Brittney French
Social Media Coordinator
St. Louis/Cincinnati
Brittney is a social media coordinator for Cotton Babies. She has three sisters, loves pizza and enjoys listening to obscure bands no one has heard of. Outside of posting on the Cotton Babies Facebook and Instagram pages, she babysits a few cloth diaper-wearing kids and likes playing with her dogs.
www.jenniferlabit.com
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I’m sure you know the Sheryl Crow Song “A Change Will Do You Good.” Now that I brought it up, you’re probably singing the chorus in your head. Like the song states, a change would do you good. Now, we don’t know exactly what it is you need to change, other than a dirty bumGenius, but we want you to try and switch up your daily cloth diaper routine. Don’t worry, we’re not going haywire and asking you to do something drastic. Instead, we want you to change it up and try a cloth diaper system that you haven’t used
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Washing cloth diapers in a high efficiency wash machine shouldn’t be any different than washing cloth diapers in a top loader or laundromat. Sometimes, however, it is different because HE wash machines use as little water and energy as possible to clean your laundry. This can be good and bad. When washing dirty cloth diapers, it is extremely important to be sure that your bumGenius, Flip and Econobum covers are getting cleaned enough. If not, your cloth diapers may start to stink due to detergent build up and left over messes, which could irritate your baby’s sensitive skin. Finding the
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There are A TON of reasons to love cloth diapers. For one, cloth diapers can save you money. Secondly, cloth diapers are an environmentally friendly alternative to disposables. And lastly — or most importantly — cloth diapers are extremely cute! We want to know why you love cloth diapers! For this week’s giveaway, two people will win a bumGenius, Flip or Econobum cloth diaper. You get to choose pick the system you love most! To enter, comment below and tell us why you love cloth diapers. And, if you REALLY love cloth diapers, submit a photo that you took of your baby wearing bumGenius, Flip Diapers,
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Did you see our announcement on Facebook last week? We are looking for a bunch of lifestyle shots of babies wearing bumGenius, Flip Diapers, and Econobum products for a project we are working on this fall. If you have a photo that you took of your baby that you’d like us to consider for this, please post it to our wall, leave it in the comments section below, or email it to media@cottonbabies.com. Be sure to Include a quote about why you love the diaper your baby is wearing. If you are a Twitter or Instagram person, post the shot
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As a parent, you’re constantly monitoring your child’s every move. It’s natural. Your baby said a two-syllable word? Good thing you had your smartphone nearby to record that precious moment. Your little one drew a miniature Mona Lisa on the wall? Hello, Instagram! Capture your baby’s artistic skills at a young age! Just make sure you snap a pic before running to grab a Better Life cleaner from the cabinet. Your 11-month-old took two steps in the living room? Tweet the play-by-play! Your toddler has grown from cloth diapers to training pants? Post it on Facebook, where, if you’re like me, you
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A few weeks ago, I wrote a giveaway post on the Cotton Babies’ blog called, “F is for Freetime!” I decided to teach a few more letters of the alphabet today and write an “E is for Econobum” post. Every cloth diaper-er knows that the letter “E” really does stand for Econobum. It also stands for the word easy because cloth diapers are, in fact, very easy to use! If you have a budding cloth diaper addict on your hands, use this giveaway as an instruction mechanism. I mean, you’d be killing two birds with one stone because you can teach
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Life is hectic, and if you’re human, you might forget something every once in a while or get distracted easily. This happens to me often. I’m pretty sure my mind blanks numerous times throughout any given day. When you’re a mom and spend 99.9 percent of your day worrying about taking care of your family, you probably lose track of things, too. Even cloth diapers. After you ran errands this morning with your baby, did you remember to bring in your bumGenius Wetbag, or is it still outside in the car? If you forgot to grab it, run outside now!
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Cloth diapering is like riding a bike. You ease into with training wheels and start a basic system like prefolds and covers, and later advance to something a bit more complex like pocket or All-in-One diapers. When you began using cloth diapers, you probably needed a bit of direction, which is also similar to riding a bike for the first time. I did at least. Then, after you were able to stand on your own two feet, you hit the ground running and now you’re able to cloth diaper without any help or training. You may even be able to set
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Like shoes and cars, there are quite a few styles of cloth diapers. When I started learning about cloth diapers, I was pretty confused about the styles. I didn’t know the difference between a pocket style diaper and an All-in-One, let alone a hybrid system or fitteds. Then, after working at Cotton Babies for a few months, I started to get the hang of it. Again, like a pair of shoes or a car, there are hundreds of styles and versions of cloth diapers, so we won’t cover every single type in existence. But if you are trying to get the
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Cloth diapers are easy to use, despite what some people say. Before you chose bumGenius, Flip or Econobum for your baby, I’m sure you had a zillion people tell you every single reason why you shouldn’t use cloth diapers as opposed to the reasons why you should. From the difficulty of cloth diapers to poop residue in your wash machine, people will spew off almost any negative assumption about cloth diapers. Heck, I’ve even heard people say cloth diapers will make a baby bowlegged. For this week’s giveaway, we want to celebrate all the reasons why you should use cloth diapers
