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Cloth Diapering is Easy!
Modern cloth diapers are as easy to use as disposables. Elaborate folds, pinning, dunking and swishing are no longer necessary. Instead of tossing used diapers in the trash, you’re putting them into a closed diaper pail or zippered wetbag to be washed and re-used.
So why are more and more parents choosing cloth??
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You'll save OVER $2000!!
A full-time supply of cloth diapers cost less than half of what disposable cost and they can last through multiple kids!
In 2.5 years of diapering...
Cost of disposables: $2000
Cost of disposable wipes: $800
Total cost disposables: $2800
Cost of most convenient cloth diapers (such as bumGenius pocket diapers): $502
Cost of cloth wipes (24): $26
Total cost of bumGenius and wipes: $528
Choose a less expensive option such as prefolds and covers, or one size diapers, and your cost could drop as low as $300 (24 infant and 24 regular premium prefolds, 5 covers in each size, 20 bamboo wipes). Now your savings is $2500!
For a cloth diaper savings calculator, go here - http://www.diaperpin.com/calculator/calculator.asp |
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These are the facts: The average baby goes through 5,000 diapers before being potty-trained. Because 95 percent of these diaper changes are disposable diapers, most of them end up in landfills, said John A. Shiffert, executive director of the National Association of Diaper Services. Diapers made up 3.4 million tons of waste, or 2.1 percent of U.S. garbage, in landfills in 1998 -- the last year this information was collected, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Diapers in landfills in underdeveloped countries are especially problematic because they often aren't properly disposed, and excrement leaks into the local water supply. |
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All disposable diapers contain super-absorbent gelling materials, or AGM. AGM is linked to an increase in childhood asthma and a decrease in sperm count among boys. Sodium polyacrylate, the gel-like absorbent substance used in disposables, was removed from tampons in 1985 because of its link to toxic shock syndrome, a bacteria-caused illness. In an October 2000 article in the Disease in Childhood medical journal, German researchers found that the scrotal skin temperatures of baby boys were significantly higher when they wore disposable diapers than when they wore cloth. While the scientists called for more research, their article suggested that prolonged use of disposable diapers as infants was an "important factor" contributing to the decline of sperm production among adult males. Proctor & Gamble conducted its own study and also found that scrotal skin temperatures increased for boys in disposable diapers, although not to the degree that the German scientists showed, Kuta said. |
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