1. Economical. Although up front cost of building the cloth diaper stash can be a bit expensive, especially if you want the nicer brands, the cost over the first year of a babies life is half for cloth diapering. One can expect to spend over $2200 on disposables for the year. With cloth diapering, one can easily do it from $700 to $1000 over the year. We also have a new HE washer and dryer that makes doing dirty diapers much easier and not as expensive energy wise. These days, we can all save a dollar or two!
2. Environment. We all know that disposables do not biodegrade, or do VERY slowly. Hundreds of years from now when archaeologists are digging up our trash, what will they find? Diapers! Disposable diapers make up the 3rd largest item of trash, following newspapers and beverage containers. I wonder what our descendants will think--we are a society of babies who read the paper and drink Coke?
3. Health. There are less chemical irritants in cloth diapers as compared to the "super absorbent" disposables. Babies bottoms are able to breathe better, leading to less diaper rash. Babies who are cloth diapered are on average able to potty trained sooner, so they say. We can only hope.
Now we are slowly transitioning into cloth and still use disposables, especially for going out on the town as he is still a champion pooper and wetter.
Here's Elias
modeling his new cloth diapers (thank you to those who helped us build our stash!!!).
We are big fans of two methods. Bumkins covers with a chinese prefold (unbleached for more absorbency) and Bumgenius 3.0.
Elias' favorite activity still remains to be bath time.
"You are baptized!"We still continue to exercise daily and he is getting to be a very strong little man!
Kisses for Daddy...Lastly, this week Daddy went to the Phish show here in Indy. Elias wore his new tie-dyed onsie in hopes that Daddy would bring him along, but alas he was too sleepy to go.
Happy third week everyone!
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