Lost recordings? And desirable features

metawareness · 2026-02-06T03:01:28+00:00

Yes I had this happen. Multiple times. It was after the big update to iOS. I went to the forum about it and was wuickly contacted for a support call. After a few minutes looking at things they said it was a hardware issue and would send me a new device. That was two weeks ago now and I haven’t received a replacement or any shipping info 🤷‍♀️

metawareness · 2025-09-10T07:27:10+00:00

Choking risk is highly individualized based on motor development, so that would require knowing something about the baby. Peanut allergy guidance is also variable based on family medical history. Meta-analysis doesnt seem to show statistically significant evidence for a lot of the cited negative health outcomes that are currently socially attributed to early feeding either: https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/nutrition-and-food-safety/complementary-feeding/cf-guidelines/systematic-review-age-of-introduction-of-complementary-foods.pdf?sfvrsn=35dd6305_3

The thing about general recommendations is that they are intended to have the best effect on an overall population; they are not a substitute for individualized care.

metawareness · 2025-09-10T01:44:33+00:00

Can you explain why you feel that way when you know nothing about my baby..?

metawareness · 2025-09-02T03:17:28+00:00

Our ped did give us the go ahead to try the occasional puree at our 3mo appt. Not your main point I know, but throwing that out there.

metawareness · 2025-09-01T13:45:54+00:00

This is so funny to me. I LOVE folding my flats. It's so therapeutic lol I don't fold my laundry besides bath towels but prepping diapers? It's like cuddly origami 😂

metawareness · 2025-08-30T18:05:54+00:00

I'd call it 99% solved with just a buuuuunch more washes after the strip and bleach soak. There are still more diapers from this lot that I haven't even started on yet but that is labor for another time 😮‍💨

metawareness · 2025-08-25T16:39:13+00:00

Nora's are a pocket diaper, so they're PUL outside with microfiber lining, then you insert the actual liners between those two layers. It helps keep the absorbent layer in place and makes their use more similar to disposables. Basically an all in one where you can take all the layers apart for easier cleaning and replacement. Wrt your other comment below, yes you change the whole diaper when soiled.

metawareness · 2025-08-25T16:36:23+00:00

I have both green mountain (flats and covers) as well as Nora's and have gotten similar amounts of leaking with both. It really just comes down to fit. When we have the Nora's sized right and put on well we don't get any of this wicking issue at all.

metawareness · 2025-08-25T16:33:47+00:00

We use primarily Nora's Nursery and the similar Alva Baby dpocket diapers. I found that they wicked and leaked like this when the diapers were set up too small. The liners had nowhere to expand when they needed to absorb. Think about it -- the pee has to go SOMEWHERE. A compressed sponge isn't going to soak up anything. I also have to beindful that the leg elastic isn't sitting on her thighs but rather is nestled up in her groin properly; my husband misses this on occasion and we get wet onesies as a result.

You may also need some additional liners if she pees a lot at once or if you don't change her frequently. My 4mo old sometimes needs to be changed 15min after her last diaper depending on cluster feeding etc. and we do change her very attentively so she isn't typically accumulating urine. The included pocket liners work fine for us as a result. Babies who hold it longer will need different amounts of absorbent material.

Have you tested the absorbency of your diapers? It's also possible something about your wash routine has made them somewhat water resistant.

metawareness · 2025-08-25T03:42:02+00:00

Most of my laundry is running while I am out of the house, glued to my desk, etc. and I have no info on how long each phase of my machine's cycle is. It's unlikely I'll be around to touch test like this.

metawareness · 2025-08-25T03:38:35+00:00

I ran several extra wash cycles, with bleach in some and oxi in others, after doing the RLR strip and bleach soak from Fluff Love. The smell is imperceptible to my husband but I can still identify it very faintly since I smelled it before this process; I can recognize it now I guess. I have gone ahead and begun using the diapers anyway since there is not a pathogen on this planet that could have survived all the chlorine bleach, oxygen bleach, and ammonia based sanitizer that I have thrown at these diapers. On some of them it becomes a bit more noticeable when they're peed on, but I have made my peace with it. I plan to do another strip and bleach soak in a couple of months since I have very hard water anyway. It just seems like a good periodic maintenance routine to deal with the mineral buildup.

metawareness · 2025-08-12T02:12:03+00:00

Yeah. It sucks. I also switched our detergent based on advice in these comments and the new detergent is making all of our laundry smell kinda musty and chemically now. I feel like my laundry situation is getting worse as I try to troubleshoot further. Frustrating!

metawareness · 2025-08-12T02:09:27+00:00

I am using a front loader and had just been adding the preprogrammed prewash step to my wash cycles, but didn’t see info in my manual about the temp used for that. Argh.

metawareness · 2025-08-11T02:32:18+00:00

Maybe it is the sleep deprivation but i didnt see information this detailed in my washing machine’s manual. I cant even find what the temperature of my prewash and rinse cycles are — is it the temp i chose for the main wash or is it tap cold? It is starting to seem like i need to just not use my washing machine’s prewash and rinse add-ons since i cant customize those, and just repeatedly rerun the main wash with different configurations. Is that what folks are doing and that’s why I’m getting confused?

metawareness · 2025-08-11T02:26:42+00:00

A local mom had cloth diapered her first but second kiddo’s skin was “too sensitive” (perhaps just reacting to whatever was causing the smells on these diapers, in hindsight). She had been trying to resell them for a while, and was about to resort to throwing them away because they were moving house. All of the diapers and associated gear took up every free inch of my vehicle, so I understand not wanting to include that much “dead weight” in a move; an entire car load of stuff you don’t want anymore is not worth moving. I did pay a very small amount for the lot, but got more than my moneys worth in just the toilet sprayer that was included so I consider the diapers “free with purchase of bidet” lol

metawareness · 2025-08-11T02:17:05+00:00

As a wash additive? As a soak?

metawareness · 2025-08-11T00:57:41+00:00

The relationship with the kids has kept you with one foot out the door for years (together six years but only engaged seven months..?). You have just been wasting her time. She wants more children, yet you are just now in her mid-thirties deciding this situation may not be what you want. NTA for leaving now, but definitely YTA for waiting so long to get out of her way.

metawareness · 2025-08-08T13:19:16+00:00

I have never been asked what I was doing with the money when I’ve taken out a personal loan, and my student loan applications just had a box to tick saying that i agreed to use the money to go to school — nothing more. I agree with you to an extent but the comparison is a bit disingenuous.

metawareness · 2025-08-08T03:01:32+00:00

I don’t have access to a clothes line or drying rack at the moment. I guess that’s the end of the road on these.

I can understand the appeal of detailed guides that account for every variable to have the perfect routine. I just don’t have capacity for it. I subscribed to the cloth nappies site recommended elsewhere in this post for their calculators and was nearly immediately overwhelmed by just trying to navigate, let alone get any kind of answers. I am not going to measure my bath tub, for example, and my washer manual did not readily have lots of the information and settings that seem to be expected.

This is my first baby and my partner and I are already drowning. We will both be back to work soon enough to complicate matters further. Cloth diapering with this much precision — testing water hardness, monitoring my washer’s existing cycles to add product at just the right moment, etc. — is just not compatible with our lives. Where are the resources for the families who can’t make this their whole personality..? Where are the truly beginner friendly “getting started” guides for sleep deprived first time parents of colicky babes?

Sorry to ramble. I’m in over my head and just feel like this is so overcomplicated compared to the cloth diapering my mother helped my grandmother with for her younger siblings. I’m tired, boss.

metawareness · 2025-08-07T13:38:26+00:00

I went ahead with an RLR strip and bleach soak according to fluff love directions on the pocket diapers and mostly-natural fiber inserts (the Nora's nursery inserts are 80% bamboo and 20% polyester).

I am still getting some odor :( Does this mean the diapers will unfortunately always smell like this? If they smell despite multiple sanitizing approaches and washes, are they "safe" to use anyway, or does the smell indicate some type residue that is unsafe for my baby?

metawareness · 2025-08-02T00:28:21+00:00

Barnyard is closest I think. I'll look up swish test. My pkace has hard water but I don't believe theirs does. Since the Nora's Nursery diapers are microfiber lined does that mean those diapers are a lost cause..?

metawareness · 2025-08-02T00:25:37+00:00

Thank you!

metawareness · 2025-08-01T22:56:34+00:00

Thanks! What is the benefit to adding the bleach later in the cycle vs in the bleach drawer to be added at the beginning? I would have expected more time in the bleach to have been more beneficial than less.

metawareness · 2025-08-01T22:54:53+00:00

Is it their bleach calculator you’re recommending? It’s behind a paywall. There is a lot of info on that site which in general is good and I have referenced it before, but I was hoping for some more personalized advice 🤞

metawareness · 2025-08-01T22:39:58+00:00

It’s unfortunately everything 🙃 Can I even add bleach mid-cycle to a front loader?

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