"What are you going to do tonight? Sit on the couch and read about cloth diapers?" ..... Oh my poor husband, little did he know this was just the beginning.
I was 25, pregnant with my second, and desperate to grasp onto something that was going to keep me distracted from the walls that I felt closing in around me.
Like most women, I always knew I wanted to be a mother and it is the greatest gift I could have received in this lifetime, but Motherhood changes you. It changes your relationships, it changes the way you view the world, and it changes the way you choose to spend your time.
I was able to play the part of the fun pregnant friend that was happy to DD at the age of 22, but 25? pregnant with a 2nd? and a toddler at home? They already knew. So there I was with my MacBook propped up on my huge belly, and deep in the cloth diaper rabbit whole night after night.
I spent countless hours watching YouTube tutorials, and googling how far I would have to drive to get an in-person cloth nappy shopping experience. But my favorite thing to do was scroll online cloth diaper retailers and add lots of cloth diapering goodies to my cart that I knew I wasn't actually going to be able to buy. I would bounce back and forth between Jillian's Drawers, Dearest Diapers, Green Mountain Diapers, and Nicki's Diapers for hours!
But what was it about cloth diapering that had me so obsessed? And why was I so hungry to learn about everything there was to know about cloth diapering?
Was it an escape from reality? Was it curiosity in the unknown? Why was I so gung-ho about cloth diapering with my second when it wasn't even a thought with my first? Why was I drawing inward and distancing myself from the life that I used to know? How could something as simple as cloth diapers have such an impact on my behavior?
Join me as I recall my earliest days of learning to cloth diaper and how my pitfalls and successes in cloth diapering and motherhood with my 4 beautiful babies has become the backbone to building The Good Village Cloth Co.
☮︎❤︎ Emily
