This week, I finally got around to an organisational project that's been hanging over my head - Little Smiling Man's diaper changing station. Just like his sister, he was cloth diapered. Mini Muffin was cloth diapered until 18 months when I wanted a few months of laundry break before Little Smiling Man's arrival. Although I was sorry to give it up, the timing for us was right. For Little Smiling Man, I regretfully had to stop cloth diapering him at 9 months. With his allergies and super sensitive skin, cloth diapers presented one too many variables for my troubleshooting process. That, and adding liners to protect the diapers against the almost constant use of both prescription and zinc creams became very tricky with my wiggly change table acrobat! Three months later, it was definitely time to update his change station from cloth diaper configuration to our current reality of lots of creams and disposable diapers.
My other piece of motivation - the old configuration was cloth diapers in the drawer, and disposable diapers and creams on top of his clothing shelf. My little guy now loves pulling whatever he can reach down from any surface he can find. What a mess... and it's only a matter of time before he figures out how to get into the creams! So, I decided to pack away the cloth diapers, and move all of our diaper changing gear into the drawer. Clean surfaces are the way to go with this guy!
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| Diapers waiting to be packed away |
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| Top of shelves - lots for little boys to get into! |
The process was pretty quick in the end; I have no idea why I put it off for so long! And, I now have an organized and convenient drawer for all of our diaper changing needs. My stash of 26 pocket diapers (which I love and am still sad to not be using), are all snug in a vacuum packed bag in my linen closet, ready to go whenever they are next required.
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| After - everything is happily inaccessible to little hands |
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| Packed up until next time! |
And, I feel great that it's finally done!
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