Top Three reasons to cloth diaper

Yes you read that right I'm Cloth Diapering my little one. Now to a lot of people this seams crazy my mother in law, looked at me as if I was out of my mide when I said I would be doing this. Many friends have done the same as well others just know me and knew I would be. At first when I told my husband that we would be doing cloth diapers and not  disposable, he to gave me the look of why that's crazy. That is till I put the reasons out there, I think that it's important to talk about the reasons we choos to cloth diaper over using disposable diapers, now everyone is going to have thier own reasons.

MY TOP THREE REASONS

1)  Eco friendly

It takes about 500 years for one disposable diaper to brake down in a landfill,
think about it most newborns will use about 90 diapers a week for the first few weeks. Yes they will start you use less but your still looking at a larger amount, of disposable diapers when you think about that a child is in diapers on average 2.5 years. Now yes you will use a bit more water however not that much, even if you are some where that has water issues there are ways to reduce the use of water by washing smaller loads, or hang drying the diapers, or something I do is add her clothes and other things in to the wash with her diapers. As well as I wash at off pike times like at night.

2) The cost!

now it's true cloth diapers can cost a lot it's all in what path of cloth diapering you want to go, however even if you are buying all new cloth diapers your going to be spendings round $100-$500 for a full  stash of diapers now that will be all the diapers you'll use the whole time the little one is in diapers, even using them for all your kids. Now if they are close in age you may end up needed to add to the stash. As with disposable diapers you will spend about $3000 or more a year, that's not even including disposable training pants that's only diapers. So it's a big cost savings. You can save even more if you make our own cloth diapers and that's something I have done as well as well as getting them on from the Wish and Home apps. You can even buy them used on Ebay, now that way I say to each their own, buying used underwear isn't by path. 
Now back to the water cost that's going to change depending on where you live, but for the most part it doesn't end up adding that much in cost. for my self it hasn't changed my over all bill more then a few cents and I do washing every day! Because yes you can have a lager stash and only wash every few days but for myself I cant stand having them siting around for more then the day.

3) Skin Issues!

 Now this was big concerning both myself and my husband have very sensitive skin. So the likelihood that our child would as well was high, and guess what she does!
Knowing this I don't want to even start with something that's full of chemicals, I want to use as many natural as I could.
But sadly I did end up using disposable diaper for the first few weeks after she was born, because the cloth ones I had were to big. I didn't really think that my little one would be right at 6lbs when she was born and a bit under when she was going home, and then that she would take some time to add weight. But in that time she had diaper rash very badly and that's when I added some smaller cloth diapers to my stash till she grew in to the ones I had made. However she is now almost six months old and we have been cloth diapering for about five months and not one rash that whole time.




For more info on the kinds of cloth diapers there are and ways to use them watch the video!

Have a GREAT DAY!!