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i wish i may, i wish i might …

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photo by heather harrison

photo permission from heather harrison, courtesy of Jenn Hunter Photography

There are a few ways to let friends and family know that you’d really like your baby to be a gBaby. First, there’s by telling them. With words. From your mouth. With this option you get to use any words you like. It’s fun! You can even just make them up as you go.

Second, you can add gDiapers to your registry. We don’t host a registry on gDiapers.com. But! There’s a whole slew of awesome registry options, so you can pick your little gPants palette to coordinate with that adorable layette from (insert your favorite baby clothing company here). The nice thing about a registry is that it’s interactive. So if someone purchases something from your registry (lucky duck) it will show as purchased, so you don’t end up with 42 receiving blankets and 9 bath frogs.

Third, give guests a gentle nudge by including an insert in your shower invites. We’ve whipped some up for you so you can download as is, or get crafty and add some DIY razzle dazzle.

And lastly, we just have this to say: congratulations! Whether your welcoming your first baby or third, adopting or fostering, or simply in the early early planning stages, it’s all so very exciting. Babies are what makes the beautiful world go round.

 

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hello Canada.

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Sometimes it doesn’t seem fair. Canada is right next to the US, and yet, what’s status quo in terms of shopping and shipping in the US is not necessarily applicable up north. We want to just take you on a little time traveling journey from the gMachine (that’s what we would call it IF we had a time machine), to help our friends in Canada understand that we’re doing the very best we can to bring gDiapers to you, online and in stores.

When we first launched in the US (in 2005) it was a big deal. Just a handful of folks trying to revolutionize diapers in North America, starting in Portland, OR. Then the phone calls and emails began to trickle in from customers in Canada. “Ship to us, too, please! We’ll pay the shipping!” So we hmm’ed it over, talked with our third party warehouse in Ohio, and despite the complication of shipping over the border and the high shipping fees, we took a deep breath and went ahead with it. To us, it was worth it if even one household wanted to make the switch to gDiapers. You gotta start somewhere, right? We were then able to open up to actual retail distribution within Canada, bringing our product to the shelf in places like Whole Foods in Vancouver, BC.

So…that was good. It was requested and we did our best to deliver. Literally. Trouble was, it truly was complicated and expensive. It was hard to track orders from our warehouse to our customers in Canada, the shipping cost was through the roof (for us and for our customers), and the back end function was pretty clunky (kinda comes with the territory of being a small start up).

But. The endeavor to improve the circumstances for our friends in Canada continued. Finally, in 2011, we found a third party warehouse within Canada that we could work with to fulfill our customer’s orders. We opened up our own online shop specifically for our Canada customers (gDiapers.ca/shop) and even kicked off with a free shipping promotion for orders over $125. Because we’re now shipping to Canada customers from within Canada, the costs are less and the ship times are faster. Win and win.

We know it’s still not apples to apples. Zappos learned in March 2011 that online retail just can’t be conducted the exact same way between the two companies. They actually discontinued their Canada shipping option because it simply wasn’t sustainable, nor was it maintainable at the high-bar level of service that had earned them such an incredible reputation.

Our plan is to keep the diaper revolution rolling along. We will do all we can to keep that happening, but we too have to bear in mind sustainability, on the earth front and people front, because if we burn out either of those, well, then we don’t have a leg to stand on. We will continue to do our best to bring new products to our Canada shop, and continue to strengthen retail distribution within Canada. Promise.

 

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let’s get it started.

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You’re ready to do this. Know how we know? Cause you’re reading this.

photo by felicia williams

photo by felicia williams

The formula is simple: you need little gPants and you need refills. That’s it. We suggest having 6-8 little gPants per size (for small, medium, and large at least). If you want to use gRefills exclusively, count on a case every 3-4 weeks. If you want to use gCloth most of the time, plan on 10-12 diaper changes a day, so 4 packs of gCloth should do the trick. How you get them is up to you. Here are some ideas.

Baby isn’t here yet?

If you’ve got a brand new baby on the way, you’re probably chomping at the bit to get that nursery set up and your diaper stash organized. We know. We’ve been there, too. The planning phase is a lot of fun. But it can be overwhelming. The gBaby Bundle was put together to give you everything you need to use gDiapers from day one. Order it online, pick one up from Babies R Us, or add one to your registry. (oh! speaking of registry, we have these sweet little shower insert cards that you can tuck inside your shower invites, so you can gently suggest/obviously state that you want to use gDiapers on your baby, and hold the plastic disposables, please. We thought that would be easier than having our diaper therapy team call up great-grandma and Aunt Betty…).

Baby is here and ready for a change.

So baby’s bigger than a newborn. Check out our sizing guidelines really quick and then come on back to this post. We’ll wait…

Alrighty. Now that you’ve picked the size you need let’s go back to the equation. Pants plus something to go inside them. That’s all you need. An economical route is to grab the sweet bundle, which combines the everyday g’s 6-pack (in our signature colors, orange and green) and your choice of either biodegradable gRefills or gCloth. You can always add other colors to your little gPant palette by selecting the fabulous colors and prints that are sold individually.

Pretty easy, right? Let the fun begin!

 

 

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