Sex Change (Part I)

My husband and I have been doing cloth diapers on our son with the exception of when we go out, in which case disposables (Tushies) makes it much more convenient. I know that it used to be that when cloth diapers were used, you'd have to use safety pins to hold it all together. While we were waiting for Tyler to arrive, my husband and I were pretty wary about our skills in safety pinning the cloth diaper on our baby (hey, I wasn't nicknamed "Danger Prone Daffy" for nothing!!!). When we found out that the way to secure the cloth diaper are these things called "Snappi Clips", we both breathed a sigh of relief. The class we had taken was very informative and made cloth diapering look like a piece of cake and to this day, still is. The cloth diapering workshop we had taken to introduce us to this world of cloth diapering was very informative and fun. The instructor definitely made it a point to tell us that there's no way we can ever fasten the diaper too tightly on our baby. So when Tyler arrived, cloth diapering really was that easy and awesome.

My grandmother had used cloth diapers on all of her children and on her grandchildren as well. So I figured that she would be the one to tell me that I needed to put the diaper on tighter as by the time she got to meet Tyler, she was a Cloth Diapering Black Belt Master and could pin those suckers on wriggly babies in her sleep. Imagine my surprise when she kept criticizing my diapering by saying that I was putting the diaper on too tightly.

"You're putting the diaper on too tightly! He's going to be really uncomfortable because he's too tight," she would say very matter-of-factly. "Don't put it on so tight or you're going to give him a tiny waist and turn him into a girl."

"A girl? Come on, Grandma!" I would say, exasperated.

"Just watch," she warned. "If you keep doing that, you're going to turn your son into a daughter!"