What I learned over the last 8 months

January 26, 2011 was a day that changed my life forever.  That is the miraculous day that our beautiful daughter Marley Marie made an entrance.  Since then I have learned TONS!  The purpose of this blog is to share with you what I have learned and I will share what I learn along the way.  So here goes:  If you can breastfeed, do it ~ it can save you a lot of money!  Marley just turned 8 months old and I started adding formula just to fill her up along with solids and breast milk.  But boy formula is expensive!  Do cloth diapers even if you are nervous about it ~ we switched to cloth about 4 months ago and have never looked back!  It was the best move for us ~ saved us money, really good for her tushy and I like the idea that I am helping the earth.  Oh and the patterns and colours of the diaper covers are very cute!  I live in British Columbia Canada and I have found a few great companies that I have really liked dealing with.  Baby Bellhop in Victoria has a great on-line store and they have the best customer service.  We decided to go with bumGenius Flips as a start and will expand our cloth diaper inventory as we go ~ dependant on what comes on sale, etc.  But so far I am super happy with them!  Also love Rock n Green detergent and it's even better if you can get it on sale.
There are a few sites&pages that I wish I found while I was pregnant ~ I am so happy I have them right now for sure!  Baby Half Off is a great one ~ gives you one deal a day ~ shipping is out of the USA so the deal has to be smoking deal!  The next one is called Baby Steals and they provide 2 deals daily ~ one at 9 am EST and one at 9 pm EST ~ I have found quite a few awesome things to add to my baby collection like cheap baby legs, baby wrap, etc.  Also shipping out of the USA so better to find a great deal to make it worth your while.  The next one is called Baby Heist and it's Canadian so great shipping prices.  They have a deal a day.  Another thing to look for are the archives to the baby deal sites ~ so even if you missed the deal originally you might still have a chance to find some goodies!
On Facebook ~ try to find any local baby swap pages/parent buy and sell pages, etc.  This is a great way to sell any of the items you don't need anymore as well as find some good deals on things you might be in search of.  Also great for the environment because you are reusing items!
Gotta sign off but if you know of any other great baby deal sites please leave them in the comments as I would love to hear about them!
Thanks!