Glow Bug Cloth Diapers #GBGreenFam

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I know i've already told all of you about my Love of Glow Bug Cloth diapers, butI wanted to spread the word a little more for those who don't know. If someone were to ask me what my favorite pocket diapers were, it would be hands down Glow Bug cloth diapers! I tell everyone I can about Glow bugs and how amazing they are. 

What is it that I love about Glow Bugs? So many things, here's a short list of why I love this diaper. 

* Snap in insert. It doesn't wiggle around like other inserts or bunch up at one end (always the opposite end of where you need it on other diapers). 

* The insert agitates out in the wash! I HATE pulling stinky wet icky inserts out of pocket diapers, its enough to make me not use pockets, but with Glow Bug Cloth diapers all you have to do is unsnap the insert and throw it in the washing machine. The moment of the washing machine slides the insert out. 

* Double gussets. Double Gussets are the best thing to happen to cloth diapers in a long time. They really contain those nasty blow out diapers. Eva has definitely put our Glow Bug diapers to the test. She likes to challenge them to make sure they still work sometimes =)

*AMAZING Customer Service. Seriously. The BEST customer service ever. When I did my first review of Glow Bug Diapers I had a problem with the diaper they sent me, the elastic had come loose and the back was unsewen. They assured me it was a fluke and sent me a new one right away. Then a month or so after I wrote my review, somehow morgen lost my inserts. I emailed them to ask if I could buy some new ones, and they were so nice. They sent me two new inserts at no cost. Seriously its the best customer service ever! Their amazing customer service alone is enough to make me a life time customer and fan! 

Eva and I at the Great Cloth Diaper
 Change
Sporting her Glow Bug Hawiian print.

two rows of snaps

 

The only thing I thought was missing from Glow Bug cloth diapers before was that they didn't have a hip snap to prevent wing droop. Well guess what? Glow Bugs now have hip snaps! Heck Yeah! Seriously Glow Bugs are the perfect diaper! I love them so much! And whats even better? Glow Bugs is sponsoring the grand prize of the Green Family Event! One winner will receive a whole stash of Glow Bug Diapers! How exciting is 
that!

IF you aren't the winner of the Glow Bug Green Family Giveaway, you can buy Glow bug Diapers for $150 right on my side bar! I love them so much I'm an affiliate for them. 

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Glow Bug has come out with some totally adorable new prints both boy and girl, as well as a super cute ugly sweater themed special edition diaper. Seriously check out the cuteness. 

   

I am planning on buying the new girl prints as soon as I get a check from the state of CA i've been waiting on for 3 months, but I also want to get a set of boy prints, I really think the boy prints are gender neutral and would look adorable on Eva. I have no problem putting an adorable wrench diaper on my girls, especially since I plan on teaching them how to fix stuff so they don't have to rely on others to do it for them. 

Go check out all the new prints Glow bug Diapers has to offer, Like them on Facebook , then head on over to Formula Mom and enter to win a full stash! 

Disclosure: I received a Glow Bug Cloth Diaper for the purpose of writing this review, all views are my own ad I would never recommend any product I would not personally use. 

Oh I may be crazy

But I'm going cloth! With Tabitha I wanted to do cloth diapers but it really wasn't feasible. We weren't in our own place and using the washer everyday was not an option, heck I was lucky if I got to do laundry once a week, not really conductive to doing cloth. So we did disposables and threw away a lot of money. So now I've decided I'm gonna give cloth a try. I found a site called cottenbabies that sells preloved diapers for $7 each which seems reasonable to me. I'm also looking at consignment stores and on ebay and craigslist, but I found a bunch of websites on how to make your own diapers. Now let me tell you, I'm super intimidated! But I was horrible at sewing before I had Tabitha, I just had to keep working at it. Now I make most of Tabitha's dresses and skirts, some of her shirts and even a few pairs of pants. I've also made her bibs and started making burp cloths for Evangeline. I figure if I can make burp cloths I can make pre-folds right? I also found patterns for soakers that look pretty easy and tons of patterns and tutorials on how to make pocket diapers and a few on how to make all in ones. I figure I'll make a few of each and buy a few and try them on Tabitha first to see how it works. She's not ready for potty training but i'm tired of buying diapers too, so why not switch her to cloth as well, i'll always be able to use them for Evangeline right?
So here are some of the sites i'm using to help me on my way: 
see kate sew did a tutorial on making inserts for gdiapers that look pretty easy, also she said they were less than $1 per insert, thats my kind of insert right there! 

Tidy Tangle did a post on making cloth diapers out of old t-shirts! Hello! I'm all about reusing! This looks awesome. Plus she links to a site with a pattern and instruction booklet! 

sew your own diapers has a ton of tutorials on how to sew multiple kinds of diapers, and it looks like it will be a lot of help as well.  

this is one of the AIO diapers that you can make. Looks amazing! I'm sure mine won't be as good but I can try!

Sweet and Sassy girls did a post on making your own flip style covers which would work well with the gdiaper cloth inserts from tity tangle as well! 

Goodness gracious free diaper patterns has you guessed it free diaper patterns! haha! 

Tutu Mafia has a post with a pdf pattern on making your own diapers that I need to try! 

How cute is that little diaper!

I also found this youtube video on Pintrest, 

Holycraft has a great post on cloth diapers and wipes and tells you how to make your own flannel wipes and the solution to use with them. Easy peasy lemon squeezey! 

I found a recipe for cloth diaper laundry soap on Aiko Art, which is awesome, because i've been thinking of making my own laundry soap when we run out of the all free and clear we have. 

SO obviously there is a lot I need to learn before I embark on this journey and I'm sure i'll have a lot more downs than I have ups, but I'm really gonna try to do this!  Wish me luck, and if any of you have done this please, leave me links, encouragement, book recommendations and the like!