So, here is the thing, no matter how many diapers you bought before your kid is born they will never be enough!

Hi guys, Let’s talk diapers!

Well to starts I live in Venezuela as you know and we not only have economical issues where to buy disposable diapers is not easy not only cause they are expensive but because you can find them everywhere, at least until recently to find a brand like Pampers or Huggies you had to light a candle and dance around naked praying to the gods to be so lucky. So when I got pregnant our first priority was to stock up on diapers, we were lucky enough that my sister was traveling to Colombia when I was pregnant so we gave her money for her to buy us the diapers there, not only they were cheaper to buy over there but you can easily find whatever brand you look for.

Wanting my kid to always have the best

As any normal mom since the moment I knew I was pregnant I have always wanted the best for my kid, and will do whatever it takes to give it to him so, obviously I wanted the best brand of diapers I could afford and to me those were the Huggies or Pampers, my sister got us one small packaged of size RN and one packaged of 100 units for sizes S, M and L. those were the ones we could afford at the moment.

When the baby was born he used the RN whole packaged in one week and nce they were over he started to use the S size, he was growing up so fast that when those were over he immediately started with the next size M. and here is where…

The Phase “OMG I'm going Broke” Started

LOL I laugh not to cry, you would think since my kid was breastfeed exclusively and that made him poop every 2 days, that he didn’t spend that much diapers, you are wrong, even tho I kept the diapers for as long as they could hold i mean eventually they need to be change and we did an approximately 5 changes of diapers when he was little, so the 100 diapers of the size M didn’t lasted long, when he finish that we were force to make a decision, since we couldn’t travel back to Colombia to buy diapers there we needed to figure out what we were going to do, to be honest I didn’t wanted to buy him the diapers you could get in any supermarket here, I didn’t know the brands and didn’t know if they were going to be good for his skin or not but we were force to buy once we run out of huggies, thank god I managed to find a brand that since that day has been wonderful and much more cheaper than the huggies or pampers are, on our first try we accomplish this.

But even tho this diapers we are buying are cheaper to buy than other brands, it is still hard to buy then that often, the packages we started buying were of 20 units and cost around 5$ usd and we were using 3 to 4 diapers a day sometimes even 5 (Keep in mind a minimum wage here is 5$ usd a month) So, we needed to buy 2 packages a week.

The Phase of the Hybrid version of the Ecological and disposable Diapers

A friend of my boyfriend told me she took the disposable diapers and took the filling out (when they were already used of course) then washed it and folded a cloth diaper inside of it, that way they acted like an ecological diaper and i got to save money.

That was until I learned my baby has the skin of a rich person, the cloth diaper isn’t as absorbing as a disposable one of course and that cause him little white spots on his little man stuff, of course as soon as I saw this I took him to the doctor and well we had to said good bye to the cloth diapers and the saving of the money lol. I think we used this method for a whole 2 months before we had to switch back to disposable diapers.

---

Almost 2 years old and still not potty trained

I have to say even tho I complain about being broke cause of the diaper buying, I can actually buy them (Hive has help a LOT with that) and even tho I have tried to start potty training the kid has shown not advances in that department and I haven't actually pushing it too much since I don’t want to traumatize him cause of it, I have read you have to let them do it on their own pace and that is what we are doing, we have a reducer for the WC and the dad every time he can goes to the bathroom with him to show him how is done, when he is on the backyard playing with take away his diaper and let him be in his underwear only so that he learns little by little.

_{yeah he is pooping right there}

I wonder how long it will take for him to leave the diapers once and for all, I can only imagine that day when I no longer have to spend money on something that goes directly to the trash LOL.

If any of you have any ideas or suggestions to help with the potty training please do shared them with me!!

Stories of Horror with the diapers?

Every single poop story is a horror story, cause well POOP!! That is never cute or nice and I seriously think this kid has a grown ass man inside of his little body cause the smells that come out of him OMG!!! Are toxic material!

I guess as he gets older the less messier it has become, but when he was little the changing times were crazy had to be ready for anything kind of times lol, he loved to do his piss or poop right when I took his diaper away, as soon as he felt he no longer had the diaper on him he either pee or poop or both, and if you are a boy mom or dad you know that when they pee they aim so that makes it even more fun!

_{I hide when i poop cause i dont want mom or dad to see me doing the nasty}

The other thing my kid loved and still loves to do is to poop in a newly change diaper, he usually goes number 2 every other day, and so I can try and know when he is due and maybe leave his diapers that he has been wearing for some time already on that way when he poops I can then change it, but sometimes he has been wearing the diaper too long and I have to change it and boom as soon as he feels it freshly new he poops in it, I swear is like he does it on purpose.

I will leave you know with his innocent smile that fools you into thinking he is a little angel but true is he is a little devil!

---

_{Picture Credit: All images are of my property unless said otherwise and the emojis are made with Bitmoji.com!}