If Only It Were This Easy...

Since before HD was born, I have continuously obsessed about which diapers would be best to use. You'd think that now that he's 14 months I would have stopped obsessing, but, in reality, I'm still deciding. Our primary diaper is Pampers Cruisers, well, because they're easiest to use, especially on the go, which we often are, and because BH prefers the disposable option. When I know I'm going to be home for several hours, I use the G Diaper whenever I can. I learned the hard way that the flushing option doesn't work at our house, but they do break down quickly in the trash, and will break down even faster when we start composting this spring. We've also tried Seventh Generation and have heard good things about the similar Nature Babycare. I originally wanted to try cloth, but decided, for a variety of reasons, that we were not to be a cloth family. I tell myself (and people who ask) that it's because you have to wash them twice in really hot water, which is not good for the environment anyway, but it's definitely partially an excuse, one to which my friends who use cloth might say pish posh. To make myself feel better about the Pampers choice, I don't change HD very often, so I wind up using fewer diapers altogether. Some people might call that neglect of some kind, but HD and his heiny don't seem to mind, and it helps me sleep a little bit better at night. Plus, I'm potty training him next week, so this will all be moot then.

The intro to this SNL video was supposed to be one line, but I got carried away. Like I said at the top, if only it were this easy:

Comments

[Mrs. G]

Well, I guess you already know what I have to say. Pish posh. But I have other things to say too, which is that I really thought 7th generation sucked and were a rip off b/c they just dye them brown anyway, plus they still have the weird pellety things so why bother anyway. Tushies are the true "hippie disposable" but, like 7th gen, they don't actually work. We were all about the Whole Foods brand when we used disposables. You might consider cloth for training purposes, I think its one of the things that really helped us. Keep me updated on the toilet training, I hear it can be a lot harder with boys.

[Lisa]

I have to tell you that we have also had a diaper debate (me = disposable, k = cloth) and our neighbor turns out to have worked for some environmental company in the past. It turns out that, as you suspect, in terms of impact on the environment they are really a wash because of the amount of hot water it takes to keep cloth diapers clean and the amount of time in the dryer for them to get soft. It's a fact - not just in your head. Financially cloth might be cheaper, but that depends on your electric/hot water bills really. We don't have a dryer here and we rarely use hot water so I won the argument. Not that it is about winning...but yay for me anyway.