Want to know something weird? I was looking forward to postpartum bleeding. Why was I such an eager beaver for the dam to break and the blood to gush forth? Because I had a fluffy, colourful stash of postpartum cloth pads to try out! All told, I used a total of one pair of mesh…
21 I’ve been posting a lot lately about all the fabulous postpartum pads I will be testing out once my twins are born. I’m aiming to even skip the mesh undies, if you can believe it. (Don’t hold me to that, we’ll have to see how labour goes!) Here’s the thing: I wear an Öko…
Updated May 2019 I realize it’s kind of a bizarre milestone to be celebrating, but what can I say? I’m excited and proud to announce that it has been almost exactly three years since I banished disposable panty liners from my bathroom cupboard and switched to reusable panty liners. Because I am blessed with excessive…
I received these items at no cost to facilitate my review. All opinions remain my own. A glance at my monthly cycle app tells me that my period will start on Monday. Or will it? There was a time that my period started like clockwork, 25 days after the last one, at about 12:05 pm.…
I received the products featured in review free of charge. This post contains affiliate links. Things just got real, folks. I’ve been planning this post for a couple of months, and its relevance has become even more pronounced now that I know I will be having a daughter of my own. Leafing through a women’s…
See that gorgeous lady? That’s Adrienne. We met online in a cloth diapering forum of all places, and have been besties ever since. When Adrienne was pregnant with EAT (those are his initials, and it has become a suitable moniker for the little guy), I decided I was going to convert her to mama cloth…
Update, April 2019: This post was written after using cloth pads for menstruation for the first time. It took a while for my period to come back after my son was born and I started getting into all things reusable. It’s been almost exactly 5 years since I wrote this post, and since then I…
Disclosure: I received some of these products free for review. Let’s make one thing clear: this post is a bit TMI (too much information). So, if you dislike discussion of feminine hygiene products, you’ve been warned! While the choice of cloth diapers over disposables was one I had already made long before actually having a…
My name is Lindsay and I am a 40-year-old mama of four trying to live an eco-friendly, budget-friendly life! I am a substitute teacher and Child Passenger Safety technician in Calgary, Alberta. Join me on my adventures!
