Cloth, Definitely Cloth
Aug 02 '00
My daughter is a cloth diapered baby! We used disposables for the first couple weeks and then at night for the first four months. Ever since we have been disposable-free.
Cloth diapering is not hard at all. We use fitted diapers that look a lot like disposables, only cloth (in all sorts of cute patterns), plus a Bummis Super Whisper Wrap over the diaper. When the baby's diaper is dirty we change her (about once every 3 hours, not at all during the night) and put the diaper in the pail. We use a dry pail. On wash day (about every 3-4 days) we take the diapers down to the washer and wash for 6 minutes on cold and 6 minutes on hot. They are run through the dryer twice with a couple towels to help them dry faster. That's it! Takes very little time on my part and it is quite easy.
The drawbacks to cloth diapering is basically that many people don't have the time it takes to wash them (really only maybe a total of 1/2 hour a week when it comes right down to it) and most day cares will not accept cloth diapers for babies.
The positives for cloth diapers are numerous. It is a lot cheaper than disposables, I wear cloth underwear so I figure my child should as well, they are so cute, they won't be sitting in a landfill for 100 years, etc. We have never had a single leak with cloth diapers (we had tons with disposables).
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Epinions.com ID:
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Member: Heather Hejduk
Location: Lexington Park, MD
Reviews written: 21
Trusted by: 2 members
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