Minimalist baby

So far we have one goal that is guiding a lot of our planning for our imminent new roommate. We want a minimalist baby. That is, we are planning to stock our house with everything this baby needs to survive, but not much more than that. Perhaps this is what all naive parents-to-be say until they realize babies require a lot of "stuff" but we are determined to keep things to a minimum as much as possible.

Jonathan found an article in the New York Times this weekend about alternatives to disposable diapers. I don't think I like the ones described in this piece but I did some searching today and found a company I really like called G Diapers. G Diapers function like disposables except you don't throw away the whole diaper, only the insert, and the inserts happen to be completely biodegradable. If you don't want to throw them away, you can actually flush them down the toilet or even throw them in your compost pile.

As an added bonus, they happen to be adorable and are stamped with a "G" on the back which means they should wrap quite nicely around a baby Gordin.

We are considering all of our options but so far this looks like a good way to go.