Cloth diapers Part 1

            Why use cloth diapers, you ask. Allow me to tell you all the factual reasons and then later I will tell you all of the personal reasons why I am in love with cloth diapers.

My daughter Skye, wearing her cloth diaper and her baltic amber teething necklace.

FACTS
- The environment.
            One disposable diaper takes over 500 years to breakdown. The number of disposable diapers in landfills is increasing dramatically every day. There is also a concern for the contents in disposable diapers, did you know that it is illegal to throw away human waste. Over 100 intestinal viruses are dumped into our landfills via disposables diapers and then transported into many of our water sources, contaminating our drinking water. On top of all of this approximately 1 billion trees are destroyed each year to make disposable diapers. Finally don't forget to take into account all of the natural resources and emission gases, used to haul those disposable diapers all over the world.

-Cost
            Disposable diapers can range in cost anywhere from 1500 dollars to 2500 dollars over the course of three years and many children are not totally potty trained by three years. This stats are not including things like traning pants, swim diapers, and wipes by the way. I have spent a total of 200 dollars on all of my cloth diaper necessities and because you only use 1/4 of the amount of detergent you would normally use in a load of laundry, I am only buying detergent about once every three months. Doing diaper laundry twice a week with 1/4 the amount of detergent uses the same amount of water in your home as a child that would be using the toilet. All in all you are looking at a comparison of 2500 plus dollars or 200 dollars total to diaper your baby through toddler years. Don't forget you can also reuse cloth on multiple children so multiply all of these savings by how many kids you would like to have and you can only imagine.

This is a photo of chemical burns caused by Pampers brand diapers

-Skin care
            Would you rather wear paper underwear or soft cotton. . . This is a list of Pampers  Ingredients; wood pulp, absorbent gel material, petrolatum, stearyl alcohol, aloe, polyethylelene and polypropylene [plastics], cellulose tissue, elastic, and perfume. Sodium polyacrylate is in the absorbent gel material [AGM] it is what forms the beads you find inside of an over saturated diaper. This chemical has been linked to rashes, allergic reactions, and decreased sperm count. Cloth diapers are changed more often which decreases the chance of a child developing a rash and they rarely ever cause an allergic reaction and even if they do, all you do is switch to an all natural fiber dipe and poof problem solved.



This is a link to a site that i am in LOVE with it is called toxipedia and this link will take you to a page that explains all of the harmful chemicals that are lurking in your baby's disposable diapers.
http://toxipedia.org/display/toxipedia/Diapers

If it was your body, which would you choose to wear. . . 

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