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My mission is
to make it more painless for parents in the Huntington area (and other places)
to choose the environmentally-, economically-, health-friendly option of
diapering their babies in reusable cloth diapers instead of disposables.
I've also created a diaper pattern to give diaper-sewing mommies one more
option to help them get started!
I am no longer selling
diapers or kits, but you can still find lots of information here and I *do*
sell my patterns still. I changed ISPs, so if you ever have a hard time
reaching me, try emailing my yahoo mail (I do not check it often now!)
[email protected]
WHY
YOU OUGHT TO USE CLOTH DIAPERS on your baby (Which reason is the most important varies from family to
family, but here are the biggies):
- Save
your earth!
Do you know that the average American baby contributes over SIX THOUSAND disposable
diapers to our landfills? And their parents have to pay for every
one of those diapers to be manufactured, just to be thrown away after a
few hours of use! And do me a favor--if you don't dare make the
plunge to using cloth diapers, PLEASE do one important thing: dump
the poop out of that disposable into the toilet before you throw it in the
trash! This is actually written on the diaper package, but most
people either do not know about it or do not do it. This causes
untreated human waste to go into the landfill, and you probably do not
want to know what happens to it after that...!
- Save
your baby!
Your baby's bottom is more likely to be cool and rash-free (really!) in
cloth diapers and s/he can avoid possible problems with asthma flare-ups
and overheating of reproductive organs associated with disposables.
How would you like to have paper and plastic and mysterious gels on your
bottom 24 hrs a day for nearly 3 years? I like wearing cotton a lot
better!
- Save
your budget!
There are so many options out there for practically-painless cloth
diapering that can save you up to $2000 during your child's pre-potty-training
years...! There are prefolds (rectangular white cotton diapers you
probably think of when you think of cloth) that are quite inexpensive (but
don't get the ones at Walmart or you probably won't enjoy it because they
aren't very good quality). You could get prefolds and good basic
covers with velcro closures (like a Prorap classic--see below) for a
couple of hundred bucks for ALL the diapers you'll need until
potty-training. Or you can get All-In-One diapers that are fitted
(like disposables in shape) and have a built-in waterproof layer so you
don't need a cover--these are anywhere between $6-$20 each, but they are
pretty easy to deal with (some day cares only allow AIOs for cloth
diapered babies--
WV law DOES allow the use of cloth diapers in day care), but this
still saves you a bunch over buying disposables for $0.27/ea for 6,000
changes! If you (or someone you love) sews, you can easily make your
own really great fitted diapers or AIOs for practically free (a pattern
and some elastic & velcro and a dozen yards of fabric plus covers or
waterproof fabric to make AIOs or covers).
Getting
Started:
You need a
minimum of about 2 dozen diapers (for full-time cloth diapering) in the size
your baby is. And you'll need some covers (3-5 per size--Proraps work
great with these diapers!), a diaper pail (a kitchen trash can with a lid will
work), washcloths for wipes (we use those big packs of cotton washcloths from WalMart).
You'll probably
have to change your baby every 1.5 - 2 hours, depending on how often s/he pees
or poops (some newborn babies poop a lot of times a day) and how well s/he
tolerates being wet. One reason we switched to cloth is that my first son
always cried as soon as his diaper was wet, even in disposables, and changing
him that often and throwing all those diapers away was costing us a lot and
putting lots of diapers in the landfill.
