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Posted by: pyderi 4 months ago

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When you buy cloth diapers you don't run the risk of harming your baby due to chemicals used in the manufacture of the disposable ones, you do less 57 per cent harm to the environment due to the ecological footprint that they leave and you save around $1000 per baby.

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triizine4 months ago

Cloth diapers are a great way to help the environment and save money. I used them exclusively for both my kids until I went back to work. However, I found that babysitters will not use them. Everyone I interviewed for child care required disposable diapers or they would not take me on as a client. So, back to disposables I went. Day care providers seem to think that cloth diapers are too much work, I guess.
Too bad. They are better for baby too.
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  Dionys4 months ago
  
  You could still lessen your impact by using G-diapers. Or by using cloth when your little person's not being watched by a sitter. Or by expanding your search for sitters (not always possible -- I know).
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SenorCoconut4 months ago

Good post Pyderi, thanks.
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Endoscopy4 months ago

My use of both cloth and disposable diapers leave me with feeling the disposable ones are better for the baby. I found less irritation since they have been designed to keep the liquid away from the skin. I had less rashes using the disposable ones.
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Wolfie20074 months ago

Disposable diapers are the best not only because of their convenience but because they are not washed they will collect no harsh detergents and other chemicals that can irritate the babies skin. Of course, washing diapers uses a lot of energy and then more energy to dry them. Yup, disposable nappies seem the best to me.
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  pyderi4 months ago
  
  disposable ones have a higher carbon footprint and that's proved...
  when you wash something you don't need to leave the cloth with detergent...
  plus if you do just rinse it off
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    pyderi4 months ago
    
    or using less detergent is a good idea
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      Dionys4 months ago
      
      Or using less abrasive detergents.
      There are lots of options if you're neither lazy nor dogmatic in your approach.
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CtrlAltTabby4 months ago

We used cloth diapers initially, but my mother-in-law was watching our daughter and nephew at the same time, and it was too confusing for her to cloth diaper one and disposable diaper the other. We moved to disposable after about 18 months, and are now using disposable pull-ups. While I regret the need to switch to disposable, I don't miss the extra laundry. (For the record, we did all of the diapers with the extra rinse option on, to eliminate any soap residue. And they had snaps. Did I mention the convenience of cloth diapers with SNAPS?)
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muppet44 months ago

I am a childcare provider and us not "willing" to use cloth diapers vs disposable is not even an option for us. Health regulations do not allow it, I would be willing to use the cloth if it were the parents choice. I've even offered to, but been told I couldn't.
We aren't even allowed to wash out underpants if a trained child has an accident.
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aceofspades14 months ago

Sure go pick on helpless babies - How about the big-assed seniors dumping their Depends all over the place?
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triizine4 months ago

Here's another reason cloth is better... Once baby is out of diapers, toilet trained, you can reuse them for other things. Ever try dusting the furniture with a disposable? ICK I have all my cloth diapers and use them for various things around the house, and have for the many years my youngest has been out of them.
The best diapers are flannel. I made them myself, and they lasted a long time. It's pretty easy to make them. Ask for diaper flannel at the fabric store and cut and hem them to the perfect size. It's a lot cheaper than buying pre-made cloth diapers too.
I washed my diapers in Dreft detergent (made for babies) and hung them on the clothes line to dry, which disinfects them even further because of the UV rays from the sun.
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