It's a money saver. In two years from birth to potty training each baby needs an astounding 6000 diaper changes. Picking cloth can save you up to $2000! Even with extra laundry to do. The savings will be yet bigger if a family decides to use the diapers for a second time with a subsequent baby!
The stuff that is found in diapers will astound you. There are toxic chemicals many of which pose direct health hazards. Disposable diapers discharge volatile organic compounds, or VOC. These include toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene and dipentene. These VOC's have shown to have noxious health effects on the baby and there is even a possible relationship between diaper emissions and asthma. The main absorbent filler in disposable diapers is sodium polyacrylate which can cause respiratory problems as well as skin problems. Practically all disposable diapers are bleached white with chlorine and one of the byproducts of chlorine bleaching is dioxin which is carcinogenic. Some scientific studies have linked disposable diapers and their harsh perfumes and toxic substances to the proliferation of asthma in small children. Now ponder the fact that your baby may perhaps spend at least two years of his/her life in those diapers and you will see the picture. How can we be placing our children in these toxic diapers??
Cloth diapers, on the other hand are what they are - cloth. Organic cloth diapers are even better, because the fabric or yarn they are made of have on no account been treated with chemicals. Yes indeed there is a trade off. It's more convenient to throw a disposable away, but in my opinion the cash saving and health benefits are sufficient payback! Cloth diapers? Once you've tried them you will never desire to use disposable diapers again.
There seems to me to be 3 major benefits with reusable cloth diapering.
1. Less Diaper Rash and Faster Toilet Training.
Cloth diapers are much more breathable than plastic and paper diapers as they use up to date man-made fabrics which are breathable and non toxic. This is of great importance to babies as it lowers the incidence of diaper rash and believe me the diaper your baby wears can make a huge difference! Have you ever observed how nice disposable diapers smell when you open them? All “baby-ish!? This is a combination of perfume and chemicals to make the diaper more absorbent. The thing is, certain babies are in fact allergic to the dyes and perfumes in disposable diapers! Contemporary cloth diaper covers are more breathable, washable, longer-lasting and changing to cloth diapers can often clear up baby's skin very quickly. Children wearing cloth diapers also tend to become toilet trained earlier, since the cloth retains moisture, allowing the child to be aware of when it is dirty and wet causing them to connect the feeling with elimination. Ecologically friendly and alternative materials, which are grown organically without any use of pesticides, such as unbleached hemp and organic cotton are also used in some niche market diapers.
2. Save Cash
Cloth diapering will really Save Money! This second reason is solely economic. By the time your child is potty-trained, you will have spent between $2,000 and $3000 on disposable diapers. That is cash that you are literally throwing away each and every day. Alternatively, a good set of cloth diapers will cost you about $300. You can expect to spend $500-$1500 over the course of your child's diaper using time. That's a saving of between $1000 and $2500. With that amount of money, you could create a savings account for your children and have a pleasantaddition to their college fund by the time they graduate high school.
3. Eco
The ease of simply throwing away a soiled diaper is the obvious leisure factor for the popularity of disposable diapers while the cloth diapers need to be washed. Cloth diapers are reusable, placelesspressure on landfills and are washable. Cloth diapers are environmentally friendly. It is estimated that disposable diapers will take500 years to entirely degrade. That means that all of the disposable diapers that have ever been used are even now out there someplace! When you discard disposable diapers, you're not only throwing awaymoney, but you are filling up landfills with untreated waste which will still be somewhere when your baby is grown up (and their babies too!) Yuck!
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