Cloth Diapers

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Cloth Diapers

Raising a child is a difficult and laborious task where the fruits of your labor will not reach full bloom until many decades after the child’s birth. There are many different considerations to take into account when optimizing the raising of your child. Necessities like nutrition, exercise, intellectual development, and religious beliefs all come into play as you guide the child through their developmental phase. The earliest phase of development is accompanied with the greatest dependency on the parent. Things like going to the bathroom are out of the child’s control, so simple things like cloth diapers were invented to assist the parent in providing the child adequate hygiene, while minimizing the effect on the environment.

The environmental effects of human waste are sizeable. Water treatment plants have been constructed in most modern countries to help filter out the water we use in accordance with our biological waste. The amount of waste that is produced by humans is measured by ton and acre filled, so the effect is worth curtailing. The hard statistics are that 27.4 billion disposable diapers are used each year in the United States. The final effect to the landfill is over 3.4 billion tons of waste. The numbers are astronomical and the volume they fill is nauseating. For the environmental reasons, cloth diapers, along with some hybrid diapers were created and are still maintained.

Cloth diapers began from the historical time when a mother could not use a mass production diaper to safely bundle the child’s uncontrolled bladder. During the majority of human history, it was seen as important that a child receive the proper amount of bundling so they would not freeze, but as the child grew older is became known that it was equally important to have a method of capturing the waste, both stool and urine. The bundling is still the primary way to get the cloth diapers onto your child firmly, while still leaving an area for the waste to exist.

Despite its medieval origins or prehistoric origins, the cloth diapers are still used with some modern accommodations. One such new addition is the disposable absorbent insert. The insert is a small pad that absorbs urine and some fecal matter and can be disposed of after use, minimizing the environmental impacts while also reducing the hassle of cleaning a dirty cloth. The cloth will usually have a minimal amount of soiled material, although it is less than without the absorbent pad and will be simple to clean. The method of folding for this style of cloth diapers is with a pocket to hold the absorbent insert. Some mothers have found that bags to hold the used cloth are beneficial because they cut the smell off from the rest of the laundry room or nursery. Specialized waste removal detergents have also been made, and are advertized specifically for this application.

Cloth diapers have many different idealized functions as the economic method of diapering, it terms of cost and impact on your landfill. The natural movement has seized upon this method of diaper because of the lack of mass production and the attempt at emphasizing the history while noting the economic benefits. As shown there are some distinct advantages to this form of diapers which help to defer some of the high costs of raising a child in a pure natural way.

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