Facts About Cloth Diapers
Dec 25th 2008Guest AuthorBabies
The most important thing when raising a child is to make sure he or she is healthy. It is also very important that the baby should be comfortable, safe, and happy at all times. A way to ensure the baby's comfort is to keep him or her clean. A cloth diaper can help you do the job.
Less than thirty years ago, disposable diapers were considered a luxury, so the only option was cotton diapers, which require a ton of laundry work. Nowadays, an increasing number of people use cotton diapers, and people that use these diapers for their babies are considered to be odd. There are several reasons that the parents of today might want to use cotton diapers instead of disposables, and, believe it or not, cloth diapers are starting to make a bit of a comeback.
For most parents, the cost of diapers is usually a great concern. A cloth diaper is lower-priced and it is also reusable, so one cloth nappy serves as well as many disposable ones.
The greatest concern for parents is to keep the skin of their babies dry, healthy and free from diaper rash. A cloth diaper is soft against your baby's skin. They are also free of the many chemicals contained in disposable diapers. A baby can be very sensitive to the ingredients used in disposable diapers.
It is estimated that cloth nappies only take around six months to degrade in landfill site, while disposable diapers are the third most common consumer product in landfills today, and they may take up to 500 years to decompose.
Gone are the days of complicated folding methods and misplaced safety pins because today's cloth diapers are pre cut and shaped to cover baby's nether regions quickly and easily. Now, they also come with Velcro fasteners or snaps for ease in fastening. The best feature of all is that many now have a flushable, biodegradable paper lining that will catch solid waste, allowing it to be easily disposed of in the toilet, so soiled and smelly diapers don't sit around, and there is no messy job of rinsing the solids away.
Children who wear cloth diaper tend to get toilet trained earlier, since the cloth retains moisture, permitting the child to feel when it is dirty and wet causing them to associate the feeling with elimination.
Comfortable, safe, economical, hygienic, environment-friendly, durable; with so many merits, it is no wonder cloth nappies are replacing disposable diapers everywhere. There can be no doubt that a cloth diaper is so good for your baby!
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