Guest guest Posted November 2, 2004 Report Share Posted November 2, 2004 I myself would pay more for a healthier diaper for my kids, but, both my kids have been cloth diapered since birth. Have you thought about cloth diapering? Sarah | Alexin, 3 | Cameron, 11 months _____ chocolate_child2000 [chocolate_child2000] Monday, November 01, 2004 11:56 AM the pros & cons of chlorine- free diapers In my local natural foods supermarket, I saw a pack chlorine free diapers made by seventh Generation and I'm thinking, I would love to try it on my grandaughter, but my husband says she is better off wearing " Pampers " or " Huggies " . Are there any advantages or disadvantages for buying these diapers? All I see is saving the enviroment, but my husband sees cost. Please help me! For more information about vegetarianism, please visit the VRG website at http://www.vrg.org and for materials especially useful for families go to http://www.vrg.org/family.This is a discussion list and is not intended to provide personal medical advice. Medical advice should be obtained from a qualified health professional. edical advice. Medical advice should be obtained from a qualified health professional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 2, 2004 Report Share Posted November 2, 2004 On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, chocolate_child2000 wrote: > In my local natural foods supermarket, I saw a pack chlorine free > diapers made by seventh Generation and I'm thinking, I would love to > try it on my grandaughter, but my husband says she is better off > wearing " Pampers " or " Huggies " . Are there any advantages or > disadvantages for buying these diapers? All I see is saving the > enviroment, but my husband sees cost. Please help me! I have used the Seventh Generation diapers before. They leak, a lot. Aside from the cost, that is the biggest disadvantage. They are probably marginally better for the environment, but I don't know how to quanitify how much better. They are still disposable products, so they can't be that great. Cloth diapers are better yet, in environmental terms (although they also leak a lot, in my experience). If you want environmentally friendly diapers, go with cloth. If you want convenience, go with the big brands. The " natural " diapers just aren't worth it on either count, in my opinion. For the sake of full disclosure, here's my experience. For two years, I did the cloth diaper/diaper service thing, with natural diapers for occassions where cloth was impractical, but my kids spent a lot of time sopping wet and smelling like urine until I had a mini diaper breakdown. Now they wear Pampers. ---- Patricia Bullington-McGuire <patricia The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the purely hypothetical. They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each nonexisted in an entirely different way ... -- Stanislaw Lem, " Cyberiad " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 3, 2004 Report Share Posted November 3, 2004 If you buy good diapers and good diaper covers, they will not leak, that is my experience with three years of cloth with heavy wetters. I love the Alexis featherlite pull up diaper covers, Zippidy's diapers and wool soakers (handmade), most of these items can be purchased cheap on ebay. Sara - Patricia Bullington-McGuire chocolate_child2000 Cc: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 4:38 PM Re: the pros & cons of chlorine- free diapers On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, chocolate_child2000 wrote: > In my local natural foods supermarket, I saw a pack chlorine free > diapers made by seventh Generation and I'm thinking, I would love to > try it on my grandaughter, but my husband says she is better off > wearing " Pampers " or " Huggies " . Are there any advantages or > disadvantages for buying these diapers? All I see is saving the > enviroment, but my husband sees cost. Please help me! I have used the Seventh Generation diapers before. They leak, a lot. Aside from the cost, that is the biggest disadvantage. They are probably marginally better for the environment, but I don't know how to quanitify how much better. They are still disposable products, so they can't be that great. Cloth diapers are better yet, in environmental terms (although they also leak a lot, in my experience). If you want environmentally friendly diapers, go with cloth. If you want convenience, go with the big brands. The " natural " diapers just aren't worth it on either count, in my opinion. For the sake of full disclosure, here's my experience. For two years, I did the cloth diaper/diaper service thing, with natural diapers for occassions where cloth was impractical, but my kids spent a lot of time sopping wet and smelling like urine until I had a mini diaper breakdown. Now they wear Pampers. ---- Patricia Bullington-McGuire <patricia The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the purely hypothetical. They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each nonexisted in an entirely different way ... -- Stanislaw Lem, " Cyberiad " For more information about vegetarianism, please visit the VRG website at http://www.vrg.org and for materials especially useful for families go to http://www.vrg.org/family.This is a discussion list and is not intended to provide personal medical advice. Medical advice should be obtained from a qualified health professional. edical advice. Medical advice should be obtained from a qualified health professional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 3, 2004 Report Share Posted November 3, 2004 I agree that the environmentally friendly diapers are not that great, they are expensive and they leak. I have a 22 month old. I have used cloth diapers since he was a newborn and I love them! I don't think they smell or leak. They work great and they are much easier to use then they were in the past. I just dump the solids in the toilet and keep them in a wash-able laundry bag, and wash them every 2-3 days. It's not that inconvenient and it's a lot cheaper then regular diapers. It's a little bit of an investment in the beginning for the diapering supplies, but well worth it in the long run. If your interested you can email me and I can tell you which are the best buys for covers and cloth. Take care, Claire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 3, 2004 Report Share Posted November 3, 2004 My daughter was a really heavy wetter, so I had to change her cloth diaper every half hour to an hour. Have you thought of doing Elimination Communication? http://www.diaperfreebaby.org/ Sarah | Alexin, 3 | Cameron, 11 months _____ Patricia Bullington-McGuire [patricia] Tuesday, November 02, 2004 1:38 PM chocolate_child2000 Cc: Re: the pros & cons of chlorine- free diapers On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, chocolate_child2000 wrote: > In my local natural foods supermarket, I saw a pack chlorine free > diapers made by seventh Generation and I'm thinking, I would love to > try it on my grandaughter, but my husband says she is better off > wearing " Pampers " or " Huggies " . Are there any advantages or > disadvantages for buying these diapers? All I see is saving the > enviroment, but my husband sees cost. Please help me! I have used the Seventh Generation diapers before. They leak, a lot. Aside from the cost, that is the biggest disadvantage. They are probably marginally better for the environment, but I don't know how to quanitify how much better. They are still disposable products, so they can't be that great. Cloth diapers are better yet, in environmental terms (although they also leak a lot, in my experience). If you want environmentally friendly diapers, go with cloth. If you want convenience, go with the big brands. The " natural " diapers just aren't worth it on either count, in my opinion. For the sake of full disclosure, here's my experience. For two years, I did the cloth diaper/diaper service thing, with natural diapers for occassions where cloth was impractical, but my kids spent a lot of time sopping wet and smelling like urine until I had a mini diaper breakdown. Now they wear Pampers. ---- Patricia Bullington-McGuire <patricia The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the purely hypothetical. They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each nonexisted in an entirely different way ... -- Stanislaw Lem, " Cyberiad " For more information about vegetarianism, please visit the VRG website at http://www.vrg.org and for materials especially useful for families go to http://www.vrg.org/family.This is a discussion list and is not intended to provide personal medical advice. Medical advice should be obtained from a qualified health professional. edical advice. Medical advice should be obtained from a qualified health professional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 5, 2004 Report Share Posted November 5, 2004 The Severth Generation Diapers as well as a couple of other brands are more biodegratable. They do biodegrate; but Huggies and Pampers do not biodegrate. chocolate_child2000 writes: In my local natural foods supermarket, I saw a pack chlorine free diapers made by seventh Generation and I'm thinking, I would love to try it on my grandaughter, but my husband says she is better off wearing " Pampers " or " Huggies " . Are there any advantages or disadvantages for buying these diapers? All I see is saving the enviroment, but my husband sees cost. Please help me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 7, 2004 Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 Funny, we just had this discussion at our homeschool group meeting today... The verdict was that our diaper pails all smelled much, much better after we switched to cloth. Must be something about all of the chemicals in the disposables mingling with the urine/feces that makes the awful stench requiring the advent of the " Diaper Genie. " ugh... My kids got rashes every time they wore disposables - rarely with cloth. My son could blow out a disposable all the way up his back and down his legs & into his socks (I know...TMI...) This NEVER happened with a cloth diaper. I couldn't stand the fact that there were globs of unknown gel-like substance stuck to my children's sensitive parts when they peed in disposables... My son was not quite 2-yrs-old & still in diapers when his twin sisters were born. They all wore cloth & I think it really was much easier to just throw the diapers in the wash than to drag three little ones out to the grocery store just to get some diapers that we were going to end up putting in the garbage. I could go on... Angela >> For the sake of full disclosure, here's my experience. For two years, I > did the cloth diaper/diaper service thing, with natural diapers for > occassions where cloth was impractical, but my kids spent a lot of time > sopping wet and smelling like urine until I had a mini diaper breakdown. > Now they wear Pampers. > > ---- > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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