Who me, a hippie?

Every day I'm inching closer to it, I guess. Hippie-hood that is. With W, I went with organic foods and I made most of them myself. I'm still doing that with G, but I've now taken another leap. I've gone the cloth diaper route and homemade natural diaper rash spray. Awesome.

Poor little G had a raging butt rash - thanks to a virus that caused diarrhea for 2 weeks (just what you wanted to know, right?) - that would not clear. I took him the doctor who put him on probiotic drops and wrote a prescription for a paste to be made by a compound pharmacy. A hundred dollars later, I walked out with the probiotic drops and the miracle cream, which turned out not to be the miracle cream at all. I'm not saying it was bad, but he did not get any relief with it and it was not clearing up. Sigh. During this time, I just started praying for God to help with the rash. I could deal with diarrhea but I could not stand to see my little guy so stinking miserable.

God answers prayers. Within a few days, I had 3 different people suggest grapefruit seed extract (GSE) to me. Funny enough, no one I mentioned GSE to had ever heard of it. Is that you, God? Well, I did a little research and headed to the organic grocery store and bought a little bottle of drops (think nose spray bottle and there you go). Obviously, you have to dilute it. I just added 5 drops of GSE to 4 oz of water and bought a spray bottle. Mist the hiney and air dry there you go.

Now for the cloth dipes. I decided to try them ultimately because I had heard that diaper rashes did not occur as often since they allow more air flow. Additionally, I had been doing a Bible study called Serve God Save The Planet. A baby will typically use more than 7,000 diapers in the first 3 years of their lives. That's a lot of diapers. If you don't think the green movement and Christianity go together, then just think again. "For God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16 He didn't day people or you or me. He said the world and that means ALL of His creation.

Anyway, off my soapbox, cloth diapering does have a lot of benefits and I don't mind dealing with the poop. I went with Fuzzi Bunz diapers and they are kinda retro cool. (BTW, these are not your mama's cloth diapers and you don't have to swirl in the toilet. HA!)

If you had asked me 5 years ago, if I ever saw myself moving in this direction, you would have gotten an emphatic "No." But priorities change and people change, and it's still all good. Peace out.