Discovery day

[dampscribbler]

Discovery #1: I have more baby clothes (ages 0-3 mos) than will fit in a single load of laundry. Already!

Discovery #2: Dreft laundry detergent smells ghastly.

Discovery #3: If not for China, America's babies would be naked. Almost all items I have are Made in China. (The rest, it seems, are made in Hong Kong.)

Discovery #4: 100% cotton is less common than I had expected

Discovery #5: The softest lint ever in my dryer's lint trap

Discovery #6: I feel like I'm doing someone else's laundry.

Comments

[chocolatesmudge.livejournal.com]

We have a whole drawer full of 0-3 mos. clothes (which equals a lot in small baby clothes), but we have the same 5 or 6 onesies on rotation currently because they're the only ones that fit. I am looking forward to thetime he fits in more of his clothes.

And here's something that didn't occur to me until after the baby came: When you're folding baby's clothes to be put away, don't bother snapping all the snaps and zipping all the zippers. That's just one extra step when you're trying to put a new outfit on a crying baby who just peed all over his/her last outfit.

[dampscribbler.livejournal.com]

Excellent advice, thank you!

Is he too big or too small for his 0-3 clothes?

A whole drawer does equal a lot; I can't believe I have *two* full washer-loads of clothes! Most were hand-me-downs from friends. But then, I hear I may go through 5 outfits in a day, so I guess they'll get used.

[chocolatesmudge.livejournal.com]

He is too small for his 0-3 mos clothes. But I guess if you end up having a 9+ lb baby you could end up with clothes that are too small. You never know...

Today we've been through four outfits so far. First one got spit up on, second one was peed on, third one was spit up on and the fourth one is still holding, for now...That's not to mention the outfit of mine that had to be changed because of spit up.

[dampscribbler.livejournal.com]

Well, at least he can grow into them. I've got friends whose boy only fit into his 0-3m clothes for about a month. Actually, I have some nearly pristine sleepers handed down from them!

[snakker.livejournal.com]

#3 made me chortle. A sad chortle, I think. Anyway, hadn't thought about extra-soft dryer lint...

[dampscribbler.livejournal.com]

I don't suppose I should have been, but I was really surprised to keep seeing one "made in china" label after another in the clothes. It's really hard to find anything made in the USA anymore, I've been trying for the past few months to pay attention to where stuff comes from.