Hi...my name is Janet...and I'm a cloth diaper addict

I recently asked my facebook family for an intervention.  I got bit by the cloth diaper bug and have been buying them at an embarrassingly furious pace this past week.  I'm obsessing and I think that I may have a problem.

It's not the first time I have obsessed over something.  It's what I do.  Something will take hold of me and it doesn't let go until I'm over it.  When I got pregnant with my first son (B) I obsessed about pregnancy.  I read everything that the Internet and bookstore had on it.  I needed to know what was going on with me and my baby.  I read about breast feeding, vaccinations, car seat safety, you name it!  It was so bad that I needed to talk about it all the time, but I knew that I was going to drive my friends and family crazy with all baby talk all the time, so I found a group of expectant moms all due in the same month as I was.  It was like I was home!  I could satisfy my obsession without driving anyone off the deep end because everyone there was focused on their own pregnancies and could relate.

Fast forward four years...I was pregnant again, happily so!  Yay!  But my need to obsess and know everything came back with a vengeance.  Only this time, I already knew all about what my body was going through.  I knew about breast feeding and car seats (the mom group that I'm a part of has some amazing car seat and nursing gurus who are always willing to help), so I was left with nothing to obsess about!  Uh oh!  My fiance and I had changed our life a lot in the past two years, going as green as we could, so using cloth diapers occurred to me one day.  I spoke to him about it and he thought that it was a great idea.  And so began the obsession with cloth diapers!

My baby (S) is just shy of 3 months old and I still can't shake it.  There are so many styles, colors, designs and patterns out!  They're so cute!  I love that my son's diapers won't be clogging a landfill somewhere.  The best part is the online community surrounding cloth diapering!  It's good that there is an online community that I can talk to because I'm just as bad now as when I was pregnant the first time.

That brings me here.  Since I don't want to drive my friends and family up a wall with the constant cloth diaper chatter.  I'd be all, "Look at this!  Isn't this awesome!"  And they'd be humoring me while not giving a crap.  So I'm going to write about it.  Maybe someone will read what I'm writing and it'll help them navigate the (not so) complicated world of cloth diapering, baby wearing, natural products, etc. and I'll pass on the bug.