Why you should cloth diaper your baby? Why should you cloth diaper your baby?
Why spend the extra step during diapering your baby? Do not parents have enough things to worry about?
These are two excellent questions. But if I have changed a bit and asked them this way:
Would you take an extra step if it was healthier for your baby, the environment and your wallet? What if you never had to worry about running out of diapers and needing to make a middle of the track layers night?
When first introduced to the idea of cloth diapers, I do not rush right and buy pins and prefolds. It took months before it is not about me and the work "extra" I imagined. I began to see the benefits cloth diapers had to offer my child. The proverbial "straw" was seeing those icky gel crystals from disposables on my son's private parts. After that I jumped right into the layers of cotton and never looked back.
Further research in these gel crystals revealed that they had a name! Sodium Polyacrylate. Scientific journals reveal that these crystals can cause minor skin irritations and oozing blood from perineum and scrotal tissues (do a google search and you may even learn that this chemical is also found in Sephora Lift Fusion face lift product! !). This is not something you want to touch or can enter the body of your child. It is difficult enough facing a little diaper rash!
The strong argument is not a health reason enough to make you flee disposable perhaps their impact on the environment will be.
Have you ever driven by what looked like a mountain to discover that it is actually a landfill?
I used to live near a landfill outside of Dallas. The landfill was under the skyline of skyscrapers is at the center of Dallas. Alongside this release are some of the malls and stores finest mark. When you left the shopping Mall to the road you will see what looks like a huge barren mound is as if an atomic bomb was dropped on it. Contained in that monstrosity of a hole billions of disposable diapers. Scientists are not even sure if disposable diapers will ever fully breakdown while sitting in the landfill.
Besides the fact that space to store our waste is encroaching on our neighborhoods, there are real human feces move through the tons! Even the EPA has something to say about it: "a significant part of disposable diaper waste in U.S. landfills each year is actually biodegradable human waste preserved forever." No reason to decompose the air and Water must be present. However, when the landfill is built, they are designed in such a way as to limit these 2 key elements.
Therefore, even if you purchased "green" single-use they still sit unchanged for hundreds of years. In addition to this, in 1998, the World Health Organization has made it illegal to throw waste in the dustbin man. This law is not something you read on the back of the package of diapers brand. When I use disposable diapers, I certainly do not sound empty. Why take an extra step?
And of course, last but not least, is the financial impact of the layers have a family. You've heard a million times, "Diapers are expensive!" And they talk disposable. You never hear a family who is actually "cloth diapers are" expensive. When comparing the figures, it is clear that the method is less expensive. Even coupon-clipping, grocery-gaming mom who can get free diapers would not come out the winner (or at least not their child).
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Posted on January 12, 2010.
