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Cloth diapers are easy! I bet you think this cloth diaper stuff is hard. It's not! Cloth diapers are beautiful and satisfying and cheap and easy. We've created this little tutorial to teach you a bit about cloth diapering. Simply click "next" at the bottom of each page and you will quickly learn everything you need to know. Let's get started. The MythsIt's hard. We already answered that one, but here goes again in case you were sleeping. No! It's easy, easy, easy, and did I mention satisfying? It's messy. Well, all diapers are messy, but, in fact, cloth diapers users are generally surprised with less leaks than disposable diaper users. How can that be you ask? The cotton diaper actually grabs the poop before it can go flying up the back of the diaper. If you have a good fitting diaper and cover, you will not get the messy "blowouts" that you get with disposable diapers. Woo hoo, no more poop in baby's hair. That's a big plus for cloth diapers. It's time consuming. Another myth, of course. You will have to do an extra couple of loads of laundry a week, but you will not have to check out the sales fliers, clip coupons, get in the car, drive to the store, buy disposable diapers, lug them home, find a space to store them, find more room in the trash to dispose of them, and then do it all over again next week. Instead, you will simply toss the dirties in the washer, let the washer clean them, then when you feel like getting up from eating your bon-bons on the couch, you can toss the clean ones in the dryer or (if you love the sight of clean diapers tossing in the breeze like I do) put them on the line. After they are dry, you don't even have to fold them if you don't want to. Toss them in a basket and use them as needed. Cloth diapers are expensive. Absolutely not! Cloth diapers are the least expensive way to diaper your baby. Initially, you will spend more per diaper, but the savings over disposables is substantial. Expect to save up to $1700+ over 2 1/2 diapering years. If you can get your friends and family to buy cloth diapers as shower gifts, you'll diaper baby for free! Click here for details. My baby will get diaper rashes in cloth diapers. Babies get rashes in disposable diapers. Why do you think baby rash ointments are so popular? The truth is babies get diaper rashes for a number of reasons. One of the main preventions of diaper rash is frequent changes. Often babies in disposable diapers have more rashes. They may be changed less often because the diaper "feels dry." However, bacteria in the diaper is still in contact with baby's skin, and that is what causes rashes. Diapers, cloth or disposable, should be changed when wet or soiled or every two hours. The FactsThe truth is cloth diapers are easier than you think. Disposable diapers have only been available since 1961. What do you think Moms used before then? Cloth diapers, silly. Ok, that was a trick question. I was cloth diapered. You may have been cloth diapered too. And those were the days of flat diapers and pins and rubber pants. Let me tell you, we've come a long way, baby! You can still use pins and pull on pants or you can splurge a little for the convenience of prefold or fitted diapers and Velcro covers with no pins needed or even all-in-one diapers with diaper and cover combined. Disposable diapers use our earth's valuable resources. Did you know that each baby in disposable diapers consumes 4.5 trees and contributes 2 tons of waste to our landfill problems? In addition, there is concern abut the chemicals used in disposable diapers and untreated human waste ending up in landfills. Did you know that a single disposable diaper takes 500 years to decompose? Cloth diapers smell good. You think that cloth diapers mean icky odors, but they don't. In reality disposable diapers have a very strong odor that takes some getting used to, and those are the clean ones I am writing about! A clean cloth diaper smells clean. There are no extra fragrances or perfumes. You will smell clean cotton and that's it. Bet you never put a disposable diaper up to your nose to take a good whiff, right? You don't have to. Those with sensitive noses will know what I mean. You can smell a disposable diaper a mile away. But you will want to smell a cloth diaper. You won't be able to resist. You will take a clean warm diaper out of the dryer or off of the line when no one else is looking, and you will put it up to your nose, and you will breathe in its warm, clean, wonderful smell. You think I am crazy, but just wait. You will do it. I promise, and then you can email me and tell me that you did it. I know you will. Cloth diapers are better for baby. Your baby will love you for giving him cloth diapers. They are softer and more comfortable, and they are better for baby. Cloth diapers are more breathable than disposables. One study theorizes that disposable diapers raise the scrotum temperature in male babies which may lead to a problem with infertility later in life. Another study has linked disposable diapers to asthma. Chemicals used in the processing of disposable diapers later "off-gas" in the final product. Some of the chemicals released from disposable diapers are toluene, xylene, ethyl benzene, styrene, and isopropyl benzene, among others. In the study, these diaper emissions caused respiratory problems in lab mice. Say no to little gel beads. All of this, and we haven't even begun to discuss the little gel beads found in disposable diapers and sometimes on baby's skin after wearing a disposable diaper! Those little beads are sodium polycrylate, a chemical absorbent which is put in the disposable diaper to absorb wetness. It was used in tampons until it was linked to toxic shock syndrome. The diapers you choose will be next to your baby's skin 24 hours a day 7 days a week for 2-3 years. Cloth diapers are cooler, softer, more comfortable, and chemical and perfume free. It's an easy choice, isn't it? Next |
