Bye bye service, hello to independence!

Hubby and I discussed over the weekend about our cloth diapering routines and what is working or not working for us. I asked him how he felt about discontinuing our diaper service and going full-time washing them ourselves. He said, "that's fine."  It makes sense to stop the service since we are already washing our pocket diapers every 2-3 days anyways. I calculated it would be half the price to wash themselves versus having our cloth diaper service.

A bit more background information:

When I was pregnant, we decided we would have a local diaper service to bring us prefolds on a weekly basis instead of washing themselves because we lived in an apartment complex with coin laundry. Two weeks before my due date, we got set up with the "Pre-birth" package of eighty 100 percent cotton prefolds and bought a bunch of covers ourselves. After she was born, we waited until she was 10 days old to start using them because I was too nervous about the umbilical cord stump being irritated, and being overwhelmed as a new mama as well! But since she was 10 days old, she has been in cloth diapers!

The prefolds and covers worked well for us! At first I thought they were a bit bulky because they obviously were thicker than the disposables. But over time, we got used to them. Rarely we had to use a disposable diaper because we ran out of prefolds for that week or were out and about. During those times, I always felt she was soooo much lighter and like she had no diaper on. I didn't like that feeling and felt awful for putting a disposable on because I loved the fluff on her and knew it was much healthier for her skin.

The diaper service continued to pick up our dirty prefolds and bring us new ones each week. We adjusted our numbers when RaeRae was a bit older and sleeping through the night (equaling less diapers).

Now that she's almost four months old and we are using pocket diapers more often, I feel ready to let go of the service! We found a system that works for us with the coin laundry. Instead of paying 80 dollars a month for 70-80 prefolds a week, we will pay between 20-30 dollars a month for coin laundry at the complex with our pockets that we can use again and again, and for our next baby too!

We are still planning to move into a place with our own washer and dryer soon. That will make washing the diapers a bit more easier. For now, it doesn't bother me too much as long as I get to have some cute fluffy diapers!