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Cloth diaper troubleshooting

Several weeks ago we started having problems with baby #4 and Freetime diapers. {What is a Freetime? Read my post " Cloth diapering an infant: BumGenius Freetime and Elemental diapers. "} Everytime I put him in a Freetime diaper, he would break out in a rash. I started suspecting that his skin might be getting irritated by the liners in a Freetime diaper, which are different than the organic cotton in an Elemental. Well, one day he ended up wearing a Freetime diaper and taking a long nap. When he woke up and I went to change him, he had a bad diaper rash. Over the next couple days, the diaper rash turned into yeast and suddenly we had a full blow problem on our hands. How do I clear up yeast when in cloth diapers? After some Google searching, I learned nystatin is not cloth diaper safe. The nystatin will get on the liners and form a waterproof barrier, apparently. {This is the same reason why a lot of diaper rash creams are not cloth diaper safe.} I read about two methods

Submarine officer's JO tour dream sheet

While my hubby was in prototype he came home and said it was time to fill out his dream sheet. Since this is for his JO {Junior Officer} tour-- his first tour as a submarine officer-- he was only able to rank locations and types of boats. For his JO tour, he could only pick out of the submarine bases, which there really aren't that many. Submarine bases: 1. Groton, Connecticut { Naval Submarine Base New London } 2. Norfolk, Virginia { Naval Station Norfolk } 3. Kings Bay, Georgia { Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay } 4. Bangor, Washington { Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor } 5. San Diego, California { Naval Base Point Loma } 6. Honolulu, Hawaii { Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam } 7. Guam { Naval Base Guam } Before I get started on this guide, I want it to be known that this guide is for the spouses , not the military members. This is a very general and very brief summary of the types of boats with information on schedule and boat life. I would also like to state that the only exper