As a new little one slowly nears and we become a little more environment conscious, the question of what kind of diapers to use has arisen. Mind you, Owen is still in some sort of diaper and is fighting hard to stay that way. He will tell us that he needs to pee-pee, but that usually just means, "I pee-pee'd a little and I want you to pay attention to me and not whatever you are doing so I can control my world just a little more." Selfish.
It would be much easier if it were just a question of Pampers vs. Huggies. Consumer reports does a pretty good job of telling us which is the best, and a little time and experience fills in those gaps. Unfortunately, there is no such offering for cloth vs. disposable diapers. There are a smattering of sites on the internet preaching one view or the other. Most of the cloth sites are in some way linked to the cloth diaper industry or environmental groups. They yell, "All the studies saying disposables are about equal to cloth in the end are funded by the diaper industry and we hate them...and George Bush too!" You don't really find any sites that are the opposite, but I'm sure they are out there.
All that said, the cloth diaper backers have yet to present me with good science to prove to me that I should be a cloth diaper lover. In fact, the only compelling evidence that I've found is from a great friend of ours. Her rhetoric sounds about the same, but it at least comes from somebody I know and trust. On the other hand, there are studies out there that break down the environmental impact on both sides of the fence, generally by independent research firms. I'm sure a little cash comes there way from somebody else, but I also understand that that is the way research gets done in this world, whether it's about drugs or business or diapers.
At this point, I think Christy is slightly on the cloth side. I'm on the disposable side all the way. I'm really on the "Christy needs to birth a potty-trained baby" side, but that's like voting for Nader.
So what do you think?
Cloth
Disposable
Pick one. I expect your answer under my door by Friday.
4 comments:
I saw a really weird combo of both at The Cuddly Hippo. (a tree huggin, organic store) It's a cloth outer but a flushable insert. Factor in economics for me, and yeesh. If this were my first baby I might be tempted into the cloth diapering universe, but it's not, it's my third. Frankly ease and money make my decision disposable. Still an interesting debate tho.
did Christy tell you we were just talking about this? i have no idea. i'm hoping you'll be able to tell me at the end of the week!
How about this...if you do decide to cloth, you can bless someone at the end of it all by GIVING away your diapers to someone who will use them for their baby!!! And we know what the Bible says about giving. Wow...can't do that with disposables. :) And you know all my other arguments already. My vote: CLOTH all the way! (I know, I know, you're really surprised I voted CLOTH.)
I say Disposable! (but this is dave who hacked into Christianne's account. Ironic since she's making us do cloth)
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