[blparent] Cloth Diapers Anyone?

Mon Sep 24 16:03:38 UTC 2012

Hello Michael,
Though's facts were very interesting, and are deffinit reasons why
some people would choose cloth over disposables, but for me it's
simple, the all mity dollor.  Since I will be living in a house with
it's own washer, and have a back yard ware I can hang the diapers to
dry by the time baby is born, I believe the utility costs will be alot
less than if I was having to run to the local store to buy diapers
every week.  If we hadn't found a house to live in by the time the
baby will be born, it would have been cheeper to do disposables
because I would have had to use the comunity laundry room, and it's
around $4 per load pluss detergent.  Pluss I would have to sit rite
beside the washer/drier because clothing has been stolen before from
there.
Over all I'm not looking forward to having hourly contact with poo
either in a pece of paper or cloth, so I'll just have to get over the
eww factor. smile  It helps that I did alot of daycare as my first job
so it's not all foren.
I was really surprised to find out my husband to be is very supportive
of the whole cloth diapering thing, the fact I showed him the cost
comparison mite have had something to do with that, but his whole
family used cloth diapers so he mite actualy mite no more about the
subject then me.
Thank you all for your help and addvise

On 9/23/12, Michael Baldwin <mbaldwin at gpcom.net> wrote:
> Lubs also stink, worse than any other paper diaper on the market.
>
> There are other considerations to using cloth besides the cost.
> Here are some additional interesting facts:
>
> It takes 1 cup of crude oil to make the plastic for 1 disposable diaper
> it takes 286 lbs. of plastic (including  diaper packaging) per year to
> supply 1 baby in disposable diapers
> 18 billion disposable diapers are used in the U.S. each year.  Enough to
> stretch to the moon and back 9 times
> it takes 200-400 kg. of wood and sodium polyacrylate fluff pulp to supply 1
> baby in disposables for 1 year, compared to 10kg of cotton for 2 years of
> cloth diapering.
> Disposable diapers create 2.3 times as much water waste, use 3.5 times as
> much energy, use 8.3 times the non-regenerable raw materials, use 90 times
> the renewable raw materials and 4 to 30 times as much land for growing raw
> materials.
> Disposable diapers are the 3rd largest single consumer item in landfills,
> and represent 30% of non-biodegradable waste
> The only other items that outnumber the amount of disposables in landfills
> are newspapers and beverage and food containers
> our landfills contain 5 million tons of untreated human waste - a breeding
> ground for diseases that could potentially contaminate our groundwater
> There are an estimated 100 intestinal viruses living on the feces in
> landfills and  these viruses are also possible
> contaminates of our water supplies and could latch on to the insects that
> would bring these diseases back to us
> Both the American Academy of Pediatrics and The American Public Health
> Association advise parents that fecal matter and urine should not be
> allowed
> to be disposed of together in the regular trash, because it contaminates
> the
> ground water and spreads disease
> the World Health Organization guidelines are being violated whenever human
> waste goes into the landfills.
>
> Michael
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2012 11:51 PM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Cloth Diapers Anyone?
>
> Luv's are hideous.  They leak so bad it's like the baby has no diaper on at
> all.
>
> I, too, decided that when you figured in laundry soap, water, electricity,
> etc, cloth diapers didn't offer enough of a savings to outweigh their
> inconvenience.  I bought Kirkland diapers from Diapers.com, and I loved
> having them delivered right to my doorstep.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may
> kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at
> evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Veronica Smith
> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2012 7:40 PM
> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Cloth Diapers Anyone?
>
> Tracy, I did all that research as well and finally came to the conclusion,
> that cloth diapers weren't a better deal, as laundry prices, water,
> electricity balanced out.
> So I went for convienience.   My baby did best with Pampers.  I didn't like
> the feel of Huggies, they always felt wet to me and I didn't like Luv's, as
> they had a plastic liner and I thought it made our baby sweaty.
> V
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Tracey Turri
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 11:11 AM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: [blparent] Cloth Diapers Anyone?
>
> After spending 2 hours on the computer this morning recerching cloth
> diapering, I am still baffeled.  I get the cost savings over disposables
> long turm witch is a big plus for my family situation, but ware oh ware
> does
> a pregnant mom start?  Do any of you use cloth, and what styles/brands do
> you like, or should I say does your baby like?
> I no it's early to be thinking about diapering but with some of the
> diapering systoms out their you almost need to set up a savings plan to get
> started as soon as the little one is born.
> Any help would be gladly welcomed!
> Tracey
>
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