Diaper Butt

In one of our many attempts to be an environmentally friendly household we have chosen to use cloth diapers. I know several people who think cloth diapers are gross and several who picture lots of folding and pinning and complications that accompany cloth diapers. Today there are lots of options for cloth diapers. We primarily use the Bum Genius 3.0, though Grammy recently got some new bamboo diapers for Audra.

These cloth diapers exacerbate the usual symptoms of diaper butt. Taking a one size fits all diaper and adjusting it to fit my beautiful five-month old and you have LOTS of bulk around her little tush. When you take it off there is a itsy-bitsy perfect little baby butt, but as soon as I put it on she has to go up a pant size to contain her diaper butt.

Every day I'm struck my the humor of it all. Audra holds her giant diaper butt up in the air as her chubby little legs squirm and learn to crawl, as her tiny toes wiggle and push off of the ground or the couch, as her tiny fingers grasp at toys and at my face and as her beautiful round little face grows excited as she learns all about the world around her.

Mommy Weiss