Best laid plans of moms and kids

How did it all go astray?  You start out with the most awesome ideas.  Cloth diapers.  Breastfeeding.  Co-sleeping.  Ok, the co-sleeping is still doing relatively alright.  My husband calls me a “hippie crunchy.”  He calls himself a Republican (Gasp!), but he isn’t truly, since he votes democrat or independent.  He just can’t find it within himself to change his self-made label.  Myself – I am social liberal, yet fiscally conservative.  When it comes to my baby, I am liberal all the way. 

In case you just tuned in, I’m definitely a granola mommy.  I had one of the two home-births that occurred in Aroostook County (Northern Maine) that was NOT part of the Mennonites or Amish (however, the assistant midwife WAS Mennonite – and SO sweet).  The other was my BFF, whose homebirth midwife I commandeered.  Yes, it was amazing, and I have been determined to continue as I started – in the most natural and healthiest way possible for my baby.

This brings us, however, to recent “difficulties.”  

Did you know, that in the state of Maine, to have cloth diapers in a daycare, you must have your pediatrician write a letter citing medical necessity??  Never mind that cloth diaper babies see less diaper rash and are not exposed to the chemicals in disposable diapers.  Never mind that we each have a social responsibility to live a greener lifestyle.  It takes approximately 1 cup of oil to make a diaper, and the thing won’t decompose until long after my children’s children have themselves decomposed!!  Why do we put these things on our kids and in our landfills?  I spent $400 on the Gro-via “live it” package.  That’s it.  Who can say they’ve only spent $400 on diapers?  My daycare provider actually supplies diapers for the children and was considering switching her whole daycare over, but there is so much red tape, that it is pretty much impossible.  

Meanwhile, my pediatrician has decided to decline a letter because it is “parental choice” and not medically necessary.  My kid only gets diaper rash with disposables, which I explained in my request for said letter.  I would think that somehow a pediatrician would find it in her heart to let my kid continue with the cloth to prevent a sore butt, but apparently not because preventing diaper rash is not “medically necessary.”

Dumbass.

Did I mention that I will be switching pediatricians?