Cora finally had her 18-month wellness exam today, and there isn't much to report. She's hitting all her milestones on or ahead of target. She screamed like a banshee the ENTIRE time the doctor was touching her (after the doc had JUST discussed with me that we should let her cry at night, proving even to old school Doc Smith that Cora is not a force to be reckoned with!) Then she yelled again when she got her Hep-A vaccine. And while she was weighed and measured. Her face was SO red by the time we left... Her diaper rash is finally healing (we hope for good!), hence the plastic diaper. Yup, she has a crunchy butt. We used them in Cali when my order of FLIP disposable inserts got lost in shipment, and we've decided to keep up with them for a while longer, until her rash is 100% healed and we no longer need to use creams on her. (Yes, they're a brand with fewer chemicals and whatnot, Seventh Generation. It's the best we could do.) In a side note, I also ordered new (different scent) cloth diaper laundry detergent, since we're worried the "Sweet Clementine" was bothering her ULTRA sensitive skin (since that is one thing we can point to as changing around the time that the rash first appeared), and threw out all of our BumGenius Elementals. And I didn't shed a tear. It sucks to lose that money we invested, but they had become so worn out (holes along the edges, an unfortunate result of using organic fabric - natural fibers don't hold up as well as the manmade ones do) that we couldn't have resold them anyway. And we'll still have saved over $1500 by using cloth instead of disposables over the past 2 years, so we're happy. Plus, we're getting close enough to potty training Cora that I'm starting to thin her stash (selling off her fitted diapers), so we'll just use her pocket diapers (she has PLENTY) until she's trained. Oh, and finally, in surprising news, Cora's weight (23.2 lbs), height (32.25"), and head circumference (46 cm) are ALL up, with her head circumference increasing to the 50th percentile to join her weight and height. She still seems tiny to us, but I guess Baby Doll is catching up with her peers!
NOTE: when measuring her at home against her new growth chart, she is not even close to 32.25", so we're pretty sure the nurse measured her wrong. She was right at 31" for us...
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You got rid of all your BGEs? Was it b/c they were worn out or was there another reason? We only have 6 b/c they are SO expensive - and they take SO long to dry (although I have to say that wool dryer balls help considerably).
It was because they were worn out. The fabric attached to the PUL (not the soaker, but the back fabric) had holes all along the edge. They were our favorite diaper in our stash (hence the reason we had 24!) They were the first diaper we bought, and James wore his 12 boy colors from 5-months until we potty trained him at 27-months, at which point they had just started to get the holes (because we'd started using them full-time at daycare and not just at home for the evenings and weekends when he turned 22-months, so he had 5 months of his diapers being worn and washed every other day, as opposed to once/week). Cora used hers full-time for a full year, and part-time for 3 months before that, so hers were actually in worse shape than his. There is no way we could have resold them in that condition (or even donated them, since they were BAD), so out to the street they went. So sad, right? They were definitely one of the most expensive diapers in our stash too...
And AMEN to the wool dryer balls - LOVE those things! We actually got my mother-in-law a set for Christmas, just for her regular laundry, since they speed drying time so much.
Baby doll looks very tall. Love how James is attending the table. I can see a doctor in the making!
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