Weekly Friday Giveaway Roundup for January 7th, 2011

Jan 7,2011 / By Maria / 1 Comment

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Wow, it’s the first giveaway roundup of 2011! Every Friday, I link to cloth diaper/accessory and baby wearing giveaways I’ve found. Each post is also accompanied by a linky where you can enter any giveaway, as long as it’s family friendly.

If you’d like your cloth diaper, baby wearing (etc.) giveaway featured, send a link, description and photo (if you have one) to maria at change-diapers.com.

Giveaways have been a little scarce these past few weeks, as bloggers and companies have finished up holiday promotions, and as advertising budgets for 2010 were exhausted. I expect to see more giveaways all around soon!

This week’s giveaway finds:

Boba Carrier from Guessing All The Way (ends 1/18)

HootHootBaby Diaper from Dibs (ends 1/10)

Better for Babies Hemp Diaper and Doubler from Your World: Healthy and Natural Mandatory GFC follow (ends 1/17)

Thirsties Duo Wrap & Stay Dry Insert from Diary of Momma Mandatory GFC follow (ends 1/12) Open to the U.S. and Canada

Tiny Tush Elite One Size Pocket Diaper from One Little Mister (ends 1/24)

My Baby’s Green AIO from The Not So Secret Confessions of a First Time Mom (ends 1/25)

Comfy Rumps Diaper from That Mama Gretchen (ends 1/31) Open to the U.S. and Canada

GoGreen Champ Pocket Diaper from Go Long Go Green Mandatory GFC follow and Facebook “like” (ends 1/20)

GoGreen Pocket Diaper from Life With My Littles Mandatory GFC follow (ends 1/18)

RagaBabe Easy AIO Diaper from Kelly Wels (ends 1/14)

Giveaways still running from last week:

Go Green Pocket Diaper from Soleil Selene (ends tomorrow, 1/8)

Sleepy Wrap from Born 2 Impress (ends 1/20)

Babykicks 3G Pocket Diaper from Dirty Diaper Laundry (ends 1/10) Open to the U.S. and Canada

Tiny Tush Elite One Size Pocket Diaper from The Not So Secret Confessions of a First Time Mom (ends 1/14)

Fuzzibunz Diaper w/Hemp Insert from The Eco Chic (ends 1/11)

Thirsties Duo Diaper from Happenings of the Harper Household Mandatory GFC follow (ends today, 1/7)

$10 GC to Go Green Diapers from Arizona Mama Mandatory GFC follow (ends 1/15) Open to the U.S. and Canada

$10 Abby’s Lane GC from SAPsMaMa Mandatory GFC follow (ends 1/14)

Large Planet Wise Wet Bag from The Cheap and Choosy (ends 1/9) Open to the U.S. and Canada

You may enter any family friendly giveaway in the linky below. The form Blog name – Giveaway Item – Ending date is good. Please at least include the item and end date, and link directly to the giveaway.

Check out where I list my giveaways to find more great places to link up your giveaways!

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Bumkins Dr. Seuss AIO Cloth Diaper Bundle Review

Jan 6,2011 / By Maria / 9 Comments

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I was lucky and won a Bumkins Dr. Seuss Cloth Diaper Bundle in size large from Knocked up and Nursing!

The bundle came with three AIO Diapers, which retail for $17.95 each (list price $24.95.)

Three absorbency inserts (retail $9.95 for a pack of three)…

and a wet bag (retail $9.95, list price $10.95).

My first impression of the diapers were that they reminded me of Kushies diapers, and that they were huge! Here is one (bottom) compared to some other diapers I had in the laundry room:

They are very wide, and also had a fairly high rise. Keep in mind that my measurements aren’t an exact science. I noticed that I didn’t have it folded exactly in half in the second picture here:

The elastic isn’t very tight, so it didn’t get too much bigger when stretched:

The laundry tab is just a single flap against the right closure tab. I assume you are to overlap the other tab for laundering.

As I said, I received the size large, which is estimated to fit 22-32 pounds, according to their size chart. My son was 20 pounds 6 weeks ago at his 18-month checkup, so he’s definitely close to the low end of the weight range. They also have small (6-12 lbs), medium (12-22 lbs), x-large (32-42 lbs) and youth (42+ lbs). They have some really cute prints, but the youth size comes in white only.

Like the Kushies, the diaper is pretty simple. The outer feels like windbreaker material (lead safe, PVC, phthlate and vinyl free) and it has 6 layers of cotton flannel (sewn in an “airflow panel” for faster drying) and simple leg elastic. The rear elastic is closer to the sides of the diaper. There isn’t any along the middle of the back.

Since the instructions said the diapers would shrink, I decided to wash and dry one three times to give it a fair shake. While I was doing that, I took a look at the wet bag.

It measures 13″ x 11″, has a drawstring toggle closure, and has simple construction.

It’s not enormous, but it held three of these big diapers just fine!

So after three washes (drying in the dryer between washes, to make it a little faster)…

It looked exactly the same! The blue diaper had been prepped, the other had not. I went ahead and tried it on my little guy anyway.

It was way too big! With that leg gap, I didn’t dare leave it on him, so I took it off. While I’d certainly use Bumkins (in a smaller size) if that were my only option other than disposables, I’m a little shocked by the price. They do come in cute prints, but they cost as much as Bumgenius pocket diapers, even as much as the Bumgenius Organic AIO if you go based on list price! I can think of at least a half-dozen diapers that have more bells and whistles, for the same cost or less. I was truly surprised when I looked at their site and saw the price, I thought for sure they would be around $10 each.

I don’t want to sound ungrateful, I am very thankful to Knocked up and Nursing for the giveaway, especially getting it to me so quickly, even though she had just had a baby! That said, I think I will be donating these to The Cloth Diaper Foundation, so another family with a bigger baby can pad their stash!

FTC compliance: The pictured items were won from a blog giveaway. I was not compensated for this post, and all opinions are my own.

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Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

Skin MD Natural Shielding Lotion Winner

Jan 6,2011 / By Maria / No Comment

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78 people entered this giveaway, with 137 entries in all.

The winning entry is #52, which is Allie Wiley. Congratulations Allie, I’m sending you an email now!

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Blog Hop Cloth Diaper Blog Hop Linky

Cloth Diaper Blog Hop for January 2011

Jan 5,2011 / By Maria / 2 Comments

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There were quite a few participants in last month’s cloth diaper blog hop, so I thought we should do a hop regularly.

There are lots of blog hops out there, but this one is just for cloth diaper blogs! If you always or even sometimes post about cloth diapers, feel free to participate!

There aren’t any “rules.” You don’t have to blog about the hop or grab the button (thought it would be nice of course!) You don’t have to follow anyone, or comment on anyone’s blog. I’d love if you visited the other blogs in the linky, follow if you like their content, and maybe leave them a comment if you like a particular post, but the only requirement to participate is to link up!

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Mailbox Mondays

Mailbox Mondays 1/3/11 {{Tumbleweeds}}

Jan 3,2011 / By Maria / 3 Comments

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It’s the first Monday of 2011, and there were no submissions! How terrible is it that I initially typed 2001? Talk about living in the past, huh?

If you have a question you’d like answered in a Mailbox Mondays post (it doesn’t have to be cloth diaper related) email maria at change-diapers.com with “Mailbox Mondays” in the subject.

Hopefully next week there will be something other than tumbleweeds in the Mailbox Mondays post!

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Weekly Friday Giveaway Roundup for January 7th, 2011

Bumkins Dr. Seuss AIO Cloth Diaper Bundle Review

Skin MD Natural Shielding Lotion Winner

Cloth Diaper Blog Hop for January 2011

Mailbox Mondays 1/3/11 {{Tumbleweeds}}

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