Introducing....
- Tiffany Melissa
- Apr 20, 2018
- 4 min read
Oh my goodness, how exciting is this?
I recently decided on Lil Helpers as my cloth diaper of choice for my little guy and I am so excited to help this company out raising awareness on their products and their AMAZING customer service (seriously, you'll HAVE to check out my recent fluff mail video on them). I honestly have never been in contact with a company that cares so much about their clients. I love a company that takes the time to write out personal emails to their clients, send HAND written cards to all their orders. Also their:
Like, who does that? Basically, this company will refund your entire cloth diaper purchase, if something happened to your pregnancy or birthing. I have been lucky to not experience this and have not needed to contact them of such incident. However I have heard from other mom's who I've come into contact with who've said that this company has really stepped up in allowing them to have a time of mourning (for however long they need) and worry free about selling their unused cloth diapers. They make it easy for those of us who have lost a lil one and I can't image the pain they all go through having to sell their cloth diapers for a baby that once was.
Why did I choose Lil Helper?
At the time when I was looking into cloth diapering my baby, I was strictly turned off by it. By two reasons, first, my son at the time (6 months old) was in disposables and ONLY peed in it because he was born with a birth defect that he required a colostomy bag. So he peed in a diaper and pooped in a baggy, Didn't need it at the time.
Secondly, I hated the thought of touching pee and poop. YUCK!
Then February 4th 2018 rolled around, my son had his final surgery and reversed his colostomy bag. From that day forward, he pooped in his diaper. Poops in a diaper. I can't say that enough and express how extremely happy my husband and I were looking forward to that day.
It was not rainbows and unicorns. It was bad. His first poop in the hospital resulted in mommy "error" and he got this huge diaper rash that basically removed the skin on his butt revealing BARE flesh. That's right, it was just flesh down there. It was terrible. We had tried everything. Every kinds of diaper rash cremes, anti-fungal, yeast, antibiotics, steroids. EVERYTHING. SERIOUSLY. Ask my friends and family how many sleepless nights, tears, appointments, calls, facebook posts and prayers we did to find a solution to my son's problem.
So I looked into cloth diapers because it was the last thing on my list. Why? Well, for the second reason, I posted above. I refused to deal with pee and poop. However, as the long hours dragged on in the late nights, cloth diapers kept popping up in my head and my friend's Instagram photo of her daughter was showing up more and more often (she also cloth diapers her baby). I jumped in and started where everyone else starts, google and then youtube. I kept googling and youtubing, "how to start cloth diapering?" "how to wash cloth diapers" "how many diapers do you need?" and then thats when I stumbled on to Lil Helpers Youtube page. Watching a few of their videos and I was sucked in. I was curious about them. I googled and googled. Interested, I asked a friend of mine if she's heard of them and she said yes but not much, so she referred me to Fluff Love & CD Science facebook group. Little did I know, they were all over the Lil Helper's community. I checked out their website and saw that they were doing a trial diaper for 52% off plus free shipping. Why not right? $15, plus free shipping? BONUS! CA-CHING!
Anyways, as I read more and more about it and watched their videos, I kept getting sucked in. So I jumped the plunge and bought from Babies R Us their Day Pack A, which comes with 6 cloth diapers ( with their charcoal inserts) plus two extra charcoal and bamboo inserts.
Might I mention that the time while I was doing my research, we were on week 6 of diaper rash, and had no sleep at all. And we were changing his disposable diapers every hour on the hour, in bathtubs and ALSO naked!
Well, the diapers all arrived in a week of order and they had been washed, immediately put those bad boys on my son's cute rash covered bottom.
Let's be honest here, the cloth diapers OBVIOUSLY aren't magic and they don't have instant healing powers.
They did however, make my son much more comfortable at night and actually allowed him to sleep better, not perfectly, but better at night. It allowed me, his mum, to have two hours of sleep per day.
By week 7 of diaper rash, his bum was clearing up nicely and had basically been healed. So we moved back to disposables and it seems like my son's skin is more sensitive than I had realized and his diaper rash returned with vengeance. It was BAD! Bad enough that I thought I needed to bring him to the emergency room (I didn't...)
We basically returned to cloth diapering and decided to purchase two more day packs...
We regretted going back to disposables and have been clothing for about 3 months now and haven't had anymore diaper rashes. So, clothing diapering ended up working out for us and Lil Helpers are the cloths for us.
Definitely the cloth of choice for me.