Well I was almost willing to say it wasn't that terrible its obvious its slant but not too over the top.. .but this comment
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| There is little or no cost difference in laundering cloth diapers and buying disposable diapers. |
HA HA really? HA! I think not we saw zitch zip zero cost diffrence in our water or our electricity bill in the 4.5 years we cloth diapered our first. Our flat rate bill would fluxuate around a $15 range just like it did prior to CD and has done in the years since it was not CD that caused any hike and that adjustment was for 6 months at a time. I large container of detergent before/After CD lasts us around 8-9 months with CD 6-7 it was hardly a huge added expense.
As for other details it depends... When I used or switched to disposables for whatever reason (vacations dealing with rashes ect) I used jsut as many sposies as cloth or at least a very close amount I don't think sposies or cloth are meant to jsut hold pee untill they give. So like my NB who was fully sposies got easily 15-20 diapers a day on average my toddler when we used sposies got the same 6-10ish a day as we used with cloth. And I used a LOT when potty training
I DO rinse cloth diapers in the toliet I can't stand for excess junk to go through my washer..
"plasic pants" is misleading waterproof/water ressistant would have been a better choice but truth is many cloth diaper choices do "need" a protectice cover
Its true there are super ecomimal cloth diapering choices *flats and dappi pants, middle ground (sized prefolds and velcro wraps or say one size pocket diapers and rather pricy stashes that would easily rivial the cost of sposies large custom wham diapers with lots of wool.. Even with resale CD stashes "can" be pricy but its not a guarentee... Sposies the cost keeps comming. And costs even for the store generic can add up pretty fast.. For example around my area I can get Target brand diapers for around $14 a package thats the cheepest.. at 7 diapers a day a package will last arounda week so 4 packs a month will run around $56 that not including wipes.. Thats over $600 for the first year alone just assuming 7 a day.
I can but 2 bummi diapering kits to CD from 8-30lbs for around $300 (less) I can add 2 dozen preemie/NB diapers and say 6 NB covers for another say $100 add say $10 worth of acessories (a few snappi pins a diaper sprayer wet bag and some wipes and some good doublers and I can have a good functioning CD stash for around $500 (I could do it for far less but trying to be somewhat real to an actual successful CD stash) that can go through PT and could potiently last through multiple kids...
Deanna
) per day for cloth, not reducing until child toilet trains?
