Cloth Baby Diapers

Long ago everyone used cloth baby diapers. Then disposable came on the market in the early 80s. But the question remains, should you choose cloth baby diapers or disposables?

Convenience:

No question, disposable diapers involve less hassle. When your baby gets one wet or dirty, you just take it off, seal it up, and throw it away. The tape on the sides of disposable diapers makes them generally easier to take off and put on than cloth baby diapers.

However, Velcro on diaper wraps has made it much easier to change cloth baby diapers than it used to be, it's still not as easy as changing a disposable, but fairly easy!.

Another inconvenience of cloth baby diapers is that they're sometimes unwieldy. No matter how you fold them, you may find it difficult to fit it into a diaper wrap. You can't just throw away your cloth baby diapers. They have to be stored in a diaper pail until your weekly diaper service comes to pick them up, or until you have enough to launder. The stench, especially after your baby has begun eating solid foods, may become overwhelming.

Finally, disposable diapers do not leak as much as cloth baby diapers, if you change them often enough. So if your baby wears disposables, you probably will not have to change the entire outfit... not to mention the sheets on the baby's crib or bed.

The advantages of disposable diapers all center on convenience. Yet cloth diapers offer convenience, too. Parents of babies who wear disposable diapers often run out at inconvenient times. But if you use a cloth baby diaper service, you'll never run into this problem.

You can order as many cloth baby diapers as you need every week and have them delivered to your door. Because cloth baby diapers are so absorbent, they also come in handy in wiping up your baby's spit up and other spills.

Cost:

Considering that you're using a lot of diapers (80 or more each week), a diaper service will probably be less expensive than purchasing disposables. When the number of diapers you use falls to 60 or less, however, a diaper service is likely to be slightly more expensive due to the base delivery charge.

Of course, if you're foolhardy enough to buy and wash your own cloth baby diapers, that's by far the cheapest alternative of all.

Comfort:

Wearing cloth diapers, the baby tend to get diaper rash less often than those who wear disposables. Keep in mind that, it's not always easy to tell how wet a disposable diaper is, and babies who wear disposables may sit in their own urine longer than those who wear cloth baby diapers, and continued contact with urine causes most cases of diaper rash. With cloth diapers, you can always tell how wet your baby is.

For this reason, cloth baby diapers also make it simpler to monitor your baby's urinary output. If you have any concern at all about how much food your baby is eating, you will find it much easier to keep tabs with cloth diapers.

Finally, cloth diapers definitely offer your baby more comfort. If disposable diapers were more comfortable than cotton ones, we would all be wearing paper underwear. Try rubbing a cloth diaper and then the inside of a disposable diaper against your cheek. Which do you prefer?