Cloth vs Disposable

WARNING: Cloth diapering is addictive. Once you start, can't stop. You will want to try every kind out there, and have every print you can get your hands on.

If you are thinking, "Eeeeewwwww! How gross!" then you need to get educated about cloth diapering. I thought the same thing when my sister first introduced me to cloth diapers. Here are 5 reasons I started cloth diapering:

1.    No more piles of dirty disposable diapers around the house for the dog to get a hold of and drag all over the yard. YUCK!!

2.   Less waste in our landfills, I'm thinking of my kids great-grandkids..

3.   I don't know about you, but I like the idea of being able to resell my sons diapers when I'm done using them, try and sell your used disposable diapers. lol

4.   WAY better for my baby’s skin.  No chemicals!!

5.   Just as easy as disposables with Velcro or snaps.

 Did you know..... 

• 50 million disposable diapers enter the landfill every day, where they sit for up to 500 years. 
• Your baby will spend about 25,000 hours in diapers and need about 6,000 diaper changes during the first years of life.
• It takes around 80,000 pounds of plastic and over 200,000 trees a year to manufacture the disposable diapers for American babies alone. 
• Babies are more likely to develop rashes in disposable diapers because they do not allow the sensitive areas to breathe, and babies are more likely to react to the chemicals in disposables.
• Disposable diapers contain traces of Dioxin, an extremely toxic by-product of the paper-bleaching process.  It is a carcinogenic chemical, listed by the EPA as the most toxic of all cancer-linked chemicals.  It is banned in most countries, but not the U.S
• Disposable diapers contain sodium polyacrylate, a type of super absorbent polymer (SAP), which becomes a gel-like substance when wet. A similar substance had been used in super-absorbancy tampons until the early 1980s when it was revealed that the material increased the risk of toxic shock syndrome.
• The instructions on a disposable diaper package advice that all fecal matter should be deposited in the toilet before discarding, yet less than one half of one percent of all waste from single-use diapers goes into the sewage system.
• Disposable diapers are the third largest single consumer item in landfills, and represent about 4% of solid waste.  In a house with a child in diapers, disposables make up 50% of household waste.