Save the Planet, your Money, and your baby's bottom
Save the Planet:
Your baby will use between 6500-7500 diapers over their lifetime—4.5 trees, 1898 pints of crude oil, and 715 lbs of plastic are consumed just to produce these diapers. It’s no surprise then that disposable diapers are the third largest single item that exist in North America’s solid waste stream today. Since they take approximately 250 years to break down, every disposable diaper ever worn is sitting in a landfill somewhere. Additional ecological havoc is borne with the risk that human waste will leech into groundwater, polluting our future water supplies.
Save Your Money:
Most babies wear diapers until they are two and a half years old. At an average of seven diapers a day, that means that one baby will wear about 6500 diapers by the time he is toilet trained. Cheap or sale-priced disposable diapers cost around 25 cents a diaper – which adds up to nearly $1600 by the time the baby is two and a half.Cloth diapers vary in price, from $20 up to $100, depending on the brand. Two to three dozen diapers should keep a baby in clean diapers for about three days. On the slightly cheap side, two dozen cloth diapers at $25 a diaper cost $600 – which, compared to disposable diapers, pay themselves off in just under a year. Cloth diapers can also be used for several children, and actually have good resale value.
Do the math yourself with the disposable versus cloth calculator:
http://www.diaperpin.com/calculator/calculator.asp
Save Baby Bums from Diaper Rash
Most cloth diapers are made of natural, soft fleece or cotton that is luxurious and velvety to the touch. In comparison—chemicals and toxins such as Sodium Polyacrylate Crystels, a super absorbent polymer (gel) that absorbs all moisture, are just one ingredient in disposable diapers, often giving the illusion of a clean diaper. This polymer was the same chemical removed from tampons due to its risk of causing Toxic Shock Syndrome.
Breathability is the key to healthy skin, and the plastic barrier used in disposable diapers does not allow natural air flow—the temperature inside makes a perfect breeding ground for bacteria. Raw, irritated skin is the result. It is reported that 75-80% of babies in disposable diapers will get diaper rash, where only 5-8% of cloth diapered babies will experience rashes.
Babies in cloth diapers potty train much faster than babies in disposables. Babies exposed to the illusion of dryness through the chemical process of disposable diapers, make it much more difficult for them to associate the consequence with the act.
Studies have shown cloth diapered babies to potty train between 18-22 months. Disposable diapers will keep your baby from potty training until th average of 38-40 months according to studies.
Your baby will use between 6500-7500 diapers over their lifetime—4.5 trees, 1898 pints of crude oil, and 715 lbs of plastic are consumed just to produce these diapers. It’s no surprise then that disposable diapers are the third largest single item that exist in North America’s solid waste stream today. Since they take approximately 250 years to break down, every disposable diaper ever worn is sitting in a landfill somewhere. Additional ecological havoc is borne with the risk that human waste will leech into groundwater, polluting our future water supplies.
Save Your Money:
Most babies wear diapers until they are two and a half years old. At an average of seven diapers a day, that means that one baby will wear about 6500 diapers by the time he is toilet trained. Cheap or sale-priced disposable diapers cost around 25 cents a diaper – which adds up to nearly $1600 by the time the baby is two and a half.Cloth diapers vary in price, from $20 up to $100, depending on the brand. Two to three dozen diapers should keep a baby in clean diapers for about three days. On the slightly cheap side, two dozen cloth diapers at $25 a diaper cost $600 – which, compared to disposable diapers, pay themselves off in just under a year. Cloth diapers can also be used for several children, and actually have good resale value.
Do the math yourself with the disposable versus cloth calculator:
http://www.diaperpin.com/calculator/calculator.asp
Save Baby Bums from Diaper Rash
Most cloth diapers are made of natural, soft fleece or cotton that is luxurious and velvety to the touch. In comparison—chemicals and toxins such as Sodium Polyacrylate Crystels, a super absorbent polymer (gel) that absorbs all moisture, are just one ingredient in disposable diapers, often giving the illusion of a clean diaper. This polymer was the same chemical removed from tampons due to its risk of causing Toxic Shock Syndrome.
Breathability is the key to healthy skin, and the plastic barrier used in disposable diapers does not allow natural air flow—the temperature inside makes a perfect breeding ground for bacteria. Raw, irritated skin is the result. It is reported that 75-80% of babies in disposable diapers will get diaper rash, where only 5-8% of cloth diapered babies will experience rashes.
Babies in cloth diapers potty train much faster than babies in disposables. Babies exposed to the illusion of dryness through the chemical process of disposable diapers, make it much more difficult for them to associate the consequence with the act.
Studies have shown cloth diapered babies to potty train between 18-22 months. Disposable diapers will keep your baby from potty training until th average of 38-40 months according to studies.
