Cloth Diaper Carnival VIII

Write about ways they envision spreading awareness of cloth diapers or work they have already done to do so.

This is a topic near and dear to my heart!  As most of you know, I am a labor and delivery nurse.  And I love my job!  It is such a joy to help new moms bring their tiny precious babies into the world!  I have been working L&D for quite a few years now, but sadly, have had to change hospitals a couple of times as well due to my husband's job.  It is hard to implement new education into a facility that you have not worked at long.  However, at my current hospital (I have been there for over 2 years) I have finally gotten to a point where my opinion counts and I am not just "the new girl."  While I am not teaching childbirth class (although I would love to!!) my good friend Brenda does!  After stewing over the idea for a few months, I finally approached her and asked if she would be willing to introduce cloth diapers in class.  She was ecstatic!!!  I was thrilled!  So I sat down and explained cloth diapers (the 5 minute version) and she was sold!  We recently ordered a cloth diapering demo kit and are set to introduce them in the next class which will be starting soon!  I am so excited!  And of course, guess who the guest speaker is!!!  :)

Over time, I had hoped to be able to introduce cloth diapering at the hospital as well.  I do not know much about the cost of laundering hospital quality cloth diapers and how this would affect a hospital budget, but I had hoped that over the next few years I could gain more knowledge about hospital cloth diapering and maybe get this implemented at our facility.  So I will have to leave it in the hands of my co-workers to take that step if they wish. Because we will also be moving again soon...for the FINAL time!

My husband recently took a FT permanent position in the same area where I grew up.  My family as well as life-long friends (a few are CDing mommas!) are there and I am so excited to be moving home...forever!!  But this also means starting again at a new hospital and working my way up.  I hope to one day be a childbirth educator and I hope to get a cloth diapering community going there as well.  It will just take TIME.

I am also trying to spread awareness and education through my blog.  I know that when I was first starting into my cloth diapering journey, blogs and reviews like Dirty Diaper Laundry were tremendously helpful.  I just want to be able to help other mommies (like me!) on their cloth diapering journey!!!

I am open to any and all ideas on how to spread education and awareness about cloth!  I love my cloth diapers and I love helping other mommas to get started too!!!

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