[blparent] Cloth Diapers Anyone?

Tue Sep 25 07:09:49 UTC 2012

Hello, Tracey.

As mentioned before, my wife would be glad to help you in where to go 
for cloth diapers. She can sometimes get them through co-op purchases 
for $5 - $7 per diaper for the ones which we use. We live on a 
shoestring budget, but we were able to stock up. if you keep up with 
diaper laundry and so forth, you can probably get by with having 20 
diapers on-hand, with some backups just in case. We solely use cloth 
diapers at home, but in all honesty it is good to have a box of 
disposables on-hand when you go out. For instance, I take some 
disposables in our diaper bag when I take my youngest son to church. It 
woudl be very difficult for some fo the nursery workers to deal with teh 
cloth diapers seeing s they have a ton of kids running around.

I am not too big on dealing with the dirty diapers, either, but it is 
worth what we are saving. If given the choice to do disposables at no 
cost or to use cloth diapers, I would likely go the cloth route again. I 
suppose that I have just gotten so used to the routine here at home.

Anyhow, if you would have any interest in talking with my wife about 
this, please let me know. No pressure. I am not trying to pressure you 
into talking with my wife or anything; I would just hate to see you (or 
anyone else) pay out a lot for cloth diapers when you could probably get 
them for much less. They can cost a lot of money if purchased straight 
from the manufacturers' Web sites. My wife has told me of some that sell 
for $20+ per diaper. I think that the most we have paid on a per-diaper 
basis (through co-ops) is maybe $8.50 per diaper.

Take care.

On 09/24/2012 09:03 AM, Tracey Turri wrote:
> 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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