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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 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 Chest
- The 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
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