Great Cloth Diaper Change 2012

Last weekend Maizey and I participated in  the 2nd Annual Great Cloth Diaper Change,  an attempt to set a world record for the most cloth diapers changed at one time. 

At 5:30 pm GMT on Saturday (12:30 pm EST) -- concurrent with Earth Day --parents gathered in more than 300 locations to change diapers. From Ann Arbor (our location) to New York's Upper East side to Sarah Palin's stomping grounds in Wasilla, Alaska to Belgium, Malaysia, Chile, Estonia, Israel and 11 other countries, bottoms were padded with cloth.

The current record for concurrent cloth diapering stands at 5,026. And while that might sound like an awful lot, it's actually less than the total number of disposable diapers that the Real Diaper Association (RDA) estimates a family will go through by the time their baby turns 2.

No word yet on whether we broke the record, but Maizey and I did participate in the third largest event worldwide. (And probably the event with the most amber teething necklaces, bare breasts and homemade slings. Gotta love A2.)

 Full disclosure? If I'm truly honest, I really did it for the schwag.