The Benefits of Cloth Diapers: Your Baby. Your Pocketbook. The Earth
Price is a major consideration when you use disposable diapers for your baby. The use of cloth cloth diapers makes good sense from a fiscal standpoint. Fabric diapers are less expensive than disposables, even if you consider the cost of laundry and the time required for washing, drying and folding the cloth ones. In fact, the price of cloth can be recovered after only four months of disposable diaper purchases.
Consumers today are more attuned to the use of environmentally friendly products. Using cloth diapers, is more ecologically responsible. Disposable diapers contain materials that don’t decompose, so they stay in landfills indefinitely.
Chemicals and plastics found in disposable diapers are damaging to the environment, so think about what they are doing when placed next to your baby’s skin. If you use soft cotton against the skin of the baby, you won’t see irritated marks from the elastic and plastic on your child’s legs.
The baby’s legs are not irritated by the plastic and elastic from the disposable diaper covering. The cotton diaper is comfortable and fits smoothly on the baby’s bottom. There is less chance of messes and leaks. Because a cloth diaper is secured with safety pins, your baby will not be as likely to accidentally remove the diaper.
Pretty and colorful diapers made of cloth are attractive so you won’t need an additional layer of clothing for baby to be well dressed and look good. You are less likely to run out of cotton diapers. There are always clean diapers waiting and on the shelf. With disposables it seems as if you always run out of diapers just about the time that you are leaving the house.
Potty training is easier and earlier with infants who wear cloth diapers. This is easier on parents. It is less stressful for the child and the environment is better off too.