Why Choose Cloth Diapers?

Why choose cloth diapers?
1. Financial reasons. We bought a couple, the rest were gifts. My son is six months old while I write this, and we have not yet bought him a disposable diaper!
2. It's fun! They are colorful, cute and free of plastic.
3. Environmental reasons. No waste going to the landfill. If you believe the argument that washing diapers is just as bad as throwing them away, you should probably eat all your food on paper plates, because the same arguments apply:
a. Washing them uses energy and wastes water. Maybe, if you fill a 20 year old washing machine full of water and put just a few diapers in every time. And then you use the clothes dryer for every load. Which would be like running the dishwasher with a few plates and then using the heat dry function (what does that function even do?!)
b. Manufacturing the cloth diapers uses energy. Yeah, so does manufacturing the disposable ones, and they have to make a lot more of them!
c. I have read that maybe cloth diapers are the better choice environmentally if you have a second child to use them on... even if you don't, they will last for a few kids, if not several- you can buy and/or sell them used: they are worth about half of the brand-new price when used and in decent condition.
4. Better for your baby: what makes disposable diapers dry are chemicals. Keeping chemicals off babies is good.
5. Potty training is easier if the baby can feel when he's wet, or so we've heard.

Click here to see what we chose to use.