I can think of. Colin has a cd bum-is there any other way? I wouldn't want anything icky touching my baby's bum, anymore than I would want him to eat a burger from 'Donalds.
I love it here-it is nice to finally be amongst people with similar ideas for a change!!!
Iam Christina (30) married to my Dh James who will be 30 in October. I have three girls Rachel 5 Kimberly 2 and Chloe 3 months Ive been cloth diapering since October of 2002. and loveit I do it for my childerns health and the earth and to save money. I also stay home with my kids.
Hi, i'm mandy (28) married to dh for nearly 6 years, part-time WOHM mom to Keiran (9 months). i negotiate advertising placements and have the ability to surf the web ALOT in between projects. we've only been cding for a month, and though it's still not 100%, i love it and wish that we'd done it the whole time.
we live in vermont where wal-mart isn't welcome and slightly crunchy is pretty normal. for the most part you're expected to bf and i have met other cding moms at the playground and storytime.
i really enjoy this board and reading about all the dipes and wool and hope to slowly accumulate a stash to make everyone jealous
I'm Beth and am a SAHMama to 3 girls. Serra Isabella, who just turned four, is my oldest baby.
Hero Anabelle, who is 2.5, was my first homebirthed water baby, and she is a live one. :LOL Eden Elizabeth, who is 6 months, is my newest babe, born at home into daddy's hands UC, and she is already on the move, crawling and pulling up trying to walk. My dh is Ryan and he is a business student with one more year of school to go and also a hotel manager.
All three girls have been cloth diapered for economical, environmental and comfort purposes. We have been pretty AP from the start but only found the phrase, and most of our crunchy ways, when I became pregnant with my second baby. On the crunch scale I'd say we are about 80% crunchy.
You should also know that we are homeschooling/unschooling family and we'd love to live off the grid someday.
Before kids I finished one year of college and worked in a little bit of daycare. As soon as my girls are a bit bigger and my dh is finished with school I would love to take some classes in writing and art and do some volunteer work. Right now, between mothering and caring for a home, I don't have much free time, but in the time I do have I like to read, write and knit.
(We're voting for Kerry, how 'bout you?) :LOL
I forgot to say we live in Colorado!
Hi. I'm Andrea(26) married to Dean (27), mama to Christian (8), Arianna (2) and baby Ella (9 weeks). All of my kids have been bf'd and Ella is the first one that I've used cloth on. I've been hanging out here at MDC ever since I made the decision to homebirth with Ella and have gotten tons of great info. MDC is what led me to cd'ing. I had no idea about the options that were out there.
I live in St.Louis currently, but grew up in and hope to soon return to Michigan. I've lived here for the past four years. I am a hairstylist and my husband works for SBC. I work from my home most of the time and from a salon 4 hours a week.
I am pretty crunchy - homebirth, bf, extended bf'ing, co-sleeping, slinging.
I love MDC, whenever I'm having a bad day I can always find something around here to make me smile. Even if it's only buying a new dipe off the TP!
I'm Carrie, 30 year old SAHM to Johnathan (2) and Brodie (5 1/2 months). I have been married to my high school sweetheart Brian for 9 years. Brian is a quality engineer. I did not start cd until Brodie was 6 weeks and I discovered how wonderful it is. Wish I had of started a long time ago. I cd for health and environmental reasons.
I am Morgan, DH and I are both 28 and live in Mesa, AZ (transplanted from N. Cal and N.J. respectively). We have been married for almost 3 years (3 yrs in Nov.) and have a 20 month old son named Maximus who was CDed, BFed, Co-slept and worn from birth.
DHs career requires that we travel A LOT so we have gotten good at CDing on the go! I have become a total hyena in the past year or so
We CD for health and environmental reasons, and for the fun factor, I LOVE
it! We originally starte for the $$ saving factor but that was out the window a LONG time ago, LOL!
Some of my stash is in the *CDing* in my sig though its pretty out of date.
I'm Carrie, 28, married to lee (29) for 6 yrs now, and we have one little girl who turned one in may - Julia. I'm a part time sahm, wohm/wahm as a legislative assistant. Julia is my partner in crime
since she comes with me to on site daycare at work. DH is a project manager for a software dev. co but got his bs in accountancy - and quickly discovered that he hated being a cpa and working in audit :LOL
I'd say we are very AP (extended breastfeeding, co sleeping as needed, non cio, gd, etc) but a tad light on the crunchy
We started cding at 4 mo, heavily influenced by lo
We do it for environmental reasons and the cuteness factor. :LOL not saving $ anymore i don't think.
I'm Linnea (li-NAY-uh), 27 years old, married to Michael, who just turned 30. We live in Sacramento, CA where I grew up. Our daughter Miriam Emily is 5 months old and we cloth diaper most of the time. I sew my own stash for the most part, so I don't have enough to go full time yet, but we all enjoy the cloth diapers much more than 'sposies so CDing is a priority for us. I also do lots of other crafts, but they're all turned to CDing for the time being!
DH works as a programmer for the local newspaper, and I am a student of Library Science.
I'm Izabela (27) married to Joe (29) and we have a sweet baby - Amber 11 months. I'm a WAHM. Joe's a phone guy.
I have a degree in ECE, but I worked as an administrative assistant for years. I'm working on a teaching degree, and sometimes wonder WHY.
I love to CD!
I'm Stephanie and I have three girls, Sarah, Regan, Tessa, and one boy, Jackson. I homeschool my two oldest, and sew every free minute I get. My dh is in the military stationed in Hawaii, so we've moved all around the country. I am prior service Air Force, but got out to stay at home with my children. My third dd was allergic to disposables, so we made the switch and we have never bought disposables again!!
My name is Julie and I have 4 wonderful kiddos a 7 yr old DD, 4 yr old DS, 2 yr old DD and a 17 mth old DS, I also have another DS on the way in about 5 wks
I have CD'd 3 of my 4 kiddos and will be CD'ing Mason. I love CD'ing and I have finally bought my first fitted diapers, I am soo excited!!!
I am Phoebe, 35 year old mama to my little IVF miracle baby Eliza (see pics of her, me and the STASH in the link in my signature). I am newly a SAHM, previous to that I was a clothing designer. My DH was a SAHD till recently, now he is an advertising sales guy. We are wishing for another little one and will do another IVF cycle in the fall.
I am currently taking many supplements, Chinese herbs, doing acupuncture, etc. in an effort to prepare.
I am semi-crunchy, semi-AP, semi a lot of stuff I guess. I am totally into CDs, cloth ANYTHING when possible (except TP and tampons, I just can't give them up YET), gentle parenting, etc. I have never read Dr. Sears' books but have surfed his website, I like a lot of what he says but have some of my own ideas too, LOL. I just got my first sling (and Eliza is 20m old, LOL). Actually it is a pouch, and is great! I aspire to all organic foods but in actuality only a small percentage of what we eat is organic. All Eliza's food was organic till recently when we became much poorer (when I left my job).
I like sewing, crocheting, anything crafty. I wish I had more time! I spend too much time on the internet and then I don't get any other stuff I want to done!
I like this board a lot but it makes me spend $$$.
My fave dipes are Angelwraps AIOs, and my fave fitteds and covers currently are Righteous Baby's. I have never used a prefold, OMG!
Hi, I'm Amy (33 but not for much longer!) and DH is Jim (32) our joy Connor is 20 months old. We also have a 4 yr. old lab who thinks he is still a puppy.
In September we'll celebrate our 3rd anniversary but have been together 8 years.
Right before we were married I quit a job in the corporate world to go back to school and finish my Associate's Degree. Two months after I started school we found I was pg.
I stayed in school up until 3 weeks before C's due date but haven't been back since. One we're done having children (we're TTC now) I'm going to finish school and be a WAHM. But right now I have my dream job and doing what I've always wanted to do - be a SAHM. It's the hardest, most challenging job I've ever had but the most rewarding and fulfilling plus it's the only job that really seems to fit who I am. DH is an Electrical Engineer and works as a Controls Engineer. He works/travels way too much, and he's looking for something that will keep him home more.
We've been CD'ing since Connor was 9 months old. I wish I would have started earlier but it wasn't until I found MDC
that it wasn't going to be as hard as I thought. I'm looking forward to CD'ing a newborn too. We do it for environmental, health and financial reasons.
I would say I'm pretty crunchy, I've always kind of been this way just didn't know there was a term for it until recently. DH wasn't at all, but he's coming around. The crunchier I get the more I'm discovering myself (if that makes any sense!)
Hi! I'm Deana. I'm 26 years old and my dh is 35years old. I'm a WAHM to Christian and wife to Larry. We have been married for over 4 years. I was born and raised in Eastern Kentucky and now live in West Virginia. I started cloth diapering my ds when he was 7 weeks old and he is now 19 months. I've loved every minute of it! We have been TTC for most of this year and I can't wait till I can cd a newborn!
I'm Sherri, mom to Mikayla - 9 yrs, mo-o-meee to Danielle -3 yrs, and maaaammmm to Jessica - 8 months
I've been a SAHM for the past 5 years and recently opened my own business so I can continue to stay home. I'm married to an absolutely amazing man who supports me in every way possible. I love sewing (although I just can't seem to fine enough hours in the day to do all that I want) quilting, scrapbooking (which I haven't touched in 4 years) cooking, and hanging out with the girlies. I started cding when Danielle was 16 months - she potty trained soon after though so I didn't really have a clue until Jessica was born. Jesi has been in cloth since birth - and I'm HOPELESSLY addicted! I'm mainly a prefold using mama lately - and just discovering the wonders of wool!
i am andrea, mama to almost 9 mo old matteo. i have been sewing all kinds of diapers and covers for my and a few friend's/family's babies for about a year. i discovered cloth on ebay while i was still pregnant and just found this board recently. cloth is the most addictive/practical/enviro-friendlyhealth art/craft ever! thank goodness for all of you as no one i know really gets it yet. anyone else in the bay area (berkeley/oakland/sf, etc.)?
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