I absolutely love using cloth diapers. I am on my thrid child and all three have been exclusive to cloth.
I chose to use a diaper service. It is about twenty dollars a week for one hundred diapers a week. It is great. The pick up dirty diapers and deliver new ones on a weekly basis. It is incredibly convenient. There has been no fear of running out of diaper and having to go to the store at all hours of the day and night.
Personally, I find disposable diapers to be disgusting. I feel that disposable diapers allows for lazy parenting. Since the children do not feel when they are wet, the diaper staysd on them longer. The fumes alone cannot be good for them. Not to mention the feel of them and how heavy they actually become when they are wet.
It should only be natural to want for natural things to be involved in the lives of our kids. Cloth diapers are so natural. And the service provides the convenience of not having to wash them yourself. With using the service the diapers are cleaned in such scolding hot water that harsh detergents and chemicals are not necessary. What can be better for your baby's skin than that?
I especially love cloth diapers in the potty training stage. Since children do not like to be wet, potty training with cloth diapers is so easy and quick. They immediately know when it is time to be changed. Cloth diapers makes me make sure that my child is always clean, which leads to virtually no diaper rashes.
My daughter potty trained at eighteen months with cloth diapers. It was so wonderful. She did not like being wet and with the use of cloth, she knew when it was time to go and time to be changed. It made potty training happen so quickly and with no stress.
The studies of how long it takes for disposable diapers to biodegrate is frightening. Five hundred years for one diaper. If you think about it, that means that waste product is just sitting out there, more than likely becoming petrified before the diaper biodegrates. That is a scary thought.
For me, cloth is convenient and no more costly than disposable diapers. The softness of the cloth has to feel soothing for the baby, and the lack of diaper rash, now that has to feel great.
I have washed the cloth diapers myself, but much prefer the diaper service.
