Ironically, I am NOT Made in the USA

We have been getting lots of questions lately regarding which of our brands are Made in the USA. Almost all of them are with a few big exceptions.  The very popular Mother-ease, Aristocrat and Bummis diapers and covers are all made way up north in Canada.  Imse Vimse (fun fact: Imse Vimse means “Itty Bitty” in Swedish) is a Swedish brand and Snappis, like the amazing World Cup we all just witnessed, come from South Africa.

Here is a list of some of our absolute favorite diapers, covers and accessories proudly Made in the USA.

But I am!

All Together

Baby Kicks

Drybees

FussyButt

Happy Heinys

Happy Tushies

Kissaluvs

Leslie’s Boutique

Mommy’s Touch

Rocky Mountain

Sheepish Grins

Stacinator

Swaddlebees

Thirsties

Wahmarama

Wahmies

Happy Heiny Trainer/Bed-wetter pant

I cloth diapered both of my children.  I began cloth diapering my first child when she was 6 months old and my second from the day he as born.  I loved cloth diapering and I never gave it a second thought.  My son never had a disposable diaper on his butt!  My daughter is currently almost seven years old and truth be told, I never thought we would still have cloth diapering items around the house.  However, she still has trouble with night wetting and despite our best efforts, she is wet every morning.  We have chosen to continue using cloth for her instead of switching to the disposable night time bed wetting pants available on the market.  We currently use Happy Heiny’s training pants stuffed with a premium sized indian prefold and a microfiber insert.  This system works great for us!!  They come in a rainbow of colors and I’ve been washing diapers now for so long, that it seems normal and I never really gave it a second thought regarding the continued diaper laundry.  Then one day, one of my friends was talking about how much money she was spending on night time pullups every week for her bed wetter and I got to thinking that this system that we are doing is absolutely wonderful!  It is second nature to us, and we are saving so much money.  The prefolds and inserts we already had from our diapering systems, so all we had to purchase was the actual Happy Heiny’s trainers.  I did the math.  Dear daughter was potty trained at the age of 3, so we’re talking about approximately 4 years of buying night time pull ups — a minimum of $600.  I would advocate for anyone out there with a persistant night time wetter, to use cloth bedwetter pants.  Even if you didn’t use cloth diapers, the cloth bedwetter pants can be such a huge savings, they are definitely worth a try especially these days when money is so tight for everyone.  The nice thing about the pocket trainers is that you can customize the absorbency to how much your child wets at night.  If he or she is a heavy wetter, you can use more stuffing.  If you were turned off by the idea of cloth diapering because you thought you wouldn’t have time during the infancy year, or couldn’t handle rinsing poopy diapers — those hurdles are over — and you can definitely do this and save your family some money and help out the environment while you are at it!

Jungle print trainer...Imse Vimse

We have been having a lot of conversations about cloth training pants lately.  So many of our customers and friends have been taking advantage of  the warm days of summer to work on potty learning for their children.  In our conversations, it has become clear that there really isn’t a one size fits all approach to cloth trainers.  It is our opinion that there are two types of training pants.  The first is for the potty learning child and provide a little bit extra in terms of protection than underwear but are nowhere close to being diapers.  We believe there is another category which are more similar to the Pull Ups used in the disposable world.  These training pants are much more similar to diapers in terms of their absorbency and are great for children with special needs or for overnights on children who have potty trained during the daytime hours.   We believe these different products serve two related, but separate, purposes and can’t really be easily exchanged one for the other.

Imse Vimse makes a excellent training pant that is firmly in the first category.  I LOVE the Imse Vimse pant (but then again, I LOVE everything Imse Vimse…it is just an extremely well-made brand).  They are made with three layers of very absorbent terry and one layer of PUL.  This combo makes them very absorbent when small accidents happen.  The Imse Vimse trainers do allow the child to feel wetness.  They do NOT wick away the moisture.  Allowing a child to feel wetness aids in potty learning as the child feels a bit of discomfort and therefore knows to go to the bathroom.  They are ALL organic and come in just terrific patterns such as jungle and farm animal.  I especially like the fact that they have multiple size options.  One of my twins was long and skinny and the other was tall and “robust.”  The different size options allowed me to find the perfect size for my child.  The fit was trim, just like real underwear, and worked great under their clothes.  I just feel these are excellent training pants for the daytime potty learner.