It has only just occurred to me that I have never mentioned my "crunchy" parenting side and my complete and utter love affair with cloth nappies.
How did that happen?
I guess they were just so much a natural part of everyday life in our household that I never thought it interesting enough to blog about them! Anyway, for the first 2 yrs and 1 month of Charlotte's life she was a cloth-bummed baby/child.
It.
Was.
Great.
We weren't strict "A disposable nappy will never touch my child's bottom" kind of parents. We just preferred to use cloth as much as we possibly could to
a) save money (and boy, did we manage to do that)
b) save the environment (crunch, crunch)
c) avoid nappy rash (BIG tick on this one)
The money saving was amazing. Every few months I'd have to replenish our stock of disposables and every single time I would think "Man alive, imagine if we were splashing out money on these things on a weekly basis." Thank goodness we weren't!
Save the environment. We're not great environment advocates but like to do what we can where we can. Nappies was something that we could really feel a difference with. Our washing machine and toilets run off our own tank water (water collected from our roof) so it was really just the extra bit of washing powder that we were using.
Avoid nappy rash - a contentious point...some say that cloth encourages nappy rash. We found the complete opposite. The one and only time Charlotte ever had nappy rash was when she was in disposables for a week+ when we were holidaying in NZ. The rest of the time she had lovely clear skin without any problems. Yay for her (and us)!
Anyway, I'm sure you've heard it all before. And cloth nappies are completely a personal thing. You are either in to them, or you're not. And I really don't care if you're not. Just don't bag me for being a cloth-nappy addict! This post is really just a lead up to my next couple of posts...so if you're not into cloth nappies, look away.
Now.
And maybe come back in a week's time for some non-cloth-nappy related posts!
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We always used cloth nappies as much as possible for our girls too and I would do it all again for the very same reasons that you have given. Another good plus that I found with them was when I was toilet training my girls knew when they were wet more so than if they had been wearing a disposable which takes the wetness away. So good to hear people like you are still using cloth nappies.
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