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Cloth Diapers - Making A Comeback?

Just as proper nutrition is important for your baby's welfare, so is hygiene and cleanliness. Babies have little or no control over their bodily functions, so they expel a lot of waste, and keeping them clean can be a daunting task.

Many years ago, cotton diapers are what all mothers used until disposable diapers became mainstream. Now, cloth diapers are starting to make a bit of a comeback, people are increasingly making use of cloth diapers. However, people who use them are considered to be strange since disposable diapers are the norm today. Modern parents have several reasons why they choose cotton diapers over disposables.

For most parents, the cost of diapers is usually a great concern. A cloth diaper is lower-priced and it is also reusable, so one cloth nappy serves as well as many disposable ones.

The greatest concern for parents is to keep the skin of their babies dry, healthy and free from diaper rash. A cloth diaper is soft against your baby's skin. They are also free of the many chemicals contained in disposable diapers. A baby can be very sensitive to the ingredients used in disposable diapers.

Cotton diapers are environmentally friendly. Environmentalists believe that by using a cloth diaper, people are just doing one more thing to "do their part" to protect and preserve the Earth for future generations. On the other hand, it is well known that plastic doesn't biodegrade very well at all, which means that our landfills are stacked with diapers that are going to be with us for centuries to come.

Today's cotton diapers are much different from those that were used several decades ago. Modern cotton diapers are pre-cut and shaped to cover the baby's backside easily and quickly. They also now have Velcro fasteners or snaps in order to make it easier to secure. Another added feature is that many cotton diapers now come with a flushable, biodegradable paper lining to hold in solid waste so you can easily flush it down the toilet. Now, there are no more stinky diapers sitting around waiting for trash pickup day.

The cloth diaper-wearing children tend to be toilet trained earlier because the cloth retains moisture, allowing the child to feel when he or she is wet or dirty, and associate the feeling with elimination.

Diapers made of cloth are, in many ways, a thing of the past, but they are by no means gone forever. For the parent with financial or environmental concerns cloth diapers are still a very viable option for clothing the bottoms of their babies.

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