Literary NonFiction Jennifer Linkous

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Cloth diapered babies can be spotted from across the room. If you know what to look for you see sweet happy babies with plump bottoms and a smaller carbon footprint than babies that wear disposables. At onetenth the cost of disposables, cloth diapers have made their way into mainstream parenting once again.

Cloth diapers of the 21st century are not your momma's cloth diapers that need to be dunked into the toilet to get clean. a forty dollar sprayer can be easily attached to your toilet to quickly spray off unwanted waste before you drop them in a wetbag or diaper pail. No need for an extra washing machine out on the back porch or a diaper service to come collect dirty, stinky diapers. The cloth diapers of today are convenient, cute, and cost effective.

Why go to the trouble when you can go to Target and buy a box of diapers? Oh for so many reasons, but hugely in part to the fact that disposable diapers are the third most common consumer product in landfills today.

The revival of the cloth diaper in the last fifty years stems from environment concerns, health hazards, and the economy. Health hazards? I asked myself,"How can diapers, approved by the US Government, on shelves in nearly every drug store, grocery store, and convenience store have health hazards?" I was shocked at what I discovered. Dioxin, a carcinogenic chemical banned in most countries, except the United States, is a byproduct of the paperbleaching process. The EPA even calls it the most toxic of all cancerlinked chemicals. Purposefully putting something that contained a cancerlinked chemical on my sweet baby's bottom was something I justcouldn I knew it was time to rally the troops, simplify the shocking research and convince my husband!

So you are thinking these facts are shocking I get that, but, "how can I get my husband to agree to cloth diaper too?" Let's start with cost. On average, twentyfour, onesize cloth diapers cost approximately $455 lasting up to 6,000 changes. Disposables can cost anywhere from $1,500 to $2,000. Not to mention disposables can take up to 500 years to decompose! Here's the zinger for your back pocket  cloth diapered babies generally tend to potty train earlier than babies who wear disposables due to the fact that they can feel the wetness from the natural cotton or hemp in the cloth diaper. Whowouldn that?"

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