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.