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Frugal Baby Tips - Breathable Diaper Covers and Reusable Tampons

FOR BABY:

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Gerber Waterproof Pant
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Breathable Diaper Covers:

Baby has a diaper rash, but you haven't got any of those expensive breathable covers? You could let the baby go coverless, but if that doesn't work for you, here's a Frugal Baby Tip!

Set aside a couple of pull-on plastic, rubber, vinyl or nylon baby pants as your breathable covers. Make a pad of folded towels and lay your baby pants on top. Using a diaper pin, prick holes through the baby pant, 1 inch apart, in a wide band around. Keep pin holes 2 inches below the waistband, and go no further than about halfway down. I would recommend no more than 25 pin holes for smaller pants and no more than 50 holes for larger pants.

Keeping the pin holes within these guidelines will keep the pants more resistant to ripping or tearing around the perforated area. It would be better to double diaper when using these covers, and to wash the pants by hand.

 

 

FOR MOM:

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Natural Silk Sea Sponge
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Reusable Tampons:

Ready to give up disposable paper tampons, but not ready to give up their convenience and to switch to cloth pads? For an inexpensive solution, here's a Frugal Mom Tip!

Buy 6 pair (or more) of 100% cotton white baby socks. Wash (and dry) three times with a natural, mild soap - rinsing well. At your next period, simply roll up one baby sock into a tight roll, and insert as you would a paper tampon. If you need more absorbency, use two baby socks rolled up.

Replace it with the next baby sock as needed. Rinse the used one out well, and store dry until washday.

Too weird for you? You could use Natural Silk Sea sponges instead.


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This article compliments of Born to Love.

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