In honor of Earth day...

Since it's Earth day today, I thought I'd blog about our new cloth diapers. :) Here are some disposable diaper facts for your enjoyment...

No one knows how long it takes for a disposable diaper to decompose, but it is estimated to be about 250-500 years, long after your children, grandchildren and great, great, great grandchildren will be gone.

Disposable diapers are the third largest single consumer item in landfills, and represent about 4% of solid waste. In a house with a child in diapers, disposables make up 50% of household waste.

Disposable diapers generate sixty times more solid waste and use twenty times more raw materials, like crude oil and wood pulp.
Over 300 pounds of wood, 50 pounds of petroleum feedstocks and 20 pounds of chlorine are used to produce disposable diapers for one baby EACH YEAR.


Disposable diapers contain traces of Dioxin, an extremely toxic by-product of the paper-bleaching process. It is a carcinogenic chemical, listed by the EPA as the most toxic of all cancer-linked chemicals. It is banned in most countries, but not the U.S..

Disposable diapers contain Tributyl-tin (TBT) - a toxic pollutant known to cause hormonal problems in humans and animals.

Disposable diapers contain sodium polyacrylate, a type of super absorbent polymer (SAP), which becomes a gel-like substance when wet. A similar substance had been used in super-absorbancy tampons until the early 1980s when it was revealed that the material increased the risk of toxic shock syndrome.

Also, most seem to cause diaper rash. Our cloth diapers are extremely cute and I KNOW I can re-sell them on the cloth diapering sites to someone else. Can you do that with disposables?? HMM....NO! So, these are just a win-win for us.

Also, I think most people are scared of washing them and taking care of them. They are so much easier than I ever thought! Wash them in cold rinse, hot wash with Tide w/dawn, and cold rinse again and then just put them in the dryer. And seriously, we've had some messy diapers and the stains come right out and they end up looking brand new again! It really is that easy!

This might just be my favorite so far. It might be the one I have to keep forever and just can't sell. It is soooo cute!

My mom got Jenna this t-shirt and I think it just so happens to match perfectly with her knit soakers. Some diapers require some type of cover (although we don't always wear one everytime) but these shorts are made for just that. They are very absorbant and not to mention as cute as can be!