Apr
28
Diaper Adventure
Filed Under Newborn & Baby
My husband and I are getting ready to have our first baby, and like most parents to be we have been planning for months and months. We are both so excited about this new addition to our family, but we also know that this is going to mean a lot more work for the both of us. And we are bound and determined not to take the easy way out by stopping being a “green” family. We are very environmentally conscious which means one specific example of baby rearing becomes a real job.
I am talking about diapers of course. Disposable diapers are just plain easy. Take the dirty ones off the baby, throw them away and forget about it! The down side of course is that these dirty diapers end up in a land fill. And we are talking about billions of these things! Look what they are made of. These things are not biodegradable! Disposable diapers are a very bad thing.
So we have decided to go with cloth diapers. There is the initial investment of buying the diapers that cost more than their disposable counterparts. But since you can reuse them the cost gets recouped pretty quickly. To start, we are going to launder them ourselves. It isn’t exactly rocket science. You do a load of diapers by themselves since you don’t want to wash other clothes with these things!
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I have a friend that used cloth diapers and she loved them to start with but after a while, she got tired of having to do laundry every day or two days. Eventually she switched to disposable diapers.
I don’t have a baby, but I have a lot of cousins, and I cannot imagine putting the stuff that comes out of them into my washing machine. I like the idea of being green and everything, but I can’t imagine recycling diapers.
Like Jane’s friend, I eventually switched to disposables. I rationalized the change by thinking about all the energy I was wasting with heavy-duty hot water washing. Maybe I just switched because disposable diapers are simpler though. Either way, good luck sticking to your decision – it’s quite the challenge.