Giveaway for 6 NEW Colors!

6 NEW colors have been added to the SoftBums website!

Help us announce our new colors by entering in the GIVEAWAY, and win a FREE SoftBums Basic Pack in your choice of Bamboo or Microfiber, and your choice of one of our NEW colors!

In addition to Nuclear pumpkin, Lime, and Ocean, we now have Buttercup, Sage, Firecracker, Snowcone, Bubblegum, and Coconut!

Still our same signature great fit, with our Patent Pending Snugger hidden adjustable leg elastics to fit any baby perfectly. The Perfect Fit SoftBums diapers are now the best one-size diapers to order BEFORE baby is born. Because no matter what size or shape your baby is, you will be assured a great fit!


To enter the GIVEAWAY just enter an answer to the following question:

How long have you been cloth diapering, or if you are new to cloth diapers just say "I'm new!!".

You can post once a day, and if you tweet about the Giveaway in twitter, or mention us in a blog or forum thread, you can get additional submission.

Here are the rules: (please post one time for each so we can keep track)
*1 entry for telling us how long you've been cloth diapering.
*1 additional entry for becoming or being a Twitter Follower
*1 additional entry for posting a comment on other posts
*1 additional entry for every time you reply to us on Twitter on July 1st thru 9th {please post the time you reply}
*1 additional entry for becoming or being a Facebook Fan
*5 entries if you place a new order
*1 additional entry for becoming an affiliate
*1 additional entry for everytime you mention SoftBums on any forum or blog (post the direct link of the post on forum or blog where you mention it).

Softbums has new Colors!!!

Who's ready for New SoftBums Colors???!!!



We'll be hosting a giveaway for a SoftBums Basic Pack! Just guess which 4 new colors will be available and you can be entered for a chance to win!

SoftBums has been a huge success since announcing our newest diaper the PerfectFit in September 2008, and we've got some great retailers carrying our diapers too!
www.Kellyscloset.com , www.snootybootydiapers.com , www.greenbabyshoppe.com , www.mysweetpickes.com , www.greengoober.com , www.twolittlewhales.com , www.peapods.com , and more coming soon

Softbums are trim in the diaper bag too!

I found a great review of Softbums on Kelly's closet's blog The cloth diaper whisperer. Elisabeth took a great pic of all 3 of her gorgeous girls, and on her youngest you can see a pink softbums!

Softbums review on Kelly's blog

She also took an awesome size comparison of the Softbums diaper with 3 inserts(enough for 3 diaper changes), and 3 pocket diapers next to it. Softbums look almost 1/2 the size! This is a great idea of how much room you save in your diaper bag as well. They really do take up WAY less space in the diaper bag, changing table or drawers, and washing machine. Use less water and take less time to dry!

Softbums at the Living Green Expo!

Softbums was pleased to be at the Living Green Expo at the Fair Grounds in St. Paul, MN this weekend! http://www.livinggreen.org/index-expo.cfm
It was so fun to meet some of our existing customers in person, and put faces to names, hear all the stories about their diapering experiences and mostly see all the babies!! My favorite part!
We talked to hundreds of super nice people, and even converted a couple people to cloth while at the show! Yay, cloth diapers!
I was surprised at how many fathers, and even older men who were not only interested in hearing about diapering alternatives, but also extremely impressed with our PerfectFit One-size Diaper system. I was so happy to have my husband Brian there with me to talk to the men. He absolutely loves using our diapers, and loves talking about our diapers too. I think it's really important to get the guys behind this stuff. They are a big part of parenting, and often I find when a guy is really educated on the importance of using cloth, and how it all works, he really gets behind it and can be a great help in educating others later on.
One of the demonstrations we had set up at the booth, was a plastic disposable diaper bag that was emptied, and filled with cloth diapers instead. It was a big "mega" pack of disposables, and we showed that a bag that size would last your baby about a week if filled with disposables. That same bag filled with cloth diapers would last your baby 3 1/2 years, or until potty training! That was a big eye opener to see it visually laid out there like that. Babies go through about 10,000 diapers on average per child. Disposables use crude oil, paper pulp, tons of chemicals, and endless amounts of wastewater in just their manufacturing alone! Then on top of that, add up all the transportation costs and oil used to deliver all these diapers to stores, for parents to go run to the store once a week or so to get more diapers, and it's about 4,000 lbs of solid waste going straight into the landfills that we have to live next door to. There can be all kinds of nasty things seeping from these disposables into our groundwater, and these diapers can take 500 years or more to decompose. They really don't have a number of years it will take, and any programs for recycling the diapers into anything usable has proven to be too costly, and polluting to make any sense. They are currently the #3 single product in the landfills.
There is one very simple and logical answer. Wash your diapers. The cloth alternatives are easy, inexpensive(about 10th of the cost) and make a huge, huge difference in our carbon footprint! Plus they are fun!

Colors, colors, glorious PUL colors

I have the hardest time deciding on what colors of PUL to use for Softbums! There are so many great colors, it's really hard to choose just a few. I started off with a handful of basic colors; red, blue, light blue, sage, yellow, periwinkle, pink, lavender...um, I think that is it, oh, and white. Then after we started getting more orders I had to stock up on PUL and order in bigger quantities, and could only afford a few colors to start with. SO we decided on Nuclear Pumpkin, Ocean Blue, and Lime Green!

Now, I get to expand the horizons a bit and add some other colors to our list.

I need to add back in white, we get so many requests for white, I guess white = diapers to a lot of people still. We also need to get at least 1 or 2 pastels. Pastel, you know, lighter baby colors. Think Easter.

I have always liked the light blue color, so we may get that in. And Sage Green, and Butter Yellow are always Extremely popular because so many people don't learn the sex of their bump but want to buy diapers before baby is born.

There really aren't any "great" greens that I can choose from. There is sage, celery(similar to sage, but with a weird tint to it), kelly green(just the greenest green you can think of like a green M&M), and forest green(a darker almost racing green, green, lol). None of those are the best, but sage is a fairly basic color that most would agree is nice.

The colors I "want" to have are; light blue, chocolate, sage, butter yellow, white, bubblegum, saturn, red, and then out current colors orange, lime and ocean. Possibly lilac too.

If I could put a poll on my front page I totally would!! LOL!

Apricot	Aqua	Black	Blaze Orange	Brown
Burgandy	Butter	Candy Pink	Citron Yellow	Dark Purple
Gray	Ivy	Kelly Green	Lavendar	Light Blue
Light Lavendar	Magenta	Melon	Navy Blue	Neon Lime
Neon Orange	Neon Pink	Olive	Play Pink	Raspberry
Red	Rose	Sage	Saturn Blue	Seaspray
White	Peacock Blue	New Pink	Grass Green	Lime Green