- There are many upsides to cloth diapers, starting with how fluffin cute they are!!! Cloth diapers come in a LARGE selection of colors and prints, from black, white, pink blue, owls, dinosaurs, spiderman, strawberry shortcake, Mario, Angry birds and SO many more. You can coordinate outfits to go with the diapers, add a cute yellow shirt, to a black diaper and you have the cutest bumble bee on the block! Or a sweet pink dress and nice pink diaper, you won't need to cover up the ugly diaper, because she is running around covered and cute!
- They are affordable, disposable diapers cost thousands of dollars by the time baby is potty trained, and it is money you are literally throwing away. You can cloth diaper one child for as little as $100 -$200 until they are potty trained! Many people spend more than that but it can be done! Cloth diapers can also be used for more than one child, so if you are cloth diapering your first child and are planning on having more, save your cloth! Cloth diapers can last anywhere from 1 child to 5+ children depending on the size of your cloth diaper "stash" how they are washed and dried, and how well they are made.
- Cloth diapers are so much better for our environment - they don't end up in our landfills very often, why spend money on diapers to throw them away! Disposable diapers take more than 550 years to biodegrade in our landfills a study done in 2008 in Canada showed that 4,000,000 disposable diapers were thrown out everyday! (While I don't agree with everything on the link, it is from Environment Canada and I hope their stats are correct) I hope that number has dropped since then, but I couldn't find anything current.
- Cloth diapers are so good for babies, there are no chemicals to touch their sensitive skin, you have control over what they are made of, and how they are washed.
With that said if disposables are what you are using, I am a firm believer that that is your choice, if that works for your family by all means I do not look down or think ill of you at all - as parents we all must do what works for our family, but please do a little research, you may find that cloth will work just as well for you too!
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