All about cloth ... and cloth...

Before I get married, I never imagine that one day I will use cloth diaper for my children or any cloth pad for myself! But now everything in my life seems turning into cloths... Starts with cloth diapering.. cloth wipes... then cloth pads and now facial cloths! Why? ermm honestly, they really suite my life style! Ya, maybe some might think, "eeuwwww how gross?" but for me I can handle all the "grossy things" with no sweat! But I think maybe it just me, and I believe everyone got their own style and their own preference...

I started with only 2 cloth pads for the 1'st time trying... I bought 1 regular and 1 heavy flow Imse Vimse cloth pad. Why 2 only? hihihi Actually I plan to have another child and hoping that my period won't come but I was wrong, which end up I bought some more pads from miabambina.com on the following month since I feel more comfortable with the dry and healthier feelings on it compare to dispo one.. Then I bought Mamapads and their panty liners! Now I also have Ultimate Heavy & regular flow Organic bamboo velour, Minkee Ultimates!, Endura pads and liners and also hemp silk liners. Lately I feel more comfortable using fully cloth pads during my period and cloth panty liner daily!...Let me share how do I wash them. Usually I'll rinse the soiled pad first, then soak about 1-2 hours with Scarlet Secret before I wash them in washing machine together with my son cloth diaper. I don't mind washing them all together since I also rinse all my son's CD before I dump into my washing machine. Before Sandra gave me to try the Scarlet Secret last month, I just soak them with little bit of detergent actually, Trojan also works nicely to remove all the stain. But Scarlet Secret works more effectively which they always give "new look" and softens my cloth pad after few times washing! Amazing but truth!

Last few days, I started using facial cloth too! I used them for scrubbing, removing makeup and applying toner!They are great and also easy to wash! I used same method of washing as my cloth pad. I am not sure how much I can save costs by using this facial cloth since I can get cotton balls wipes easily and cheap, but in terms of my own satisfaction on using cloth, yes I am satisfy and happy enough to proceed using this facial cloths more and more in future!... and now I am really into cloth and cloth!

And here I show you my Happy Tushies Momma pad bag that I used for outing. There are two compartment to store clean and dirty pad separately... Very handy and useful. You can get this pad bag from Miabambina.com. The other e-store that selling other brand of cloth pad in Malaysia are femchoices.com, babysashanmom.com, and babyznmom.com.Happy trying!

Cloth Wipes

I must share this photo!! Yesterday, when I was taking photo of my CD then suddenly came out of the idea taking photo of my cloth wipes pula! and end up with... which I think my cloth wipes photo look nicer then my CD photo! pingsan! LOL so... ? What do you think? Nice rite? not only the wipes of course, I mean the blue sky!! hihihi "masuk bakul angkat sendiri!" hihihi still thinking to upload my cloth pad photo also one day... BTW I hope, my grandchildren and our future generation also still be able to breath and see all those blue sky like what we have now...

Cloth Diapering in the Daycare

Last November, Irfan's nanny moved to Miri and since that day Irfan stays in the nursery. At first I was a bit worried if the daycare taker refuse to use the cloth diaper on him. When first time I met the daycare taker and told them that my baby is using cloth diaper they thought I use traditional lampin. Only on the first day Irfan in the daycare they knew that is modern cloth diaper hehehe. At first they were a bit blur and confused, they thought they must change the insert only. Nevertheless, after I made some explanation and demonstration, the daycare taker seems more understand and look happier...and they are now enjoying it. After few weeks they asked...
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The daycare taker: "mama Irfan, mana beli diaper Irfan ni, cute-cute ohhh, tidak nampak pun ada jual di Giant?!"

Mama Irfan: "hihihi i beli dari kawan tinggal di Damai, dia ada online store jual cloth diaper... Banyak lagi yang ada di jual nya! kakak cuba buka web www.miabambina.com"

The daycare taker: "ohh begitu. Kakak ni mahu introduce pada adik beradik kakak, tapi kakak tidak ada pakai sekarang, jadi kakak tunggu selepas kakak cuba, barulah kakak bagitahu mereka. Kakak tengok bagus ini diaper! Irfan punya pula nice-nice lah the prints"

Mama Irfan: "Ohhh iya... banyak lagi yang cantik prints nya kak, especially for baby girl! hihihi"

The daycare taker: "Kakak sekarang sudah 12 minggu pregnant, kalau kandungan kakak sudah 6 bulan nanti kakak mintak tolong mama Irfan bawa kakak beli boleh kan? Kakak mahu beli sikit-sikit"

Mama Irfan: "ya kak, boleh ajer! Nanti saya bawak... sebenarnya banyak lagi pilihan yang kakak boleh beli selain jenis poket dan AIO yang selalu saya pakaikan untuk Irfan. Di sana nanti kakak tengok... hihihi nanti kita cerita lagi ya kak, saya kena balik cepat hari ni"

Even the daycare owner talked to me the other day that she'll use cloth diaper for her next baby! yayyy....!

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Usually I will bring 3 or 4 cloth diapers to the daycare, which is normally I mix some pocket and All In One diaper. I will make sure the insert is already keep inside into the pocket! I also provide one All Day wet bag so that all used CD will go into the wet bag. The daycare taker usually rinse all the poo and if only others baby are in good mood then I can see they also help me rinse the pee as well!. (I teach them how to spray the CD to make their job easier...)Oh ya, I also provide them 3 wipes but usually they use it for wipes Irfan's hand and mouth, not for the cleaning b** since they feel so "sayang" to use them for wipes poo hihihihi Well, so far so good, they don't complaint and I am satisfied enough. And now one of my friend also start Cd'ing her daughter in the same daycare with my son! And they look happier because we are reducing their garbage though! . Now I would like to share irfan's cloth diaper that I bring to the daycare...

Here are we are! 3 wipes, 1 All Day wet bag and 4 diapers! I'll put them in Irfan's nursery's bag. And below is my pail liner... hihihi just want to show you where usually I keep all the used Cd at home... I wash my diaper everyday and sometimes once in two days.. so this pail liner is big enough to keep all my usage!

MiaBambina's Workshop

Hopefully it's not too late to post about this workshop! MiaBambina's workshop was on the 17'th November 2007. Duly it started at 2 o'clock but this "ratu siput" late again! but this time only 10 minutes late due to the heavy rain and this "ratu siput" really "siput" when driving in the rain! huhuhuuu

Honestly, I was going to the workshop purposefully to meet NEL! hehehe But I was sooo excited to be in the workshop though! Because this is my 1'st Cloth Diaper's Workshop I attended so far... There were me, Unda, Nel, Jen and of course our CD Guru, Sandra. Firstly we introduced our self... Then the workshop begun, 1'st topic was "What will I need to start out".. Sandra shown some cloth diaper type such as pocket diaper, All In One, Hybrid, Fitted and diaper cover.. err also all type of inserts and the training pants! As far as i remember, we discussed about what usually mother needs when to start cloth diapering for their baby...

Then 2'nd topic was more interesting i guess. It was about "Storing & washing cloth diaper" which I think, it is important for cloth diaper mother to know how to wash cloth diaper. They are two basic methods; wet and dry pail, pro and cons each of them, then which detergent should we use and all the laundering mistakes that we should aware, otherwise they will smell and end up with leaking problem. Waahhh sounds a bit complicated rite? NO.. Of course it is not! Anyhow, washing cloth diaper is very easy u know! :D And talking about storing, for me it is really depends on mother preferences where to store them... even I have my own way that works the best for me and hubby which I will share with you guys later hehehe BTW, the workshop ended with demonstration on how to put cloth diaper on, and that time Luna was being a very good model! And that time I was talking much with Nel already i guess!! :D hahahaaa

Anyway, THUMBS UP for Sandra for being the 1'st cloth diaper e-store owner in Malaysia comes up with workshop, some more the whole session is FOC including all the handouts! waaaaaahhh U R REALLY THE BAIKHATILADY!! I hope more CD moms will join us next time, and looking forward for next month workshop and I wish I can attend her workshop every month! LOL And here are some photos during the workshop.. enjoy!

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Thanks a bunch to Julia Clark, the owner of earthangelsdiaperco.com for her efforts writting about us! OMG now people can see who is the CD addict in Malaysia!! **Malunya!!** I know they are many more Malaysian CD moms out there which is not in the photo such as Unda (where are you ya?? Ohhh taking this picture rite!!?? huhuhu TQ!), Sharine, Christene (she is the RATU CD addict i must say), far,nurul and many more! Keep it up moms! Malaysia Boleh! :D

CD Moms Gathering and Chit Chatting..

ya ya.. I know, it's little bit late for me to put this photo... the gathering was on the 1'st September.. But, since Charish is waiting for it... nah, here they are.. actually, I just learn how to use the scrapbook! **Thanks again Charish for sharing the " Scrapbook laman web"... (Bek, lu can remember what is laman web or not!? LOL )... SO... if this photo still look ugly as my blog, don't mention anything ya! Just TENGOK BA! Hahaaa kasihan dehhh U all.. LOL Nevertheless, I think the ugliness can be cover up by our baby's cute face! And lucky there is Charish! LOL

We all arrived at Sandra's place around 1 o'clock i think, then we ate pizza from Pizza Hut! (b'coz Sandra was busy to cook! *wink*) and Sandra gave me drink PEPSI + SALT! b'coz I had sore throat larrr .. hahaha Then we celebrated Maya's birthday...I love the chocolate cake! Seriously YUMMY!! LOL but I wasmalutotapau! hahaha can understand or not? huhuhuuu

BTW, all the evening we were talking about many things.. some of them that I still can recall were about... eyelashes!, how to put eyeshadow on mata sepet like mine! LOL, cloth diapers of course! and many things... can't remember anymore! sigh... me and siti went back home first since my DH came and fetch us around 4 o'clock... Even I was coughing almost all the time, i really enjoyed the gathering and chit chatting... Hopefully many moms will join us next time!

huhhh sleepy already... time to sleep n pray I won't cry when I leave Irfan in nursery tomorrow! CROSS FINGER everybody!




BTW.. I'm still working on my blog, since my hubby complain "mama irfan's blog looks ugly" .... I hv to do something about it!! GO mama Irfan GO !!