Greetings to our all fans and customers,
As you know, life has it's own calendar and agenda. Things good and bad happen inadvertently and creates ripples that affect our plans.
We have to leave for a few days and take care of life's agenda, but we will be back soon. For those of you that make a purchase while we are away and have a delay on their package will receive a gift from us and a discount on their next purchase. I hope you don't forget about us and come back to shop at Grunty Baby.
Thank you
From the Grunty Baby Family
Tamyr, Justin, Christopher, Vladimir and Soren
The Crib
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Flushing for a change
The first year of my life I wore cloth diapers,
they were white pieces of cloth pinned on the sides with big ducky pins and
teddy bears. My mom has kept them throughout the years in a very special
suitcase together with pictures, my first curl, a few teeth and too
many embarrassing memories. I remember going through all these
treasures once, years ago, and my mom told me all about the good all days. My mom
would heat transfer or hand-embroider images to my diapers to make them look
stylish. There was one of them in the suitcase, it had a little girl carrying a
basket with a bunny next to it. A nostalgia feeling swirled the room as she went
on explaining how she will wash them every night in a "punchera" (an
outdoor sink) and hang them to dry in a line that extended from the barred
windows outside my parents room to the chain link fence that divided our
backyard from the neighbors. I said "ay foo mami" (yuck mom) and
thought "thank god we got disposables now".
Years went by and although I was a very active environmental
advocate, when I had my first child, I didn't use cloth. I was unaware of how
long it takes for a disposable diaper to disintegrate and how much I was
harming the planet by filling up the landfills with something that will be
there for centuries. When I got pregnant with my second child, I knew I was
going to use cloth diapers, no matter the cost (or work) it entailed. This
time, my mom thought I was crazy, but so did everyone else. I wish I had seen
the look on my family's faces when they found out! Now that I live thousands of
miles away, I missed it, but knowing them I can imagine the disgusted look on
their faces. You know the one, when you scrunch your nose and your mouth
deforms into a wide opened frown as if someone had told you that they like to
eat cereal with ketchup. Yuck! Well against everyone's disgust I followed my
heart's desire and went into research mode. I knew there had to be something
better that those god awful ducky pins, but I had no idea of what lay ahead.
I remember sitting in bed laptop on my lap, a cloth
diaper review website on the monitor and the Star Wars Main Title Song playing
on my mind as I stared in awe at the mountain of cloth diaper styles and brands
staring blankly at me. To tell you the truth, I am still baffled and
have failed to decipher them all. There are prefolds, fitted, flips,
AIO, AI2, pockets, hybrids and all their complements. So many questions! What
was an insert or a cover? And why were there so many of them?! I panicked!
There was a whole world out there and in order for me to discover it I had to
learn its language.
There is a lingo that comes with cloth diapering
and I felt as lost as I felt when I went to my family reunions during my Goth
years, salsa and heavy metal clashing and creating an invisible force field
where everything mumbled up and became blurry and diffused. But I wasn't going
to let that stop me, as with any other language, the best way to learn is
through full immersion. I went to Facebook and joined every cloth diaper community
I could find. I remember reading in one of them "how do you strip?"
and thought "what did I get myself into?!" and it got worse when I
read the comments and figured out it wasn't the kind of stripping I was
thinking but one much worse! "I have to boil pooped diapers!" and I
made the face, yep, I confess, I did, the very same one my family and friends
did before.
My first stash, when I was 8 months pregnant. |
The medium stash |
After a while, once my little one had more stable bowel movements I started using more cloths than flushies (biodegradable inserts). I filled my gs with a variety of inserts going from gcloths to kitchen towels, anything that will absorb. I also grew the guts to try other styles of diapers, Kawaii, Charlie Bananas, Goodmama, Fuzzibunz, the works, even some WAHM ones! There are days that I am really thankful for flushable inserts and cloth liners, especially after my son has banana for breakfast or when we have a busy full or errands type of day. If I get discouraged I remember that one day at the grocery store when my 5 year old asked me "what is this?" while pointing at a package of disposable diapers. I told him "diapers", "but they are plastic" he told me, "yes they are" I responded and finally he said "yuck!" and made the face.
*Find gDiapers, flushable inserts and other cloth diapers at www.gruntybaby.com*
Monday, July 16, 2012
What's The Crib?
Welcome to The Crib!
The Crib is a place for moms and dads to get together and talk, to learn from each others' experiences and share the milestones in your baby's life, your secret formula on how to be crunchy mom and all those everyday chaos that come from being a parent.
Here we will post about our experiences, about our products and even children stories to read to your kids at night.
We hope you love this space. Come visit us often and bring your friends, because there is always room for more in our little grunty crib!
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