Well, this was fun, as my baby is 21 years old! So I went to an inflation calculator.
The Inflation Calculator For all the months he was in diapers, we paid $26 a month for a diaper service. The inflation calculator said that is the equivalent of $46.73 in 2008 dollars. (It did not have any 2009 numbers).
We rarely used any kind of cream, but sometimes used the large tube of A&D ointment that was sent home with us from the hospital nursery. I happen to remember the insurance was billed $14 for it, which was too much, of course. $14 "1988" equals $25.16 "2008" Then we bought one large jar of Vaseline for $0.79...and I still have some of it to this day
. So that would be $1.42 in 2008 terms.
We were dumb and unaware of diaper wipes for the first few weeks.
However, after we discovered them, we told ourselves that they were a luxury we really wanted. Don't remember how often we bought them, or how much they cost. But to us at the time, living on 2008's equivalent of $30,556 they were a luxury. So was the diaper service for that matter.