Number 1 reason is MONEY! If you have multiple kids in diapers you know how this is, when we started adding up how much we could save it was staggering. Even buying the most expensive diapers out there will save you money. We however went for cheap china diapers. Our whole diaper stash cost about $250 and will (hopefully) last until they are potty trained! Yeah, we'll have paid that off in a mere couple of months!
Number 2 is definitely the cuteness factor. I don't know why but I'm not a fan of babies in just a diaper, especially in pictures (not trying to offend anyone here, so please don't get mad at me if you post pictures of your kids in just there diaper! I just don't like how they look is all!). Right now with their diapers, their little bums do look large and in charge, but guess what we are home by ourselves most days so I am the only one who sees it! I love changing their diapers and putting a super soft diaper on their little bums.
Number 3 diaper rash. I had heard that cloth diapers result in less rash, I also heard the opposite. Luckily for us its the former! Adella had horrible diaper rash right after she was born. She would scream and scream when we changed her and every time she pooped. I literally cried with her many times. With our pocket cloth diapers her rash is gone (and I rarely rarely have to put any cream on).
Number 4 early potty training. Obviously this is yet to be seen, but its also said that babies in cloth potty train earlier. We shall see!
Number 5 the green effect. I am not a super environmentalist but I will say it makes me happy to not be throwing tons of diapers (literally) away. I know there are so many reports as to which is actually better for the environment, so I'm not really gonna go there. You can research it if you want and decide what you believe. This one wasn't our primary reason, but like I said it does make me happy. We also line dry our diapers, and since we are in Arizona we can do it all year!
So there you go, all you who think we are crazy can hopefully understand our reasons! We've been going strong for a month now. We do use disposables at night and for the sitter, but mostly that's because we have so many that were given to use. I plan to go full time at night eventually (or at least try) but we'll probably keep disposables around for sitters. So who else of my friends cloth diapers? Anyone wanting to try? I'm not an expert but I'd love to help if I can!
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I haven't done cloth diapering and never thought I'd have the desire. My older two kids did get diaper rash on occasion, but nothing we couldn't handle. However, Enoch has a constant rash. He has extremely sensitive skin (we even have to use cream for his baby eczema) and almost a constant yeast infection in the diaper area. So, then I thought...maybe cloth diapers would be good? But I'm too scared to try. And he's almost a year old, so I'm worried it'd be too late for it to be cost effective? I don't know, though. I don't know if I could convince my husband to go for it...he doesn't want anything to do with cloth diapers, lol. Tell me what you think, friend!
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