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As part of our Sunday, we hit up a cloth diapering workshop at the Burlington Sprout.  We have been considering cloth diapering all along for a variety of reasons but our initial bout of research was stymied because it all seemed so damned complicated.

How could this be true?  They’re just piece of cloth you wrap around your baby’s ass, right?

The first pamphlet we picked up was a furious flurry of unfamiliar phrases: pre-folds, pocket diapers, fitted diapers, snappies, wet bags…

The mind truly reels.

Hence the workshop, which was helpful…  A half hour workshop turned out to be more like an hour and a half but we came away having learned quite a bit, I thought.  (It was also in the middle of the workshop that I got the idea to put this site together.)  Not that we aren’t still feeling a bit overwhelmed — at least, I still am — but at least we are not feeling as totally ignorant as a few weeks ago.

The good news was that it really isn’t as complicated as we feared.  The woman that ran the class (Laura) had a philosophy that we could easily get behind: Don’t let it get complicated.

The bad news was that they don’t appear to offer a package that fits with the lessons we learned there.  We’ll probably roll our own.  The initial cost outlay will probably be pretty significant but the long term savings should make up for it.  Not to mention easing the conscience with respect to environmental concerns.

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Consider this inaugural post to be a test. That said: Yes, we are having a baby. The calculated due date is June 13, 2008. (June 14, if you ask A.)  For those of you that thought that we were joking: no, this is not a joke.

If you have done the math, you are probably asking why we waited until after the halfway point to put this little site together.  The answer?  It just didn’t occur to either of us until now.  It just sort of came to me today while we were sitting in the cloth diapering class.  Why send people hither and yon for gift registries etc. when we could just sent them to one place?  And so this is that place:

baby.founddrama.net

Our plans for this space?  Blog the baby process, I suppose.  Link out to gift registries, make note of any panic attacks, thoughts on the whole thing.  We’ll see what comes of it.  Mostly we hope it will be an easy “one stop shop” for friends and family that have baby-related questions like: Any new ultrasound pictures? or Are you registered anywhere?