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I strongly prefer to shop at independent stores, especially those run by parents who use the income to be able to stay at home with their kids.


The Diaper HyenaThe Diaper Hyena has a well organized list of all sorts of WAHMs committed to Attachment Parenting and Natural Family Living.  The cloth diapering section alone has well over 100 listing.


Some places with reviews of WAHM businesses and products can be found at Mothering.com (in a subforum of diapering) and Diaper Pin.  Most diapering business are conscientious and hardworking, with a large emphasis on excellent customer service, but there are a few out there that are less than stellar.   Mama Drama & Sybermoms are good places to find scammers since some other places don't allow you to trash anybody.   You can also find 'bad apples' at Diaper Jungle.



Diapers & Baby Stuff

Natural Babies - Huge selection on diapers & diapering supplies, Nursing supplies, Slings, Burt's Bees, Clothing, Soaps, Mama Pads, Moss Feet Shoes, Longies & Soakers.  The have flat rate shipping (really good for buying prefolds and other heavy items).  I have ordered from her several times and always had fantastic service and quick delivery.  Highly recommend.  Some of my favorite brands on diapering items are: Imse Vimse / Bumpy, Bummis, Aristocrats, Kissaluvs, Fuzzibunz, and of course, the snappi fasteners.  Great place for prefolds too.

Tye Dye Dreams - Gorgeous tie dye items.  She does both custom work and has an instock store.  Wonderful, generous mama and professional businesswoman.  

Full Moon Baby Gear - "Bold Beautiful Baby Wear"  Great diapers!  I adore the AIOs from there and hope to add a few to my stash with my new little one.

Righteous Baby - Some of the most amazing diaper art out there.  Check out her "diaper gallery" just to see some of her work.

Firefly Diapers - Very good fitted diapers.  I would love to own some more of these.

FuzziBunz - Pocket diaper.  A real workhorse that I reach for all the time.  Performs really well. I wish they were as cute as the Happy Heinys, because then they would be the perfect diaper.

Happy Heiny - Pocket diapers.  I had two and used them until they finally died.  I like the fit and ease of use.  I must have the coffee bean & yellow monkey prints! 

A few of the fitted diapers I like I found on one page at Green Mountain Diapers.  Ecobaby Grow-With-Me and Snug-to-Fits were heavily used in my rotation and I liked them both a lot.  The Kissaluvs are diapers I hear consistently good things about.


Auctions, Co-ops, and other unique diapering retail sites

Diaper Swappers - a place I just discovered for buying, selling, & trading diapers.
ebay - here is the diaper search I use to try and make the results a bit more managable.  (no diaper bags, for instance)  You have to know a little better what you are doing to go this route.  For instance, I am careful not to buy anything washed in fabric softener (except downey advanced...regular downy is bad though) because diapers lose absorbancy with fabric softener (like towels).


Auction sites that specialize in high demand, low volume WAHMs.  For most of these you need to register for these pages and can preview items before the auctions.  For diapers, clothes, toys, and other items.


Sewing supplies for diapers

Diaper Shop - Great place for people who are sewing diapers.  Great support, lots of information, and wide selection.  I know several people who use them regularly and have always had a good experience.



Clothes for Cloth Diapered Kids
Basic Brilliance - pants
Blue Canoe - pants
Children's Place - heard they had fleece similar to Old Navy last season. leggings and stockings have good stretch, don't even have to size up on them for some kids.
Cotton Caboodle - pants & leggings
Gymboree - pants & leggings
Hanna Anderson - especially wiggle pants and long johns.  Top quality clothing
Land's End - in general, good place for pants and other kid's clothes
LL Bean -
also has a nice fleece pant in their winter stuff.  Heard good things about their kids clothes in general.
Old Navy - especially performance fleece. Denim & other woven not as good.
The Gap - again, fleece is best.
Zutano - haven't seen their clothes myself, but hear them recommended by other CDing parents

WAHMs - One-Of-A-Kind and Handmade Items

Baby Polar Gear - polartec fleece baby clothes
Beaner Boy - custom fleece for cloth diaper
Creations Boutique - wool knitted, wool interlock &  jersey pants, diaper sets
Froggie Togs - custom & instock items at hyena cart
Full Moon Baby Gear has beautiful clothing as well as diapers.
Got Ewe Covered - soakers & longies
Joys Earthly Goods - custom clothes for babies
Kool Sheep Soakers auctions off custom slots and keeps an instock store as she can.
Little Turtle Knits owner Theresa also knits soakers and longies.  She also has LTK licensed sellers.
Lucy's Hope ChestThe AIOs, custom clothing, in-stock clothing.
Naturekins - CD clothes and related items at hyena cart.
Peenut Pants - much raved about wool pants and soakers.  Does custom work too.
Righteous Baby  home of woolie pullie soakers.  sometimes have outfits too.
Tiny Birds Merino Organic Diaper Pants, Soakers, Diaper sets & other clothes
Wooly Wonder retailers list.  High quality soakers and longies.



Toys & Other

MindWare - great source of visual spatial toys and games.  Fun stuff for the whole family.  
Learning Things - the best prices for Thomas the Tank Engine I have found.
Chinaberrry - a shop that carefully picks stock for quality rather than marketing.
Constructive Playthings - it is hard to find something on this site I don't like.  Great open-ended and thinking toys.
Hearth Song & Magic Cabin - another set of the catalogs I drool over.
Learning Express Toys
Educational Wooden Toys
e Learning Toys
Toy Magnets
Gummy Lump - wooden toys and building blocks
Bits & Pieces - a puzzle and game catalog I have enjoyed since high school.



Homeschooling Supplies

Discount School Supply
Homeschooling Supply
Learning Things:  The Education Store
Christopherus Homeschool Resources - Waldorf inspired publisher
Delta Education
ETA Cuisenaire
Therapro - geared towards learning basic motor skills and early education skills for children with special needs.
Wright Group - McGraw-Hill company, textbooks and related products