Why should you use cloth diapers?

• Save Money - $1000 or more in the 2-3 years your child is in diapers
• Help the Environment - keep about 1 ton of diaper waste out of the landfill each year!
• They are easy to use - they go on just like disposables
• They are easy to clean - an extra soak and rinse cycle is all you need to launder them
• You will never run out of diapers again!
• They look adorable on your baby!

 Americans throw away 49 million diapers every day!

They can take up to 500 years to decompose.

 THE COST FACTOR FOR CHOOSING CLOTH DIAPERS:

A very basic cloth diapering system will cost approx. $448 – 48 prefold diapers & 12 diaper covers.  The cost of laundering your diapers is minimal – about 3 additional loads per week.  If you use disposables the following is an average of how much it will cost.  The figures are based on 7 diaper changes per day at approx. $.40 per diaper. 

• A 6 week old will have an average 6000 diaper changes ($2400- more from birth obviously!)
• A 6 month old will have an average 5000 more diaper changes ($2000)
• A 12 month old will have an average 3800 more diaper changes ($1520)
• An 18 month old will have an average 2500 more diaper changes
  ($1000)
• A 24 month old will still have about 1200 more diaper changes ($480)

The environmental impact of using cloth diapers is vast.  You will keep approximately 1 ton of waste out of the landfill every year per child

 

 

Article in TIME magazine about cloth diapering http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1702357,00.html

 

 

Celebrities using cloth diapers: 

Dave Matthews http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20045105,00.html

 

 

 

• Actors Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard -- daughter Ramona, 9 months -- uncle Jake Gyllenhaal has spoken about his niece's diapers.
• CSI: NY actress Anna Belknap cloth diapers her daughter, 6 months.
• Singer and actress couple Brad and Kimberly Williams-Paisley cloth diaper their son William Huckleberry, 4 months.
• Numb3rs actress Diane Farr cloth diapers her son Beckett Mancuso, 4 months.
• Actress Mariska Hargitay appeared in a Got Milk? ad with August Miklos Friedrich, now 1, when he was 6 months old -- and he wore cloth

Source:  Celebrity Baby Blog