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By: Brittany

Brittany — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:26:24 +0000

Tamara it’s so great to have you here! Welcome and thanks for your compliments!

By: Tamara @ Miracle of Pregnancy and Parenting

Tamara @ Miracle of Pregnancy and Parenting — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:36:37 +0000

Oh.Great topic. I’ve just found your site on Theta Mom featured blogger page and I’m delighted with your site! Also I’ve just visited your blogfrog community.From this moment I will participate in your great work. Best regards
.-= Tamara @ Miracle of Pregnancy and Parenting´s last blog ..How to Earn Money by Various Baby Customs =-.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:31:40 +0000

I think that a diaper bank is a terrific idea, but I also want to echo that cloth diapering is hardly a luxury reserved for those who can stay at home. I work full-time and use cloth, and the savings are tremendous for our budget (we transitioned to cloth when my daughter was aroudn 8 months old).

Yay to diaper banks…there are times when disposables meet the immediate need the best. But cloth diapering is economical, great for baby, and really just not that hard, even for folks who work away from home. My daughter is in daycare, and they accept cloth diapers there! I think that there is room for both options for families in crisis.
.-= Tiffany´s last blog ..Another Great AIO Diaper: Twinkletoes! (GIVEAWAY!!!) =-.

By: anastasia

anastasia — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:40:02 +0000

Hey thanks for sharing and being the ambassador! I plan on spreading the word along!

By: Brittany

Brittany — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:30:17 +0000

The information is always helpful to give people but elimination communication requires constant time with baby and is most commonly successful in combination with Attachment Parenting. This is not something that most parents in Diaper Need, who need to work to keep their families afloat, could ever do. If daycares won’t do cloth diapers there is no way they will do no diapers. It also really difficult and most parents who I know, myself included, who actually considered it, decided it was not for them. I would love it if I had been able to avoid diapers all together but that did not work as an option for my family.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:37:26 +0000

What about informing parents about elimination communication? This would be an option where diapering (whether sposie or cloth) would be difficult to afford. It’s used in many underdeveloped countries. It would lessen the family’s dependence on diapers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elimination_communication

By: Jessica McFadden - A Parent in Silver Spring

Jessica McFadden - A Parent in Silver Spring — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:01:48 +0000

I’m so stoked to be a team member with you on spreading the word.

I personally cannot imagine not having enough diapers – I’ve been buying them for SEVEN YEARS. My oldest son is 6 and a half and despite being developmentally on target and making a huge effort to stay dry at night, he sleeps so deeply that he still has accidents. So we use overnight diapers for big kids for him. And we have a washer on site to wash his sheets. So no big whop.

But what if we didn’t? What if we couldn’t afford to buy these “extra” items for seven years? His self esteem and his personal cleanliness would be a mess.
Every kid and every parent needs to be able to have their diaper function be a given and a “no big whop” issue – there’s so much more complicated stuff involved in parenting!
.-= Jessica McFadden – A Parent in Silver Spring´s last blog ..Huggies Every Little Bottom Program Gets Millions of Diapers to Babies in Need =-.

By: Jess

Jess — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:11:33 +0000

I think both Carla and Brittany make good points. I think this campaign is important at this very moment to help those in need, but i also would love to see the mom-blogosphere get behind a concerted effort to get rid of the barriers to cloth diapering that you mention Brittany. Even using laundromats or coin machines, the cost savings for cloth diapering, not to mention the environmental savings in almost any place except those with water shortage issues, is astounding. I have spent less than $600 on diapers in almost 4 years of diapering two children. Not to mention the safety issues that come with disposing of all those disposables, filled with human waste, in landfills. It should be medical waste – it is in hospitals and should be in daycares as well, given the amount they dispose. And it is so easy now, compared to cloth diapering in the past.

All that said, in the current world, given current limitations, this is an important program to get behind and I will support it! You do such a fantastic job of letting us know about all sorts of wonderful things – from bull-riding to this! you rock!!

By: Carla

Carla — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 03:52:40 +0000

Even people without the “luxury of staying home” cloth diaper their children. There are daycares that DO accept cloth diapers. There are laundromats that allow cloth diaper washing. Parents can simply skip the dryer to afford to wash the diapers. You can hang dry flats inside the home very easily. There are all these excuses to not use cloth making the decision harder than it really is. Cloth diapering used to be the only option until not too long ago when Pampers “took the country by storm” making families dependent on these disposable diapers. They created this dependency and have high prices. Nice marketing to make them billionaires. They are doing the SAME thing in poor countries. They are bringing sposies to them getting them “hooked” therefor increasing their profits. Same thing with formula companies. they are going to poor countries and low income families and doing the same thing! It’s an outrage.

I understand there is an “immediate need” for diapers. I also understand there are options if you look hard enough.

Oh, and a smart couponer can get disposables diapers next to nothing if they try hard enough. I did for a LONG time before waking up and switching to cloth. I always had at least 10 packs of “Free” diapers in my son’s closet.

Where there is a will, there is a way.