When we made the switch to cloth diapers, we also made the switch to cloth wipes (because it was just too annoying to have to think about which of the two containers I should be reaching for when holding a poopy item. I much prefer being able to mindlessly toss the offending item in the diaper pail to standing there trying to remember which way to reach, and I REALLY prefer to not reach into smelly containers to pull out the gross item I put in the wrong place!)
What’s been FANTASTIC though, is how many other uses I’ve found for cloth wipes (besides wiping Nathan’s bottom, that is!) It turns out that cloth wipes are also great for the following tasks:
- Cleaning spit-up off of various people, body parts, and furniture (the back of the rocking chair, the creases of Nathan’s neck, the back of my sister’s legs, J’s hands, and my personal favorite, all down the center of my cleavage!) When you have a prolific spit-upper, you learn to appreciate absorbency (those things they sell and call “burp rags” are a JOKE! They’re TINY! And the spit up just rolls right off of them and onto the couch!) and the fact that the wipes solution we use smells nicely is another added bonus (anything that can cover up the smell of sour milk is welcomed!)
- Inpromptu new-Mommy-“showers”! (i.e., a quick bodily wipe down when there isn’t time for a real shower before the baby wakes up and starts to cry again!)
- Cleaning my hands after diaper changes
- Cleaning Nathan’s hands after he’s eaten, spit up, or basically done anything at all with them
- And (sorry if this is more than you ever wanted to know!) they work just as well on adults as they do for babies (and they’re so WARM! It’s lovely, particularly when you’re not feeling well).
But the BEST use by FAR was discovered yesterday, when Nathan’s nose started leaking like a faucet (I wanted to get a picture of him for this post, but thought people might not want to see it. Just picture streams of drool and snot all dripping off his chin and onto anything even remotely nearby). Of course he HATED it when I wiped his nose, because who DOESN’T hate having their nose rubbed raw? So I took some of his wipes, folded them so that they could be pulled up through the slot in an empty wipes container (I first saw how to do it here, but since the photos in that link aren’t working anymore, I found another instruction post for you here), and put the container on the counter next to an empty plastic shoebox (for the used wipes to be placed).
My "baby cleaning station" in the kitchen: prefolds/rags, container for dirty things, and wipes container with nose wipes ready to go!
He was a MESS again today, but didn’t mind at all when I kept wiping his face with a cloth wipe! If I’m going to have a snotty, disgusting mess of a baby, at least I’ll have a happy one 
Does anybody else have a creative use for cloth wipes? Or will anybody else admit to using baby wipes (disposable OR cloth!) on themselves?
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